U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified

[fruhmenschen]

Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:44am EDT

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects
see link for full story
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS1669 ... RN20100915

Reuters
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15

Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles

Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 2010 -- Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality.

One of them, ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, was on duty during one missile disruption incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base and was ordered to never discuss it. Another participant, retired Col. Charles Halt, observed a disc-shaped object directing beams of light down into the RAF Bentwaters airbase in England and heard on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area. Both men will provide stunning details about these events, and reveal how the U.S. military responded.

[The Consul]

Has anyone read Hasting's book? This sounds interesting. Is some great truth about to be revealed, or is a new detergent being slipped into the wash?

[barracuda]

Salas relates the events of the spring of 1969:

Minuteman Missiles Shutdown
by Robert L. Salas

This incident happened almost thirty years ago. Until about two years ago, I had not given it much thought. In the spring of 1967 I was stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. My recollection of the incident was that, while on duty as a Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander (DMCCC) at a Minuteman Launch Control Facility (LCF) during the morning hours, I received a call from my NCO in charge of site security topside. He said that he and other guards had observed some unidentified flying objects in the vicinity. He said they had over flown the LCF a few times before he phoned. He could only distinguish them as "lights" at that time.

I did not take this report very seriously and simply told him to keep observing them and report back if he saw anything more significant. At the time, I believed the first call to be a joke. Five or ten minutes later, I received a second call from my security NCO. This time he was much more agitated and distraught. He stated that there was a UFO hovering just outside the front gate! He wanted to know what he should do. 1 don't recall what I said except to secure the fenced area. As we were talking, he said he had to go because one of the guards had been injured.

I immediately woke my commander who had been taking his rest period and started to relate the phone conversations. Within seconds, our missiles began shutung down from "Alert" status to "No-Go" status. I recalled that most, if not all, of our missiles had shut down in rapid succession. Normally, if a missile went off alert status, it was due to a power outage at a particular site and the site power generator would come on line and pick up the power load and the LF would come back on line. It was extremely rare for more than one missile to go off line for any length of time. In this case, none of our missiles came back on line. The problem was not lack of power; some signal had been sent to the missiles which caused them to go off alert.

After we reported this incident to the command post, I phoned my security guard to determine what had transpired topside. He informed me that the guard who had approached the UFO had been injured - not seriously. The guard was being removed by helicopter to the base. I do not recall the nature of the injury or how it was incurred. We were relieved by our scheduled replacement crew later that morning. The missiles had still not been brought on line by on-site maintenance. Once topside, I spoke directly with the security guard about the UFOs. The only additional detail he added, that I recalled, was that the UFO had a red glow and appeared to be saucer-shaped. I do not recall any other details about its appearance. He repeated that it had been immediately outside the front gate, hovering silently.

When my commander and I returned to the base, we discussed the incident with our squadron commander and an Air Force investigator from Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). The Colonel was just as shocked about the incident as we were. Neither he, nor anyone else we talked to that day about the incident could explain it or indicated that it was some sort of readiness exercise. After that day, and through the time of my transfer from the base in June 1969, none of the crews, including ours, ever received any additional information on the incident. There was never a report of investigation that was released to the missile crews or any other explanation given of the incident. This was also unusual because we were given regular briefings about any technical areas of concern regarding the readiness of our weapons. These were my recollections at the time the FOIA requests were submitted to the Air Force in January 1995. After nearly a year of submitting these requests and waiting for responses, USAF declassified an incident which appeared to be the one in which I was involved. I will refer to that as the Echo Flight incident.

Jim Klotz, the investigator who had submitted the FOIA requests, and I had previously narrowed the time period by retrieving news reports from the Great Falls Tribune about UFO sightings during the early part of 1967. I had recalled reading such reports after my incident. In fact there were many news articles about UFO sightings a few weeks before and one week after the Echo incident. We requested USAF to release any information they had of such an incident that occurred during the spring of 1967. We made no reference to UFO sightings in our request. As a result of these FOIA requests USAF sent us copies of the unit histories for the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, Great Falls, Montana for 1967. The histories, which included the Echo incident, had been classified. In addition, USAF sent copies of some previously classified messages regarding the incident. One message was sent from SAC headquarters. The Echo incident, as related in one of those messages, is described as loss of strategic alert of all ten missiles within ten seconds of each other for no apparent reason and a "...cause for grave concern... [to SAC head quarters]". The date of the Echo incident is March 16,1967. When we received this information, I assumed that I was in the Echo capsule during this incident because the events of the incident were very similar to my recollection.

