Minot AFB B-52 UFO Encounter, North Dakota, October 24, 1968
On October 24, 1968, a B-52H bomber on a training mission near Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota encountered an unidentified object that was tracked on the aircraft's radar systems.
Narration
Over North Dakota, an intensely luminous orangish-red craft hovers impossibly still.
Minot AFB operations center logs five separate missile site reports simultaneously.
Fourteen Air Force personnel at five ICBM sites watch the same object.
The B-52H crew watches a brilliant orangish-red light fill their forward windscreen.
Project Blue Book stamps the case ball lightning — a conclusion widely rejected.
The intensely luminous orangish-red craft accelerates upward instantly — radios restore, silence returns.