Colorado is a key state in the nuclear-defense apparatus of the United States. The state contains several military bases and missile installations, as well as the Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs. One would think, then, that the military-intelligence agencies would have gotten on the stick and tried to solve a multi-state case in which helicopter-borne weirdos were creating domestic terror.
Indeed, there were alarming reports that mysterious helicopters, were seen hovering above, nuclear-missile installations. Sterling Journal Advocate reporter Bill Jackson told me of spending long nights chasing helicopters up northern Colorado, where there are many Minuteman missile silos operated by the Air Force. The area has also experienced hot and heavy waves of mutilations. "We don't known if there's any connection with the mutilations," he told me in February 1976, "but there have been incidents here in the past month of an individual or individuals trying to break into two of the installations. And missiles at both sites, according to information that I've got, have nuclear warheads."
Jackson detailed one incident in northern Colorado late in the summer of 1975 similar so that which happened at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana that following November. One night, at about ten o'clock, Jackson and law-enforcement personnel, including someone from the Air Force, began chasing what appeared to be three different flying objects. "We chased those things until about four thirty in the smoking before they disappeared over a missile site in