UFO Whistleblower Goes Public – Immaculate Constellation

"... there were satellite images or satellite image of a football fieldsized flying saucer hiding in clouds"

In 2024, an enigmatic term began to percolate among a small group of UAP investigators. The name was "Immaculate Constellation." Anyone who dared to even utter that term would

By Weaponized 5-9-25

put their own lives at risk, according to persons familiar with the program. "ImCon”, the abbreviated version of the term, was brought to the attention of Congress. Members were told it was a cover term for an Unacknowledged Special Access Program housed within the executive branch, specifically under the control of the White House. ImCon was supposedly a highly secretive program that relied on artificial intelligence to secretly scour classified servers used by the U.S. military and its intelligence agencies to search for and snatch images of UAP encounters.

A report about ImCon, written by an unknown policy advisor, was provided to Congress by Jeremy Corbell months prior to the start of a 2024 public hearing before a House subcommittee. The anonymous author of the report, who had been surreptitiously introduced to key House members by Corbell, had indicated he was willing to testify if requested to do so. A very curious series of events unfolded at the hearing, but in the end, the source of the Immaculate Constellation report was largely ignored, and the origin of the report itself was grossly distorted by members. A spokesperson for the Pentagon denied that any program by that name had ever existed within the Department of Defense.

After many months of excruciating discussion and debate, the author of the ImCon report is now ready to reveal what he knows, how he knows it, and who he is. ...

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Interview with Whistleblower, Mathew Brown
Conducted by Jermey Corbell and George Knapp

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Jeremy: Is it ironic you have to put your face out with us to protect yourself at that at this point, that's what we're doing right?

Mathew: Yeah.

Jeremy: That's what we're doing.

Mathew: This is absolutely what I uh did not want to do.

George: You've worked in secret programs you've got clearances you've made oaths that you would keep secrets um let's talk about secrecy and the UAP topic shouldn't it be secret to some degree i mean we have uh there's a race for the technology to try to understand it we have adversary nations who'd love to get it ahead of us why not keep this stuff secret?

Mathew Brown: Well if it was just technology that we are worried about protecting and maintaining a military advantage uh you know there's strong arguments to be made and have successfully been made for decades in this country that the American leadership and American people seem to be finding acceptable to be left in the dark about you know where science technology and their military is taking them this isn't just technology this isn't something somebody came up with in a lab and it's sensitive because once the cats have the bag anybody can do it fundamentally this comes from and is secondary to the what we've been told is the biggest question which is is humanity alone the answer is no uh and the secrecy that has been defended uh is at the cost of in my mind human dignity freedom and progress and it is no longer permissible or acceptable in my mind to uh to continue this course to deprive another generation of not just Americans but humanity of their birthright to know who they are where they came from and what's with us.

George: Could you give us a general description of the size of the secrecy apparatus, you know we're going to drill down into this of course about IMCON [Imacualte Constellation] um in one particular uh facet of the secrecy that you came across and other parts of i,t but how big of a secrecy apparatus is it? How many stove pipes are there? How many people are involved in different ways of keeping this secret, confusing the public, lying to Congress, lying to the world?

Mathew Brown: Simply put it's a parallel reality ... um ... the secrecy apparatus ... uh... is all pervasive. It is not just in the intelligence community governing their world, it's not just in the military protecting their operations, it's not protecting diplomats and leaders as they conduct their work sometimes in very dangerous places. It has been allowed to corrupt and infest every aspect of our society uh to serve the interests and whims of a very elite select few.

George: And it's been used to intimidate threaten destroy the lives of people like yourselves who have been doing their job keeping their oaths trying to protect their country being true to humanity and and have paid prices for it.

Mathew Brown: Absolutely!

