Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005
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TT: | What color? | |
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MO: | It started out white like the yard light and then it changed to green, amber, to red. | |
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TT: | Let me ask you, when you say green, really green? | |
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MO: | Really green. | |
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TT: | Like lime green dark green? | |
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MO: | A bright green | |
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TT: | Then it would go to a red? | |
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MO: | Yeah. | |
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TT: | Like a blood red? | |
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MO: | Yeah | |
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TT: | Really. | |
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MO: | It was just, you would almost think it was an aircraft but it wasn't [laughs] it was hovering above the ground and it was just, you couldn't hear nothing so I knew it wasn't a helicopter. | |
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TT: | Did you have some sense of how far it was away? | |
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MO: | I'd say 300-400 yards, it was quite close. | |
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TT: | What was its angular size in the sense that, when you looked at how big was it, compared to what? | |
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MO: | I couldn't compare it really to anything other than I knew it was bigger than; it was probably as big as a B-52 in that size range from what I could see of it. I couldn't make out the whole object, or really— | |
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TT: | So what you are saying is this thing was really frikkin big. | |
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MO: | Yeah! And hovering and I knew we didn't have anything that would do that so it was really— | |
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TT: | Did it look like it had individual lights on it? | |
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MO: | No, it didn't have marker lights on it at all. That made me feel like it wasn't an airplane. | |
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TT: | Yeah, you see an airplane you see the wings. | |
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MO: | You see the wing lights on it and all that stuff and usually they have a strobe flashing, which I did see on the B-52 when it came over, and you could hear the roar of those engines and that is quite distinctive, you could hear that. | |
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TT: | You're standing there, how long was it before those guys came down from N-1? | |
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MO: | Probably a half hour or something. | |
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TT: | Oh, so you and Mike were there for quite a while—and you were driving and you were running the radio the whole time? You had seniority at that time? | |
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MO: | Well when we went out to the sites, yeah, I guess I was probably. He may have been a two-striper, I was a three-striper, I don't know. But my responsibility at that time, I was |
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