The first unit history (January - March 1967, pg. 38 ) also has a brief statement suggesting reports of UFO activity. It states the following: "Rumors of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) around the area of Echo Flight during the time of fault were disproven. A Mobile Strike Team, which had checked all November Flight's LFs (launch facilities) on the morning of 16 March 67, were questioned and stated that no unusual activity or sightings were observed." This statement was informative in that there would be no reason to query the November Flight strike team (security) about rumors of UFOs in the area of Echo Flight. This is the only reference to UFOs regarding this incident in any of the documents received from USAF and the statement is simply untrue. None of the reports we received from guards or maintenance personnel were ever retracted.

After reading this statement I recalled something my commander had said during our incident. After we reported the incident to the command post, he had received a call from another LCC. After that call he turned to me and said, "The same thing happened at another flight." With this new recollection, I began to question if I was at Echo during the time of our incident since I knew I was assigned to the 490th Squadron, which did not have responsibility for Echo Flight. We did however, occasionally, man LCCs outside our own squadron.

With some assistance, I was eventually able to contact on old friend who had served with me at Malmstrom. He recalled the Echo incident and was certain that I was not in that LCC at the time of the incident. He also recalled the names of the Echo crew and the name of my commander. With some additional effort, and a lot of phone calls, I was able to locate and speak with both crew members of Echo, the commander of the Echo relief crew, and my own commander.

As a result of these conversations, more information was revealed. The Echo MCCC related to me that prior to the shutdown of all his missiles he had received more than one report from security patrols and maintenance crews that they had seen UFOs, one was directly above one of the LFs in Echo Flight. The Echo crew confirmed that they had spoken to my commander that day and told him of their incident. They also told me that they were flown to SAC Headquarters, Omaha, Nebraska the next day and had to brief CINCSAC (Commander in Chief Strategic Air Command) about their incident. The Echo DMCCC also informed me that he had written an extensive log of the Incident and turned that over to staff officers at SAC headquarters. They certainly did report the UFO sightings and their guards and maintenance personnel were interviewed about their sightings by Air Force investigators. The MCCC of the crew that relieved the Echo crew also confirmed that the Echo crew had spoken to him about the UFO sightings during the time immediately preceding their shutdown incident.

My own MCCC confirmed my recollection of events with the exception that he recalled that about five of our ten missiles shut down in rapid succession. My own recollection is that it was more than five. However, he did add something I had not recalled. We sent a security patrol to our LFs after the shutdown of our missiles and they reported sighting another UFO during that patrol. They also lost radio contact with our site immediately after reporting the UFO.

To summarize the events of that morning:
UFOs were sighted by security personnel at our LCC (probably November Flight), at one of our LFs, and by other security personnel at Echo LFs and these were reported separately to the capsule crews at both LCCs. These reports were made at or about the time Minuteman Strategic missiles shut down at both sites. USAF has confirmed that all of Echo flights missiles shutdown within seconds of each other. There was no apparent reason for these shutdowns.

Further discussions with individuals from Boeing who had provided technical assistance and performed additional tests during the investigation into the cause of these shutdowns, confirmed that there was never a resolution as to cause or explanation for these incidents. The unit histories for 1967 also confirm that conclusion.

Since the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force has maintained the position that no reported UFO incident has ever affected national security. The incident I described above clearly had national security implications. The Air Force has clearly and deliberately hidden the fact that a large number of Air Force personnel reported sighting UFOs at the time many of our strategic missiles became, unaccountably, disabled.