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Securing the Skies: Addressing Unauthorized Drone Activity Over U.S. Military Installations – Congressional Hearing

Hearing Wrap Up: Swift Action Needed to Address Unauthorized Drone Activity Over U.S. Military Installations

WASHINGTON—Yesterday, the Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs held a hearing on “Securing the Skies: Addressing Unauthorized Drone Activity Over U.S. Military Installations.” During the hearing, members discussed how drone incursions over military installations have increased in frequency, posing a

By Congressional Committee on Oversight 4-30-25

significant threat to U.S. national security. Members noted that while multiple federal agencies share responsibility for countering drone threats, no single entity has clear authority over deterrence, leaving U.S. military sites exposed to surveillance, espionage, or potential weaponization. Subcommittee Chairman William Timmons (R-S.C.) and Ranking Member Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) pledged to work together to find solutions to enhance military security and counter aerial threats. 

Key Takeaways:

The unauthorized use of drones threatens our national security. Ineffective policies and difficulties distinguishing threats from recreational usage leave military installations vulnerable to exploitation by hostile nations and entities.

• Subcommittee Chairman Timmons noted in his opening statement, “These incursions are not from hobbyists being blown off course. The multitude of drones reported flying over bases in the past several years to yield a coordinated effort by our adversaries to collect valuable intelligence and surveillance of some of our most sensitive military equipment. These incursions often are designed to disrupt important trainings and create chaos.”

• Rear Admiral Spedero Jr.—Vice Director of Operations, J3, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense—testified “Now, being able to discern hostile intent and hostile act, as referred to in the opening comments may be very challenging, as is negligent activity being conducted by someone just flying a drone irresponsibly, whether that is a recreational enthusiast, or it is someone that’s using a drone for commercial aspects. So, it can be a challenge here in the homeland to determine that.”

Adversaries exploit gaps and shortages in U.S. defense capabilities, using drones for surveillance, intelligence gathering, and potential attacks, even along the southern border.

• Rear Admiral Spedero acknowledged technological disparities in drone detection that create vulnerable gaps, saying, “In general, the technology to field systems has far outpaced the technology to defeat those systems. It’s a much wider, broader, deeper market for drone application, for commercial and recreational purposes, so hence that technology has evolved very quickly from radio control drones to now fully autonomous drones that may or may not even rely on reception of a GPS signal, which would make it very challenging to intercept.”

• Rep. John McGuire (R-Va.) pointed out that adversaries near the southern border are using drones to observe Border Patrol operations, and that implementation of 10 U.S.C. 130i to safely conduct those operations without drone surveillance is absent.

Strong leadership and swift action are necessary to mitigate the threat, strengthen military readiness, reinforce U.S. deterrence against drones, and provide answers to the American people.

• Mark Roosevelt Ditlevson—Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense—suggested solutions to improve the U.S. response to drones in his opening statement. “You can’t defeat what you can’t see. On the legislative front, we continue to engage with members of Congress to seek modest but important refinements to do these counter UAS authorities under section 130i. Our legislative proposal is intended to allow the department to protect additional locations and missions, add greater stability for long-term planning and resources allocation within the department, and facilitate improved understanding and cooperation among U.S. interagency and local partners.”

• He explained that the Department of Defense is looking to streamline its processes so commanders would know what authority they have to respond to drone threats.

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Big Sur UFO Disclosures: Revealing Private Letters Tell All

As many readers will know, I am the author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, which summarizes my extensive research on the topic. I recently stumbled upon a Reddit post relating to the September 1964 Big Sur UFO Incident, involving a US Air Force photographic team that inadvertently filmed a domed-disc UFO disrupting the test flight of a dummy nuclear warhead. According to former USAF Lieutenant (now Dr.) Bob Jacobs, after the UFO approached and circled the warhead—officially known as a Re-entry Vehicle or RV—it directed four bright beams of light at it, whereupon the warhead began tumbling, eventually falling into

By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 5-1-2025

the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles short of its target downrange.

At the time, Jacobs headed-up the photographic team tasked with filming dozens of missile test launches at Vandenberg AFB, California, using a high-powered telescope/camera system. Located a hundred or so miles northwest of the base, on a coastal mountaintop near the village of Big Sur, the remote site permitted the launches to be filmed from a side-view.

