The complaint title is: “KIRTLAND AFB, NM, 8 August to 3 September 1980, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights in Restricted Test Range.” And “CR 44 Applies.”
The definition of CR 44 is Collections Requirement for nuclear weapons security, originally established in October 1974 and revised to CR 44A in November 1983. “Under the guidance of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Military Services, and the Unified and Specified Commands shall provide commanders or organizations responsible for safety and security of nuclear weapons with current intelligence concerning threats to nuclear weapons.”
That highly secure test range is used by the U. S. Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Sandia Laboratories, the Defense Nuclear Agency, and the Department of Energy.
The complaint says that on August 8, 1980, three policemen from the Kirtland AFB Security Police Squadron “on duty inside the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, sighted an unidentified light in the air that traveled from North to South over the Coyote Canyon area of the Department of Defense Restricted Test Range on KAFB, NM. The Security Policemen identified as: SSGT STEPHEN FERENZ, Area Supervisor, AIC MARTIN W. RIST and ANN ANTHONY D. FRAZIER, were later interviewed separately by SOURCE and all three related the same statement:
