Loring AFB overflights (October 1975)
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Loring Air Force Base, Maine
Aerial photograph of Loring AFB in northern Maine, c. 1970 — the Strategic Air Command base where security police tracked an unidentified helicopter-like object over the weapons storage area in October 1975. Archival location photograph · context.
Unknown authorUnknown author · 1970 ↗Public domainLicence terms ↗American Alchemy · 1:58:43
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedJesse Michels · 0:02:06
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedOver several nights from 27 October 1975 security personnel at Loring AFB, Maine reported an unidentified helicopter-like object hovering near the nuclear weapons storage area; similar reports followed at Wurtsmith, Malmstrom and Minot. Air Force messages and NORAD logs record the incidents. A corpus guest who served at Loring places it in the northern-Maine nuclear context.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 46.9500, -67.8800 approximate · United States |
| Official response | Declassified Air Force and NORAD messages of October–November 1975 record unidentified intrusions over SAC bases and order heightened security; no identification was reached and the Air Force publicly attributed some reports to helicopters. |
Reported by
- loring afb security police military 42nd Security Police Squadron
Investigated by
- strategic air command military
- Robert Hastings researcher
Who spoke about it later
- Jesse Michels 1:58:43 The Bizarre Alien Abduction Details The Government Will Never Disclose ▶ 2026
- Robert Hastings 0:02:06 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) ▶ 2024
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
The Bizarre Alien Abduction Details The Government Will Never Disclose 10 May 2026
UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) 24 December 2024
- 0:02:06 ▶ Jesse Michels
from Los Alamos to Hanford to Oakridge to melstrom to Minot to Fe Warren to Savannah riversite to Royal Air Force bases in the UK
- 0:02:06 ▶ interview
- 0:02:06 ▶ Jesse Michels
On the map
Loring AFB overflights (October 1975), Malmstrom AFB missile shutdown (March 1967), Allagash abduction report (August 1976), USS Holland deck sighting (May 1970), Ellsworth AFB "November 5" encounter (Mario Woods, November 1977), F.E. Warren AFB missile communications outage (October 2010). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 1:58:43 The Bizarre Alien Abduction Details The Government Will Never Disclose ▶
Loring. Loring. There you go. Loring Air Force Base. >>
- 0:02:06 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Jesse Michels ▶
from Los Alamos to Hanford to Oakridge to melstrom to Minot to Fe Warren to Savannah riversite to Royal Air Force bases in the UK
- 1975 Loring AFB incidents
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