Unidentified aircraft circles Loring AFB weapons storage area
- When
- Where
- Loring AFB, ME
- Sources
- 2 public sources
On the evening of Oct. 27, 1975, a security airman at Loring AFB, Maine, reported a low aircraft with lights circling near the nuclear weapons storage area; tower radar showed an unknown target and the base went on alert. Thought from its flight to be a helicopter, it was never identified.