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🧭 Topic overview · 12 min readNuclear & missile sites (topic)This text is about reported UFO and unidentified anomalous phenomena sightings and incidents at nuclear weapons sites, missile bases, and laboratories between 1947 and 2022. While researchers like Robert Hastings argue that these events show a link between UF…
🛸 Case · 9 min readMalmstrom missile incidentsThe Malmstrom missile incidents involve the simultaneous shutdown of ten Minuteman nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana on March 16, 1967. Former launch officer Robert Salas later claimed that UFOs were seen near the missile sites during th…
🛸 Case · 10 min readMinot Air Force Base UFO incidentThe Minot Air Force Base UFO incident occurred in the early hours of October 24, 1968, in North Dakota, involving Minot Air Force Base and its surrounding nuclear missile field. Sixteen ground observers and the crew of a B-52H bomber reported witnessing a lar…🗓️ Event · 7 min readF.E. Warren missile site sightings (1965)Between July 31 and August 2, 1965, military personnel and civilians reported numerous unidentified silent objects and lights over F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, its surrounding missile sites, and a nearby depot in Nebraska.
🗓️ Event · 6 min readPantex nuclear plant sightings (1957)On November 7, 1957, guards and a highway patrol officer at the Pantex Atomic Energy Commission plant near Amarillo, Texas, reported bright, flashing objects hovering over the nuclear facility. The objects were never identified, and neither the Atomic Energy …
🗓️ Event · 7 min readIndian Point nuclear plant sighting (1984)In June and July 1984, security guards and other witnesses at the Indian Point nuclear power complex in Buchanan, New York, reportedly observed a large, boomerang-shaped object hovering near a reactor. The sightings were documented by researcher Philip Imbrog…More collections
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