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Somewhere in the Skies

Bite-Sized UFOs | UFO over Malstrom Air Force Base

Somewhere in the Skies

Ryan Sprague

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Did a UFO hover over an atomic weapons storage area at Malmstrom in 1958, 9 years before the infamous incident involving the shutdown of nuclear missiles in their silos?


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Welcome to bite-sized UFOs, a show where we break down lesser-known UFO cases in 20 minutes or less.

0:42.1

And now here's your host, Graham Rendell.

0:46.3

Welcome to episode 12 of bite-sized UFOs.

0:50.9

I'm Graham Rendell, author of UFOs Before Roswell and other books about pilot and aircrew sightings during the 1940s and 1950s.

1:00.0

In this installment, let's look at a case from May 1958, one that's centered on Malmstrom Air Force Base.

1:08.0

This location is better known for an event in 1967, which involved the apparent shutting down of at least 10 minute men, ICBMs and their launch silos, but this earlier incident also involved a UFO that hovered over weapons of mass destruction.

1:24.6

As today, in the late 1950s, two large airfields sat either side of Great Falls, Montana.

1:31.8

On the western side of the Missouri River was Great Falls Municipal Airport, whilst to the east was Malmstrom

1:38.0

Air Force Base. The two locations were separated by a distance of about five miles. In 1954, Strategic Air Command took over Great Falls Air Force Base, and the 4 of 7th Strategic Fighter Wing moved in, its Republic F84s, providing escort for sack bombers. Supporting the fighters were the wing's KC97 Stratofreter tankers, one of which is shown here.

2:02.6

Great Falls was renamed Malmstrom in 1955 after the vice commander of the 407,

2:09.6

Colonel Einar Malmstrom was killed in a flying accident.

2:13.6

The wing was deactivated in 1957, but the tankers were retained to form part of the 4061 air refueling wing.

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