UFOs at Missile Base: AARO Deputy Director Misstates Facts

Below is an email that I recently sent to former and current members of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO): Title: ICBM Shutdowns at Malmstrom AFB in March 1967 From: ufohastings@aol.com To: [Redacted] Mon, Aug 4 at 8:34 AM

By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 8-6-2025

Due to my extensive research on UFO (UAP) activity at nuclear weapons sites, investigative journalist Marik von Rennenkampff asked me to review his findings regarding two major incidents, presented below, and to direct them to members of AARO, former and current.

—Robert Hastings

[-begin email from Marik von Rennenkampff-]

To Whom It May Concern,

In two recent interviews, former All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Deputy Director Timothy Phillips stated that AARO will address select reports of incidents involving UFOs and nuclear weapons in a forthcoming historical report. According to Phillips, AARO determined that a “cascading transformer failure” triggered by an “electrical storm”, and not UFO activity, led to the March 1967 shutdown of a 10-missile “flight” of nuclear-armed Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.

Conversely, a 6 June 2025 Wall Street Journal story, citing AARO officials, states that an unannounced Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) test caused the shutdown.

However, official unit histories of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing (SMW), other U.S. government documents, and witness testimony flatly contradict both explanations.

Phillips also stated that AARO “did not see any evidence of UAP or UFO activity in the journals or logs” of airfields and radar installations in the vicinity of Malmstrom Air Force Base during the incidents in question. This, too, is contradicted by official U.S. government documents, contemporaneous media reporting, and witness testimony.

Of note, there are two incidents in question:

(1) The shutdown of Echo Flight on 16 March 1967

(2) The shutdown of Oscar Flight on 24 March 1967

Significant official documentation exists in the public domain regarding the former, while none exists regarding the latter. This is likely due to the non-disclosure agreements that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) required missile launch officer 1st Lt. Robert Salas, his then-missile commander, 1st Lt. Frederick Meiwald, and, presumably, other witnesses to the 24 March 1967 incident to sign.

Beyond the March 1967 incidents at Malmstrom AFB, official U.S. government documents, contemporaneous media reporting, and witness testimony suggest that at least one other similar incident occurred at Minot AFB in 1966.

Malmstrom AFB:

Immediately after the 16 March 1967 shutdown of Echo Flight, testing began at Malmstrom to determine the cause of the incident. Official 341st SMW unit histories state that, following initial testing, “the investigation teams at Malmstrom were unable to determine a logical cause for the incident.”

Contrary to Phillips’ statements (and AARO’s apparent findings), the 341st SMW unit history spanning 1 January – 31 March 1967 states that, “After performing the tests, it was decided that commercial power switching operations were not the cause of the Echo shutdown.” (Emphasis added; see appendices for full sourcing).

Following additional testing at contractor facilities throughout mid-1967 and final testing again at Malmstrom, official 341st SMW unit histories, some written nearly a year after the incident, rule out an electrical fault or power issue. Instead, engineers and contractors speculated that an Electromagnetic Pulse may have caused the shutdown.

See:

“Due to the fact that the power tests were essentially negative, it appears that the cause of the Echo Flight problem was of the EMP or electrostatic nature.” (Emphasis added) (1 April – 30 June 1967 341st SMW Unit History; PDF p. 38)

“A primary cause always associated with Echo Flight Incident has been connected with some type of adverse power affect [sic]. Tests have been conducted time and time again to determine this, but have always lead [sic] to a negative result.” (Emphasis added) (1 July – 30 September 1967 341st SMW Unit History; PDF p. 51)

“One of the primary theorys [sic] of the Echo Flight incident was connected with some type of adverse power effect. All test [sic] conducted toward this end proved negative results. (Emphasis added) (1 October – 31 December 1967 341st SMW Unit History; PDF p. 77)

“OOAMA thought that the cause of the incident was of the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) noise or electrostatic nature.” (1 July – 30 September 1967 341st SMW Unit History; PDF p. 48)

“The EMP tests at Sierra-39 were considered to be the final series of tests in this area.” (1 October – 31 December 1967 341st SMW Unit History; PDF p. 77)

Additionally, as noted in the 1 January – 31 March 1967 341st SMW unit history, and contrary to Phillips’ assertion, “weather was ruled out as a contributing factor” in the 16 March Echo Flight shutdown. (See also: “Weather condition and Capsule crew have been eliminated as causes of the incident.”)

Similarly, according to the unit history, the Echo Flight shutdown occurred before (at “0845”) any reported transformer malfunctions. The first documented power failure occurred when a “7.2 KV transformer shorted in the line to site E-3 at 1450, 16 March 67.” (Emphasis added)

Beyond official unit histories, former Boeing engineer Robert Kaminski, who served as the Boeing in-house project engineer for the investigation of the Echo Flight shutdown, wrote in a 1 February 1997 letter (attached) to researcher James Klotz that, “After a week in the field the team returned and pooled their data. At the outset the team quickly noticed a lack of anything that would come close to explain why the event occurred. There were no significant failures, engineering data or findings that would explain how ten missiles were knocked off alert.” (Emphasis added)

