David D. Schindele

David D. Schindele is a retired U.S. Air Force Captain who served as a missile combat crew commander at Minot Air Force Base (North Dakota) in the 1960s. During his service he reported simultaneous UAP activity and unexplained failures of his ten nuclear-armed Minuteman I missiles, all of which were rendered unlaunchable. Following the incident the Air Force silenced him with the order "It Never Happened". Only in 2017 did he publish the book of the same name, documenting his case and the culture of secrecy around UAP events at nuclear sites.

• Retired U.S. Air Force Captain
• Missile combat crew commander at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota
• Responsible for a flight of nuclear-armed Minuteman I missiles
• Simultaneous UAP activity and unexplained failure of ten missiles during a 1966 incident
• Air Force order "It Never Happened" imposing secrecy on the event
• 2017 publication of the book It Never Happened, Volume 1: U.S. Air Force UFO Cover-up Revealed
• Fits the documented pattern of UAP interactions at U.S. nuclear bases (Malmstrom, Minot and further ICBM sites) during the Cold War

For the UAP timeline, Schindele complements the Salas case: where 1967 Malmstrom is the best-known incident, 1966 Minot provides another fully documented case of simultaneous missile shutdown during UAP activity. That he finally made public in 2017, via book and title, what had been kept from him for decades is itself part of the U.S. disclosure story.