UFOs and Nukes press conference
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| Date | 27 September 2010 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Nuclear & missile sites (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Robert Hastings, Robert Salas, Charles Halt |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 171 |
| Year | 2010 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2010 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 13 |
On 27 September 2010 researcher Robert Hastings and former missile officer Robert Salas held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., at which former U.S. Air Force personnel described UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites from the 1960s onward. CNN streamed the event live, and it helped establish the "UFOs and nukes" theme in later debate.[1][2]
Speakers
Hastings, an Albuquerque-based researcher and author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, presented six former Air Force personnel. They included:[1][2][3] - Robert Salas, a former captain at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, who said that in March 1967 ten Minuteman missiles he was overseeing suddenly became inoperative while base security reported a red glowing object in the sky; - Robert Jamison, a retired nuclear missile targeting officer, who said he had several times restarted missiles shut down after UFOs were sighted nearby; - Charles Halt, a retired colonel and deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters in England, who described the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, including ground indentations, broken branches and low-level radiation; - Bruce Fenstermacher, a former Minuteman launch officer, who described an incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.
Claims
Hastings said more than 120 former military personnel had told him of UFOs near nuclear weapons storage and test sites. He said most incidents involved only surveillance, but that in a few cases numbers of missiles malfunctioned at once while security police saw craft hovering nearby. He described the incidents as a sign to Washington and Moscow that "we are playing with fire".[2][3][4]
Response
News coverage recalled that the Pentagon had said in 1997 that it could not substantiate the existence of UFOs. The Air Force has said it has no evidence of UFOs interfering with nuclear weapons, and its 1967 report on the Malmstrom shutdown described UFO rumours there as "disproven".[2][5]
Legacy
The press conference drew wide coverage, and the theme of UFOs at nuclear sites was later taken up in congressional discussion.[1][2]
People and topics
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Robert Hastings — Researcher who has collected accounts of UFOs at nuclear weapons sites, author of UFOs and Nukes.
- Robert Salas — Former Minuteman officer who described the 1967 Malmstrom incident.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Malmstrom Air Force Base — A Montana Minuteman missile base linked to UFO reports.
- F.E. Warren Air Force Base — A Wyoming Minuteman missile base linked to UFO reports.
- Charles Halt — Deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters during the Rendlesham Forest incident.
- Rendlesham Forest — The English forest where U.S. airmen reported UFOs in December 1980.
- Rendlesham Forest incident — Reports of lights and a craft near RAF Bentwaters in December 1980.
- Malmstrom missile incidents — The 1967 shutdowns of Minuteman missiles at Malmstrom AFB linked to UFO reports.
On the Timeline
- Underwater Tic Tac near Haiti (January 2010) — A Navy sailor sees a Tic Tac-shaped object under the water near Haiti.
- F.E. Warren missile communications outage (2010) (23-24 October 2010) — F.E. Warren AFB personnel see a cigar-shaped UAP; 50 Minuteman missiles briefly lose contact.
See every 2010 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "UFOs visited nuclear weapons sites, former Air Force officers say", History News Network (Sep 2010) · historynewsnetwork.org · archived copy
- "Ex-Air Force personnel: UFOs deactivated nukes", CBS News (Sep 2010) · cbsnews.com · archived copy
- Robert Hastings, "Yet another nuclear missile launch officer talks about UFOs at F.E. Warren AFB" · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- "U.S. nuclear weapons have been compromised by unidentified aerial objects", PR Newswire (Sep 2010) · prnewswire.com · archived copy
- Malmstrom UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- 579th Strategic Missile Squadron Atlas F sites, Walker AFB · atlasmissilesilo.com · archived copy
- Ex-Air Force personnel: UFOs deactivated nukes — CBS News (2010) · cbsnews.com · archived copy
- Coverage of the 2010 UFOs and Nukes conference — Raw Story · rawstory.com · archived copy
- youtu.be · youtu.be · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Rendlesham Forest incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFO reports — The National Archives (UK) · nationalarchives.gov.uk · archived copy
- Malmstrom UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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