In his Reddit post, “dingleberryjuice” cited my in-depth research on the case—as summarized in my book’s chapter, “Shot from the Sky”—which fully supports the credibility of Dr. Jacobs’ revelations about the still-classified incident.

The former lieutenant says that he screened the film shortly after it was shot, in the office of Major (later Dr.) Florenze Mansmann, the chief photographic analyst at Vandenberg in 1964, and that two mysterious men in civilian suits—who turned out to be CIA officers—were also in attendance.

Jacobs was astonished by what his team had unknowingly captured on film. Mansmann then dismissed him, saying, “This never happened,” and sternly warning him to never discuss what he had witnessed.

Mansmann is on the record as saying that the CIA officers confiscated the film immediately afterward, designating it Top Secret. According to the retired major, the stunning footage was then “rushed East on a special aircraft”, almost certainly to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), located in Washington D.C.

At this point, I will mention that, beginning in February 2024, former Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) director Luis Elizondo has repeatedly stated that he had watched the film in question while with AATIP. Importantly, he confirms that it shows exactly what Dr. Jacobs has claimed ever since he wrote about the warhead-shootdown in a magazine article in 1985.

In spite of this definitive revelation, which dingleberryjuice knew about, he also chose to cite in his Reddit post debunking claims made by the late Kingston George—a member of the photographic team at Vandenberg—who says that he too viewed the film in 1964, alleging that it didn’t show a UFO pacing the dummy warhead but, rather, decoy warheads accompanying the real RV. Those were meant to test whether such decoys could help protect US nuclear warheads from being shot down by Soviet anti-missile missiles, should a war ever erupt.

George claims that Jacobs inadvertently mistook the decoys for a UFO.

In his Reddit post, dingleberryjuice asked anyone having documentation relating to the case to post it on the chain, to try to resolve this key question: Did the Big Sur filming incident actually involve a bona fide UFO, or merely misidentified decoy warheads?

Instead of doing that, I have chosen to present my contributions to the debate here, so as to educate a much larger audience than the handful of individuals on Reddit who read and responded to dingleberryjuice’s comments.

While all of the Air Force and CIA records relating to the Big Sur Incident remain highly classified, I nevertheless possess several private letters, mostly from the mid-1980s, written by Dr. Jacobs and Dr. Mansmann in response to inquiries by various researchers. Although not official US government documentation relating to the incident, they importantly provide key, unguarded testimony about the case from the two ex-Air Force officers who, unlike Kingston George, were directly involved in it.

As we will see, that testimony convincingly discredits George’s claim about having been able to watch the film in question “weeks later”—that is, weeks after the screening in Mansmann’s office, which he did not attend—simply because it had already left Vandenberg AFB in the custody of the CIA officers. Consequently, George had to have watched a different film and, therefore, his theory about decoy warheads being mistaken for a UFO by Jacobs and Mansmann has no merit. (Reader, after clicking on the above link, scroll to the last page of George's article, where he says, “Weeks later, my clearance level was increased to allow me to see the films again and analyze them.”)

(Indeed, while George insists that the launch occurred on September 22, 1964, and uses the scheduled decoy-related test on that date to make his case, Jacobs says that the film he saw in Mansmann’s office was actually shot on September 15th, when no decoys were deployed during the flight. Significantly, former high-level government intelligence analyst David Grusch has recently revealed that radar data from that launch, discovered while he was working with the UAP Taskforce, confirms the tracking of a single unknown object—presumably the UFO—flying near the dummy warhead. Given this, he explicitly endorses Dr. Jacobs’ assertion that the September 15th date for the launch is the correct one.)

Jacobs’ and Mansmann’s Letters

Actually, before I present the former USAF officers’ responses to researchers in the 1980s, this first letter was written by Florenze Mansmann on November 15, 1995, and sent to a television producer, Curt Collier. In it, the retired major unequivocally confirms that Bob Jacobs’ public statements about the Big Sur UFO encounter are “all true as presented”.

