Burris continued, "We knew [the aircraft] was coming and before it arrived we established a security perimeter around the area [where it would park], posted two guards, and they were there until the aircraft left the next day. The morning after it arrived, there was a weapons movement from the Weapons Storage Area to the aircraft, after which it took off. When we were briefed about it, we were told it was a 'routine' transfer back to the states. Well, maybe so, but it was the only weapons transfer I saw during my three years at the base." (When I sent Burris' comments to Col. Halt, he responded, "I was not surprised to hear weapons were sent back to Kirtland AFB for testing. At the time I couldn't understand why it wasn't done. It must have been done so low-key that few noticed. We regularly had C-5s and C-141s moving them so it would probably thought of as routine.")

Given Burris' statements about the approximate date of the weapons transfer, relative to the period of UFO activity at the WSA, it appears as if the information I was given years earlier, relating to such a transfer, was indeed correct. It will be recalled that my retired NATO weapons security specialist told me about that event in 1994. While it's conceivable that the weapons transfer observed by Burris was indeed routine and had nothing to do with the reported UFO incident at the Weapons Storage Area, in my view, its timing suggests a possible link.

I then asked Burris if he had ever attempted to learn more about the incident later on, by asking others on base about it. He said, "No, I was trying to forget what I already knew, to tell you the truth. For me it was, 'Okay, if you say so.' At that time, I didn't believe in UFOs or anything like that."

As the interview was winding down, Burris unexpectedly said,

Later on, around November 1982, at Woodbridge, I had [a UFO sighting] experience myself. I had been switched over to the night crews [earlier that year] because I had been promoted to Staff Sergeant. It was one of those rare occasions when I had 'base patrol' instead of being 50-feet off the ground [in the tower] at the Weapons Storage Area. Bobby [Burgeron] and I were headed down to the East Gate—the back gate of Woodbridge—and we saw three sets of what appeared to be ball park lights, hanging over Rendlesham Forest. The three groups were in a straight line, all at the same altitude, just above the trees. We weren't scared when we saw that, just curious.

So we decided to pick up SSgt ------- and then hit the Prairie Track road, on the base perimeter, to make sure that nothing was next to the fence. Just as we turned off the hard pavement, the truck shut down. It wouldn't restart—it wouldn't even 'click.' So SSgt ------- and I walked back to the supervisor's shack to call and have a new truck sent out to us. As he and I started walking we could see that the lights were still there. We were closer to them by then and could see that each group of lights appeared to curve around the middle of what seemed like a, uh, football-shaped object—not laying on its side, but set on-end. There were three of those side by side.

Before we got to the shack, Bobby had gotten the truck started and came up to us. I asked him, 'How did you get the truck started?' He said he had just turned the key. At that point, we both looked over at the woods and saw that the lights over the trees were gone. We didn't report it.

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