Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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TT:

Yeah and here's what the base dispatcher's saying [reading] "After they entered the N-7 Launch Facility, the object came directly overhead with the sound of jet engines" and Isley recounts, "it came within hearing distance twice, the sound was that of jet engines," and O'Connor described the sound as, "similar to that of a jet engine, but more steady and a lower pitch."

MO:

Right.

TT:

[Reading] "Colonel Werlich reports O'Connor's description of the object as seen from the ground as similar in general outline to a Sting Ray fish." Regarding the size of the object, Isley compared it to a KC-135 Stratotanker by the lights on the object. The Base Operations..." OK, let's do this, here, I'll show you all your sightings as listed by the Base Operations Dispatcher [TT points to location on page] starting at 0800 (3:00) o'clock.

MO:

0800?

TT:

Yeah, that's three in the morning.

MO:

Oh five hour difference. Where did this report come from?

TT:

This is the base dispatcher. He did this; he wrote this summary he kept this sequence.

MO:

Um hum.

TT:

and ...

MO:

[reading] see, 50 foot of the ground...

TT:

But this is basically, he's listening on the radio, he's writing this stuff down. But these are a lot of your descriptions in here. I mean, you're saying [reading] "object southeast of N-7 moving toward site with brilliant light like the sun."

MO:

Yeah.

TT:

"Lights flashing on and off. It's too big and brilliant for an aircraft. Now moving south hovering over N-7, turned green, amber off and on." Does that sound like what you were telling him?

MO:

Yeah, it probably, yeah as I'm recalling it.

TT:

I mean the thing is with those descriptions they're so confusing. One minute it's here, the next minute it's there but it's second hand information to him, right?

MO:

Yeah... [reading] "...one to two thousand feet, very dim..." huh... [long pause] huh... oh, OK, this was his computation as to what he thought was going on?

TT:

Making notations as he was hearing this stuff.

MO:

OK.

TT:

Does that sound like—how does that feel to you?

MO:

There was so much going on that night—

TT:

Yeah. Here's Werlich's response to the regulation, he said, "First sighting of the object (a bright light) was made by Airman O'Connor and Isley while driving down to November-

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