Truck-Sized UFOs Spook Backup War Room
In late July 1976, U.S. Army soldiers stationed in the mountainous heart of Western Maryland -- now-defunct Fort Ritchie, near Cascade in Washington County -- looked overhead and saw some very strange things in the night sky. Moreover, those objects triggered some urgent, high-level Pentagon communications. We know all this from a memo signed by a brigadier general in the predawn hours of July 30, on the letterhead of the National Military Command Center in Washington. The text follows. 30 July 1976 0545 EDT MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) 1. At approximately 0345 EDT, the ANMCC called to indicate they had received several reports of UFO’s in the vicinity of Fort Ritchie. The following events summarize the reports (times are approximate). a. 0130 – Civilians reported a UFO sighting near Mt. Airy, Md. This information was obtained via a call from the N...