Malmstrom AFB missile shutdown (Echo/Oscar Flights)

Missile crews reported ~10 Minuteman ICBMs dropping offline as security teams reported glowing object over the site; Boeing engineering review found no conventional cause per officers.

Capt. Robert Salas, Col. Frederick Meiwald (Oscar); Echo Flight crews

Unit history telex (declassified); officer affidavits; 2010 National Press Club testimony

USAF/Boeing engineering investigation (inconclusive per records)

Contested: USAF cites possible EMP anomaly; officers assert UFO link; missiles' shutdown itself is documented

Hastings, 'UFOs and Nukes' (2008); Salas & Klotz, 'Faded Giant'; declassified 341st SMW unit history