Le Colorado est un état-clé dans l'appareil de défense nucléaire aux USA. L'état contient plusieurs bases militaires et installations de missiles, ainsi que l'Académie de la Force Aérienne, à Colorado Springs. On pourrait penser, alors, que les agences de renseignement militaire 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 détailla un incident dans le nord du Colorado à la fin de l'été l'année d'avant semblable à ce qui arriva à la base AF de Malmstrom au en novembre suivant. Une nuit, vers 1975 22 h, Jackson et du personnel des forces de l'ordre, dont quelqu'un de la Force Aérienne, commençèrent à prendre en chasse ce qui semblait être 3 objets volants différents. "We chased those things until about four thirty in the smoking before they disappeared over a missile site in