According to Kaminski, “The use of backup power systems and other technical system circuit operational redundancy strongly suggests that this kind of event is virtually impossible once the system was up and running and on line with other LCF’s and LF’s interconnectivity. The only thing that even came close to a failure was that a transformer on a commercial power pole down the road from one of the sites was in the process of failing. It exhibited a[n] intermittent transient type of failure that could have generated noise spikes on the power line. This in itself could not have caused the problem at E-Flight. The problem was reported to the local power company who took action to replace the transformer. The team met with me to report their findings and it was decided that the final report would have nothing significant in it to explain what happened at E-Flight. In other words there was no technical explanation that could explain the event.” (Emphasis added)

Kaminski continued, “The team went off to do the report. Meanwhile I was contacted by our representative at OOAMA (Don Peterson) and told by him that the incident was reported as being a UFO event – That a UFO was seen by some Airmen over the LCF at the time E-Flight went down. Subsequently, we were notified a few days later, that a stop work order was on the way from OOAMA to stop any further effort on this project. We stopped. We were also told that we were not to submit the final engineering report. This was most unusual since all of our work required review by the customer and the submittal of a final Engineering report to OOAMA.” (Emphasis added)

Beyond Kaminski’s account, Robert Hastings, author of UFOs & Nukes, has documented witness accounts from missile launch control and targeting officers, as well as other persons involved in both the 16 March and 24 March incidents. These include Col Walt Figel (Echo Flight, missile launch deputy commander), T/Sgt N. Henry “Hank” Barlow (Echo Flight, electro-mechanical team), Col Frederick Meiwald (Oscar Flight, missile commander), Capt Robert Jamison (Oscar Flight, missile targeting officer), LtCol Dwynne Arneson (Officer-in-Charge, Malmstrom AFB communications center), and 1st Lt Robert Salas (Oscar Flight, missile launch deputy commander). All of them attest to UFO activity coincident with both the Echo and Oscar missile flight shutdowns. (Robert Hastings)

Moreover, contrary to Phillips’ claim that no UFO activity was reported during the incidents, extensive Project Blue Book files document such activity on 24 March 1967. A Telex from Malmstrom AFB to Wright-Patterson AFB and various Air Force offices in Washington, D.C., for example, states that “Between the hours of 2100 and 0400 MST numerous reports were received by Malmstrom AFB agencies of UFO sightings in the Great Falls, Montana area. Reports of a UFO landing near Belt, Montana were received from several sources including deputies of Cascade County Sheriff’s Office.” (National Archives)

Contemporaneous news reporting also contradicts Phillips’ assertion that no UFO activity was recorded at local airfields or radar stations. A 26 March 1967 Great Falls Tribune article on the reported UFO landing near Belt, MT, titled “UFO Breaks Monotony of Run,” states that “Airmen at Malmstrom Air Force Base reported sighting a UFO about 5 to 10 miles northeast of the base at 3:30 a.m. Saturday. FAA radar picked up the object at 3:42 a.m. to the northwest and reported it was off the radar at 4:26 a.m.” (Emphasis added) (Newspapers.com)

For additional details, see: “Malmstrom Air Force Base Picks Up UFO on Radar; Sabotage Alert Team Located Another UFO Directly Over The Base,” 25 March 1967, Great Falls Leader (The UFO Chronicles)

In short, a significant amount of official U.S. government documentation, contemporaneous media reporting, and witness testimony directly contradicts Phillips’ statements (and, apparently, AARO’s conclusions) regarding the 1967 Malmstrom AFB incidents.

Minot Air Force Base 1966:

Recommend AARO review the following:

19 August 1966: U.S. Border Patrol Officer Donald Flickinger observes a disk-shaped UFO at close range along the western edge of Minot AFB’s Mike missile flight. Flickinger draws detailed sketches (See: National Archives). Note, also, static interference with Flickinger’s radio. (National Archives; Saturday Evening Post; Minot Daily News)

25 August 1966: Minot Air Force Base tracks two UFOs over Mike missile flight. Per official U.S. government documentation, missile commander “on duty at Missile Site (MIKE Flt)… indicated that radio transmission was being interrupted by static, this static was accompanied by the UFO coming close to the missile site (MIKE Flt). When UFO climbed, static stopped.”

Additionally: “Strike team reported UFO descending, checked with Radar Site they also verified this. The UFO then began to swoop and dive. It then appeared to land 10 to 15 miles South of MIKE 6. ‘MIKE 6’ missile site control sent a strike team to check. When the team was about 10 miles from the landing sight [sic], static disrupted radio contact with them [emphasis original]… Another UFO was visually sighted and confirmed by radar. The one that was first sighted passed beneath the second. Radar also confirmed this.” (Saturday Evening Post; Minot Daily News; Robert Hastings)

25 September 1966: Former Minot Air Force Base missile launch control officer Capt. David Schindele arrives at November Flight (adjacent to Mike Flight) Launch Control Facility to see that all 10 November Flight missiles are off-alert status following a close-range UFO incident the previous night. Per Schindele, Air Force OSI instructed him to never speak of the incident. (Schindele testimony)

