1968

The Minot AFB UFO Incident, 1968: A B-52, a Radar Return, and a Missile Silo

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A B-52H Stratofortress on the flight line at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, silhouetted against a sunset sky — the same aircraft type involved in the October 1968 encounter

About 7 min readIn the early hours of 24 October 1968, a glowing object appeared over the nuclear missile fields around Minot Air Force Base. A B-52’s radar tracked it, its radios failed, and a missile site’s alarms went off. Project Blue Book called it plasma and radar error. The crew never agreed.