Posted on 05/28/2025 5:36:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A former Minot Air Force Base Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile officer who was involved with a 1966 UFO incident in the Minot missile field, will be a member of a “UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) and Nukes Panel: Disturbing Confrontations Over Nuclear Bases” on Friday during the Contact in the Desert Conference.
Dave Schindele of Mukilteo, Washington, a retired Air Force captain, will be among several panelists, including Robert Salas, also a former Air Force missile officer. Salas was involved in an event at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, in 1967, similar to the one Schindele was involved in at Minot AFB in 1966. Ten nuclear missiles were temporarily disabled, taking them offline during the event Salas was involved in. The panel will be led by host Steve Bassett, a UFO (unidentified flying object) lobbyist and executive director of the Paradigm Research Group.
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Over fifty-eight years ago, I and my crew commander, Major Gordon Tollerud, relieved/replaced a Launch Crew at “November Flight,” on September 25, 1966. This was not just an ordinary crew changeover, because the crew we relieved had just been involved in a very critical national security incident, where a UFO paid a visit to November Flight overnight and took down all ten of its nuclear tipped Minuteman ICBM missiles, which had been under careful control of the crew we relieved.
My commander and I were the first people to arrive at the Launch Facility, where we interviewed six security guards, a site manager, and cook, who were all top-side and viewed the UFO directly. And then we interviewed the launch crew in the Launch Control Capsule sixty feet below ground. In an extensive debriefing of the outgoing crew, they were totally mystified as to how all the missiles became disabled with a “guidance and control system malfunction,” which was during the time the UFO was seen top-side.
“When the crew returned to base, they were directed to sign a non-disclosure agreement and severely told to never talk or mention the incident again for as long as they should live. My commander and I then inherited ten un-launchable missiles, where we had to coordinate with maintenance and security crews to bring the missiles back to “Alert” status, which probably took many days. But my commander also received a phone call overnight from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) directing that we both must never talk of the incident again.
(Excerpt) Read more at Minot Daily News...
Nuclear Missile Base UFO ping.
So, ‘never talk about incident’ is actually 58 years.
Good math to know.
*yawn*
This may very well be ratcheting up to some major reveal, but my gut says this is all a distraction, even with an eventual ‘reveal’.
That’s possible of course.
People who are getting ready to shuffle off this mortal coil sometimes have no more family and have nothing to lose
Retired Air Force captain? If one puts in 20 years and doesn’t make it to major he’s out. I do believe.
And after all this time, their NDAs look more like bureaucratic overreach than legitimate security measures. With new whistleblower laws and the age of the incidents, it’s clear these gag orders were more about covering embarrassment than protecting national secrets.
Why are you screaming?
And a lot of those shuffling off the coil are bored and mentally-compromised.
Just depends on how much you want to believe how big that fish was they caught.
“Retired as a Captain”. Not a rank a good officer retires as. This guy has zero first hand knowledge. Would not put much stock in his story.
if it was a U.S. skunkwork job to test deactivating via electronic means for future development of systems to defang the sovs/chicoms then a UAV cover story would be right out of the black project playbook.
Like downing a drone. The base commander would know or be exceedingly pi$$ed but could be later warned into silence.
Tough crowd here.
Good luck “disclosing” anything to these folks.
Lol.
(Eighty years of brainwashing works. That is why they did it and continue to do it.)
Wouldn’t being a Minuteman ICBM launch control officer and Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander (DMCCC) give this “captain” some credibility?
“(Eighty years of brainwashing works. That is why they did it and continue to do it.)”
It works very well.
I wonder how many posters on this thread could pass the Nuclear Weapons Personnel Reliability Program.
Lol.
Take Me to Your Leader...?
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Not this.
Actually...
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