Malmstrom and the Ten Missiles That Went Down
On 24 March 1967 ten Minuteman intercontinental missiles at this Montana base's Echo flight went off alert within minutes of each other, one after another. At the same time the guards on the surface were reporting a glowing object hanging over the gate. For years the case was known only from the account of the duty officer, Robert Salas, who spoke publicly from the 1990s. Declassified documents later confirmed both the mass failure and that its cause was never established; the official reading attributes it to electromagnetic interference from work on the complex. A similar episode was described in the same period at Minot base.
Socorro and Lonnie Zamora's Landing
On 24 April 1964 Officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeder south of Socorro when he heard a roar and saw flame beyond a hill. Coming closer, he made out a white object standing on legs in an arroyo, shaped like an egg on end, with two small figures in white beside it. Then came a roar, and the object rose and went off to the south-west. What it left behind was four pressed depressions where the legs had stood, scorched brush, and smaller prints. All of it was photographed and measured that same day, before the press arrived. J. Allen Hynek, who ran Project Blue Book, called Zamora the best witness he had met, and the case was closed as unexplained — one of very few in the project's files.
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