UFOs and Nukes Veteran Researcher, Robert Hastings — A Candid Interview

In a thought-provoking exchange on the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel, host Jeffrey Mishlove PhD, interviews Robert Hastings, the foremost researcher on the connection between UFOs and nuclear weapons. Hastings, the author of UFOs and

By The UFO Chronicles 7-21-2025

Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, shares highlights from decades of investigative work during which he interviewed more than 160 military veterans who either personally witnessed or were ancillary witnesses to unexplained aerial phenomena (UFOs/UAP) at ICBM sites, weapons storage facilities, and other nukes-related locations.

Hastings details multiple cases; in one terrifying incident, involving a “flight” of ten Minuteman ICBMs outside of Minot AFB, North Dakota, a UFO was reported in the sky by US Air Force security guards, as it moved from missile to missile. Meanwhile, down in the subterranean launch capsule, the two launch officers were shocked to see that their missile-status console suddenly displayed a “LAUNCH IN PROGRESS” indicator associated with each of those ICBMs! One of them, Captain David Schuur, was forced to repeatedly flip an Inhibit Switch each time the UFO moved toward and hovered over another missile, to stop the progression-to-countdown sequence.

Hastings adds that an equally frightening and inexplicable unauthorized launch activation also occurred in the then-Soviet Union, as evidenced by documents smuggled out of the country by journalist George Knapp. In that October 1982 incident, a large disc-shaped craft briefly hovered over an intermediate-range nuclear missile base, just as the missiles suddenly went into launch-countdown mode, before unaccountably returning to normal stand-by status.

Hastings speculates on an explanation: The Non-Human Intelligences associated with the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon seem intent on signaling to humanity the risks and disastrous consequences of nuclear conflict. Hastings emphasizes the consistent efforts by governments to suppress or downplay these reports, and suggests that the implications of these cases go far beyond national security, touching on larger existential and consciousness-related questions.

Beyond the technical and historical, Hastings discusses his own personal experiences with non-human entities since childhood, a secret he kept from the public for decades.

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