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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