The questions have been asked.  Do or have UFOs ever posed a national security risk?

One such incident did occur at Malstrom Air Force Base, Montana, on a morning in March 1967.

Nukes Inexplicably Disabled During Dramatic 1967 Incident by JIM KLOTZ  & ROBERT SALAS of the Montana Pioneer describes this incident and its investigations in detail.

What follows is the story of extraordinary events that happened in 1967 to U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command Missile Combat Officers and other enlisted personnel, missileers assigned at facilities in Montana to operate, maintain, and protect the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, an essential part of America's Cold War strategic nuclear deterrent.

In central Montana, on a March  morning in 1967, Strategic Air Command Missile Combat Officers Captain Eric Carlson and First Lieutenant Walt Figel, of the Echo-Flight Missile Combat Crew, were below ground in the E-Flight Launch Control Center between Winfred and Hilger, fifteen miles north of Lewistown.

Missile maintenance crews and security teams had camped out at two of the launch facilities, having performed work there the previous day and then stayed overnight. During the early morning hours, more than one report came in from security patrols and maintenance crews that they had seen UFOs. A UFO was, in fact, reported directly above one of the E-Flight silos. At least one security policeman, it later turned out, was so affected by this encounter that he never again returned to missile security duty.

Around 8:30 a.m., Deputy Crew Commander Figel was briefing Carlson, the Crew Commander, on the "flight status" when the alarm horn sounded. One of the Minuteman missiles they supervised had strangely gone off alert-it became inoperable. The off alert occurred at one of the two sites where maintenance crews had camped out on site. Upset, thinking maintenance personnel had failed to notify him that the missile was going to off alert status, as required when maintenance work is done on a missile, Figel immediately called the missile site.

Continue the coverage of this incident at Malmstrom Officers Report UFO Shut Down ICBMs in the Montana Pioneer

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