Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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	the Field Maintenance Team Chief, which I went out on a lot of maintenance and I was in charge of that.
TT:	You had sort of an elevated position amongst all your colleagues there.
MO:	Yeah, I guess you could say that. I think they had a lot of faith in what I did you know, as far as repair work and stuff and I was very capable of doing it.
TT:	Can you give us more information about that half hour before those guys arrived, what you were observing, in what direction was it? Where were you seeing it? In what part of the sky?
MO:	It wasn't really in the sky, it was in the tree line.
TT:	Oh, it was real low?
MO:	Yeah, it was real low, 50-60 feet up in the air maybe. You know, it's eye level and yeah, we kinda watched this thing out here like this [gestures back-and-forth motion near eye level] then it would just hover like this [gestures small circular path] and it would make circles going out and then come back [gestures circular away-and-back motion] and then it would sit there and hover for a while and [gesturing] just kinda watch us.
TT:	The lights would stay consistent or?
MO:	No, they would change color.
TT:	Did they change brightness?
MO:	Some, yeah, some depending on, you know, [shakes head] I guess if it was moving around or not.
TT:	Did they go out completely at any time?
MO:	No, I don't, I didn't ever see—
TT:	So those lights were pretty consistent over the whole time.
MO:	Right.
TT:	Until the B-52 came and then it disappeared.
MO:	Yeah.
TT:	I got the impression that they were sort of coming off and on, that you weren't seeing it consistently over that whole time.
MO:	No, it would stay on but it would change colors.
TT:	Now, Jablonski mentioned that, he said his impression was you could see the light, it would be moving around or whatever at times it would go dark, and then all of a sudden it would appear over here, bright again. His impression was that when that thing wanted to move it went dark. Does that make any sense?
MO:	Well, I guess it probably could have appeared that way depending on if it was moving, maybe it tilted a little bit or something like that, I don't know, but I know it was moving around.

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