The second letter was written by Mansmann to researcher Peter Bons on March 8, 1983, in which he states that the filmed craft that circled the dummy warhead, while directing four beams of light at it, was assumed by him to be “extraterrestrial”. Referring to details that he observed with a Loup magnifier, when examining the footage frame-by-frame, Mansmann describes the UFO as a “classic disc, the center seemed to be a raised bubble”. He further says, “At the point of beam release…the object turned like an object required to be in a position to fire from a platform”.

The third letter was written by Mansmann to researcher T. Scott Crain Jr. on May 6, 1987. In it, he elaborates on the circumstances surrounding the screening in his office and speculates that the amazing events captured on film were probably still being kept secret because of the US government’s so-called “Star Wars” research projects then underway, aimed at creating directed-energy beam weapons that could destroy Soviet nuclear warheads in flight.

The fourth letter was written by Dr. Bob Jacobs to Dr. Florenze Mansmann on January 14, 1985, in which he discusses the Big Sur Incident at length, offering his opinion about its meaning—it was “a shot across the bow … of our nuclear silliness ship”—and passionately arguing that the US government should not keep the incident secret forever.

The last letter that I’ll present here, written by Mansmann to researcher Lee Graham on March 10, 1983, confirms that “the original [35mm film] was rushed East on a special aircraft when we released it [to the CIA officers]”. Once again, this statement establishes beyond question that Kingston George could not possibly have viewed the same film at Vandenberg “weeks later” as he claimed, simply because it was long-gone from the base.

(BTW In the first letter, Mansmann states that the only copy of the film—the 16mm version that was screened on a projector in his office—was “confiscated by the two Government Agents and placed in a briefcase before they departed”. In other words, George also could not have viewed, weeks later, that copy of the film either.)

I also possess three more private letters on this topic, written to various individuals by Jacobs or Mansmann in the 1980s, that I will not include in this article. They are basically redundant in terms of what they reveal, relative to the ones that I have presented here.

In conclusion, while Kingston George attempted to discredit what he called “Bob Jacobs’ weird claims” about a UFO shooting down a dummy nuclear warhead in flight in September 1964, the extensive private correspondence of Jacobs and Florenze Mansmann convincingly confirms that the incident, however bizarre and difficult to believe, did in fact occur.

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New Video of Tic-Tac UFOs and Witness Emerges

"... senior chief and radar specialist, Alexandro Wiggins and others, while on duty in the ship’s Combat Information Center (CIC) observed “unknown objects” on their screens that appeared to emerge from the ocean."

A U.S. Navy veteran detailed a recent encounter with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) off the Southern California coast. In February 2023, while serving aboard the USS Jackson as a senior chief and radar specialist, Alexandro Wiggins and others,

By The UFO Chronicles 4-18-25

while on duty in the ship’s Combat Information Center (CIC) observed “unknown objects” on their screens that appeared to emerge from the ocean.

Wanting to see the objects with his own eyes, he went on deck and verified what he observed on his radar screen. In an interview with filmmaker, Jeremy Corbell, he stated, “To my surprise, which is something I’ve never witnessed, was a light I noticed on the horizon, it looked as if it were surfacing out of the water and going up.” He quickly returned to the CIC and took a closer look using the SAFIRE System (a thermal sensor) and discovered that the thermal imaging system had picked up not one, but several tic tac–shaped objects.

As Wiggins later described, an initial object was soon joined by a second, and when his team zoomed out for a broader view, they discovered a total of four objects in close proximity. These craft then made a rapid, simultaneous departure towards the northeast, moving with a speed that defied conventional explanation.

The incident, which strongly echoes the infamous Tic Tac encounter from 2004, has reignited public and official interest in UAP sightings, particularly as new Congressional hearings urge witnesses to come forward.

Wiggins, who is also connected to Las Vegas by way of his personal past shared his account after seeing circulating footage.