Sincerely,

Marik von Rennenkampff

Appendix A: Tim Phillips Comments

“There was some work done with the national labs dealing with a cascading transformer failure at one of the missile ranges [Malmstrom]… The missile silos were actually connected to the commercial grid for power. They did have their critical power, they had their own generators but for cost-savings they were connected to the commercial grid; dual-power feeds. There was an electrical disturbance, there were some storms, and the filtering, the capacitors that would have shielded the critical systems in the missile silos from an energy surge coming through the commercial grid failed and actually took some of the missile silos down.” (Interview with Mick West, 17 June 2025)

“There’s been new stories about an EMP test that I was not privy to when I was still in the government. What I knew about was a report of a cascading transformer failure where there was [an] electrical storm and the silos were actually connected to the commercial power grid, however they did have their own generators and critical power and they would switch off to their own generators so power would not be interrupted. There was some electrical disturbance that actually defeated those filters, and the silos themselves were taken offline by a cascading transformer failure.” (Interview with John Michael Godier, 2 July 2025)

“There were also some reports of security personnel who were up above who, in some of the stories, they saw UFOs or things that they could not understand. We were able to get logs at the various towers and we did not see any evidence of UAP or UFO activity in the journals and logs that AARO actually got to investigate.” (Interview with John Michael Godier, 2 July 2025)

Appendix B: Excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing Unit Histories

1 January – 31 March 1967:

“On 16 March 1967 at 0845, all sites in Echo (E) Flight, Malmstrom AFB, shutdown with No-Go Indication of Channels 9 and 12 on Voice Reporting Signal Assemble (VRSA). (PDF p. 7)

“The initial time of the incident, decided by the crew, could be no more than two or three minutes earlier than the official log of 0845.” (PDF p. 11)

“Weather was ruled out as a contributing factor in the incident.” (PDF p. 14)

“Rumors of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) around the area of Echo Flight during the time of the fault were disproven.” (PDF p. 14)

“The power outage that affected E-1 at 1453 on 16 March 67, occurred on the 7.2/12.5 kilo volts (KV) transmission line from Winifred Substation.” (PDF p. 16)

“Weather condition and Capsule crew have been eliminated as causes of the incident.” (PDF p. 16)

“A 7.2 KV transformer shorted in the line to site E-3 at 1450, 16 March 67.” (PDF p. 20)

“On 28 March 67, the 341st SMW in conjunction with the Montana Power Company conducted a switching test on the 50 KV high voltage line between the Harlowton and Glengarry substations. The test was performed at the request of OOAMA/OONE as a part of the initial Echo Flight incident investigation performed at Malmstrom. The intent of the test was to verify correlation, if possible, between high voltage switching and launch facility shutdown or other launch facility faults.” (PDF p. 20)

“After performing the tests, it was decided that commercial power switching operations were not the cause of the Echo shutdown.” (PDF p. 21)

“The investigation teams at Malmstrom, were unable to determine a logical cause for the incident.” (PDF p. 21)

1 April – 30 June 1967:

“A test plan was reviewed to accomplish the transformer failure simulation tests at Malmstrom. Boeing had co-ordinated with the power company, and had received their approval for the tests.” (PDF p. 35)

“The power tests were accomplished at Malmstrom AFB during the week of 15 May 67… Information on the Sensitive Information Network lines and on the commercial primary power lines showed no significant noise propagation as a result of simulating the transformer failure.” (PDF p. 36)

“Due to the fact that the power tests were essentially negative, it appears that the cause of the Echo Flight problem was of the EMP or electrostatic nature.” (PDF p. 38)

1 July – 30 September 1967:

“OOAMA thought that the cause of the incident was of the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) noise or electrostatic nature.” (PDF p. 48)

“A primary cause always associated with Echo Flight Incident has been connected with some type of adverse power affect [sic]. Tests have been conducted time and time again to determine this, but have always lead [sic] to a negative result.” (PDF p. 51)

“On 28 September 1967, Sierra 39, 564th SMS, was depostured and turned over to Boeing for EMP tests.” (PDF p. 51)

1 October – 31 December 1967:

“In direct relation to the Echo Flight incident as covered in the April – June 1967 History of the 341st SMW was the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) testing conducted throughout the quarter.” (PDF p. 76)

“One of the primary theorys [sic] of the Echo Flight incident was connected with some type of adverse power effect. All test [sic] conducted toward this end proved negative results. The EMP tests at Sierra-39 were considered to be the final series of tests in this area.” (PDF p. 77)

Appendix C: Power Distribution to Echo, Delta, Mike, Oscar Flights

Launch Facilities (LFs) E-2-6, E-9-11 Supplied by Different Substations than E-7, E-8

(PDF p. 17)

Kaminski To Klotz Letter 2-1-1997

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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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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

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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.

[...]

... 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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30 Nuclear Missiles Disabled by UFOs, Says Former USAF Captain

"'Within a span of six months, we lost 30 nuclear missiles to UFOs,' said Salas, who provided an air force document declassified in 1996 regarding the March 16 incident at Malmstrom, east of Great Falls."

On the night of March 24, 1967, Robert Salas was a 26-year-old U.S. Air Force lieutenant cocooned 20 metres below the Montana prairie overseeing weaponry that could obliterate millions.

