WURTSMITH 1975
Michigan SAC base night. Weapons bunkers, empty sky.
Illustration, not a period photograph.
Opening
In late October 1975 Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan logged unknown activity over a weapons and flight-line weather that sat in the same week as Loring. Security and air desks took the night. Fighters and a pad are the expensive words. No wreck sat on the Michigan concrete. FOIA paper is why Wurtsmith is a sister to Loring and not only a rumour from a gate. Keep the two bases as two files that share a week.
Wurtsmith 1975 is a SAC night in the Loring week. Keep later catalogue glue on the shelf.
The spine of the file is a Michigan weapons area and a shared week. Wurtsmith is October 1975. It is not a stored craft in a Oscoda hangar this card can open.
Timeline
Late October 1975 Wurtsmith logs in the same week as Loring.
Security and air response. No public intercept that closed a known type as the whole night.
Later FOIA. No wreck.
Later northern-tier lists glue the bases. That glue is later life. Wurtsmith's own paper is first for this card.
Late October 1975 is the same week as Loring and a different pad. Wurtsmith security and air desks took Michigan paper. Fighters and a weapons area are the expensive words.
FOIA later put letterhead on a table. Catalogue glue that makes Michigan only an echo of Maine has to beat that letterhead.
Key figures
Wurtsmith security owns the ground look.
Air desks own the request for a close that did not finish as hoped.
Loring owns the sister night, not this pad.
FOIA readers own the later public paper.
Physical and documentary trail
On the paper, October 1975 gives you four hard objects and no wreck.
One: logs of unknown activity at Wurtsmith in that week.
Two: weapons and flight-line weather.
Three: later FOIA paper.
Four: the absence of a recovered object. Wurtsmith AFB paper on the October 1975 incidents, is the official tray.
There is no wreck. There is no public photograph both camps sign. There is no page that makes the Michigan night only a Loring echo.
Michigan letterhead and a shared week are the stay-behinds. A frame from that dark would finish the pad. A close the security desk would sign as a known type would finish the other door.
There is no wreck on Oscoda concrete. There is no page that dissolves Wurtsmith into Loring.
The week was the same week and the pad was ours.
Competing explanations
Unknown activity over a SAC field. This is the hard reading. It has a week. It has no wreck.
A known helicopter or a training night. The mundane door. Has to carry why the paper sat with Loring's week.
A later myth glued to Maine. Weak against Michigan letterhead.
Hybrid caution. A Michigan base logged a night. Morning had no wreck on the concrete.
Later life of the case
Later northern-tier lists. I keep those on the later-life shelf. Wurtsmith's own week stays first.
Finding
Wurtsmith logged unknown activity in the same October 1975 week as Loring, and FOIA put Michigan paper on a table. Believe the letterhead. A SAC base does not invent a pad line for a later glued list.
What still will not resolve: a frame from that dark, or a close the security desk would sign as a known type. Either one would pin the Michigan night. The proving object is still that object over Wurtsmith, held as known or as other by more than a shared week.