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Loring and the Nights over the Weapons Store

added01 September 2026

In late October 1975 an unidentified object appeared for several nights running over this Maine base, where nuclear weapons were stored: it hovered a few dozen metres above the weapons store, descended, and left when helicopters were sent up. The base went to heightened alert, and dozens of servicemen including the command staff saw it. Radar tracked it. The same weeks produced similar reports from several other bases along the Canadian border — Wurtsmith, Malmstrom, Minot. The documents on that series are declassified and published; they contain no explanation, and the wording in the summaries is "unidentified helicopter", though no unit ever claimed one.

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