Kirtland AFB Incident
1980 reports of landed lighted objects at a nuclear weapons storage site
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| Date | August 1980 |
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| Location | Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Type | Military incident |
| Status | Unexplained |
Air Force security personnel guarding the Manzano Weapons Storage Area at Kirtland AFB reported encountering small, landed, lighted objects on consecutive nights near restricted nuclear-weapons storage bunkers, logged in contemporaneous security incident reports later obtained via FOIA request.
Assessment
The case’s proximity to nuclear weapons storage and its documentation in official, contemporaneous security logs rather than after-the-fact witness recollection has made it a frequently cited example in the broader “UFOs at nuclear sites” research tradition associated with researcher Robert Hastings; the Air Force has not offered a public conventional explanation for the specific incidents.
[1]See also
References
- ^ Kirtland AFB security incident logs, August 1980 (released via FOIA).