Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
Every so often the smirking sergeant would “elevate” a caller wanting to report a UFO sighting. There was no set policy on how to handle them, so I would get all the details I could and write them up for my report. People seemed to appreciate being taken seriously, although a few would demand I scramble interceptors. It may have led some to believe we were acting on their information.
In the mid 70's my primary duty at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage was as the Law Enforcement Desk Sergeant. During my two years there I can recall taking maybe a dozen or so calls, always after hours, reporting UFO sightings in the vicinity. Most of those calls were actually from surrounding area police departments passing along information from concerned residents in their jurisdiction. We had no set policy for that sort of thing either so I would simply dispatch a patrol unit to the base perimeter in whatever direction the report came from to see if they could spot anything unusual, which they never did. I'd then make a blotter entry detailing the initial notification and our followup observations and send it along to the brass. I don't recall ever receiving feedback on those entries.