Fred Meiwald

Fred Meiwald is a retired U.S. Air Force Captain who served as missile combat crew commander at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana during the late 1960s, operating from the underground launch control capsule of Echo Flight. On March 16, 1967, all ten Minuteman I nuclear missiles under his command simultaneously went into a "No-Go" condition when their guidance and launch systems were disabled by an unknown mechanism.

The incident occurred during reported UFO activity around the base, as security personnel reported observing a glowing object near the missile silos. The missiles remained offline for approximately 24 hours, and a subsequent Boeing investigation found no technical explanation for the simultaneous failure.

Meiwald's account corroborates the better-known Oscar Flight shutdown witnessed by Robert Salas eight days later at the same base, establishing a pattern of UAP-correlated nuclear missile failures at Malmstrom in March 1967 and complementing Salas's testimony.