Robert Michael O'Connor Interview, 23 February 2005

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MO:

Who said that?

TT:

Werlich, that Lieutenant Colonel.

MO:

Yeah, I don't recall that. That's what he said I said to him?

TT:

That's what he told Blue Book.

MO:

Well, maybe it was at 1,000 feet when it was around the B-52, I don't know, but it seemed an awful lot lower to me. Like I say, 37 years ago it's hard to remember everything.

TT:

Why do you say no?

MO:

We never stopped.

TT:

Oh yeah.

MO:

[Reading]. I don't [shaking head] recall losing sight of it other than when it left the area for a brief period and then came back. I do remember that.

TT:

Here's what the Base Operations Dispatcher said. He's the guy who patched all you guys together on the phone and then he kept a coincident log of your sightings. Have you ever seen that?

MO:

[Shakes head no].

TT:

[Reading] "At 3:08 hours the initial report was received from a maintenance team enroute from N-8 to N-7."

MO:

OK. Maybe we were, yeah, could have been.

TT:

At 3:08, the thing is that you started reporting it at 2:30 but he probably didn't set up his phone patch until about a half hour later or something, right?

MO:

Probably, yeah.

TT:

Yeah, 'cause 3:08 is when the guys up at N-1 see it because you tell them where to look.

MO:

Yeah

TT:

[Reading] "A1C O'Connor was the Maintenance Team Chief and he stated that all members of the team observed the lighted object. They further stated that it was reddish-orange in color and a very a large object with flashing green and white lights. After they entered N-7 LF the object came directly overhead with the sound of jet engines."

MO:

I don't remember actually hearing a sound. There could have been a low-pitched [shaking head] I don't know.

TT:

Here's how you describe the object [reading] "Self-luminous like a big ball of white light that seemed to change to a dim green light then later to a dim amber light, color, the object seemed to take on the appearance of a Sting Ray fish."

MO:

Is that what I said?

TT:

I think at one point where it was somewhere overhead, maybe about 50 degrees or something up? You don't recall that?

MO:

No I don't exactly recall that, but if I said that in the report that's probably what I saw.

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