UFOs and Nukes Researcher Robert Hastings Refutes WSJ Article

New Wall Street Journal UFO Article Badly Misses the Mark

In a recent article titled, “The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology”, the Wall Street Journal attempts to foist its own disinformation on all of us. Several knowledgeable persons have already indignantly responded on X, or in podcasts such as WEAPONIZED, hosted by journalist George Knapp and researcher Jeremy Corbell. I have instead directed an email to the Journal’s Correspondence and Corrections Editor, Judi Walsh, also copying the article’s two authors, criticizing one particular part of the factually-inaccurate, arguably-absurd piece. It has been inserted below. Thus far, I have not received a response from Walsh or the authors.

By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 6-12-2025

My email:

From: ufohastings@aol.com

To: judi.walsh@wsj.com, wsjcontact@wsj.com

Cc: joel.schectman@wsj.com, aruna.viswanatha@wsj.com

Tue, Jun 10 at 6:25 AM

Ms. Walsh,

I am the leading civilian researcher on the topic of UFO/UAP activity at US nuclear weapons sites, as described in declassified US Air Force documents and the testimony of 167 vetted USAF veterans who were involved in such incidents at various bases during the Cold War era and beyond. Those individuals were independently interviewed by me between 1973 and 2010.

CNN's livestreamed coverage of my September 27, 2010 "UFOs and Nukes" press conference in Washington D.C. is available at http://www.ufohastings.com, on the homepage. Seven of the veterans participated, and most are still available for questioning by the WSJ's reporters, should they be interested in doing that.

At the press conference, a former Minuteman missile targeting officer stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, Captain Robert C. Jamison, revealed his team's involvement in retargeting ten ICBMs that had been simultaneously knocked-offline on the evening of March 24, 1967. This missile-shutdown event was the one mentioned in your recent article, in which the authors wildly speculated that the missiles' mysterious loss of functionality was due to a test involving an Electromagnetic Pulse generator, meant to demonstrate their vulnerability to EMP during wartime. As [redacted] has already brought to your attention, the available facts easily debunk this groundless claim.

According to Captain Jamison, multiple targeting teams, including his, were given an unprecedented "special UFO briefing" prior to being released to the field, during which it was stated that a "UFO" had caused the multiple-missile failures. The teams were instructed to report a UFO to their command post, should one be sighted while they traveled to the full-flight shutdown site at Oscar Flight, near Roy, Montana. They were further instructed that, should a UFO appear while they were on-site at one of the Launch Facilities--underground missile silos--they were to quickly enter the silo and close the personnel access hatch, while leaving their Security Police escort above ground so that he could provide updates to the base via a two-way radio.

The other Air Force veterans appearing at my press conference provided similar accounts of their own UFO-related experiences, at other bases, during different time-frames.

Indeed, as my four-decade-long research project has convincingly established, bona fide UFO incursions at US nuclear weapons sites—fissile material production plants, weapons test ranges and storage facilities, nuclear bomber and missile bases—occurred as early as January 1945, and as recently as October 2010, and the incidents over that period numbered in the hundreds.

Nevertheless, given the embarrassing lack of factual rigor evident in your reporters’ recent effort, I rather doubt that my research findings will be of much assistance to them. Assuming that the article was not an intentional attempt at disinformation, their profound ignorance of the UAP topic, coupled with their clearly unjournalistic bias, renders them unqualified to educate your readers.

Sincerely,

Robert L. Hastings

So, we will see whether I receive a response from any of the Wall Street Journal staff members, and/or whether my email is posted online by their website. I’ll update those reading this post.

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See Also:

	UFO Myth to Government Disinformation Myth
	1967 Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident Botched by David Duchovny
	UFO Sightings at ICBM Sites and Nuclear Weapons Storage Areas
	My Evidence: The Account of Minute-Man Missiles Being Disabled, While UFOs Hovered Over The Launch Facilities

The UFOs-Nukes Connection Press Conference: Witness Affidavits and Declassified Documents

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