Person · Registry ID 076
1st Lt. Walter Figel
Former USAF missile officer
Rank First Lieutenant, USAF (deputy crew commander, 1967) Verify1 position on the chart1 evidence record
Positions on the chart (1)
- USAF Echo Flight deputy crew commander, 1967 Documented
Registry record
- Past roles
- USAF Echo Flight deputy missile combat crew commander
- Credentials
- Strategic Air Command missile operations
- UAP involvement
- Deputy launch officer during Echo Flight outage
- Principal disclosures
- Witness to control-room failure; later recollections about reported sightings require careful sourcing
- Evidence contributed
- Declassified USAF unit history; retrospective accounts
- Knowledge type
- Firsthand missile-system operations; possible secondhand aerial report
- Corroboration
- Missile malfunction documented; reports of UFOs contested
- Assessment
- Official unit history states UFO rumors disproven
- Rank source
- Added V86 from public record – verify
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-29
Evidence (1)
- Echo Flight deputy launch-control role during outage DisputedFirsthand