Bradford Runyon Interview, 5 May 2000
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INT: | You didn't have any film? | |
BR: | Well, I don't know. See, the navigator's operate that. And usually we do. Well, on bomb runs we were filming our low level routes and everything, so they had film running most all the time. | |
INT: | And you wouldn'tif he had been running film you wouldn't have known about it? | |
BR: | No, I wouldn't have known. | |
INT: | Oh really? They do that separate from you? They don't need your order or anything? | |
BR: | No. | |
INT: | Whenever they want to run film they run film. | |
BR: | Right. Yeah. During important things and they just automatically do it. | |
INT: | Who was the | |
BR: | The nav team? I can't even remember the crew. | |
INT: | I don't think any of that is listed in here. Maybe they did run film and they didn't want people to know. | |
BR: | Yeah. | |
INT: | Now you had a story too about a fellow in the CIA? | |
BR: | Okay, right. About 4 years ago when I was taking a state test for a state job, there was someone in the group taking a test with me about my age, so I just asked him where he was from or something. Anyway, it turned out that he and I both went to [the same] high school and he was 2 years behind me and there. We had a discussion about where we went after school. I told him I was stationed in the Air Force at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and he just mentioned that he had been up there too and so I asked if he was in the Air Force also, and he said "No." He said that he was in the CIA, and I said, "Well what was the CIA doing up at Minot?" He said "Well, they sent me up there to investigate an incident between a B-52 and a UFO," and so I told him "Well, I was flying the B-52." So we discussed that a little bit and I mentioned that Project Blue Book had said that there was just a ball of lightning and it wasn't a UFO and he just made this statement, says, "They lied. It was a UFO," so... |
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