UFO. United States

The UFO incident occurred at the McCord Air Force Base, located in Pierce County, Washington. This incredible case was uncovered by a former agent of the AFOSI (Office of Special Investigations of the US Air Force) By Robert Collins in 2001. 


According to Collins, this particular case is described in the AFOSI files dated October 1972. He confirmed that all the places, events and names used in the report were real. 

On October 14, 1972, two American military pilots, Pilot First Class Stephen Briggs and Pilot Dennis Hillsgeck, were assigned to check the Tactical Air Navigation Facility (TACAN), which was located just 12 km east of McCord Air Force Base. The facility was controlled and maintained by the US government. 

McCord Air Force Base is also known for the crash of an Air Force C-118 aircraft in Bonny Lake, a city in Washington State, on April 1, 1959. Interestingly, UFOs are blamed for this crash. 


At about one o'clock in the afternoon, two officers arrived at the facility, opened the fence around the high-security facility and entered the building. As soon as they got inside, officers began conducting security checks of TACAN equipment and pre-scheduled system checks.

Officers were carrying out the necessary actions when at about 14:00 Briggs was distracted by a strange sound outside the building. He described the sound as similar to the sound of a high-speed engine. It was really unusual, so he went outside to investigate it, and found that the sound did not come from an ordinary plane, but from a UFO. 


When Briggs was outside the building, he was surprised to see a saucer-shaped object hovering over the TACAN object. He continued to observe the object, and a moment later it began to descend to the south of the TACAN complex and landed.

For safety reasons, Briggs hurried inside the TACAN building to warn his partner Hillsgeck about the intruders. Both men in an anxious state went outside to protect the facility, but were stunned to see two humanoid creatures walking towards the fence surrounding the building. 


The situation was already beginning to scare the pilots, and Briggs again went inside the building and called the base security police. He asked them to send help to the TACAN building, as the violators were going to enter the territory of the facility. Sergeant David Holmes, the duty sergeant of the 62nd Security Police Squadron, took his call. He sent Sergeant Dwight Reed and Assistant Commander Michael Tash to help Briggs and Hillsgeck. 


A security police patrol arrived at the scene 17 minutes later, but did not see any aircraft. They found both pilots in disbelief, standing near their car. They could not speak, and the burn mark on Hillsgeck's face worried Sergeant Reed, who immediately called an Air Force ambulance. 


Meanwhile, Tash checked the surroundings of the building and was surprised to find strange traces on the soil, which seemed soft, probably due to the landing of a UFO. Suddenly, he heard Reed yell at him to look up, because there was an object directly above him. They found a saucer-shaped object above the protected object, which was seen by Briggs and Hillsgeck. Sergeant Reed tried to contact the law enforcement department of the security Police through his walkie-talkie. However, the radio did not work. 


Reed and Tash quickly picked up both stunned pilots and left the scene. After driving some distance away from the TACAN facility, they were able to contact the security police office and ask them to urgently send help. 


Four security police officers arrived at the scene, including Sergeant Darren Alexander, along with his service dog (Champ). When the search began, Champ barked, as he found something suspicious about 400 meters south of the TACAN site. 


To his surprise, Alexander saw two humanoid creatures near the power plant building remote from the main building. He asked them to stand still and raise their hands. Instead, the creatures moved towards Alexander, and he noticed that one of them was holding something that looked like a weapon. 


Defending himself, Alexander fired 6 shots from his 15-model .38-caliber revolver. After that, he returned to his car, radioed Sergeant Reed and told him that he had shot at the creatures. He was not sure that he really hit the creatures, and asked for reinforcements. 


Then another group arrived. They searched the area and found a saucer-shaped object standing on the ground. They surrounded the facility and called their superior, Captain Henry Stone. When Captain Stone arrived, the object suddenly rose, flew away in an easterly direction and disappeared a few seconds later. 


A rapid response team (special forces) arrived at the scene. They searched the area and noticed a saucer-shaped object standing on the ground, directly to the east of the power plant. They walked around the object in a circle and called the commander. The object rose into the air and flew away. 


According to the Collins report, Special Investigations officers were investigating the case. They took witness statements and collected evidence, including shell casings from cartridges fired by Sergeant Alexander. He said the incident was classified as top secret and remained in the AFOSI files as unsolved.