NHI-Experiencer Mario Woods Has Died

Mario Woods and Michael Johnson

The Former US Air Force Security Policeman was Abducted by Non-Human Entities, Together with His Partner Michael Johnson, at an ICBM Launch Facility in 1977

In July 2017, I was approached by former USAF Security Policeman Mario Woods, who had earlier read my book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. Woods revealed that he had been forcibly taken aboard a hovering UAP, together with his Security Alert Team partner, Michael Johnson, while the pair were responding to intruder alarms at a Minuteman nuclear missile launch facility operated by Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, in November 1977. After requesting and receiving Woods’ DD214 service record from him, which verified his Security Police position at the base during that year, I called Woods and asked him to summarize the bizarre, terrifying encounter, as best as he could remember it. His

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intriguing narrative comprised the bulk of my subsequent article about multiple UAP incursions at Ellsworth’s ICBM sites in the 1970s. ©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

UFO Appeared to Monitor Nuclear Bomb Test in Nevada

"... the jeep was about halfway between him and the buildings when a silvery metal object lifted-off the ground behind the buildings and hovered in the air."

Since 1973, I have interviewed 169 US military veterans regarding their UFO/UAP encounters at nuclear weapons test ranges and deployment sites during the Cold War era and beyond. Their testimonies appear in my book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. In September 2026, I received an unsolicited email from a woman who does not wish to be identified. She wrote, Many years ago, probably around 1996, my father was dying of Stage-4 colon cancer. He was in his seventies and had fought the cancer bravely for several years. We were watching TV together in his

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living room when something came on the television that mentioned UFOs. My dad said softly, “They're real, you know." I was a bit shocked, because a comment like that was totally out of character for him. Then he told me the following story:©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Marco Rubio on UAPs - From Senate Inquiry to 'It’s Classified'

In a brand-new episode of The Katie Miller Podcast, Marco Rubio discussed UAPs/UFOs, offering an interesting glimpse into how his public tone has evolved since his years in the Senate. Rubio made clear that he does not claim to know what these

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objects are. However, he continues to maintain that unidentified objects have been observed over U.S. military installations, that they are not known to be American, and that the subject deserves serious investigation.

Here is Rubio's response, lightly edited for readability while preserving his meaning:©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Where is UFO Disclosure's Daniel Ellsberg?

An updated tweak for 'Disclosure Day'

Things appear to be happening suspiciously fast now

The most salient questions raised by Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” aren’t about ESP, screen memories or the nature of nonhuman intelligence. They’re about logistics. What does it take to steal classified material from a legally suspect black program? Where is Daniel Ellsberg? Where are the Pentagon Papers, the pilfered thumb drives, the Rosetta Stone? Who has the chutzpah to ghost the reservation and risk a martyr’s stand against the immorality of privatizing the biggest headline in human history? Would today’s politicized and brand-flogging media platforms – bracing against Nixon-like blowback for telling

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the truth about Vietnam – band together the way newspapers did 55 years ago in order to guarantee the public’s right to know and understand government policy?©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' – Great Cinema, Convenient Omissions

Readers of The UFO Chronicles will have heard of, or already seen, Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg's latest feature film. It has started streaming online and is likely to be watched by millions of viewers this year.

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A dramatization of an effort to release decades of repressed files and media about UAPs is a welcome topic. Although the story is fictional, the plot draws on years of real-world effort by those who consider such repression inappropriate. Given the subject's profundity, expectations for a groundbreaking piece of media were high.©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Wendy Ann Connors (In Memoriam)

Should you find yourself cruising around the Internet, searching for sites regarding the UFO subject, and suddenly landing upon a page offering a wealth of mp3 audio recordings associated with a project once known as Faded Discs, you have found a treasure chest of golden history. Precious little of this would have been available without the dedicated efforts of the late Wendy Ann Connors, former school teacher, respected UFO researcher and author. Wendy, a fellow Air Force veteran whom I was proud to call a friend for too few years, died from a long illness a few years after

