Fort Hood and Gray Army Airfield

At half past two in the morning an oval craft hovered above the treetops at the edge of Fort Hood, then dropped and came at the patrol car of two military policemen, Bart Burns and Randy Shade, running them off the perimeter road. The accounts describe it as silent, with no wings and no propellers, before it accelerated away. Civilian witnesses and a dispatcher on the base are said to have reported the same thing. Both MPs were told to keep quiet and were transferred within a fortnight. The following night the dispatcher, Al Murray, waited at the end of a closed runway with Burns and the two watched a round red light move in short erratic jerks until it went behind the trees.

What is on the record

The archive holds three videos across two channels and resolves nine claimants. Six of those belong to the roadside incident and its aftermath, including the two MPs, the dispatcher and three further named witnesses. There are no documents in this file, so nothing carries the account beyond the tellings themselves.

The remaining three claimants belong to a different kind of claim, and it is worth separating them. Anonymous testimony given to the investigator Stringfield describes a secret UFO research complex under Gray Army Airfield sharing space with ICBM silos, one section opening directly onto a runway, and an unmarked helicopter recovery squadron nicknamed the Blue Boys using electronic warfare weapons to disable craft. Those sources are an anonymous letter writer, a lieutenant colonel and a man from McGregor in Texas relaying his father's account. Anonymity is the whole structure of that strand and it cannot be checked here.

The entry is untidy in two further ways. Its dating runs from 1973 to 1976 rather than to a night. One telling filed under it concerns an Army document about a sighting at Hunter Airfield in Georgia, which is a different place and does not belong to the same event.

Why it sits where it does

The case grades L3 on independent testimony, carried by the named witnesses to the patrol car incident rather than by paperwork. No government record sits behind it. The underground complex claim shares the entry but not the evidential footing. What ran the patrol car off the road is not resolved here.