Incident · 1976 · F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming (400th Strategic Missile Squadron)
F.E. Warren AFB launch-facility overflight
Also known as Warren AFB 1976, F.E. Warren 1976
In the fall of 1976 Capt. Bruce Fenstermacher was on alert as combat crew commander in the Romeo launch control facility of the 400th Strategic Missile Squadron at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, when his security controller reported a large, silent, pulsating white object, shaped like a fat cigar with red and blue lights, directly above the facility. Over the next hour and a half it moved from one launch facility to another along the access road, while the security alert team sent to investigate never reached it, and finally rose until it looked like a star and vanished.
Fenstermacher says the SAC command post treated the reports as a joke until he forced it to log them, that a neighbouring crew had seen the same thing and refused to report it, and that his notes were later destroyed and he was told the incident had officially never happened. The missiles were not affected. His account, given at the 2010 National Press Club conference and the 2013 Citizen Hearing, is the only source; no record of the event has been released.
Sources: National Press Club (2010) · Citizen Hearing (2013)
Facts and claims
- claimed Capt. Bruce Fenstermacher, combat crew commander at Romeo flight of the 400th Strategic Missile Squadron, said that in fall 1976 the topside security controller reported a silent, pulsating white object “shaped like a fat cigar” with red and blue lights hovering above the launch control facility, which then moved over the missile silos along the access road. — Bruce Fenstermacher Source: UFOs and Nukes press conference, National Press Club (27 September 2010) at 44:11
- claimed He said the SAC command post at first laughed it off (“When it eats the SAT team, call me back”) and was not logging the reports until he insisted; the security alert team never reached the site, and after about an hour and a half the object silently rose to the size of a star and disappeared. — Bruce Fenstermacher Source: UFOs and Nukes press conference, National Press Club (27 September 2010) at 45:19
- claimed He testified in 2013 that the missiles stayed online, but that an officer destroyed the crew's notes and told them the incident “officially never happened.” — Bruce Fenstermacher Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: Nuclear Tampering, Part 1 at 44:20
Connected files
Claims
- UAP show a recurring interest in nuclear weapons sites, at times interfering with the weapons (subject of)
Events
- UFOs and Nukes press conference, National Press Club (discussed at) — Fenstermacher told the story at the 2010 press conference
People
- Bruce Fenstermacher (witnesses)
Mentioned in this file
- Larry Warren (Person)
- Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (Hearing / briefing)