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retiring from UFO research. I had lost contact with her following her retirement, so knowledge of her passing many a moon ago(exact year unknown) did not catch up to me until recently.©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Gun Slinger Jesse Michels, vs Michael Shermer's Shadow

“I want you to debunk harder.”—Jesse Michels

Having just finished watching the Michael Shermer interview conducted by American Alchemy host, Jesse Michels I have to say that Michels never ceases to amaze me. By appearance, he seems like a scruffy looking, tee-shirt wearing kid (“the kid” is my nick-name for him, replacing John Greenewald) who has no business interviewing the caliber of

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guests he has on his show. Nothing could be further from the truth. (Also I believe he’s 45.)

In short order one gets past his incongruous appearance and becomes entranced by his intellect and amazing recall, citing facts and sources thereof in a blink of an eye—he’s a gunslinger! ©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Gáldar UFO Incident at 50: Spain’s Famous Canary Islands Mystery

On the night of 22 June 1976, witnesses across the Canary Islands reported a large, unusual luminous phenomenon, and the Spanish Air Force later opened an official file on the event. A declassified summary identifies the case as Expediente 760622 and notes that the General Jefe of the Canarias Air Zone formally categorized it as a Fenómeno Aéreo No Identificado [UAP].

The episode is usually tied to Gáldar because the most dramatic testimony came from Dr. Francisco Julio Padrón and a taxi driver, who said they saw a large, transparent sphere and, inside it, two towering reddish figures. That vivid account is the reason the case still echoes in Spanish ufology, even though other

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versions of the story and later retellings sometimes blur details from one witness account into another.©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

UFO, UAP Press Conference 2026 - Nonhuman Biologics, Secret Crash Retrieval Programs and the Decades Long Cover-up

Yesterday’s Capitol Hill UFO / UAP news conference (watch below) should have dominated the national conversation. Instead, it landed in the odd American gap between historic significance and minimal mainstream attention: a startling public moment in which lawmakers and UAP figures made statements with

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implications so extraordinary that the event should have been impossible to ignore. The setting was official, the participants were credible, and the claims carried enough weight to make the gathering feel less like another mythicized UFO story than a rupture in the long-running silence around it.

Robert Hastings’ Interview with Journalist Ross Coulthart

UFOs and Nukes Researcher Discusses Key Revelations by US Air Force Veterans Regarding UAP Incursions at ICBM Sites

In October 2024, I was interviewed (watch below) on the News Nation network by Australian journalist Ross Coulthart, who has broken several important UAP-related stories over the past few years, as well as hosting the first televised interview with former US government intelligence analyst and whistleblower David Grusch. During my conversation with Coulthart, I focused on a few of the most important incidents involving UFOs tampering with American nuclear missiles—either disrupting or temporarily activating them—during the Cold War era. Those accounts were offered during interviews I conducted over the years with 169 former or retired US Air Force ICBM launch and targeting officers, missile maintenance technicians, and missile security personnel.

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Second Tranche of UAP, UFO Files and Videos Released by Dept. of War

"... the tranche expands the public archive with videos, audio files, PDFs, and historical records that stretch the story of unexplained aerial phenomena deeper into the government’s own memory...."

The second release of UAP records from the so-called War Department lands with less fanfare than the first, but arguably with more substance. Published May 22, 2026 through the PURSUE portal, the tranche expands the public archive with

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videos, audio files, PDFs, and historical records that stretch the story of unexplained aerial phenomena deeper into the government’s own memory. If the first release established that the files were real, the second makes clear that the record is broader, messier, and more persistent than many expected.

