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UFOs eyed nukes, ex-Air Force personnel say
Seven former U.S. Air Force personnel gathered in Washington Monday to recount UFO sightings over nuclear weapons facilities in decades past – accounts that a UFO researcher says show extraterrestrial beings are interested in the world’s nuclear arms race and may be sending humans a message.
At a news conference at the National Press Club, the six former officers and one ex-enlisted man recalled either personal sightings or reports from subordinates and others of UFOs hovering over nuclear missile silos or nuclear weapons storage areas in the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
Three of the former Air Force officers – though they hadn’t seen the UFOs themselves - told reporters that UFOs hovering over silos around Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967 appeared to have temporarily deactivated some of the nuclear missiles.
Much of the testimony already has appeared in books, websites and elsewhere. But UFO researcher and author Robert Hastings, who organized the news conference, said the time has come for the U.S. government to acknowledge the UFO visits.
“I believe - these gentlemen believe - that this planet is being visited by beings from another world, who for whatever reason have taken an interest in the nuclear arms race which began at the end of World War II,” said Hastings, who added that more than 120 former military personnel have told him about UFOs visiting nuclear sites.
“Regarding the missile shutdown incidents, my opinion … is that whoever are aboard these craft are sending a signal to both Washington and Moscow, among others, that we are playing with fire – that the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons potentially threatens the human race and the integrity of the planetary environment,” he said.
Former Air Force Capt. Robert Salas – who has written a book about the Montana incidents – said he was underground when a UFO hovered over his missile silo in March 1967, and therefore couldn’t see it. He said one of his guards above ground told him a red, glowing object about 30 feet in diameter was hovering just above the front gate of the facility, in an isolated area far from Malmstrom.
“And just as I [called my commander], our missiles began going into what’s called a no-go condition, or unlaunchable. Essentially, they were disabled while this object was still hovering over out site,” Salas said.
Salas and others said the military urged them at the time not to talk about the incidents.
Retired Col. Charles Halt recalled seeing UFOs over the woods near Royal Air Force Stations Bentwaters and Woodbridge in eastern England in December 1980. He and security personnel were investigating reports of strange lights just outside one of the bases.
“All through the forest was a bright glowing object,” he said Monday. “The best way I can describe it, it looked like an eye – with bright red, with a dark center. It appeared to be winking. It was shedding something like molten metal, was dripping off it.
“It silently moved through the trees, avoiding any contact, it bobbed up and down, and at one point it actually approached us. We tried to get closer. It receded out into the field, beyond the forest, and silently exploded into five white objects – gone. So we went out into the field looking for any evidence, because something had been apparently falling off it – and we find nothing,” he said.
He recalled subsequently seeing other objects in the sky, including one that stopped about 3,000 feet overhead and “sent down a concentrated beam at our feet.” No one was harmed.
“The best way I can equate it is sort of a laser beam. We stood there in awe. Was this a warning? Was this an attempt to communicate? Was this a weapon? Or just a probe?” he said.
At about the same time, he was hearing radio reports from base personnel that beams from some of the objects were “falling into or near the weapons storage area.”
In a staff meeting later, a general decided “it happened off base, so it’s a British affair,” Halt recalled. “In other words, they were loathe to get involved.”
The Air Force investigated UFOs from 1948 to 1969 under a program eventually called Project Blue Book. The service, on its website, says the project concluded that “no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.” It also says there has been "no evidence that sightings categorized as 'unidentified' are extraterrestrial vehicles."
Salas said the UFO phenomenon “is real, not imaginary.”
“There is current excessive secrecy in our government surrounding this phenomenon,” he said.
A reporter asked how many of the former military personnel subscribed to Hastings’ theory that the message of extraterrestrials is that humans should get rid of nuclear weapons, and how many of them believed that we should get rid of nukes. Of the seven, it appeared that only Salas raised his hand.
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It's possible that we've visited ourselves – from the future. Who knows what technologies and knowledge our species will yield 700 years from now that today's minds believe impossible. To think that we would even build something as simple as an internal combustion engine would have been considered witchcraft in the year 200. Today is the dark ages to our future selves. In order to ensure our future existence we may have come back in time to give ourselves this message that nuclear weapons could destroy our planet's biosphere. It is conceivable we do master time travel as well as intersystem travel somewhere down the road.
Then again it could be time travelers investigating pre-World War 3 and the end of civilization pending 2012?
We have been brainwashed to the point of disbelief in anything that remotely operates outside our "normal" spheres of understanding. To suggest that these reports are completely false would be a measure in complete egocentricity. How comforting it would be to believe that we, as humans of earth, are in control of everything that operates around us. But how foolish to believe that we are the only chosen ones? Might it not be better yet to prepare for all possibilities?
