JW: Lt. Col. Joe Wojtecki SG: Dr. Steven Greer

JW: ...As we got out of the car my flight instructor was looking back to
the northeast in the direction of the runway and said, what is that?
And I looked up in the direction he was looking in the sky over the
runway. What we saw were three very bright but independent lights. I
mean, three separate lights; we assumed they were independent. And they
were in a perfect equilateral triangle with the point south and the
other two points of the triangle directly behind it to the north. The
curious thing about this formation of lights that caused us to watch it
for an extended period of time -- 10 or 15 minutes we watched it -- was
that first, it was silent. Second, it was moving slowly but in a
perfectly constant altitude, perfectly constant velocity, and perfectly
constant direction from north to south. We pieced together later it was
actually coming from the direction where my flight instructor had
reported seeing the flash of light earlier...

The next morning I reported for duty. This would now have been the
morning of April 18th. The first duty I had each day was to report to a
wing stand-up briefing in the wing command post. This was a Strategic
Air Command base equipped with, as I recall, three squadrons of B-52's,
two squadrons of 135's, and a squadron of F-106 interceptors. When I
arrived at the command post the next morning about 6:30 in the morning,
it was unusually active and unusually well staffed. In fact, it was a
beehive of activity. And there were people who had obviously been there
most of the night from their general appearance and apparent level of
frustration. So I very quickly learned that what had been occurring
during the night began at about the time my flight instructor and I saw
these lights. And it seems that these lights did position themselves
over the alert force of the B-52's, over the alert pad of a number of
B-52's configured for their wartime mission should they be required to
perform it. Therefore this was a very sensitive area, naturally....

And as sorties returned, I was told by those who had been there
overnight they were asked to close with and try to identify these
lights. And this included B-52's, KC 135's and some of the F-106
interceptors that had been out during their particular training
missions. And the pattern was the same: each time an aircraft would
approach, the lights would part in ways that defied any aerodynamic
knowledge that anybody there had or could explain. There was rapid
acceleration, rapid changes in direction including vertical. They were
doing things that something that is flying by the rules of aerodynamics
that we understand would not have been at able to do. Then always to
return to their point of interest which was the aircraft in the alert
area. And then at some point late in the night, early in the morning
their curiosity was satisfied and they took off very expeditiously in a
straight line and were gone.

I would be guessing how many hours this whole event took from beginning
to end but it was probably in the range of six and perhaps more hours in
duration.

So I filed it away. And I just mused about it and I discussed it with a
few people over the years but not too many. Until a day in the early
1990's -- I forget the exact year and date but it was about '93 or '94
-- that I had occasion to attend a lecture by Dr. Steven Greer in
Hampton, Virginia. And saw a photograph of what I now understand is a
very familiar sighting among those who have been privileged to actually
see a UFO. And when I saw the photograph, I literally jumped out of my
seat, grabbed my wife by the hand and I said, that's it. That is
exactly what I had seen nearly 25 years ago, at that point. But to see
that picture just brought back the image so strikingly clear that there
was no doubt in my mind that that was exactly what we had seen over the
runway in April of 1969. And it was only then that I had any notion
that it was in fact a single machine not three independent machines.

I will deduce with some degree of knowledge that they must have been
because of the repeated attempts of returning aircraft to close with
them, from distances and altitudes where they couldn't have acquired
them visually because of the low ceiling that night. So I would deduce
from that fact that they were being tracked on radar, both ground
control radar and airborne radar on the aircraft that were returning to
base. It would be a very reasonable deduction to say that they were
easily being tracked on radar...

I do remember very clearly that no aggressive action was taken by the
Air Force by anybody at the wing in response to the lights because they
in fact showed no aggressive or threatening behavior whatsoever. They
were simply in airspace that was restricted air space. But they were
not doing anything that would prompt any sort of a security response...

SG: Was it bigger than a conventional plane?

JW: Oh absolutely. That's why I was so surprised when I saw the
photograph to learn that those lights which were so far apart could
conceivably be part of a single machine. And why I naturally assumed,
and for all those years believed, I had seen three separate machines
operating independently- although their formation was so perfect that in
retrospect, clearly there is no reason to assume they were three, except
that for them to be part of one unit it would have to have been so
enormously large compared to anything. And at that time, B-52's were
considered pretty big airplanes. And this of course dwarfed anything
that would have been part of a B-52.