The video of the sighting was later discussed on a podcast hosted by documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell (see below) adding another layer to what many see as an unfolding mystery involving potentially advanced aerial technology or phenomena that challenge current scientific understanding.

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'Strongest Evidence Yet' of life Discovered On a Distant Planet

"Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising 'hints' of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism."

There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, could be an ocean world capable of hosting microbial life, at least.

By CBS News 4-17-2025

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

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UFO Search Ends in Tragic Death

"A 48-year-old woman ... died waiting for UFOs in the frozen wilderness ..."

A 48-year-old woman who died waiting for UFOs in the frozen wilderness was a widow who had quit her job as a registered nurse last May, acquaintances say.

By The Bismarck Tribune 11-20-1982

Laverne Landis, mother of five grown children, was found dead Monday in a compact car, where she had spent a month camped with Gerald Flach, ,a 38-year-old electrician. He was found semiconscious on a snow-packed trail.

Flach and Landis had met a group of people interested in UFOs at the Psychic Fair in California las January, friends said. Flach told authorities had been received messages through Landis "from some high power."

In October, Flach said, the two were directed to go to the end of the Gunflint Trail and await further messages.

So they traveled to the remote wilderness area in northeastern Minnesota.

After a week they ran out of food and lived on vitamins and lake water. The car ran out of gasoline after two weeks, so they couldn't use the heater. They wrapped their feet and hands in strips of a torn blanket as they continued their vigil.

The watch ended Monday, when rescuers found the body of Landis. She had died of exposure, dehydration and starvation.

When found Landis was wearing open sandals, a sweater, slacks and a coat, with her feet and hands wrapped in strips of blanket, said Bruce Kerfoot of the Gunflint Trail Rescue Squad.

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1967 Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident Botched by David Duchovny

I recently watched the first episode of Declassified Secrets with David Duchovny, now airing on the History Channel on Friday nights. As the name indicates, it’s the former The X Files star’s latest series. One segment dealt with the once-hidden but now-famous UFO-related ICBM-shutdown incident at Malmstrom AFB, Montana in 1967, first exposed in 1996 by one of the Minuteman missile launch officers who was on duty when it occurred, former USAF Captain Robert Salas. Given Hollywood’s checkered track record on accurately reporting UFO encounters at the US Air Force’s ICBM sites, in a variety of programs on several different television networks over the years, I

By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 4-11-25

was not optimistic that the Duchovny show would get all of the facts straight. But I certainly never expected that its treatment of Salas’ incident would be so thoroughly error-filled and basically incompetent.

In my book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, I discuss the intriguing event at length. Actually, there were at least two UFO-related mass-missile shutdowns at Malmstrom, on March 16th and 24th 1967, and I was responsible for getting a number of former USAF personnel with knowledge of the highly-dramatic, still-classified incidents to go on the record for the first time.

The book’s entire chapter regarding those events is available here.

While some readers may conclude that I am overreacting to the Duchovny show’s treatment of the ten missile-shutdown on March 24th, and that my criticisms mostly concern trivialities, I will disagree. The importance of the reality of UFOs repeatedly interfering with our nuclear missiles at several Air Force bases over the years—as confirmed by scores of USAF veterans who I’ve interviewed—is self-evident. Any public discussion of the situation should strive to be accurately presented.

So, whenever I read or watch an attempted review of those developments that is deeply flawed—due to skeptical ignorance, inept research efforts, or disinformational spin—I just have to respond.

Tellingly, despite the series title, Declassified Secrets with David Duchovny, the Oscar Flight incident remains classified to this day! Given that the show’s producers missed that fact, I guess I shouldn’t have been too surprised at the very faulty summary of it that they foisted on all of us. While I counted more than a dozen factual misstatements in the carelessly constructed six-minute segment, I’ll only address three here:

First, it claims, “Salas [was] in his command headquarters and suddenly he [got] a call from the gate personnel at the entrance to Malmstrom, about some sort of strange light that is flying, moving in a strange pattern over the base itself.” In reality, Salas—and his missile commander Captain Frederick Meiwald, who was with him but is never even mentioned in the program segment—were some 125 road-miles east of Malmstrom in their underground Launch Control Center at Oscar Flight, a group of ten Minuteman-I missiles located near Roy, Montana.