Don't you remember the '50's movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” .It told of aliens policing the universe and came to earth to warn that if the people of earth keep going the aliens would make earth a “burned out cinder”.They also said of warnings similar to the incidents.Wake up people,we're not alone in this big universe.Remember December of 2012, over 10 ancient races made this same prediction.Look to the skies,look to the skies we're not alone!!!
Absurd CNN. How can you seriously post an article like this? UFO's? Really? Get a grip on reality. The vastness of space would make it pretty extremely unlikely that they could even find the earth let alone get here just to look at our missiles. Why would they even care?
We have been brainwashed to the point of disbelief in anything that remotely operates outside our "normal" spheres of understanding. To suggest that these reports are completely false would be a measure in complete egocentricity. How comforting it would be to believe that we, as humans of earth, are in control of everything that operates around us. But how foolish to believe that we are the only chosen ones? Might it not be better yet to prepare for all possibilities?
Haha, I know. The technological advances of being able to get a ship light years from their home planet would mean they'd probably have weapons that would make a nuke pale in comparison.
Do not believe this garbage, this is clearly and end times deception the bible talks about, do your research on the NEPHILIM. Remember this, write it down, whatever, but more than likely this is how they are gonna explain to those who are left behind for the great horror of the tribulation the dissapearence of millions of people worldwide, mock, scoff all you want all the signs are here just like it is written and believing otherwise wont change a thing.
May your god check your grammar.
Will Smith, Tom Cruise and John Travolta just shat themselves.
Ok that is really making me nervous now... I do not believe in mystical stuff, ghost or anything that haven't been proved yet. So i never took UFO's witnesses seriously. Until I saw few days ago something that I can only call "a UFO" and damn I hate to be one of those people that ther people think crazy!!! Saying "I saw something that looked like a star and moved so fast and so irregularly that couldn't be nor a star nor a satellite!" It was in London, where I am at the moment! I am 26 years old and I'm just voiceless still when I think of it! Now since that I keep seeing french, english or american news talking about that! And it makes me f***** scared because I got to admit that I'm taking all this seriously now! What the f*** is going on? Does government knows more than we imagine? Are we just powerless witness of their presence... Oh my god after that comment I'm just gonna go back to my normal life like everyone but it's crazy how human brain just "skip" the things he don't understand... Crazy for a "major" subject like this! But I just have no explanation so... What else can I do?
Dude you are not a scientist and you have no idea what you saw. There is no reason to think it is a UFO when you have not the slightest idea what you saw. Maybe it was a meteor, the point is you don't know and cannot assume anything.
What do you do? Find a good doc that can prescribe some anti-anxiety meds. Take a chill pill dude. If this stuff rattles you at 26 years old, you'll be dead of a heart attack by the time you're 50. There's a lot more bad in the world than lights in the sky.
I'm not a scientist but I know enough to know that a metorite cannot make rectangular trajectory neither a plane at the speed I saw it.
And don't you worry "sapoet" like I said my "mind already skipped" I have only witness something that I cannot explain at any point for the first time of my life :S Don't go pathetic man
Any aliens would probably pick up our cable broadcasting, tune to the MTV Jersey Shore, and hightail it the heck outta here.
Earth: Mostly harmless.
I'm thinking that CNN needed a plug before being absorbed by NBC. Perfect timing to look like an idiot and get away with it.
I think the belief that ETs are visiting us should be handled a lot like "don't ask don't tell." If you come out and say you believe it, you're a fool, and you probably shouldn't be in our armed forces. If you remove eyewitness accounts – which are NEVER reliable – there's no good evidence at all. I personally believe in ETs. I just don't believe they're visiting us, or care at all what we're up to.
UFOs were sending messages? Don't they have email or twitter?
Don't worry about the so called aliens, Obama will print more money and save us all !!!!
Ohhh...the truth comes out at the end of the video. They are against WMD's, so some story is made up along with false allocations of UFO's to try and get their point across to the crazies; WMD's are dangerous and will continue to be dangerous until everyone gets rid of them. Well duh.
Getting rid of nukes is only prolonging the inevitable.
Awww, the two big mysteries of our generation (baby boomers) – the elusive truths about UFOs and who killed JFK. One has to wonder when we will finally be able to put these to rest.
We may learn more about JFK when Mrs. Kennedy Onasis's grand children pass away. She has papers and a leagal agreement that they cannot be disclosed until then. She was probably waiting until those that could harm her family were not longer around. Certainly interesting to think she had something to say that she was so concerned about saying that she needed to create a legal shelter so they would not be disclosed until such a late time in the future.