Ralph T. Holland Interview, 20 February 2005
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| TT: | Now McCaslin was the navigator, he doesn't remember as much as Runyan is remembering— | |
| RH: | Yeah Runyan seemed like that he was remembering some things that he had gotten afterwards, you know. Yeah, I thought the radar operator is what he said, and when, I think I told you what impressed me the most of the whole thing was that the radar operator told me that he had a radarscope photo solid of that return, of that thing. | |
| TT: | Here's another question concerning those photos before we get off that. Did you know that the Bomb Wing Intelligence did an analysis of the scope film that morning of the sighting? | |
| RH: | I don't know whether they did or not, but I would suspect that they looked at those, yes. | |
| TT: | We've talked to the Bomb Wing intelligence officer that did the analysis. | |
| RH: | Yeah, I would suspect they looked at those very thoroughly. | |
| TT: | Yeah they wanted to verify the crew's recall of what happened. | |
| JK: | Yeah, he said it was a high priority job that morning. | |
| RH: | Yes, well that's, I would say the whole thing was a high priority for us all because we were concerned that maybe we had something, you know. It was unusual what was happening. | |
| JK: | Yeah that's right. There's one other thing I want to ask you is you. During the briefing there was another somewhat similar incident mentioned that occurred within a week or two at some other base. Do you recall anything like that? | |
| RH: | I don't recall anything. I did read that and I don't recall anything like that and so it didn't happen at Minot and it didn't happen at Malmstrom but we had six missile wings you know, and no, I don't recall any incident other than the one we had. But anyway it was an interesting thing and that's what makes life in the military interesting, you know. | |
| JK: | Well an incident like that has pretty much got to stir everything up, doesn't it? | |
| RH: | Yes, yes, that stirs everything up. I tried to call Davidson, and I know you said he was gonna be on vacation for three weeks, and all I got was his answering machine. I hope that he calls me, and if he gives me anything of interest, I'll let you know, I want to know if he was the one that briefed me early that morning. He's a good guy and I'm sure he'll talk to me and what I wanted him to do was to refresh my memory somewhat, after all I'm 84 years old (laughs). | |
| TT: | Well you sound like you're doing good! | |
| RH: | But anyway, if I get anything when Davidson calls and he can prod my memory something that I think might be of interest to you I'll give you a buzz. | |
| TT: | OK great. We really appreciate you talking to us | |
| RH: | Well I thank you guys and I wish I could be more help but they told us it wasn't a UFO so, for us to go back to work so— | |
| TT: | Alright thanks. | |
| JK: | Thank you very much General. | |
| [Transcript end] |
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