This time, the emphasis is not on novelty so much as accumulation. CBS News reported that the second contains 51 videos — while Reuters described the material as a fresh set of declassified UFO/UAP records that includes references ranging from green orbs and discs to fireballs and a 116-page historical file tied to Sandia, New Mexico. That mix matters because it shows the government is not simply releasing a few isolated clips for public consumption; it is building a record that blends modern sensor footage with older institutional paperwork.©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

UAP, UFO Files: What the Department of War’s Release Reveals

When a government opens a long-closed file drawer, the public expects either revelation or vindication — rarely both at once. The so-called Department of War’s (legally still the Dept. of Defense) initial tranche of declassified records, published to the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP

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Encounters (PURSUE) portal, offers context, clutter, and a few persistent mysteries that resist tidy explanation. The documents released on May 8, 2026, span decades of memos, eyewitness reports, photos and videos; they are raw, often grainy, and were placed in the public domain as part of what officials called an “unprecedented transparency” effort.

What’s in the files — and what isn’t — matters. First, the DOW's claim that these files have never previously been released is false — a characterization that reflects either ineptitude or sensationalism. For seasoned researchers and or archival documentarians, much of the older files are familiar. Conversely, the vast majority are unredacted, pristine and in color. The significance of this can’t be overstated. (Curiously, the PDF files are password-locked, which is a stumbling block for research.) The initial collection includes items from across federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, FBI, NASA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, with the stated aim of centralizing decades of previously siloed material for public scrutiny. Many entries take familiar forms: witness statements, radar and maintenance logs that require technical background to parse, and footage whose low resolution complicates interpretation. The Pentagon’s public affairs notes and the DOW press release stress that the tranche is the beginning of a rolling release, not a final accounting.©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Missing & Murdered: The UFO/UAP Ties of Lost Scientists

"At the heart of the current storm is Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, the former Commander of the AFRL, who was reported missing in late February 2026. McCasland is not merely a high-ranking officer; he is a figure of immense interest in the UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) circles. His name first surfaced in the public consciousness via the 2016 WikiLeaks release of John Podesta’s emails, where he was identified as a key figure with knowledge of recovered "exotic" materials."

The intersection of high-level scientific research and national security has always been a landscape of shadows, but rarely have those shadows felt so long. In mid-April 2026, the "missing scientists" narrative—a story long relegated to the corners of independent research—officially crossed the threshold into the

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White House briefing room. When Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy questioned Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on April 15 about a "pattern of missing and dead scientists," the administration’s response was telling. Leavitt admitted the trend was "worth looking into," signaling that the "List of 10" has moved from digital speculation to a matter of potential federal inquiry.

The list identifies approximately ten high-level researchers [update: now eleven]—experts in plasma physics, aerospace engineering, and nuclear energy—who have either vanished or died under anomalous circumstances since 2023. While each case is a distinct tragedy, their collective professional proximity to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Los Alamos National Laboratory has created a statistical anomaly that is difficult to ignore. ©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

UFO Whistleblower, Lue Elizondo Survives Deadly Motorcycle Crash

Luis Elizondo (Lue Elizondo), the prominent U.S. government whistleblower on UAP/UFO topics and former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), was involved in a serious motorcycle accident on the evening of St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2026.

He has publicly detailed the incident, his life-threatening injuries, and ongoing recovery through his own social media posts, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and a YouTube "recovery diary" series. The event was a single-vehicle motorcycle crash caused by swerving to avoid wildlife.

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Timeline of the Incident and Immediate Aftermath

• Date and Time: Evening of March 17, 2026 (St. Patrick's Day). Elizondo was riding home from his business at night.

• Location: Approximately one mile from his home, near his residence in Wyoming.

• Cause: While riding, Elizondo encountered a doe (mother deer) and her fawn standing in the middle of the road. He made a split-second decision to swerve and avoid hitting them rather than plowing into the animals. He lost control of the motorcycle and crashed—he was not wearing a helmet. © The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

• Discovery: Elizondo drifted in and out of consciousness by the side of the road. His wife, Jennifer Elizondo, located him using the iPhone "Find My" app when he failed to arrive home. He initially told her he did not want or need to go to the hospital, but she wisely insisted on taking him to the ER.

