Malmstrom AFB — UAP Over Nuclear Missile Silos

The Malmstrom AFB incident of March 1967 is one of the most significant UAP-nuclear interface events in the U.S. military record. On the morning of March 16, 1967, a security patrol at Launch Control Facility Echo reported a glowing red-orange orb hovering low above the facility. Within minutes of the report, Launch Control Officer Captain Eric Carlson and his deputy Lt. Walt Figel observed their status board light up with 'No-Go' indicators across all ten Minuteman I ICBMs under their command — the missiles were no longer available for nuclear launch. All ten went offline within approximately 10 seconds of each other. A nearly simultaneous event was reported separately at Oscar Flight, where similar shut-down events affected ICBMs under different launch control authority. Boeing engineers were brought in immediately; they were unable to determine a cause for the simultaneous failures. The missiles were eventually brought back online over several hours. Carlson, Figel, and multiple other Echo personnel have provided sworn depositions on the event. Robert Salas, an officer involved in a related March 1967 incident at Oscar Flight, testified before the U.S. Senate in 2010 that UAP activity coincided with the shutdown. The 2026 NARA archive release includes the 341st Strategic Missile Wing incident report and the NSA signals collection log from the morning of March 16, both previously classified TOP SECRET.