[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember an earlier near terrifying incident back in 1962.
We had just been through the Cuban Missile Crisis and were on edge when on Dec 24, there was a sudden break in programing to warn us that an unidentified object had just been detected by the “DEW LINE” coming south across the North Pole toward the USA!
Pucker factor suddenly kicks in!

Then they showed a silly cheap photo of Santa Claus and his sleigh with cotton ball clouds floating by.

I wasn’t sure what to think. Be PO’d for the scare, or be relieved that it wasn’t Russian Missiles..

[hinckley buzzard]

Here is one I heard from an officer at the Minuteman Missile silo near Badlands SD: Sometime in the late seventies, the two officers in the control room were alerted to an incoming call on the super secure phone line from the White House.. They answered and were told, "Stand by for connection to the President of United States." Pucker Factor, You bet. Then President Carter came on the line. "HI guys, I just thought I'd try out this phone line and see how well it's working!"

[cynwoody]

Then there was that incident on 5 October 1960, when radar in Thule detected the moon rising and decided it was a massive Soviet attack.

The Moon and Nuclear War