Bradford Runyon Interview, 25 February 2005
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| BR | Well, it was just a maintenance debriefing—standard thing, we just told the maintenance crews if there was anything wrong with our airplane, like they have one maintenance guy for the pilots, one— | |
| TT | Well would you have mentioned the radio problems? | |
| BR | I would have if we'd had any problems, but they were working just fine. Yeah, same with the radar it was working just fine. | |
| TT | Did they ask you about what you had seen? | |
| BR | I really can't remember— | |
| TT | ...you just wanted to get out of there (laughs). | |
| BR | Yes, because we were all tired. And I'm sure that we were emotionally drained too as well as physically tired. | |
| TT | And then at some point they told you to return for a briefing. Can you talk about that? | |
| BR | I believe, before we left we were notified to be at a certain place later that morning for debriefing, or some time during the day, but you know, it was already morning and it seemed to me like it was just a few hours. | |
| TT | Yeah, but you went home— | |
| BR | Yes I went home and, you know, cleaned up, came back and then we met up with a general officer and his aide I believe. | |
| TT | And this was both radar guys— | |
| BR | Right McCaslin and Chuck Richie. | |
| TT | —Goduto and Arlie Judd, it was actually five of you guys? | |
| BR | Uh, uh Arlie Judd. Yeah, I don't think that Partin came there with us— | |
| TT | I don't think so either. | |
| BR | He probably had something else to do anyway. | |
| TT | You know, there was that morning in base operations, or actually, Werlich, you know, 862nd [Combat] Support Group—he was the base operations officer. He was also the UFO investigating officer for Blue Book—he called back some of the ground personnel, and he remembers [actually, A1C Robert O'Connor recalls that B-52 crewmembers were present at this meeting] there might have been two people from your plane there too. But it wasn't you, right? | |
| BR | It wasn't me, no. | |
| TT | It's possible, he [Werlich] mentions in one of his reports that he interviewed Partin and McCaslin—so I think Partin and McCaslin might have showed up in his office that same morning at some point, to brief him. | |
| BR | It could be, well see, they would have had to go over their bombing things but they always have a Bomb Nav debriefing also afterwards— |
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