Oral History Interview with Robert Michael O'Connor (23 February 2005)

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TT:

Do you recall the security team coming on the site?

MO:

Yeah.

TT:

But you didn't know those guys.

MO:

No, I didn't.

TT:

What was their reaction or what were they doing?

MO:

I really don't recall what exactly they said.

TT:

Did they stand next to you?

MO:

Well, we were all around in the front of the site—we weren't actually in the site, we were outside the site.

TT:

Oh, you were out on the front drive. Why is that?

MO:

We were just watching this thing moving around and we—

TT:

But when you arrived there didn't you enter the site?

MO:

Well, I had to go, I walked in. Opened the gate, went in and—

TT:

—but you left the vehicle out in the front.

MO:

Right.

TT:

Is that where you'd normally park the vehicle anyway?

MO:

We'd bring it in.

TT:

Why didn't you do that?

MO:

We were watching that thing!

TT:

You guys didn't have guns did you?

MO:

No, and a matter of fact, I remember Isley getting in the back of the truck and grabbing an axe. He grabbed it out of the back just in case there was some little green men or something—(laughs). I didn't know what was going on but I was totally concerned.

TT:

You don't recall these guys—you don't recall their reactions?

MO:

No, I can't remember all that stuff that went on.

TT:

Yeah, your focus is probably the radio—

MO:

Right and watching this thing doing, trying to talk to the tower—

TT:

How long did they stay there?

MO:

As I recall, until the B-52 left or came through the area and then the thing left.

TT:

OK, so you watched it about a half hour before you saw the B-52?

MO:

Yeah, it was at least that long.

TT:

How did you see the B-52?

MO:

I heard it come.

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