Only later in the segment is there an acknowledgement of Salas’ presence in a Launch Control Capsule far from the base, thereby contradicting earlier statements that the incident occurred on Malmstrom itself.

Following this confusion, the segment then says that the head Security Policeman on-site, who had notified Salas about the mysterious aerial light, then called a second time and, screaming into the phone, said that a glowing, orange-colored “orb” was now silently hovering directly over the gate of the fence surrounding the above-ground Oscar Launch Control Facility building. Actually, as Salas has repeatedly stated in various interviews, the hovering object was reported by the Security Policemen confronting it to be disc-shaped and at least 40-feet in diameter—it was not a small, spherical orb.

More importantly, the segment claims that following the incident the Air Force sent “a team from an ongoing secret investigation, known as Project Blue Book, [to investigate it.]” In reality, although Salas and Meiwald were forcefully interrogated about the incident and told to sign national security non-disclosure statements, Blue Book never investigated the alarming incursion and, significantly, the Air Force continues to officially deny that there has ever been UFO interference with any of our nuclear missiles’ functionality, at any base, over the past seven decades!

Nevertheless, despite the false claim of Blue Book’s involvement in the Oscar Flight case, the segment stubbornly doubles-down and has journalist and wannabe-UFO expert Garrett Graff saying on camera, “Investigators from Project Blue Book look into this incident at Malstrom [sic], and they don’t think that it’s an alien spacecraft but they also can’t find any other logical explanation.” This is simply untrue. No such Blue Book report ever existed.

Later in the segment, Graff opines, “I think the US government knows more about some of these UFO sightings than it lets on, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re alien spacecraft. A mystery is in some ways just as challenging as an actual secret. Still today, the government is just as likely to classify its ignorance as it is its knowledge.”

While this last sentiment—regarding government ignorance often being unacknowledged—is undoubtedly true, the exhaustive research conducted by myself and other researchers conclusively establishes that the Air Force knows tremendously more about UFOs—and the nuclear weapons-related cases in particular—than Graff’s vague, arguably apologist statement suggests. His empty platitude completely ignores the wealth of specific, detailed, formerly-classified material about UAP now in the public domain. It appears that he is either uninformed or too negatively biased to understand its importance.

Indeed, in various skeptical public statements he has made, Graff has doubted the existence of Non-Human Intelligence on Earth, saying, “UFOs could be weird physics [we don’t yet understand] rather than aliens from Alpha Centauri buzzing the USS Nimitz.” He has also endorsed the long-ago discredited CIA claim that “half” of all UFO sightings in the US during the 1950s were due to flights of the still-secret U-2 spy plane.

After noting several of those off-base and generally dismissive claims by Graff during several interviews, I decided that I wouldn’t waste my time reading his 500-page book, UFO: The inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There.

However, one person who did read the book reviewed it at Amazon, saying,

... There is no “inside story” to be found anywhere in the book. Instead, we find many of the familiar stories that include Roswell, Foo Fighters, projects Sign, Grudge, Blue Book, Capt. Mantel, the fraud George Adamski and his blond friend “Orthon” from Venus, the Robertson Panel, the Socorro Incident, swamp gas, ball lightning, the Condon Report, Tehran F-4s, MJ-12, crop circles, cattle mutilations, Phoenix Lights, Skinwalker Ranch, Tic Tac UFO, etc., etc., etc.

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... And yet, many more relevant or intriguing UFO tales are completely missing. Where are Dr. Robert Sarbacher, Admiral Wilson’s near-sacking, Wilbert Smith’s famous quote, Gulf Breeze, Bentwaters, the Trent photos, the Zimbabwe school children, UFO and nuclear ICBM interactions, Illinois police triangles, and many more? Not there!

