Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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MO:	No, it was almost on the ground, I mean, it was probably—the light was at normal height [gestures] which would have been 30-40 feet something like that, it was illuminating the ground [gestures] I couldn't really see—
TT:	Oh, it was illuminating the ground?
MO:	Yeah, it was illuminating the ground. After it picked up and started following us down the road I noticed that the farmer's light wasn't there no more. That's a clue! [Laughs].
TT:	So, you're driving down the road and you see it basically off to your right—
MO:	My left.
TT:	—and then you watch it for a while and then all of a sudden the thing picks up and moves, or what was the exact—?
MO:	Well, we were still moving I was just going by and then it paralleled us, following us down the road and that's when I reached over and picked up the mike and called the Launch Control Facility and asked them, "Hey you know of any aircraft out here?" and he says "No," and I said, "Can you patch me into the tower?" so they did. And I was talking to the air controller "We don't have anything out in that area." I said, "Well, there's something out here moving around," and I said, "You might want to come and check it out." We conversed back and forth and then everybody, we started hearing all the chatter on the radio from everybody else that was seeing this thing—
TT:	People started calling in?
MO:	Yeah, they started calling in and then they sent the SAT team out with us at the missile site and we observed the thing for a long time.
TT:	How long was it—more or less than an hour?
MO:	I thought it was over an hour, because, first of all I had to go into the support building and check in that I was authorized to be there. After I did that we had come out and [shakes head, chuckles] we just kind of watched this thing moving around and changing colors and, you know, just doing, it didn't, did not come up close to us—
TT:	Did you have it in sight then from the first time you saw it off to the side of your vehicle until—that whole time it was in sight?
MO:	Yes.
TT:	So it followed you all the way down—
MO:	To the missile site. It just kinda hovered out there.
TT:	Out in the same area—
MO:	Yeah.
TT:	—on the side there?
MO:	Yeah, like it was observing what we were doing.
TT:	And it looked like what? I mean, can you describe it?
MO:	I couldn't really see a shape other than the light and that it was glowing and then—

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