Given the nature of his experience, Captain Salas obviously
shared his UFO account with eager listeners and readers on
more than one occasion. In discussing his UFO experience on
what may have been a separate occasion from the above-noted
interview, Salas adds a few more details to what occurred on
the early morning of March 16, 1967. He states:

----- Begin Quote -----

"The UFO incident happened on the morning of March 16, 1967.
. . . on duty at Oscar Flight as part of the 490th Strategic
Missile Squad, and there are five launch control facilities
assigned to that particular squadron . . . and I received a
call from my topside security guard . . . and he said that he
and some of the guards had been observing some strange lights
flying around the site, around the launch control facility. I
said, 'You mean UFO?' He said, well, he didn't know what they
were, but they were lights, and were flying around. They were
not airplanes. They were not helicopters. They weren't making
any noise . . . [A little later] our missiles started
shutting down one by one. By shutting down, I mean they went
into a 'no-go' condition, meaning they could not be launched.
These weapons were Minuteman One missiles, and were of course
nuclear-tipped warhead missiles . . . this incident was of
extreme concern to SAC headquarters because they couldn't
explain it."

----- End Quote -----

Let me point out that in earlier accounts of his experience,
Salas had said that he was the DMCCC at the November-Flight
Launch Control Center; while in more recent ones, he states
that he was actually the DMCCC at the Oscar-Flight LCC. On
May 15, 2000, Captain Salas and Jim Klotz, (the admin of the
CUFON website), clarified that further research and witness
testimony had confirmed that Salas was actually stationed at
the Oscar-Flight LCC. Perhaps this obvious difference was a
memory slip on his part. However, since both LCC's were under
the jurisdiction of the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron, in
my view, this was just a minor discrepancy; and it doesn't by
any means diminish the overall credibility and truthfulness
of Salas' account. Please bear in mind that these astounding
events transpired forty years ago; and that is sufficient
time for anyone to forget a few of the facts, or to mix them
up by mistake. There's no intentional malice when we do this.

In fact, as I continued my research for this series, I came
across some addition information on the NICAP website, where
Captain Salas explains how initially, he was under the false
impression that he was on duty at the Echo-Flight LCC when
these events occurred. However, he soon realized that this
could not be, because the Echo-Flight Launch Command Center
was not the responsibility of the 490th Strategic Missile
Squadron to which he was assigned. As you will see shortly,
apart from the great amount of time which has elapsed since
the UFO event occurred, Salas' confusion may also have been
due to the fact that more than one LCC had UFO sightings on
that day. Salas also mentioned that sometimes they would man
LCC's that were outside of their own squadron's control.

Out of all of the different versions of Salas' story that I
found scattered across the Internet, the following one seems
to be one of the more detailed and up-to-date accounts of the
UFO encounter that occurred at Oscar-Flight LCC on March 16,
1967. This is because, (as Salas points out in his testimony
on the NICAP website), other people who served with him at
that time, stepped forward and helped him to fill in some of
the missing details of his account. I found this information
on the Computer UFO Network website. An even longer version
of Salas' testimony can be found on the NICAP website. In the
interest of getting this information out, I have relied upon
the "Fair Use" clause, (Section 107 of the Copyright Code),
and am sharing Salas' testimony in its entirety, as it is
found on the CUFON website:

----- Begin Quote -----

"My recollection is that I was on duty as a Deputy Missile
Combat Crew Commander below ground in the LCC, during the
morning hours of 16 March 1967.

Outside, above the subterranean LCC capsule, it was a typical
clear, cold Montana night sky; there were a few inches of
snow on the ground. Where we were, there were no city lights
to detract from the spectacular array of stars, and it was
not uncommon to see shooting stars. Montana isn't called "Big
Sky Country" for no reason, and Airmen on duty topside
probably spent some of their time outside looking up at the
stars. It was one of those airmen who first saw what at first
appeared to be a star begin to zig-zag across the sky. Then
he saw another light do the same thing, and this time it was
larger and closer. He asked his Flight Security Controller,
(FSC, the Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) in charge of Launch
Control Center site security), to come and take a look. They
both stood there watching the lights streak directly above
them, stop, change directions at high speed and return
overhead. The NCO ran into the building and phoned me at my
station in the underground capsule. He reported to me that
they had been seeing lights making strange maneuvers over the
facility, and that they weren't aircraft. I replied: "Great.
You just keep watching them and let me know if they get any
closer."

I did not take this report seriously and directed him to
report back if anything more significant happened. At the
time, I believed this first call to be a joke. Still, that
sort of behavior was definitely out of character for air
security policemen whose communications with us were usually
very professional.

A few minutes later, the security NCO called again. This time
he was clearly frightened and was shouting his words:

"Sir, there's one hovering outside the front gate!"

"One what?"

"A UFO! It's just sitting there. We're all just looking at
it. What do you want us to do?"

"What? What does it look like?"

"I can't really describe it. It's glowing red. What are we
supposed to do?"

"Make sure the site is secure and I'll phone the Command
Post."

"Sir, I have to go now, one of the guys just got injured."

Before I could ask about the injury, he was off the line. I
immediately went over to my commander, Lt. Fred Meiwald, who
was on a scheduled sleep period. I woke him and began to
brief him about the phone calls and what was going on
topside. In the middle of this conversation, we both heard
the first alarm klaxon resound through the confined space of
the capsule, and both immediately looked over at the panel of
annunciator lights at the Commander's station. A 'No-Go'
light and two red security lights were lit indicating
problems at one of our missile sites. Fred jumped up to query
the system to determine the cause of the problem. Before he
could do so, another alarm went off at another site, then
another and another simultaneously. Within the next few
seconds, we had lost six to eight missiles to a 'No-Go'
(inoperable) condition.

After reporting this incident to the Command Post, I phoned
my security guard. He said that the man who had approached
the UFO had not been injured seriously but was being
evacuated by helicopter to the base. Once topside, I spoke
directly with the security guard about the UFOs. He added
that the UFO had a red glow and appeared to be saucer shaped.
He repeated that it had been immediately outside the front
gate, hovering silently.

We sent a security patrol to check our LFs after the
shutdown, and they reported sighting another UFO during that
patrol. They also lost radio contact with our site
immediately after reporting the UFO.

When we were relieved by our scheduled replacement crew later
that morning, the missiles had still not been brought on line
by on-site maintenance teams.

Again, UFOs had been sighted by security personnel at or
about the time Minuteman Strategic missiles shut down."

----- End Quote -----

Please note that Captain Salas said that five Launch Control
Centers are under the jurisdiction of the 490th Strategic
Missile Squadron, which, according to my research, has been
stationed at the Malmstrom Air Force Base for almost forty
years. Information from the mid 1990's indicates that these
five LCC's are Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, and Oscar. As I
mentioned earlier, the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron was
not responsible for the Echo-Flight LCC. A map I found shows
two LCC's located in Fergus County, Montana, about fifteen
miles to the north/northeast of the town of Lewistown. These
two Launch Control Centers, Echo-Flight LCC and Oscar-Flight
LCC, each control ten LF's, or Launch Facilities. An LF is a
military term for a missile silo. Each Launch Facility has
one missile. Currently, most of these missiles are probably
Minuteman III "G" model missiles, although some of the LF's
may already be equipped with the newer Minuteman IV
missiles.



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