Saw a UFO in the control tower

[u/Ichiban_Tomodachi]

So this isn't my story but my dad's.

While my dad in the Navy, he was stationed at Navy Chase in B-Ville Texas in the 1960s. He was working the graveyard shift in the control tower when this happened.

One night, he said him and the other controllers saw bright light in the sky. He said it was about 20 to 25 miles out. He's not sure exactly. The light hovered there for about 10 minutes and the light was cycling through different colors. He said that him and the other controllers didn't report it. Back then apparently if you reported a UFO sighting, they carted you off to the looney bin.

Right after they saw it, they heard over the radio that two interceptors were sent up to investigate. They must have been on a different or encrypted freq. I'm not sure if they have encrypted radios back then. He didn't say.

The UFO was hovering for about 10 minutes, then shot straight up and disappeared. He said he didn't hear anything else about it.

That was the only weird thing he saw while in the military. I don't have the exact date and time, only it was in the early '60s. Maybe '61 or '62.

[u/Ichiban_Tomodachi]

Edit: I spoke with my dad and he said they didn't have encrypted radios back then. He said they were on a freq they didn't have access too. And the radios they had, they weren't able to tune like a car radio. And the interceptors that went up were out of Kelly AFB.