I remember, as a teenager, I used to be scared to death of the Loring base. I was sure there would be a nuclear war, and the Russians would blow the base up, and it would take a 100 mile diameter of surrounding land with it.
I remember one time in the late 1970s when they evacuated the entire base for some reason. They lined all the people up in cars and they stretched from Fort Fairfield, to Caribou, to Presque Isle. I remember I asked one of the soldiers what the heck was going on, and he said, "I'm sorry. I'm not at liberty to say." Spooky.
Another time, they found a strange craft hovering over the base and sent F-11s up to shoo it away. It took off at warp speed and needless to say, the F-11s couldn't keep up. They blamed that on some kind of temperature inversion. Many people in the area saw it, and claim it was a UFO. I just know that I didn't dare look out my north bedroom window at night for about 2 years after that, because the aliens might show up or something. I'm telling you, living near that place traumatized most of us.
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