UFOs Interfere
with Nuclear Missiles
The following chapter will examine cases in which UFOs have directly interfered with nuclear missile weapons. Although this may seem like a bizarre claim, this is not all that uncommon. There have been numerous instances in which unidentified aircraft have been spotted flying over bases where nuclear missiles were being operated, causing the missiles to malfunction without a cause.
The Disclosure Conference
Such sightings have occurred so often that, on September 27, 2010, seven high-level United States Air Force personnel held a press conference in which they talked about their experiences with UFOs during their time in the air force. The press conference, which was held in Washington, D.C., was live-streamed on CNN, giving it international coverage. The seven officials who took part in the press conference included Lieutenant Robert Salas, a ballistic missile launch officer and a missile propulsion engineer; Lieutenant Colonel Dwynne Arneson, a strategic air command (SAC) officer; Lieutenant Robert Jamison, a combat targeting team commander and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) targeting officer; Colonel Charles Halt, deputy base commander (his story is covered in Chapter 26: The Rendlesham Forest Incident); Lieutenant Jerome Nelson, deputy missile combat crew commander; Patrick McDonough, nuclear missile site geodetic surveyor; and Captain Bruce Fenstermacher, combat crew commander.
Lieutenant Robert Salas
On the evening of March 24, 1967, while Salas was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, strange lights were seen in the sky, hovering above a nuclear weapon storage site. The red glowing lights were seen by several air force personnel, including Salas, who was the ballistic missile launch officer. Whenever an unidentified object is spotted anywhere, it constitutes a threat to national security because it can never truly be known what the intention of the object is. When UFOs are spotted above a nuclear missile site, the threat becomes even greater.
Salas reported that the red glowing light was pulsating and had a diameter of roughly thirty feet. Just minutes after the sighting, all the missiles inside the storage unit went into a “No-Go” condition, which means that somehow all of the missiles had been disabled and could not be launched. At the time of the incident, Salas did not correlate the UFO sighting to the nuclear missiles. However, once he looked into the case, he noticed that there had not been any system failures and no other individual had disabled the missiles. The malfunction had occurred without cause. Moreover, the investigation showed that there had been a total guidance and control system failure. It must be accentuated no one individual can possibly disable any nuclear missile without authorization or the necessary equipment.
After the missiles went into their “No-Go” state, the red object was still hovering above the nuclear storage site, pulsating and lighting the night sky. More eyewitnesses saw the object and shortly after, while Salas went to investigate the nuclear storage site, the security stationed at the front of the gate informed him that the red light had accelerated at a very high speed and disappeared, without emitting any noise or leaving any trail.
During the 2010 press conference, Salas emphasized that the disabling could not have been carried out by any air force personnel. No individual could have disabled the nuclear missiles and to do so, one would need the necessary equipment and above all, authorization from their superiors.
“The security people had no equipment up there, no ability to affect any kind of system shutdown on our missiles,” Salas said. 67
The air force base had even confirmed that there were no military exercises at the time, and they did not have an explanation as to what the red light was. However, what Salas mentioned at the press conference definitely implied that the UFO had something to do with the missile incident, and that the air force did not want to disclose this information to the public.
“There was also a member of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in the room. He ordered us not ever to talk about this. I even signed a non-disclosure statement to that effect,” Salas said.68
Lieutenant Colonel Dwynne Arneson
Apart from being a strategic air command officer, Arneson also had a top secret clearance, something that not many individuals in the military possess. This clearance means that Arneson had access to information that not only was highly classified, but could harm national security if it were to be disclosed to the public without the proper declassification and authorization.
Arneson was on duty at Malmstrom Air Force Base at the time of Salas’ sighting. Arneson reported that he had received a message that multiple individuals had seen an unidentified red object hovering above the nuclear missile storage site, and that the missiles had malfunctioned shortly thereafter.
“I happened to see a message that came through my communications center,” Arneson said. “It said … that ‘A UFO was seen near missile silos’ … and it was hovering. It said that the crew going on duty and the crew coming off duty all saw the UFO just hovering in mid-air. It was a metallic circular object and from what I understand, the missiles were all shut down. What I mean by ‘missiles going down’ is that they went dead. And something turned those missiles off, so they couldn’t be put back in a mode for launching.” 69
Several years after the incident and his retirement, Arneson started working with Boeing. During his time there, he met with Robert Kaminski, one of the engineers at Boeing. Since Boeing is the main missile system contractor for the Air Force, it was carrying out an investigation into what had caused the system failure in 1967. Kaminski told Arneson that they could not find any technical explanation as to what had caused the malfunction. He also confirmed that several more UFO reports were made on the day, all stating that an unidentified bright light was seen in the sky, close to the Air Force Base. What makes this case even more bizarre, is that the Air Force had instructed Kaminski and the engineers to discontinue the investigation immediately and to not follow-up on the report.