By Bill Kaufmann calgaryherald.com 3-26-2023

Instead, without any warning, Salas said his menacing cluster of 10 Minutemen 1 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) burrowed beneath the Malmstrom Air Force base a five-hour drive southeast of Calgary seemed to be prey.

[...]

Just moments before the systems failure, a non-commissioned security officer on the surface made a series of increasingly frenzied phone calls to Salas, describing an oval-shaped form within pulsating, glowing orange-red lights hovering over the installation.

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FADED GIANT: 1967 Oscar Flight UFO Incident – Robert Salas | INTERVIEW

Faded Giant is a military term used for event involving a nuclear reactor or radiological accident. It is also the title of Robert Salas’ book which explores UFO incident when Minuteman I

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missiles of Oscar Flight, assigned to Malmstrom AFB MT, were disabled. On March 24, 1967 on-site security guards reported a large UFO which hovered above the front gate to the Oscar Launch Control Facility. Captain Robert Salas (then First Lieutenant) was the Deputy Crew Commander on duty during that incident. Mr. Salas visited Cork on October 5, 2017 where I arranged a meeting with him. After I briefed him about current releases in relation to the UFO incidents of 172 Aviation Regiment (Yugoslav Air Force) from January 1975, he was kind enough to grant me 1-hour interview. We discussed his direct involvement in the Oscar Flight incident, overall implications, and his broad views about the phenomena. It was an honor to speak with Mr. Salas last October and our discussion is now finally available in public domain.

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March 24, 1967 - Flight Security Controller, Oscar Flight, near Roy, Montana to Lt. Robert Salas, Deputy Missile Crew Commander - “Sir, we are seeing some strange lights flying over the LCF. They are traveling very fast across the sky, stopping on a dime and reversing course, making ninety-degree turns, and making no engine noise. I don’t think they are aircraft.” This was the report I remember receiving from my topside

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guard over fifty-one years ago. Anyone who has ever flown a high-speed aircraft or has familiarity aircraft of any type would find this report incredible. However, very similar observations have now been reported many times by credible witnesses. We need to move on from being awed by the “lights in the sky” reflex. It may be time to try and attempt a scientific explanation of the observable flight characteristics of UFOs.

Jean-Pierre Petit

Recently I spent some time with Jean-Pierre Petit at his home in France. For decades he has been a preeminent researcher in Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) - an advanced concept for hypersonic flight. He has also researched and published many papers and video on a new Cosmology called Janus. Of late, he published a book titled, “Science from Beyond,” coauthored by Jean-Claude Bourret, where he proposes explanations of observed UFO flight characteristics.

We discussed his theories at length and I came away convinced they should, at least, be considered. I will attempt to briefly summarize these theories but be advised they involve some radical and controversial concepts and more detailed explanations can be found in Petit’s papers and videos.

Hypersonic flight without sound waves, shock waves or turbulent wake by use of Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flow:

In 1976 it was shown that, through a full MHD control of the airflow is possible. The creation of shock waves comes from the Mach line compression. In hypersonic regimes the rise of the temperature at the stagnation point is extreme. A Lorentz force (the force that is exerted by a magnetic field on a moving electric charge.) may ensure a complete control of the Mach lines pattern, resulting in avoidance of Mach line compression, so that shock waves do not appear. This could explain the common observation that UFOs don’t produce shock waves and appear to have some sort of ionized gas surround the structure of the craft.

The possibility of interstellar travel in a relatively short time:

If we confine our cosmological model to the Einstein’s schema, based on a single field equation, the limit of the speed of light brings a severe limit to the velocity we can attain during interstellar flight. The present mainstream model includes the action of cold Dark Matter and a cosmological constant, which the mainstream model adds to Einstein’s equations and which is supposed to represent an unknown repellent property in the cosmos. This model is far from satisfactory, carrying two unknown components, dark matter and dark energy, whose nature remains perfectly unknown.

In 1967, Nobel Prize winner A. Sakharov proposed a model of two “twin universes” with opposite arrows of time. The dynamic group theory shows that this time-inversion is equivalent to the inversion of the energy of particles and of their mass.

This suggests a new cosmic model, based on two coupled field equations (the Einstein’s equation being one of the two) that overcomes the problem of dark matter/energy and provides the following interaction schema:

- Masses with same sign mutually attract
- Masses with opposite signs mutually repel

In general this model fits very well the available observational data. For example, it takes into account the acceleration of the expansion of the universe, as based of the data from 740 distant supernovae. The negative mass (with mc2 < 0) emits negative energy photons, which cannot be captured by our telescopes, so that it is invisible to us.

Due to initial instability, the two coupled systems experience different evolutions, which goes with different sets of physical constants. [the speed of light becomes variable, not constant]. When the gravitational instability occurs the dominant negative mass gives the first structures because its time is shorter. It forms a set of spheroidal clusters, which repel positive mass in the remnant space, giving its lacunar structure with big voids. When galaxies form, negative mass invades space between them. Its repellent effect confines them. As recently shown, when a galaxy is surrounded by repellent negative mass, it flattens its rotation curve. The negative lensing effect explains the observed values, challenging the classical explanation of a dark matter halo. Dynamical friction of the galaxy with its surrounding negative matter environment explains their spiral structure. When light emitted by distant galaxies encounters a negative mass cluster the subsequent negative lensing reduces their apparent magnitude and make them appear as dwarves, which corresponds to observation.

