On October 28, 1975, an incident occurred at Loring Air Force Base in Maine, USA, that greatly alarmed the top brass of the U.S. Air Force—an unidentified flying object directly overflew the base’s nuclear weapons storage area. This nuclear weapons storage facility was one of the most sensitive installations of the U.S. Air Force.

📍 Location	📅 Date	🔍 Category
Loring AFB, Limestone, Maine, USA	1975-10-28	Nuclear Base / UFO Overflight

Around 10:00 PM that evening, guards at Loring AFB first spotted a large luminous object moving from east to west, heading directly toward the location of the nuclear weapons storage area. The base immediately entered the highest level of security alert, with all security personnel armed and on standby.

Air Force security personnel reported that the object was a massive oval shape, emitting a white-orange glow. It made absolutely no engine noise—which was particularly noticeable in the silent forest night of Maine. It hovered at high altitude above the nuclear weapons storage facility for about 20 minutes, then departed at extremely high speed toward the north.

After the incident, investigators from the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) arrived at the scene immediately. SAC’s conclusion was that the entire event was a “commercial aircraft” that had strayed into a restricted area. However, this conclusion contradicted the eyewitness reports on site—a commercial aircraft could not have flown over the nuclear weapons storage facility without being detected by the base’s radar in advance.

It is worth noting that the Loring AFB incident was not an isolated event. It was part of a wave of UFO sightings at multiple Strategic Air Command bases in the fall of 1975—during the same period, there were UFO sightings at other bases such as Wurtsmith AFB and Malmstrom AFB.

Robert Hastings—a renowned researcher of “UFOs and Nuclear Weapons”—documented the Loring incident in detail in his book UFOs and Nukes. He interviewed several retired Air Force personnel from that time, who all confirmed that the event that night was “absolutely not an ordinary aircraft.”

In the 2020s, as the U.S. Department of Defense’s attitude toward UAP issues shifted, some documents from the Loring AFB incident were declassified. The details in the documents matched the accounts of the witnesses—but the declassified versions of the documents provided no explanation.

📚 Sources

• U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, “Loring AFB Incident Report” (1975)
• Hastings, R. “UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites” (2008, 2017)
• Declassified SAC documents, Loring AFB (1975), FOIA release 2021