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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.
Between the UFO nuts, the religious nuts and the right wing nut-jobs this country is going down hill pretty fast.
Are you an idiot or just uninformed? UFOs have NOTHING to do with "this country" I don't know where you have been the past decades but UFOs don't limit themselves to the USA only! Do some research before you flap your gums. They've been sighted everywhere! Mexico, South America countries, China, Russia, etc.
In fact other countries have already disclosed all their reports! England, France, the list goes on. It's just people like YOU in the USA who are so stupid to think we would seriously be the ONLY intelligent life in the billions upon trillions of not just planets, but Solar systems and who knows how many galaxies. It's people like YOU who make the HUMAN RACE go down hill fast.
Violet, any contact yet, or just reports? Reports are what they are. Thousands have reported in Mexico that they saw the chupacabra, do you believe in that too? Our own solar system is HUGE, I doubt you know how large it is, yet we are alone.
We are alone Violet, get with the program, there's nothing out there but wars, death and destruction. Those articles are used to distract people from real issues.
Going, going...GONE!!!
Most of em are sighted through the bottoms of folks empty liquor bottles! This govt. needs to stop beatin BS issues, put down the golf clubs, and start getting the job of fixing a broken ECONOMY done! End of fukin story!!!
Jim, Los Alomos, NM,, quit being a LIBTARD (thats liberal and retard as one alien being) not rare, but very stupid.
Violet, getting tired of your self righteousness. Your not the bees knees of UFOlogy, so stop pretending you are. You claim that the US is the only country that hasn't disclosed their UFo casefiles? Bunk. The amazing, all encompassing UFO files that the UK released was essentially a British version of the Project Blue Book, which amounted to "we are tired of people filing freedom of information requests on all our UFO reports, so here's over a thousand that are completely uninteresting. Now leave
us alone." They did not release a single report with any meat on it, an all tht trumped up bs about english disclosure turned out to be a huge disappointment. Now stop calling people idiots and get down off your high horse. It would be great to have a thoughtful discussion here and show CNN that people are interested in this subject without debasing ourselves and falling IMO name calling and petty pee contests.
Jordan-did you see your black triangle in California?
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Yes, sure did. It was witnessed by myself and one of my friends in on Hazel street Granite Bay, just east of Sacramento California. Would have been around 2001, I think, around 11pm or so.
UFOs huh? How about the tooth fairy? Please! Another attempt to distract people from real everyday issues.
I believe its the other way around, the everyday issues distract us from the truth...
I agree, Lance.
Maybe Obama can ask them to help us. No, no, make that Jack Nicholson. Uh, no. Hmm. Stephen Hawking said to avoid alien contact. Are UFO's real? What indisputable proof do we need short of one in pieces at public place? Photographs are almost all fuzzy, why? Better yet, what proof would be needed to show it's not man made? All aircraft are affected by air. We need an instrument which reads windspeed remotely for a given area as well as acts as a range finder, like a laser. With an instrument which does both, the dimensions, and location could be determined as well as how windspeed affects a given object. With that one could classfy all known behavior of objects. One which doesn't fit any physical model we know would be a genuine UFO.
What exactly is a "Rocket Surgeon?"
Must be something like a brain scientist
In the late 60's and early 70's I was an instructor at Reese AFB inTexas. It was one of the many pilot training bases turning out pilots for duty in Viet Nam. Around the time of the Apollo moon missions we also had two NASA astronaut trainees learning to fly supersonic jets. One of the students at that time was Dr. William Edgar Thornton. He was a former very high ranking Air Force Officer and a research scientist who had left an important Air Force position at Wright Patterson AFB to become an astronaut.
I used to love talking to these astronaut trainees because I always learned more from them, than they ever did from me.
One time I asked Dr. Thornton why he gave up the high ranking position in the Air Force to become a lowly student again. He replied "I want to find out where they came from'
When I asked him what he had meant by that he told be about an alien craft that had crashed in New Mexico some time before. He said all but one of the occupants of the crash had perished in the crash but a single survivor had lived for a while and he had been involved in the autopsy after that survivor had passed on.
At this point he stopped his narrative and told me he had said more than he intended to and reminded me that nobody would believe a word I said, and if I repeated any part of his remarks he would deny ever saying anything to me and that would have ended my Air Force career.
I have kept this story to myself for over forty years and haven't repeated it to anyone before. Although I later heard about the "Roswell" crash many years later as well as the stories about "Hanger18" he never mentioned Roswell by name or what year this all was supposed to have happened.