Source: MUFON, MUJ-345, 15

The sighting is number seven in Paul Kimball's Best Evidence documentary of his considered top ten sightings list.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

UFO Intelligence Summary produced for the Nuclear Connection Project

Report Sep., 1944; Oak Ridge, TN. Metal tube hovers over gaseous diffusion plant
Report Mid-July,1945; Hanford, WA. UFO over AEC plant tracked by radar, F84's scrambled
Report April 5, 1948; White Sands, NM. Team watched UFO performing violent maneuvers
Report July 1948; Pasco, WA. Pilot reports domed disc near AEC area
Report Dec. 5,6,7,8,11,13,14,20 & 28, 1948; Los Alamos, NM. OSI, pilots, Los Alamos
Report April 24, 1949; Arrey, New Mexico. UFO tracking at White Sands Proving Ground
Report May 21, 1949; Moses AFB/Hanford, WA. Disc hov. restricted air space over AEC Plant
Report June 29, 1949; White Sands, NM. Naval rocket expert observed a silvery disc
Report Fall, 1949; Key Atomic Base. 5 metallic objects traverse 300 miles across scope
Report April 27, 1950; White Sands, NM. Cinetheodolite film taken by camera trk station
Report May 24, 1950; White Sands, NM. Cinetheodolite film taken by camera trk station
Report July 30, 1950; Hanford AEC Plant, WA. UFO over AEC plant triggers scramble of F-94
Report Oct. 13, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. Sightings by AEC security patrols
Report Oct. 18, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. Unidentified radar contacts
Report Oct. 20, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. UFOs sighted over "Control Zone"
Report November 10, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. Backgrnd radiation regist as object in control area
Report December 5, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. FBI document, possible radar jamming reported
Report December 6, 1950; Northeastern U.S.. National alert when radar picked up unknowns
Report December 14, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. RADAR targets over AEC base
Report December 18, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. R/V Sightings over AEC plant
Report December 18, 1950; NEPA, Oak Ridge, TN. Army report to FBI
Report December 20, 1950; Oak Ridge, TN. AN&C Radar tracks UFO
Report October 9, 1951; Hulman Fld (IN); Paris (IL); Newport atomic plant Unknown
Report October 30, 1951; Yucca Flats, NV. Squadrons of UFOs over atomic test site
Report December 7, 1951; Oak Ridge, TN. 20' square obs by secty guard; F-47's scrambled
Report May 10, 1952; SC. UFO Incident at Savannah River (AEC) Plant
Report Summer of 1952; Kirtland AFB, NM. Famous AF F-86 shooting incident
Report June 21, 1952; Oak Ridge, TN. R/V sightings over AEC plant
Report July 5, 1952; Hanford Atomic Plant, WA. Four pilots rep disc hov over AEC plant
Report Sept, 1952; Oper. Mainbrace, North Sea area/military exercise Ruppelt's version
Report December 10, 1952; Washington state, Hanford AEC Plant, R/V
Report July 19, 1953; Oak Ridge, TN. Black objects maneuvered over area near an F-86
Report April 7, 1954; USS Curtiss carrying nuclear weapons buzzed by UFO
Report October 1, 1957; Shippingport, PA. UFO circled atomic plant
Report November 4, 1957; Kirtland AFB, NM. Egg-shaped UFO hovers over base
Report November 6, 1957; Radium Springs, NM. Rnd object rose verticalfrom mountain top
Report February, 1961; Western Europe, France. DDisc near nuclear power station.
Report Summer of 1961; Near Moscow. Report of Russian tact missiles being fired on UFO
Report August 7, 1962; Oracle, Arizona. UFO over Titan missile silo, Jets sent up
Report October, 1962; NORAD Reg 2, nr Palermo AFB, NY. Scramb hot bird Cuban Missile Crisis
Report 1962; Unidentified A.F. Test Range, UFO blocked tracking of U.S. rocket
Report February 7, 1963; Charlottesville, VA. Planes scrambled, UFOs over missile site.
Report April 30, 1964; Stallion Test Site, NM. B-57 radios white object landed, phto recon
Report May 15, 1964; Stallion Site, NM. Two scrambles, radar/vis, UFOs sent proper IFF.