Thanks to Sakharov’s Dynamic group theory, it makes it possible to describe precisely this invisible content of the universe. It would be made of negative mass antiprotons, negative mass antineutrons, negative mass anti electrons, negative energy photons, and so on. It gives an alternative interpretation to the fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which reveals the ratio of the two space scale factors in the two entities. This shortens the distances if a craft can invert its mass, so that brings a new insight on the problem of interstellar travel. This goes with a higher speed of light in that second frame of reference c^(-)_/^/_c⁽⁺⁾ ≃ 10. If a craft can move at relativistic velocity the net gain for travel time is 1/1000. Interstellar travel then becomes possible.

How does the possibility of negative mass relate to avoiding high acceleration forces in our airspace?

The energy required for mass inversion could be much smaller than that derived from E = mc², where m is the mass of the craft. Concentrating energy in the surrounding space, possibly through neutronic metastable states, could produce the required conversion.

The following shows how a UFO craft could get transferred in the negative frame of reference:

Then no ‘propulsion system’ is necessary. Quantum effects and energy conservation requirement make it that when UFOs reverse their mass they gain relativistic velocity. The concept of acceleration does not make sense any longer. To be back in the original positive mass frame a new mass inversion stops them immediately. In this way, combining both aerial displacement and mass inversions process UFOs can achieve sharp (90 degree) turns that are impossible in the frame of a classical physics.

In many ways, the different flight characteristics of observations of these unknown craft challenge us. They can move in the air at hypersonic velocity without noise or producing shock waves. They can cruise over interstellar distances. They can disappear in front of our eyes. They execute turns that oppose the laws of classical mechanics.

We are faced to two choices. Either we simply deny their existence and ignore the multitude of observations, or we admit they are real flying objects. Then, considering current improvements in aviation, it forces us to consider the most advanced fluid dynamic technique, MHD. Other aspects, which challenge classical General Relativity suggest a dramatically different paradigm, shifting from Einstein’s model to an extended model, such as the one described above.

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My Evidence: The Account of Minute-Man Missiles Being Disabled, While UFOs Hovered Over The Launch Facilities

Dr. Eric W. Davis, of NASA's Breakthrough Physics Propulsion Project, Discussed UFOs During Lecture | VIDEO

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By Stanton T. Friedman
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UFO Sighting Over Nuclear Missile Silo Still Resonates



It’s been nearly 50 years since Robert Salas was a young missileer stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base and, on a mid-March night in a silo near Roy, became an unwitting witness to history.

By Scott Mansch Great Falls Tribune 2-26-17

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“They told me about strange lights in the sky,” Robert says. “I thought they were pulling my leg.”

About 10 minutes later the phone rang again.

“This time he was clearly frightened, extremely frightened,” Robert says. “He was looking right at the thing, a glowing red object, oval-shaped and some 40 feet in diameter, and it was hovering above the front gate.”

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The Echo and Oscar Flight Incidents: UFOs Disabled American ICBMs

My Evidence: The Account of Minute-Man Missiles Being Disabled, While UFOs Hovered Over The Launch Facilities

UFOs Did Shutdown Minuteman Missiles at Echo Flight and Oscar Flight at Malmstrom AFB in March 1967

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Skeptic Robert Sheaffer Solves Famous “UFO” Sighting Case: Nuclear Missile Guards Were Terrified by the Planet Mars

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By Robert Hastings
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2-1-14

     Or so the debunker claims. Sheaffer’s latest attempt to explain away all UFO sightings as misidentifications of man-made aircraft or astronomical objects, including bright planets, focuses on the now-well-known Oscar Flight case at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, on March 24, 1967. That incident involved the mechanical failure of several Minuteman-I nuclear missiles occurring just as a large, glowing, disc-shaped object briefly hovered above the entrance to the Oscar Flight Launch Control Facility—according to one of the U.S. Air Force launch officers on alert that night.

Former U.S. Air Force Captain Robert Salas has stated that Air Force security police at the site were panicked by the UFO’s looming presence—the head guard estimated the object’s diameter at 30 to 40-feet—and one of them was physically injured during the encounter.

Decades later, in 1996, Salas finally located and telephoned the other launch officer who had been on alert during the incident, retired Colonel Frederick Meiwald, and tape recorded the conversation. An excerpt:

RS: I remember receiving a call first and the security guard said, ‘I’ve seen some UFOs up here flying around,’ and I said, ‘Ah, forget it.’ I didn’t believe him. I kinda hung up on him. And then, a little while later—I don’t know how long it was, maybe five, ten minutes, maybe longer—[he] called back and the guy sounded real scared and said there was [a UFO] just outside the front gate. And he also said, I recall, that one of the other guards had gotten injured in some way. I don’t think it was from the UFO; I think it was from trying to climb the fence or something like that. And then I hung up, or he hung up because he had to go—his guard got injured—and then I, I believe you were either getting up or I woke you up—and then some of our missiles started shutting down. Is that right?

