Ten missiles down. Three answers. 58 years.

What the record says

Air Force 341st Strategic Missile Wing unit history, 1967 [1]:

"On 16 March 1967 at 0845, all sites in Echo (E) Flight, Malmstrom AFB, shut-down with No-Go indications... All [launch facilities] in E Flight lost strategic alert nearly simultaneously. No other Wing I configuration lost strategic alert at that time."

Ten Minuteman nuclear missiles. Offline at once. Boeing's engineering investigation never produced a confirmed cause, per the unit histories and participants [1][2].

That is the documented event. Everything below is what people and agencies have said about it.

What is claimed — testimony, on record

• Capt. Robert Salas (USAF, ret.), launch officer: a glowing red object hovered over the Oscar Flight gate on March 24, 1967 — eight days after Echo — followed by missiles dropping offline [3].
• He has said this consistently for decades: press conferences, affidavits, testimony before official bodies [4], and 2025 interviews [3].
• The caveat, always: no equivalent declassified paper trail exists for Oscar Flight. The documents are for Echo [2]. This is testimony, and we label it testimony.

The government's three answers

1. 1967 — The same unit history: UFO rumors around Echo Flight "were disproven" [1].
2. 2025 — Former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips: no evidence of UAP activity during the shutdown [5]. Project Blue Book's own files record UFO sightings in the area that night [6].
3. 2025 — In June 2025 the Wall Street Journal, citing Air Force and AARO sources, reported the shutdown was a classified EMP test. No Pentagon document making this claim has been published; AARO said it would address the nuclear-site cases in Volume II of its Historical Record Report [7]. A third explanation, 58 years after the event — and a contested one: critics note the documents WSJ cited describe an EMP system whose design proposal wasn't submitted until 1971, four years after Echo Flight [8].

The pattern next door

Minot AFB, August 1966: sightings over missile silos preceding disruption — report obtained via FOIA and documented in multiple independent sources [9]. And in the government's newest numbers: AARO's FY2025 annual report logs 50 drone incidents near U.S. nuclear infrastructure, weapons, and launch sites — up 177.8% in one year. 47 of the 50 occurred between 5pm and 5am. None were classified as UAP [10]. Their categories, their counts.

What we do not claim

We do not claim what shut the missiles down. We display the government's own answers, side by side, each with its date. Three answers to one event is the gap.