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house to get a camera. Facing the spacecraft that was still affixed above the barn with my back against the door to the house I turned the knob. I opened the door just standing there looking up at it for several seconds, "well hell buddy shut the dam door," my father yells out at me, "all the mosquitoes will get into the house, were you born in a barn." My younger brother, Mike, was sitting next to the door. I whispered to them, "get a camera I see a UFO." Watching the spacecraft starting to move I grabbed Mike's shirt and pulled him up out of the chair. As Mike followed me out of the doorway the spacecraft moved suddenly skywards off to the left of where they were and stopped again about a 100 yards from where they were before. "What is that," Mike asked. "I don't know"
The spacecraft made a move skywards again and within a couple of seconds they faded away like a moving star in the night sky.
I was told days later that the air force was moving some nuclear bombers through the local Rockford airport on the same day as the sighting...
they arnt extraterrestrial..theyre inter dimentional...able to vibrate at super high frequencies to enable them to do what seems like supernatural feats...the truth isnt "out there"...it's right here under our noses and has been for a long time..they do seem concerned about mans treatment of the planet because this is also their home ...
Rural Machesney Park Illinois near Williams Park on a warm August 1973 night.
"By, I am going to pick up Linda," I said to mom as I closed the side door to our house paying special attention to turn off the side porch light so the bugs wouldn't buzz me as I walked by. Except for the door shutting behind me it was a quit night, the crickets weren't chirping and for some strange reason the mosquitoes didn't seem as active. My car was on a dirt service road about 50 feet away from our house that was parked about 30 feet from my neighbors dimly lit barn. Reaching my car I fumbled for my keys "Where is that damn key," I mumbled anxiously because I was late picking Linda up. "Oh this is it." A light danced across my driver side windshield startled me as I partially opened my car door, my inside dome light started flickering on and off. The light from the reflection off the window seemed to be moving from behind me by Pecks barn. Mr. Peck is usually asleep this time of night, so what could it be, nothing is in back of the barn except a large unpopulated wooded area?
I turned around and looked up above the barn still holding onto the door, a faintly lit flying saucer shaped object approximately 20 feet in diameter was hovering just above the rooftop, there were no sound - strangely I wasn't afraid. I slowly closed my car door behind me enough to turn off the flickering dome light while still looking up at the object. This thing was so close to me that if I was standing on top of the barn I could touch it. About 10 seconds passed as I looked up at it trying not to make any kind of noise as it move to the left. Another saucer shaped object of equal size moved over in its original spot, now there were two of them side by side hovering above the barn. Mesmerized, I just stood there temporarily paralyzed by what I saw.
After what seemed like a few seconds I thought to myself, "Oh if I could only get a picture of this," so I slowly walked back to the house to get a camera. Facing the spacecraft that was still affixed above the barn with my back against the door to the house I turned the knob. I opened the door just standing there looking up at it for several seconds, "well hell buddy shut the dam door," my father yells out at me, "all the mosquitoes will get into the house, were you born in a barn." My younger brother, Mike, was sitting next to the door. I whispered to them, "get a camera I see a UFO." Watching the spacecraft starting to move I grabbed Mike's shirt and pulled him up out of the chair. As Mike followed me out of the doorway the spacecraft moved suddenly skywards off to the left of where they were and stopped again about a 100 yards from where they were before. "What is that," Mike asked. "I don't know"
The spacecraft made a move skywards again and within a couple of seconds they faded away like a moving star in the night sky.
I was told days later that the air force was moving some nuclear bombers through the local Rockford airport on the same day as the sighting
I read that ufo's made by NAZIS. I guess Hitler is coming back.
Okay, a couple of months ago, in China, there was this UFO spotted over an airport. The UFO delayed flights and was filmed and posted all over the news and internet. The explanation was that it was some type of new military aircraft. Now, if it was a military aircraft, and not an object from outerspace, then would it be unreasonable to believe that a nation, such as China, could develop a UFO in order to spy on us?? Did you ever think of that?
I watched a few of the YouTube vids about the China sighting over the airport. Looks more like a missile or high speed jet than a frikkin' ET UFO. Any being that can break speed of light sure as hell better not leave contrails, LOL!
google o'hare airport and ufo sighting
happened in front of about 10-15 people including pilots and airport personnel
I didn't know CNN was a tabloid.
It didn't used to be. But since the merger... More than half of HLN is now tabloid fodder, whereas it used to actually be Headline News. I miss that.
Not ETs but secret military vehicles.
I THOUGHT LIKE THAT EARLIER
Still waiting for full government disclosure. I have a feeling the government's transparency in terms of UFO activity/reports will coincide with decreasing religion. At the current time, too many people's world-views would be rocked by the truth as to how frequent UFO sightings are.