FM: Uh huh.

RS: Is that about how you remember it?

FM: Right. We had security alarms and—

RS: Yeah.

FM: —and problems at a couple of the [missile] sites.

RS: Yeah, okay, okay. Well, I’m sure glad I found you. [Were there] any reports from the field about UFOs?

FM: I remember that two guards that we had [sent] out to one of the sites and finally got back scared to death and we had to relieve them of duty.

RS: Yeah. [Pause] Oh, you mean our guards?!

FM: Yeah.

RS: Oh, I [had forgotten] that.

FM: Yeah, a roving patrol type—

RS: Oh, I see—

FM: —and had gone out to one of the sites, the LFs, and on the way back they lost radio contact and we ended up having to send them back to the base early—I’m not sure what happened but I don’t think they ever returned to guard duty.

On May 6, 2011, an obviously uneasy Colonel Meiwald reluctantly elaborated on his earlier remarks to Salas during a taped telephone conversation with me, excerpted here:

FM: I know that Bob [Salas] has relayed what happened at Oscar very accurately...I think it would be best if I said no more.

RH: Okay. But you will at least confirm that there were reports from the Security Alert Team of a UFO at the LF they were out at, is that correct?

FM: Yes!

RH: Okay, and it was quite clear that object was saucer-shaped—or do you recall what the description was, other than it being a UFO or a flying saucer? Do you have any sense of what they reported to you?

FM: All I remember is a bright object; a bright, flying object at low-level. Beyond that, I can’t say.

RH: But they were terribly frightened by their experience?

FM: They were upset and were directed to come back to the LCF.

RH: Okay, and I believe you said in your letter [to Salas dated October 1, 1996] that they were so frightened that they actually had to go [back to Malmstrom] early; they couldn’t complete—

FM: Well, one man I know was directed to go back to the base, at least one of them was—

RH: Okay, and—

FM: —Whether or not they flew a special helicopter out there to get him or not, I don’t recall that, but I know that he did go back to the base a very upset individual.

Meiwald readily admitted to me that he had been on a rest break when the first UFO appeared at the launch control facility and the missiles began malfunctioning. However, once Salas woke him up, he was completely aware of, and involved in, subsequent events—including being sworn to secrecy about the incident:

RH: Okay. Do you remember, well, you’re willing to confirm, as Bob has said, that your debriefing was in the presence of an [Office of Special Investigations] agent? Is that correct?

FM: That did take place.

RH: And you were required to sign non-disclosure statements about the incident?

FM: Right.

In summary, the two officers who were on alert in the underground Oscar Flight Launch Control Center have confirmed a bona fide UFO-presence during the dramatic events occurring that night, as well as the terrified reaction of a number of security guards who actually saw the objects in the sky. Of course, none of these facts will sway debunker Robert Sheaffer whose observation-of-Mars hypothesis is offered as the most likely explanation for the incident.

Sheaffer writes, “A bright, glowing orange UFO is allegedly seen over the base by security men, and then the Oscar Flight missiles were said to start going off-line, one by one. So let's examine that specific claim. Guards reported seeing a bright glowing orange object in the sky...Whenever witnesses report a bright object in the sky that is red or orange, the first thing to check is whether Mars might have been the culprit. Mars only appears conspicuously bright from earth for a period of a few months every two years. Sure enough, this was one of those times. Mars was only about 3 weeks away from its opposition of April 15, 1967, when it would be directly opposite the sun, and at its maximum brightness until the next opposition 26 months later. It would rise a few hours after sunset, and remain in the sky the rest of the night. The guards were very likely looking at Mars.”

One can recreate the sky on the night of March 24/25, 1967 at www.fourmilab.ch. To see the rising of Mars above the SE horizon, input the latitude and longitude of the Oscar Flight Launch Control Facility, located just east of Roy, Montana (47-degrees N and 109-degrees W will be close enough) and set the Universal Time to 1967-03-25 4:38:00 (which is 1967-03-24 9:38:00 p.m. Local Time).

As the Earth rotated that night, the planet moved into the southern sky and then the southwestern sky before setting below the SW horizon around 1967-03-25 13:38:00 UT (or 6:38 a.m. Local).

In short, Mars traveled from the southeastern to the southern to the southwestern sky that night. Unfortunately for Sheaffer’s Mars-as-UFO theory, the guard who excitedly reported the large, glowing disc-shaped object to Salas on the telephone had to be looking NNW, which is where the launch control facility’s front gate was, relative to his assigned post in the Launch Control Support Building. Given that Mars was never visible in the northern sky at any time that night, it could not possibly account for the UFO sighting, despite Sheaffer’s claims to the contrary.

Oscar Flight Launch Control Facility, out side of Roy, Montana. (Click image to enlarge)

Launch Control Facility (LCF)_with security post denoted. (Click image to enlarge)

Once again, the frightened guard, who was screaming into the phone, had told Salas that the UFO was hovering just beyond the gate. Later, after the object left, he told Salas that it was 30 to 40-feet in diameter and that one of the guards was so terrified by its presence that he had apparently injured himself while climbing the barb-wire-topped security fence to get away.

