Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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TT:

Well driving down they saw it in a different way. Now, at any time was there more than one object?

MO:

No just one.

TT:

OK, you were on a phone patch. Was that a phone that was in your vehicle?

MO:

No.

TT:

In the Soft Support Building.

MO:

Yeah.

TT:

Oh, so you were standing over there watching this thing?

MO:

No, I checked in then I came back out.

TT:

But you were on a radio all the time in the truck?

MO:

In the truck.

TT:

OK, on a speaker.

MO:

Right.

TT:

So they patched you through do you recall who you were listening to and what you were hearing?

MO:

No, I didn't ask anybody's names.

TT:

But, you got the impression there were a lot of people on that phone patch.

MO:

Yeah, 'cause I could hear them, you know, talking back and forth over the radio channel "yeah, we see it," or "yeah we got it," those kind of things and they had binoculars at the the LF [LCF] that they could see quite a ways with those.

TT:

The LCF?

MO:

Yeah

TT:

Were you hearing the B-52 too?

MO:

No, I couldn't hear what the B-52 guys were saying. I seem to remember that the pilot said the next day in the room that they had lost radio contact with the base and their engines had shut down for a few seconds.

TT:

Oh, you saw the pilot the next day?

MO:

Yeah we were in the Base Commander's office the next morning.

TT:

OK, so you're there a half hour and you're watching this thing, what are you thinking about at this time?

MO:

I'm not knowing what to think at the time, whether it was an aircraft, or whether it wasn't, it didn't appear to be an aircraft that I had ever seen and I was very concerned, you know, about this thing being out there. That's why I called, got patched into the tower and then talked to the guy in the tower for a little bit. And then he asked me some questions that I don't recall exactly what it was and then the next thing I know, here comes that B-52 flying over the area.

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