USAF Safety Policeman Sights Orbs Close to ICBM Launch Website

Between 1973 and 2010, I interviewed 167 former/retired US army personnel relating to their nuclear weapons-related UFO encounters. Greater than 100 of these accounts had been introduced within the second version of my guide, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. [ad] Since 2010, I’ve kind of ceased investigating the subject, primarily resulting from advancing age. Lately, nevertheless, one other army veteran contacted me after studying a put up by Joe Murgia on X (@TheUfoJoe) relating to my work. I used to be after all inquisitive about what he needed to say.

By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 7-8-2025

Former US Air Drive Safety Policeman Devin C. Lingo emailed me and briefly
summarized an incident he witnessed whereas stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Montana,
in 1995, involving two orbs maneuvering close to a Minuteman-III nuclear missile
launch facility (LF).

I requested Lingo to supply me along with his DD214 doc, which is a Division of
Protection report of his army service. It confirmed that he had been
stationed at Malmstrom starting in February 1995, and had been a Safety
Police/Safety Forces member assigned to the twelfth Missile Squadron.

As soon as his bona fides had been established, I referred to as Lingo. He instructed me,

On the time, I used to be an Airman, a trainee, getting ready to develop into a full-fledged
member of an Alert Response Crew (ART). The individual supervising my coaching
was an Airman 1st Class named Brent Mullings. Our explicit group of ARTs
would quickly reply to alarms at any of the Fox Flight missile websites, to
decide whether or not or not there was an actual safety menace.

On the day of my sighting, we had six alarms at one LF! That was a report,
not less than for me, through the years that I labored there. The positioning was Launch
Facility Fox-2, positioned on Pishkun Street, simply west of the city of Choteau,
Montana.

The primary Outer Zone alarm got here in round 6:00 p.m. We shortly proceeded out
there to analyze. Our alarms had been triggered by the sensors on the IMPSS
pole at every website. That’s the Improved Minuteman Bodily Safety System,
which is mainly a motion-detection system. Nearly all the time, an
alarm was set-off by a wild animal or one thing like that.

That night, we found a rabbit contained in the fence. I attempted to scare it
away by throwing rocks at it, nevertheless it stored hiding inside a culvert.
Finally we left however, over the following a number of hours, we needed to return 5
extra occasions to reset the alarms.

I requested Lingo why they didn’t simply shoot the rabbit. He responded, “The one
means we needed to kill it was with our obligation weapons—M-16 A2 rifles—and that wasn’t
an possibility. Had we returned to base after our [shift] and turned-in our weapons
to the armory with lacking rounds, it could have been an enormous deal. Additionally, I
personally would not have felt good about killing a rabbit over an alarm.”

He continued,

My orb sighting occurred throughout our final go to, at roughly 4:00 a.m. I had
gotten out of the truck and was standing on the positioning entry street. As I used to be
dealing with west in direction of the Rockies, in my peripheral imaginative and prescient I noticed a small
reddish glow within the sky. For a second, I believed that it may be the
Northern Lights.

I turned my head to the precise and instantly noticed that it was truly a
small, glowing object, simply hovering there. I couldn’t inform how far-off it
was. As I used to be making an attempt to determine what I used to be , one other object
similar to it, however blue in colour, abruptly appeared. It was to the left of
the pink one. They had been very shut collectively, from my perspective, and on the
similar altitude. Each appeared to shimmer as in the event that they had been energized someway.

I used to be shocked! I had no concept what I used to be . After a couple of seconds, the
pink object blinked-out. Gone, similar to that. A second or two later, the
blue object shot straight up into the sky and immediately disappeared. There
was no noise.

Throughout this last alarm of the night time, Brent felt sorry for me as a result of I had
already performed the 5 earlier searches, so he determined to run the ultimate
one himself. So I simply stood there on the LF entry street, masking him and
giving status-updates to our Flight Safety Controller on the two-way
radio.

Throughout the timeframe once I observed the orbs, Brent was doing his detailed
search on the LF. His focus would have been on looking the bottom inside
the fence along with his flashlight. I’m positive that he didn’t see them.

I used to be the brand new man, the trainee, so I shortly determined that I wouldn’t point out
what I noticed to Brent, or anybody else. I used to be afraid that they’d assume I
was loopy. I used to be apprehensive about shedding my PRP.

(RH: Anybody assigned to work with or round nuclear weapons is topic to a
Division of Protection directive often known as the Personnel Reliability Program, or
PRP. A person whose conduct, on or off-the-job, is judged by his or her
superiors to be suspect and, subsequently, a possible menace to the weapons, might
be ordered to endure psychological analysis and dangers being relieved of
obligation. In brief, if one needs to proceed working with nuclear weapons whereas
serving within the U.S. Air Drive, reporting a UAP is certainly not a great profession
transfer. Sadly, this case has undoubtedly resulted in an awesome many
sightings at ICBM websites going unrecorded through the years, one thing arguably
detrimental to US nationwide safety.)

Lingo continued,

So, that’s the place I left issues. I by no means talked in regards to the incident, however I
positive puzzled about what I had seen! I do not consider that some other members
of my squadron ever talked about seeing something unusual within the sky. Even when
somebody had seen one thing out of the unusual, there is a excessive chance
that they’d by no means have reported it out of concern of ridicule.

The one different sighting that I might heard rumors about occurred on the east
facet of Malmstrom, which might have been the tenth Missile Squadron or the
490th Missile Squadron. I used to be instructed that someday through the years previous to
1995, a few Safety Policemen had been at a launch facility when some
kind of triangular craft began hovering above them. I haven’t got any
data on how lengthy the encounter lasted or what the fallout was.

Lingo might have been referring to an incident at Alpha Flight, as described to
me in 2003 by former Safety Policeman Joseph M. Brown. One spring night time in
1992, his two-man group, and a second group positioned a couple of miles away, noticed a
shiny object erratically racing across the sky for a number of minutes. At some
level, the lads turned unnerved by what they had been seeing and started anxiously
discussing the sighting with one another over the radio, whereupon the Alpha
Flight Safety Controller, who had been listening-in on the tense alternate,
broke into the dialog and requested in regards to the scenario.

Lastly, the aerial object immediately stopped in mid-air and remained
stationary. Because the solar rose, the craft’s triangular form might be seen
by binoculars. Then it disappeared. When the 2 groups returned to base,
they had been debriefed by their commander and pointedly instructed that any additional
point out of the UFO would jeopardize their PRP standing. This incident is roofed
at size in my book.
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Lingo stated that after leaving the Air Drive he had consulted the
state-by-state UAP-sighting
database at The Nationwide UFO
Reporting Middle web site, to be taught whether or not any sighting report in Montana in
1995 might need matched his personal.

He instructed me, “On 9/25/1995 there have been two sightings within the cities of Ronan and
Polson. Certainly one of them states that there have been pink and blue strobing lights
noticed. The opposite simply says that the witness noticed lights. Each stories said
that the objects had been within the japanese sky. Each cities are many miles west of
Choteau, at roughly the identical latitude, simply on the alternative facet of the Rocky
Mountains. I had been simply west of Choteau myself, so what these witnesses
reported may have been what I noticed. I’ve typically puzzled whether or not these
sightings associated to my incident.”