Spinning Lights Inside Small Boiling Cloud
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was stationed at Ramey Air Force Base.
It housed KC-135 tankers, B-52 and U-2 hangars, and 8 nuclear storage bunkers with 500 pound bombs.
I held a top secret clearance, was a member of the Combat Defense Force & Sentry Dog Handler.
We were working 12 hour shifts during the crisis, it was near relief time when I looked out towards the sunrise, off into the calm, blue/orange sky and saw something strange.
There was one small cloud with flashing lights moving inside of it, and he cloud was moving towards the no fly area.
The K-9 units wanted to know what it was, so we took a truck across the runway to the flight crews quarters.
Everyone was looking at the cloud as it slowly approached, making no noise, the red/blue & yellow lights revolved inside the bubbling, boiling cloud like a carousel.
It was now 30 feet above the ground and it seemed to be roughly 20' deep.
While staring at this spectacular object, I sincerely hoped no one would fire on it because we were all armed at the time.
I went off duty for 3 days and came back to silence, nobody talked about it.
And nobody told me not to talk about it, except my mother.
A strike on our facility would have been even more catastrophic for the United States than an attack on the East coast from Russia or Cuba.