In fact, in January of 1993, combat targeting team member John Mills recalls driving with
John Mills, a retired missile targeting technician who still had many contacts at the base, provided Robert Hastings with multiple sources who all described the craft as gray and cigar shape.
According to John Mills, the blackout actually persisted for over 26 hours, and in October of 2010 the Atlantic wrote a pretty telling article. It says, and I quote,