I don’t plan to discuss at length the absurd notion that Mars, or any other planet, even at its brightest, could be mistaken for a 30 to 40-foot hovering disc-shaped object. Sheaffer and his ilk have always been able to engage in such reality-detached mental gymnastics—given their need to explain away the UFO phenomenon as misidentified prosaic objects at any cost—and nothing I can say will ever change that.

But what about the other UFO that was sighted by the frightened Security Alert Team as it hovered near one of the missile silos later that night? Could Mars have been the culprit in that instance, at least in the hopelessly biased mind of Sheaffer and those who think like him?

Given that Col. Meiwald has described the missile silo where the second UFO was observed as being “located just east of Highway 19”, only two sites qualify: Oscar-04 and Oscar-06. To travel between the launch control facility and either of these sites the two-man team would have first gone north on the LCF’s access road, then east on Route 191 until it intersected with Route 19. Oscar-04 is located just east of that junction, meaning that if the reported UFO was at that site, the panicky men would have been looking nearly due East when they were observing it.

But according to the astronomical data cited above, Mars was not in the Eastern sky at any time that night. And, even if it had been, the likelihood that the Red Planet would have thrown the security team into a panic, requiring actual hospitalization for one of the guards, is remote in the extreme. (Although Robert Sheaffer would probably argue otherwise.)

If, on the other hand, the object was above Oscar-06, the SAT team would have turned south onto Route 19 to reach it and the UFO would have appeared SSE of their position as they approached the launch facility. Hey, in this case, Mars may have actually appeared somewhere in the sky above the silo as they travelled toward it. But, again, the possibility that a bright planet was the cause of the team’s terror is highly unlikely, to say the least.

Significantly, Robert Sheaffer conveniently fails to mention is that another USAF veteran, former Captain Robert Jamison has substantiated Salas’ testimony regarding a UFO-related, full-flight shutdown at Oscar Flight. (Although Meiwald later recalled 6-8 missiles going off alert status, Salas has long said that he remembered all ten going down. In light of Jamison’s input, it appears that he was correct on this point.)

At the time of the incident, Jamison had been a Minuteman targeting officer who, along with other Combat Targeting Team members, was involved in retargeting the stricken missiles at Oscar Flight. He has said, repeatedly and on-camera, that his briefers told him and the other targeters that “UFOs had been messing with the missiles” before they left the base. Jamison provided all of this information to me during an interview in 1992, some three years before Salas went public with his own revelations.

Actually, as difficult as it will be for some people to accept, the event at Oscar Flight was not all that unusual. Thousands of declassified U.S. government documents refer to UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites—including laboratories, storage depots, test and deployment sites—extending back to December 1948. A small cross-section of those U.S. Air Force, FBI and CIA files may be reviewed at www.ufohastings.com/documents.

Over the past 41 years, I have located and interviewed more than 140 U.S. military veterans who were directly or indirectly involved in one or more of those cases, including incidents at nuclear missile sites where the ICBMs mysteriously malfunctioned just as a disc-shaped aerial craft hovered near them. Affidavits issued by some of those witnesses—including former Minuteman missile launch and targeting officers—are available at the link above.

On September 27, 2010, seven of the veterans discussed a few of these cases at the UFOs and Nukes press conference in Washington D.C., which CNN streamed live. (See below). The event was also covered, mostly favorably, by mainstream media all over the globe.

UFO debunkers have for years attempted to dismiss the reality of these incidents, often claiming that my book and articles on the subject merely present my “theory” about UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites. Actually, all I have done is to accurately present the contents of the now-publicly-available documents and the tape recorded testimony of the military witnesses who were involved, all of which demonstrate—beyond a reasonable doubt—a pattern of ongoing UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites over the past six decades.

Robert Sheaffer cites other “evidence” in his article to support the claim that there was no UFO activity at Oscar Flight by quoting former USAF missileer and skeptic Tim Hebert. Even though Hebert was not present for the incident, or any of the other UFO events discussed by my many ex-missileer sources, he has concluded that the UFO-Nukes Connection is non-existent and that all of his former Air Force colleagues who have publicly discussed dramatic UFO incursions at one Strategic Air Command base or another during the Cold War are, at best, misguided.

Hebert also maintains that I have “used” these witnesses for my own allegedly nefarious purposes. I won’t repeat here what those former missileers have said about Hebert to me in confidence, but I recently “used” seven of those ex-military sources again, when I interviewed them for the documentary film I am currently producing. As I have previously mentioned in various articles, all of these gentlemen have repeatedly and profusely thanked me over the years for my dogged efforts to get the facts out, despite the resistance I have encountered in some quarters.

To support his skeptical argument regarding the Oscar Flight incident, Hebert cites the 341st Missile Wing’s official history, which makes no mention of it, as if the ICBM shutdown event never happened. However, both officers on alert that night have said that they were told by an OSI agent that their event was classified Secret. Still-classified material would never appear in a wing history. Hebert knows this, or should know it, so his distorted commentary is most curious. Given that this problematic fact doesn’t mesh with his own skeptical thesis, he has apparently decided to ignore it.

