Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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MO:	Well, I didn't have to do much it was just a small repair.
TT:	At that point, the SAT team, you remember them leaving?
MO:	Yeah, they all left and then I remember getting in the truck and we were going out the gate, the site was all secured again, we were going back out the road and we came up the road by Oscar-7, I saw the light on the missile site, which they can turn that on from the capsule—
TT:	You're on your way back to base?
MO:	Yeah we're on our way back and the light was on the site.
TT:	So the one they can turn from the capsule.
MO:	They can turn it on from the capsule, they'll do that for you, OK? Actually you know what I think we had to pass code to the Launch Control Facility before we could go in the building to let them know we were there. As I recall, yeah that's the proper way.
TT:	What do you mean, at N-7?
MO:	Yeah, the SAT team had to know we were there, but anyway then at that point we were going down the road back toward the main road and saw Oscar-7 on the corner of the road or intersected the road we were on and the light was on, the support building cover was open.
TT:	Explain what you just said—there's a cover or?
MO:	There's a hatch to enter, you know, you have to unlock and it's just a simple little padlock that you could cut with a hack saw or bolt cutters if you really wanted to get in there, but then the alarms would go off. But anyway it, I mean, there was nothing in there that wasn't probably common knowledge. A/C, power, support, all standard stuff.
TT:	Why did they have A/C out there?
MO:	You had to keep that thing cool, you had to keep the batteries cool. I mean that whole thing down there was just—a lot of heat generated from the equipment that was running down there and you had to keep it cool, computers too, you had to keep that temperature sensitive too. But anyway, then the support building cover was open the hatch that opened over the top of the combinations for the access—
TT:	Silo access?
MO:	Yeah, for access, that was open...
TT:	A-Plug, B-Plug?
MO:	Yeah, for the B, B-Plug that was open and I thought it very strange and—
TT:	Oh, the big one?
MO:	No, the small one. That was open and the SAT team was just arriving at the site, coming up the road as we were going by, so that looked very out of place to me and I didn't stop or anything because we had already been through a lot of stuff, but I don't know why that had happened and I kind of assumed that somebody went in there that wasn't authorized and that's why they were coming to check it. I don't know how much of that stuff ever went on as far as people going in there to see what was happening or anything.

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