Case evidence · CE-V81-09
Salas reports Oscar Flight missile failures and guard sighting
Claim unverifiedThe statement or record is documented; the underlying claim is not. 1967-03 (date disputed) · Retrospective firsthand/relayed
Why this grade
Claim unverified From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Testimony documented; UAP cause unverified"). Grade rules.
Record
- Date / period
- 1967-03 (date disputed)
- Reported event / document
- Salas reports Oscar Flight missile failures and guard sighting
- Evidence type
- Retrospective firsthand/relayed
- Original data accessible?
- No original Oscar logs
- Verification status
- Testimony documented; UAP cause unverified
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Missile count varies across tellings
- Next step
- Seek launch logs and guard testimony. Sweep of all hosted page text, 2026-11-12: AARO's Historical Record Vol. I p. 30 says AARO interviewed former ICBM crew (Malmstrom, Ellsworth, Vandenberg, Minot, 1966-77) and deferred findings to Vol. II; at the 17 May 2022 House hearing (transcript p. 37) Bray said the UAP Task Force had not looked at Malmstrom. No contemporaneous record found Bounded search: the 341st SMW unit histories (hosted on this site) record only the 16 Mar 1967 Echo Flight fault; no Oscar Flight incident and no guard statements appear. No other federal record of Oscar Flight was found. (chunk F, 2026-11-12)
- Source ID
- SRC-V81-07
From the workbook: the Case Evidence sheet.