
Richard Barth shares his extraordinary experience of an encounter with an unidentified figure while stationed at a Minuteman missile base.
I began my enlistment in the United States Air Force on July1, 1963 as an undergraduate navigator cadet. In May 1964 I washes out if the cadet program after failing night celestial navigation. I was given the option of re-enlisting and selecting the field of my choice or being discharged from active duty after finishing my two-year selective service obligation. I opted to finish my selective service obligation and was assigned to Vandenberg AFB as an Air Police security guard, which required minimal training.In September 1964, my squadron was rotated to D-Sector, the launch site for Minuteman Missiles. Each rotation consisted of three swings, followed by three nights then three days and three days off. I was on the night shift on site D-5, which contained an active unarmed missile that was being prepared for a later launch. On the night of the incident, the coast where D-sector is located was covered by a dense fog. A bright light on a tower, similar to the ones on sports fields illuminated the site,. The effect was that I was inside a dome, roughly 50 feet in diameter, surrounded by a thick wall of fog. Around 2 AM, shortly after the duty sergeant delivered my box lunch and…
Host: Gary
Guest: Richard Barth
Organizations: United States Air Force
Places: Vandenberg AFB, D-Sector, D-5
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