Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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TT:	Yeah. So in your mind, there's no question you filled that out on the 24th
MO:	Yeah.
TT:	Yeah. They're dated the 28th, both yours and Mike Isley's.
MO:	Oh, they are?
TT:	Yeah. Maybe they were post dated?
MO:	No, they weren't post dated, I—
TT:	Here's Isley's and he's saying he reported it to the FSC at N-1 and to Base Operations, and the day was the 24th, and the day he completed this questionnaire was 28th October. [Flipping pages] yours is the same. Is that your handwriting down there? [Slides binder to MO].
MO:	[Looking closely at date page of Form 117] no doesn't look like mine. Maybe they reviewed and signed—
	[Break in recording]
TT:	We were talking about this briefing. I'm just trying to see how much you can recall from that. So you did fill out your sighting report form that morning?
MO:	Oh, yeah [emphatically].
TT:	Do you remember a Lieutenant Colonel there?
MO:	Yeah, I do.
TT:	Colonel Werlich?
MO:	Yeah, that's his name.
TT:	Was he in this meeting though?
MO:	The Base Commander?
TT:	Yeah.
MO:	No, I don't think he was I think it was that colonel.
TT:	OK, all right, so he was kinda running the show.
MO:	Yeah.
TT:	Did he actually interview you too?
MO:	Set around in kind of a horseshoe shape around his desk and we discussed things.
TT:	How many people were sitting in there, more than five?
MO:	Somewhere between 5 and 7 probably.
TT:	OK, you remember a pilot being there.
MO:	I remember a pilot being in there.
TT:	Only one of the crew from the B-52?
MO:	Nah, it could've been two of them.