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This Black Vault release contains the Air Force's 2001 response from the 341st Space Wing FOIA office at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to a request about the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight missile shutdown, with excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing histories covering 1967 to early 1968. The histories say all ten Echo Flight launch facilities lost strategic alert almost simultaneously. Investigators could not find a logical cause and found rumors of UFOs near Echo Flight to be unfounded.
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PAGE 5: RUNMBA 6011 AND TAMPERING. NO ABNORMALITIES WERE NOTED. ( ) MASSILE AWAY DRAWERS INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT WERE CHECKED AND FOUND OPERATING AS DESIGNED. OGAMA ENGINEERING PERSONNEL ARE PARTICIPATING WITH SAMSO PERSONNEL DURING THE EMP TEST PROGRAM PROVIDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION ON WEAPON SYSTEM TYPE PROBLEMS AS REQUIRED. EMP TESTS AT WARREN AFB ARE CONTINUING. TESTS AT "D" FLIGHT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND THE TEST OBJECTIVES HAVE BEEN MET ADDITIONAL TESTS. ARE TO BE CONDUCTED AT A710 AND ARE SCHEDULED TO BE COMPLETED APPROXI- MATELY 15 OCT 1967. SQUADRON 20 TESTS ARE SCHEDULED TO BEGIN APPROX- MATELY 15 OCT 1967 DEPENDING ON END DATE OF N74 TESTING. THIS HEADQUARTERS WILL CONTINUE TO ADVISE YOU OF OGAMA'S TEST PROGRAM AS TEST RESULTS AND FINDINGS ARE IDENTIFIED. GP74.
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