David Schindele

Capt. David Schindele (born 1941) served as Deputy Commander of a Minuteman ICBM Launch Control Center at Minot AFB, North Dakota, in the 1960s. In September 1966 he experienced a life-changing incident: a UFO approximately 25–30 meters in diameter hovered over the November Flight nuclear facility, and all 10 Minuteman ICBMs simultaneously went into NO-GO status ('guidance and control system malfunction'). He was ordered never to speak about it — not with colleagues, his wife, or anyone else. Schindele complied for 40 years.

Inspired by the example of Robert Salas (Malmstrom AFB 1967), he decided to come forward and testify. He testified at the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure and spoke publicly with Forum News Service (February 2025) and Minot Daily News (May 2025). Schindele is now 84 years old and lives in North Dakota.

'I knew that stuff was not from this world, and I kept my mouth shut for 40 years.' — David Schindele, 2025

His case is structurally identical to the Malmstrom incident of 1967: UAP over an ICBM facility → simultaneous failure of all missiles → order to remain silent → decades of silence. Robert Hastings has documented over 120 similar incidents at nuclear sites worldwide.