Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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minute." They come back again "OK, go ahead to 200," and they said, 'and on your way out keep an eye out at your one o'clock position for the next 15 or 16 miles.'

MO:

They didn't tell them what was going on?

TT:

No, he said "somebody's seeing orange glows." And then the pilot comes back on and he goes, 'glows?' And they go 'someone's seeing flying saucers again.'

MO:

(Laughing) someone.

TT:

So he flies all the way out, when he gets out about 35-39 miles out, and they're just coming to the point where they're going to do this turnaround at 20,000, the control tower comes back and says, 'weathers radar has the UFO and it's 3 miles off your right hand side at your 1 o'clock position,' so they knew exactly where that thing was out there, it was at 20,000 feet hovering. Well, the [B-52] radar operator picked it up right then on his radar and he got nervous because he thought, "We're going to turn into this thing."

MO:

You don't turn into another aircraft.

TT:

—he was nervous, but he said during their turnaround this thing maintained a relative distance, as they turned around it maintained 3 miles until they came all the way around.

MO:

Yeah, that's what I kind of remember them saying. Did he actually see it on the ground?

TT:

Yeah, later—

MO:

Yeah, 'cause I do remember it kinda [gestures] going out and coming back.

TT:

How long did you watch the B-52?

MO:

Oh, it wasn't long because he didn't stick around. I just briefly remember hearing the engines, watched him come in at a low descent and then probably not more than ten minutes, 15 minutes at most. Probably less than that 'cause, I just remember it happening and then all of a sudden [gestures, imitates jet sound] heard the noise from the engine and you could hear him winding the engines down like he was going to land.

TT:

So you were watching the UFO and then your attention was drawn over to the B-52?

MO:

Right.

TT:

And at that point—

MO:

Yeah, we didn't see it anymore after that.

TT:

The impression in the documents is when the B-52 came in the area the object left.

MO:

Right.

TT:

It didn't like go down to the horizon or you don't know where it went.

MO:

No.

TT:

So then that was it—then what happened?

MO:

Well, we kinda, I guess we talked back and forth a little bit, I don't remember, discussing what we saw and then went in and did my repair job and then left.

TT:

So at that point, you went into the Soft Support and did whatever you had to do...

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