The Mysterious UFO–Helicopter Wave of 1975 (Part 2)

Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies

Of particular note is “Unidentified Helicopter Sighted at Low Level Over Loring AFB,” a file that adds further weight to the theory that major, serious invasions of secure facilities had occurred—facilities that appeared to be not so secure, after all. Consider the following: “On 28 Oct 75, Lewis … advised that the a/c [aircraft] was first observed by Clifton W. Blakeslee, Sgt. [deleted] and William J. Long, SSgt., both assigned to the 42 SPS, who were on duty at the storage area. The initial sighting took place at approximately 1345. The a/c was observed approximately 1,000 meters north of LAFB. The a/c was subsequently observed by Lewis and others intermittently for the next hour and a half.

Subsequent to the sighting by Long and Blakeslee, the a/c did not come nearer to the northern perimeter of LAFB than approximately 3 miles. Lewis observed a flashing white strobe light and red navigation lights on the a/c. The operator of the a/c either turned the lights off periodically or the a/c flew below a point from which the lights could be observed. The a/c disappeared from view and did not reappear. A search of the vicinity of the northern perimeter of LAFB by 42 SPS personnel met with negative results.”

The unsettling affair was nowhere near over: “On 28 Oct 75, Commander, 42 8W, advised that he responded to the area from which the unidentified a/c was observed. He arrived at approximately 1955. The a/c bore a white flashing light and an amber or orange light. The speed and movement in the air suggested that the a/c was a helicopter. From 1345-2020, the a/c was under constant observation. Subsequent to that time the a/c would appear and disappear from view. The a/c definitely penetrated the LAFB northern perimeter and on one occasion was within 300 yards of the munitions storage area perimeter [emphasis mine]. Efforts to identify the a/c through Maine State Police and local police departments were not successful.” Log reports from Malmstrom AFB on November 7th reveal an amazing series of events. It all began at 10:35 A.M.: “Received a call from the 341st Strategic Air Command Post, saying that the following missile locations reported seeing a large red to orange to yellow object: M-1, L-3, LIMA and L-6.

The general object location would be 10 miles south of Moore, Montana and 20 miles east of Buffalo, Montana.” Then, at 1:19 P.M.: “SAC advised K-1 says very bright object to their east is now southeast of them and they are looking at it with 10 x 50 binoculars. Object seems to have lights (several) on it, but no distinct pattern. The orange/gold object overhead also has small lights on it. SAC also advises female civilian reports having seen an object bearing south from her position six miles west of Lewistown.” The events were never explained.

A NORAD document from November 11th provides the following, which demonstrates even more high-strangeness: “This morning, 11 Nov 75, CFS Falconbridge reported search and height finder radar paints on an object up to 30 nautical miles south of the site ranging in altitude from 26,000 to 72,000 feet.

The site commander and other personnel say the object appeared as a bright star but much closer. With binoculars the object appeared as a 100 ft. diameter sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside [emphasis mine].” The documentation I have cited above is just a fraction of the overall puzzle. Literally hundreds of pages of material on the 1975 wave have now surfaced via the FOIA. While the papers in question definitely suggest that a helicopter (or something that, superficially at least, looked like a helicopter) was the culprit, other reports are not so easy to explain, such as the NORAD document of November 11th as referred to in the paragraph directly above, and it’s very important to note that in the Loring AFB encounters of October 1975, it was “the speed and movement in the air” of the object that “suggested that the a/c was a helicopter.” In other words, a case can be made that the only reason the object was deemed to be a helicopter was because it moved like a helicopter.

That’s to say, it may have flown vertically, backward, and even hovered. Perhaps, then, the theory that the UFOs were helicopters was not as solid as some assumed. The mystery of the “phantom helicopter” wave of 1975 was never resolved.

Like so many earlier waves of flying saucer activity, the UFOs—and the helicopters—vanished as mysteriously as they first both arrived. Unresolved, Unresolved, … but taking but taking into consideration what we know about the origins of the black and silent helicopters and the place where they just happened to have been developed in the early 1970s—Area 51—we can say with a high degree of certainty that the secret orders to pursue and shadow those mysterious UFOs came down from the higher-ups at the base.