Sheaffer also cites as evidence the demonstrably false pronouncements of James Carlson, the notorious, wild-eyed debunker who has made it a point of calling me and Bob Salas “liars and frauds” hundreds of times in his blog posts. Carlson’s father, Eric, was at another missile flight, Echo, when those missiles shut down, on March 16, 1967, eight days prior to the Oscar Flight incident. James can’t abide the fact that Salas and I have his father’s former missile commander, retired Col. Walter Figel, admitting on audio tape that there was indeed a UFO reported to him during that incident.

Although Carlson incessantly misrepresents—that is, lies about—what Figel has said regarding the Echo Flight case, one may listen to Figel’s comments to me on the matter—including the serious nature of the initial sighting report, the corroboration of the presence of “a large, round object” hovering over an Echo missile silo by security teams sent out to assess the situation, and the debriefing that occurred afterwards when Figel and James’ father were told never to discuss the incident—all of which Robert Sheaffer carefully avoids mentioning in his article. A brief excerpt follows here:

RH: What was the demeanor of the guard you were talking to?

WF: Um, you know, I wouldn’t say panicked, or anything [like that]. I was thinking he was yanking my chain more than anything else.

RH:: But he seemed to be serious to you?

WF: He seemed to be serious and I wasn’t taking him seriously.

RH: Alright. If it was a large object, did he describe the shape of the object?

WF: He just said a large round object.

RH: Directly over the LF?

WF: Directly over the site.

When I telephoned the elder Carlson in October 2008, to discuss the incident, he denied knowing about any UFO reports at Echo Flight, something that elicited this response from Col. Figel when I brought it to his attention:

RH: Uh, did you discuss the report with Mr. Carlson—that you were being told that there was a UFO at one of the sites?

WF: Um, he could hear it, uh, I mean he was sitting right there, two feet away from me—

RH: So—

WF: Whatever I said, he would have heard.

Despite Eric Carlson’s now-untenable insistence that there were no reports of UFO activity at Echo that day, when I asked him why his son James is so clearly out-of-control when attacking me and Bob Salas, Eric candidly replied, “James has some problems”. Moreover, in another telephone conversation with a colleague of mine, also in October 2008, Eric expressed concern that James might “have a nervous breakdown”.

Indeed, a great many people have responded to James Carlson’s manic online rants about Echo and Oscar with astonishment, regardless of their position on UFOs. One of his strongest supporters once called him excitable, which is putting it mildly. Carlson’s behavior may be due to his epilepsy, a brain-related syndrome associated with abnormal psychological manifestations in many of its sufferers. (Google “Epilepsy and Mental Illness” to review scores of scientific papers on the subject).

Regardless, although Robert Sheaffer cites James Carlson as a reliable source of information on the Echo and Oscar Flight incidents, a careful review of Col. Walter Figel’s recorded comments about Echo and Col. Frederick Meiwald’s recorded comments about Oscar, will expose the utterly false nature of Carlson’s many claims.

In conclusion, Robert Sheaffer’s latest article will appeal to his usual audience—persons who have already decided that UFOs don’t exist and are unwilling to take the time to investigate the facts, in an objective manner, or to listen to the
testimony of witnesses directly involved in the most important cases, such as the ICBM-related incidents. No surprise there.

Meanwhile, I am happy to report, two documentary films on the subject of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites will be out before the end of the year, as will the German and Spanish editions of my book UFOs and Nukes (the Portuguese edition was published in Brazil last October). In short, efforts to educate people everywhere about the reality of the UFO phenomenon’s link to nuclear weapons are proceeding nicely, thank you.

See Also:

The Echo Flight ICBM Incident: Retired USAF Officer Confirms Receiving A UFO Report Just as the Missiles Failed

The Echo/Oscar Witch Hunt

My Evidence: The Account of Minute-Man Missiles Being Disabled, While UFOs Hovered Over The Launch Facilities

Telephonic Interview with Colonel Walter Figel (USAF Ret) of March 8, 2010 (Link 1)

Telephonic Interview with Colonel Walter Figel (USAF Ret) of January 8, 2009 (Link 2)

Telephonic Interview with Colonel Walter Figel (USAF Ret) of October 20, 2008 (Link 3)

VIDCAST: Former Boeing Engineer, Robert Kaminski Confirms UFO Activity at Echo Flight Missile Launch Control Facility in 1967

Malmstrom Air Force Base Picks Up UFO on Radar; "Sabotage Alert Team Located Another UFO Directly Over The Base"

UFO Lands Near Minuteman Missile Base; Affects Radio Transmissions - Defensive Measures Taken!

UFO Sightings at ICBM Sites and Nuclear Weapons Storage Areas

Air Force Staff Message: Malmstrom AFB Receives Multiple Reports of UFOs in The Great Falls, Montana Area

UFOS & NUKES | U.S. Air Force Fighters Chased UFOs at Malmstrom AFB in the 1960s and ‘70s

Whatever It Is The Air Force Must-Hunt For The Flying Saucer

UFOs & NUKES | Missile Shut Down at Malmstrom Confirmed By (Civilian) Veteran of Minuteman Program

UFOs & NUKES | UFOs Have Penetrated Restricted Air Space Over Nuclear Missile Sites; Jammed Vital Electronic Equipment & Eluded Fighter Aircraft

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