Report May 22, 1964; White Sands, NM. Auto radar tracks UFO on tape, sends phony IFF.
Report September 15, 1964; Big Sur, CA. Destroys Atlas warhead, filmed by mil trk crew
Report June 5, 1965; Lynn/Nahant, MA. UFOs over GE facility.
Report October, 1965; Lake Norman, NC. Three UFOs over McGuire Nuclear Power Station
Report October 7, 1965; Edwards AFB, CA. Encounter between UFO and a hot bird
Report April, 1966; Malmstrom AFB, MT. UFOs, alarms, 10 missiles inoperative.
Report June 16, 1966; Elista, Kalmuk, Russia. Scientist report UFO maneuv nr missile test.
Report August 24,1966; North Dakota. UFO jammed a Minuteman site
Report February 10, 1967; Sandusky, OH. Saucer hovers over AEC facility with blue beam.
Report March 2, 1967; White Sands, NM. 20 silver objects, radar blips at 7 mile alt.
Report March 5, 1967; Minot AFB, North Dakota. Craft trk on radar hovered over missile site
Report March 16, 1967; Malmstrom AFB, MT. UFO and "no-go Fault" cond at missile facility
Report March 24, 1967; Los Alamos, NM. Disc hovers for 10 minutes.
Report March 30, 1967; Malmstrom AFB, MT. Radar/visual, UFO 10 missiles shut down.
Report October 26, 1967; Portland, England. Cylinder w/ 4 arms over nuc plant, A-R.
Report Late Summer, 1968; Lake Norman, NC. Domed UFO near AEC plant
Report September 17, 1968; Nellis AFB, NV. Two military ATCs report violent maneuvers.
Report July or August, 1972; Lake Norman, NC. Saucer near nuclear facility
Report March 1975; Lake Murray, Lexington, SC. CE with octagon near nuclear site
Report October 27, 1975; Loring AFB, Maine. UFO circles weapons storage area
Report October 30, 1975; Wurtsmith AFB Michigan. UFO chased by KC-135 tanker
Report Late October 1975; Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. Night NORAD went on top alert
Report November 7, 1975; Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Targeting system tampered with
Report November 8, 1975; Malmstrom AFB, Montana. F-106's scrambled after UFOs
Report November 22, 1975; Savannah, Georgia. Pilots observe UFO near nuclear plant
Report August 9, 1980; Albuquerque, NM, UFO landing near Kirtland, AFB
Report October 18, 1982; Lake Norman, NC. Silver oval UFO with "four legs"
Report October 13, 1983; Gaffney, SC. UFO near Cherokee Nuclear Station
Report June 24, 1984; Peekskill, NY. UFO over nuc plant causes alert and elect failure
Report April 26, 1986; USSR. Chernobyl explosion at 1:23 AM, preceded by UFO activity
Report March 4, 1988; Eastlake, OH. Triangular objects hd toward Perry nuclear power plant
Report April 22, 1998; Washington State. UFOs sighted at sub base and nuc storage facility

See http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-ufois.htm for report links.

Personal narratives here (Hastings, 2006)

[The Consul]

kudos and thanks to cowbell, barracuda & mensch

[jingofever]

Ever since I read it (oh, about a year ago) I couldn't help but wonder. An account from a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing (last paragraph on this page):

Hiroshima was in flames. A girl of five at the time of the bombing recalled: "Black smoke was billowing up and we could hear the sound of big things exploding. . . .Those dreadful streets. The fires were burning. There was a strange smell all over. Blue-green balls of fire were drifting around. I had a terrible lonely feeling that everybody else in the world was dead and only we were still alive."

A nuclear blast probably does funny things with plasma and she doesn't say what size those balls were and who knows what condition her eyes were in but I wonder if those "blue-green balls of fire" were foo fighters inspecting the damage or whatever it is they did during their tour of duty.

[justdrew]

if the massive multi decade track record of interference with nuclear weapons is true, there's no way the game theorists can count on any ability to use a nuclear weapon again in an act of mass murder.

I wonder if there were any UFOs seen during the Iran/Iraq war?