Documents / Document
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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
Project How Now (Service Star), the testing of Mark 5 re- entry vehicles by higher headquarters for effectiveness. Malmstrom sent the last vehicle in the program for the base during the quarter. This ended the program at Malmstrom. (U) A walk-thru inspection of the HF Hardened Antennas at Malmstrom was conducted during February by Boeing and SATAF personnel. The antennas were already equipped in the LFs but were not in working order. The walk-thru inspection had an average of 40 discrepencies per site. Boeing Company has not set any offical date for an operational antenna to be demonstrated. The estimated date for the operational antennas was set for early July 67. At that time, maintenance will begin on correcting the discrepencies at the sites. (U) The following is the investigation of Echo Flight incident and the results. (U) On 16 March 1967 at 0845, all sites in Echo (E) Flight, Malmstrom AFB, shutdown with No-Go indication of Channels 9 and 12 on Voice Reporting Signal Assemble (VRSA). All LF's in E Flight lost strategic alert nearly simultaneously. No other Wing I configuration lost strategic alert at that time. Guidance & Control channel 50 dump data was collected from E-7 facility and E-8 Facility and all 10 sites were then returned to strategic alert without any LF equipment replacement. All 10
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.