So, in his 518-page book claiming to be “the inside story” of the US government’s response to UFOs, Garrett Graff apparently fails to even mention UFO activity at nuclear missile sites, let alone discuss it at length—and yet this was the guy chosen by Duchovny’s producers to hold forth on the tremendously important incident at Malmstrom’s Oscar Flight in March 1967.

As for Duchovny himself, despite his UFO-sleuth role on The X Files, the actor is a well-known skeptic on The Phenomenon. Indeed, during the 1990s, when the show was a runaway hit, Duchovny gave several interviews in which he disappointed fans by pooh-poohing UFOs and the notion of a government cover-up of them. “It’s just a show!” he repeatedly exclaimed. I have tried to find examples of those interviews—which I clearly remember—to link to here, but have so far been unsuccessful. (And, candidly, I’m not going to waste any more time trying to locate them online.)

In any case, the producers of Duchovny’s new show need to do much better research for their UAP-related segments in the future, and begin utilizing better informed, less biased talking-heads.

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The U.S. Intelligence Community Monitors UFO Researchers’ Activities: (Redux)

Implemented by the CIA in 1953, the Practice Continues Today

"By the early-1980s, the involvement of the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA in the collection of UFO-related data had been firmly established."

(Originally published on Wednesday, July 31, 2013)

In 1973, when I began interviewing former/retired U.S. military personnel regarding their UFO experiences at nuclear weapons facilities, I didn’t give much thought to the possibility that the intelligence community would take an interest in my activities [ad]. At that point, the CIA’s “Robertson Panel” Report—which recommended surveillance of American UFO-research advocacy groups—was still classified. Indeed, as far as the public knew, the only component of the U.S. government responsible for UFO-related matters was the Air Force.

By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 3-30-25

However, that myth slowly faded away as classified documents began to be pried loose for public inspection via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). By the early-1980s, the involvement of the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA in the collection of UFO-related data had been firmly established.

My own naiveté regarding what I considered to be the remote possibility of covert surveillance of my own activities was shattered in early 1982, shortly after I first went out on the American college lecture circuit to report my findings. Those public programs resulted in media coverage by numerous newspapers, including the New York Times, as well as the Associated Press and United Press International.

Apparently, FBI also took notice.

In 2012, veteran UFO researcher and Freedom of Information requestor Larry W. Bryant sent me a letter he had received from the FBI—in response to an FOIA request on my behalf—in which the bureau acknowledged that their records indicated the existence of files on my UFO-related activities. However, according the letter, a search for those files was unsuccessful because they were supposedly “missing”. Neither Bryant nor I believe that to be the case.

The first indication I had that someone was monitoring my research activities came within months of my first national publicity. It was/is my practice to tape record my interviews with the military veterans—who have described observing UFOs maneuvering near or hovering over ICBM sites, nuclear weapons storage areas, or similar locations. Beginning in February 1982, after each and every telephone conversation with one of those individuals, recorded with their permission, it became clear that someone was tapping my phone.

After each interview, only moments after hanging-up, I received a mysterious call from someone who said nothing, even though I could hear background noises, who then hung-up after 30 seconds or so. I stress that this odd pattern only occurred after I had spoken with this or that veteran, who was divulging dramatic information about one nukes-related UFO incident or another. It never happened after one of my calls to my family or friends, or at any other time. The pattern continued for several months.

Obviously, someone was attempting to intimidate me or, at the very least, was just letting me know that they were aware of who I was talking to. As I have repeatedly said over the years, I guess I was too stupid to be scared because I continued with my efforts to learn what the U.S. government was hiding from the public, relating to UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites.