Intervention and Disclosure - Are UAPs Nuclear Sentinels? (Pt 4)

Numerous encroachments into nuclear bases and facilities have extended beyond American airspace. In 1980, in England's most publicized UFO case, an unexplained object appeared over joint U.S./ Royal Air Force bases near Rendlesham Forest. Military witnesses described a round, silent, high-speed craft that hovered

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over a secret arsenal of nuclear weapons stored in 25 fortified underground bunkers.

A Soviet-era report from 1982 documents a bright craft exhibiting incredible maneuvers over a key ICBM installation in Ukraine. While the object was overhead, the missiles independently switched into ready-to-launch mode. Operators could not disarm them. Only when the craft departed did the missiles disengage.

Multiple witnesses reported UAP sightings that coincided with an unexplained drop in radiation levels during the 1986 Chornobyl power station disaster. Immediately after unidentified objects were observed over the site, ionizing radiation from the fire decreased dramatically, reducing the possibility of a nuclear explosion.© The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Veil of deception - Are UAPs Nuclear Sentinels? (Pt 3)

New evidence confirms what military witnesses have reported since the dawn of the nuclear age: unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) have been monitoring humanity's most dangerous weapons. With the last arms control treaty expiring and an increase in the number of nuclear warheads worldwide, government denial of these incursions poses an existential risk. This is the third of a four-part series examining UAP activity at nuclear facilities.

In 1953, following a contentious episode between the Navy and the Air Force that included UFO classification, the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel marked a decisive shift toward methodical debunking, recommending that government agencies use "mass media" to strip UFOs of their "aura of mystery." This

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policy was broadly implemented, as verified by subsequent press coverage. Concurrently, strict regulations imposed severe penalties on military personnel for unauthorized UFO disclosures.

Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, media coverage of UFOs collapsed. Aliens and spaceships became tabloid fodder. Writing or reporting on the topic was considered career suicide for journalists, despite continuing reports of UFOs from credible witnesses, including pilots and government officials. © The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Roswell Revisited - Are UAPs Nuclear Sentinels? (Pt. 2)

Roswell Army Air Base was located 150 air miles from Sandia Base, south of Albuquerque, the lab where nuclear weapons were being developed and assembled. In July 1947, as the two key nuclear installations conducted joint operations, a startling event occurred halfway between them.

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Near the village of Corona, a rancher reported wreckage from a strange crashed aircraft. An intelligence team from Roswell assessed the site and collected debris, reporting back to the base Commander, Colonel William Blanchard. On July 8, 1947, with his consent, the press officer issued a news release:

The many rumors regarding the flying discs became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th (atomic) Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Jesse A Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Jesse Marcel to higher headquarters.

The Roswell Daily Record published the spectacular headline: RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region. The coverage was picked up by the national and international press.© The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.

Ret. Gen. McCasland Missing: UFO Links and What We Know

A decorated Air Force general with a quiet but real footprint in the modern UFO saga has vanished in the New Mexico desert, and the timing could not be more uncanny for a country still arguing about what “UFO/UAP disclosure” even means. Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland’s disappearance is, on its face, a missing-person

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case—but given his history at Wright Patterson, and his appearance in the now famous Podesta–Tom DeLonge correspondence, it also brushes up against one of the most sensitive seams in the UFO debate: who actually knows what, and why they’ve kept it to themselves.the-independent

A General Goes Missing in New Mexico

According to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, 68 year old retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland was last seen around 11 a.m. on February 27, 2026, near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque. A Silver Alert was issued after his wife reported that he left home without his phone or watch—an odd break in routine for an experienced outdoorsman known for hiking and skiing, and a red flag given an unspecified medical condition.

Physically, the description is mundane—5’11”, about 160 pounds, white hair, blue eyes—yet law enforcement’s response is anything but casual: the FBI has joined the search, underscoring that this is now a federal matter as much as a local one. The case remains open, and as of this writing no public agency has announced evidence of foul play, suicide, or voluntary disappearance. © The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.