David Schindele received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Science in 1963 at Washington State University. He was then commissioned into the Air Force in 1964 and assigned to Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington State. He served as an Atlas-E ICBM Launch Control Officer and Deputy Combat Crew Commander and was present on the last day that the last Atlas missile was deactivated there in June of 1965. He was then transferred to Minot Air Force Base where he served as a Minuteman 1 ICBM Launch Control Officer, first as Deputy Commander and then as Commander with his own crew.

In 1968, he separated from active duty after being hired by Hamilton Standard, a division of United Technologies Corporation. He was a Senior Experimental Engineer and Project Engineer in development of environmental systems for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). This was an Air Force project to give the Air Force a presence in space, which was later terminated. He then had the assignment of managing final adjustments to the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpacks that astronauts first wore on the Moon.

Beginning in 1970, he began a new career in programming, data processing, systems analysis, and Information Technology management, which lasted for 32 years. Captain Schindele has now been retired for the last 22 years but has come forward in the last 12 years to acknowledge an incident he was involved with at Minot AFB about 58 years ago. It was a UFO incident that had very serious national security implications.

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