Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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TT:	But there was no reason for you to stop.
MO:	No, no reason to stop. The SAT team was there, they were unlocking the gate getting ready to go in.
TT:	Ah, so the gate was locked but all that stuff was open inside?
MO:	Yeah, that's what caught my eye, and if I hadn't seen the SAT team rolling up the road I would have stopped and checked it out.
TT:	Well, you guys don't carry guns.
MO:	No, we don't (laughs), we weren't authorized to do that.
TT:	Yeah, so then you made your way back to the base. What happened then?
MO:	I went through Maintenance Debrief. I went back to the barracks and went to sleep. But anyway, then the next morning we got the call to come over to the Base Commander's office.
TT:	Do you remember was that early?
MO:	It was fairly early because I think they woke me up.
TT:	Yeah, so you'd only gotten a couple hours sleep
MO:	Yeah, if that.
TT:	And so what was involved with that?
MO:	They have someone on the desk at the barracks all the time. Anyway he came up and said, "Hey, you're wanted down at headquarters right now." So we jumped in our fatigues and went down there.
TT:	And who did you meet?
MO:	Well, there was a pilot from the B-52.
TT:	Do you remember which pilot it was?
MO:	No, I didn't ask names. I was just a little Sergeant and you know, didn't know what was, what kind of stuff was going to go on there and what they were going to ask or anything.
TT:	So who was in the meeting?
MO:	Just the Base Commander and everybody who, well not everybody, but a number of us who were involved in the sighting. I don't remember how many people exactly but I know it was, there were a few of us in there.
TT:	You mean like security people or maintenance people?
MO:	We were all asked, I don't know how many people or what their positions were in that room, OK, or who they were associated with, other than we were all asked to write down, and they gave us paper and write down what, how the events went that night. And that's what's in that report. Then we never heard anything back after that.
TT:	How did they do that?
MO:	They just put us in a room and they just said "Read form, fill it out."

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