I now have more than 140 U.S. military veterans on-the-record—I just spoke with a new source earlier today, a former Minuteman missile Electro-Mechanical Technician who sighted a UFO at Minot AFB in 1968—and I am happy to report that the FBI has never contacted any of those guys. In other words, regardless of who was tapping my phone, there were no repercussions for the persons who had agreed to speak with me. And, to date, no one has ever shown up at my door either.

That said, in one recent case, someone did learn about my telephone and email communications with a retired Air Force missile targeting technician who had made a few inquiries on my behalf, relating to a widely-publicized missile communications-disruption incident at F.E. Warren AFB, in Wyoming, on October 23, 2010.

That individual was in touch with a few of the active duty missile maintenance personnel who had responded to the problem, during which 50 ICBMs became temporarily unavailable because the base could not communicate with the launch officers who controlled them. Officially, the disruption had lasted 59 minutes and was caused by an improperly-replaced computer card in a weapons-control processor.

However, what my retired Air Force contact learned about the incident, from the missile maintenance techs who had responded to it, was much different: The event involved an intermittent communications disruption that actually lasted more than a day, not a mere 59 minutes, as the Air Force claims.

More importantly, several independent maintenance teams returned to the base reporting their sighting of a huge, cigar-shaped object in the sky above the missile field. My contact was told that the entire missile maintenance squadron had been unexpectedly assembled and admonished by its commander not to speak about “the things they may or may not have seen” in the sky. Clearly, the aerial object was not a blimp.

Unfortunately, I was later informed by my contact that two of those missile technicians, upon retiring in June 2011, were informed by their superiors that a “flag” had been placed in their Air Force service records, relating to their unauthorized disclosures about the incident. Obviously, someone had been monitoring their emailed conversations with my go-between, who later forwarded their comments to me. This development meant that the two men would have difficulty finding work in the aerospace field after leaving the service.

I of course felt very badly about this development, even though my contact has said that the two individuals had been fully informed that he was passing information on to me about an apparent UFO maneuvering above F.E. Warren’s nuclear missiles during the communications-disruption incident.

In this type of situation—where active duty Air Force personnel leak information about UFOs near nuclear weapons sites to outsiders—the Pentagon becomes trapped by its own deceptive policy of claiming that UFOs pose no threat to U.S. national security. (It was this official stance—UFOs, even if they exist, are not a threat—that was used to justify the closure of the Air Force’s UFO study, Project Blue Book, in 1969.)

The two individuals who reported multiple sightings of the huge cigar-shaped craft by missile maintenance teams at F.E. Warren AFB in October 2010—at a time when 50 ICBMs were effectively offline—cannot be prosecuted for divulging classified information because, among other repercussions, the Air Force higher-ups would have to openly admit that they took the UFO reports seriously and went so far as to admonish an entire missile squadron not to talk about the incident.

In short, any open prosecution of the two men would risk turning a media spotlight on the whole affair, thereby raising public awareness about the true nature of the event—something the Pentagon definitely does not want to happen.

And so the game goes on. The Air Force continues to claim that UFOs pose no risk to U.S. national security. Meanwhile, veterans slowly but surely come forward to report UFOs at various nuclear missile bases—as far back as 1962 and as recently as 2010—which often appeared just as some of America’s nuclear missiles mysteriously malfunctioned. Maybe, someday, the public will be let in on the truth.

Last week, Larry Bryant sent me a letter he had composed on my behalf, directed to the National Security Agency (NSA), asking that any and all NSA files containing information regarding my UFO-related activities to be released to me, pursuant to requirements stipulated in the federal law known as the Privacy Act. That missive has been inserted below.

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I suspect that, after a lengthy runaround, I will be told by NSA that no such files exist. Or, perhaps, those files will be discovered to be “missing” just like the FBI files on my research activities. Regardless, the agency certainly will not be candid with me, no matter what the facts are.

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See Also:

	US Navy Caught Monitoring UFO Web-Sites
	The NSA's UFO Investigations Unearthed (Redux)
	CIA Has Conducted Multiple UFO Crash Retrieval Missions, Whistleblowers Reveal

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