“I am convinced that somebody out there is trying to send us a message,” Arneson said. “If I knew who they were, I probably would not be here.” 70
Lieutenant Robert Jamison
On March 24, 1967, when the nuclear missiles shut down at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Jamison, who was a missile targeting officer, was at home relaxing when he received a call instructing him to return to the base in order to bring the missiles back online.
Once Jamison arrived at the base, he was debriefed on the situation. Although he had not seen the UFO himself, he was told that an unidentified red light was seen hovering above the nuclear storage site. He was also informed that the missiles went offline at the exact moment the UFO was seen hovering above the site.
It was not unusual for a missile to go offline because of a malfunction; however, it had never happened before that more than two missiles went offline at the same time without cause. Speaking about his experience, Jamison said, “Very rarely does a missile malfunction. And I don’t think any—much rarer would be two at the same time. But never ten. … I know that the U.S. government does not obviously appreciate people, such as myself and these gentlemen, speaking out about this. What we’re describing, on an ongoing basis, decade after decade at multiple Air Force bases is just disruption of our nuclear missiles.” 71
Lieutenant Jerome Nelson
Nelson was a deputy missile combat crew commander of the missile squadron in Roswell from 1962 to 1965. Nelson explained how on one occasion, while he was in the launch control center at the Roswell, New Mexico, base, the security guards contacted him and informed him that a “fully illuminated round object was hovering silently over the missile silo and shining a light down onto it.” 72
Nelson could feel the fear in the security guard’s voice. The unidentified aircraft was shining a bright light directly onto the nuclear storage site and he was concerned that it would somehow affect the missiles. Nelson immediately reported the sighting to the base commander on duty.
After just five minutes, the UFO disappeared from the sky, however, this was not the only time that an event like this had happened while he was on duty. Nelson stated that similar events had occurred more frequently throughout the month. On more than three occasions, unidentified objects were seen hovering above the nuclear storage site at Roswell. Each time Nelson would inform the base commander of the sighting, the commander would simply dismiss it altogether. Surprisingly, Nelson was never debriefed on any of the sightings.
Patrick McDonough
In September of 1966, McDonough, who was a nuclear missile site geodetic surveyor, together with two other airmen, was instructed to carry out the initial geodetic surveys for the fifty missile sites in the United States.
On one particular evening, as the three men were setting up their instruments and carrying out their tasks, an unidentified object appeared in the sky, coming from the north and stopped directly above the three men and the Malmstrom missile storage site. McDonough described the UFO as having a round shape with a diameter of around fifty feet. He compared its size to that of a B-52’s wingspan. It also had pulsating lights around its circumference and one bright light shining down onto the missile silo site. At an altitude of just 300 feet, the three men were able to get a detailed view of the object, however, just moments later, it shot off to the east side and disappeared. After the UFO disappeared, the three men gathered their equipment, jumped back into their trucks, and made their way back. The night, however, was not over just yet for McDonough and his colleagues.
As McDonough was driving over a hill, he somehow lost control of the truck and it completely flipped over. Luckily, none of the three men were injured, and after two hours of walking, they found a farmhouse where they were able to contact the highway patrolmen.
Surprisingly, as the three men were talking with the patrolman about their incident, he informed them that they had received over twenty reports from people saying that they had seen a strange light in the sky, in the vicinity where they had had the accident. The three men all wrote an official report, however, there was never a follow up. It was never mentioned by anyone in the air force.
“But I must say now, in my four years that I had with this geodetic survey squadron, I had worked on the latest missiles and aircraft in the United States Air Force inventory. And I worked everywhere on these guidance systems. And we, or I, never saw anything in the air force inventory that could perform like this UFO did. It’s … I don’t know what it was, but we sure didn’t have any … I never saw anything like it. And I’d like to thank all of you for being here today and thank the National Press Club. Hopefully, someday, the … we’ll know in the near future that … the government will perhaps release any information they have on UFOs.” 73
Captain Bruce Fenstermacher
In the fall of 1967, Fenstermacher, together with his deputy, were listening to a conversation between the flight security controller and the security alert team at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. What was interesting about this conversation, is that the security alert team had reported seeing a “white pulsating light in the sky that’s maybe seven or eight miles away.” 74
The witnesses informed the security controllers and Fenstermacher that the unidentified bright light was close to where the nuclear control facility was. To confirm the report, Fenstermacher called the operators who confirmed that a cigar-shaped object was truly hovering in the sky, pulsating a white light over the nuclear storage site. The operator went on to explain how the object was completely silent and, for several minutes, it remained in the sky, hovering directly above the control center.
Fenstermacher ordered the security alert team to go to the launch facility and as they did so, the cigar-shaped object started flying toward another launch facility site. After an hour and a half, the flight security control said that the UFO just suddenly and silently “ went away up to a start size and then disappeared.” 75
The next couple of days during the meetings with the squadron commander, Fenstermacher stated that an officer, who he had not previously seen at the base, had instructed everyone to keep silent and to not disclose any information to the public. The officer went on to explain how the sighting involved top secret material that could cause harm to national security if it was to be revealed to the public.
Another Interference
On October 26, 2010, Marc Ambinder, a former contributing editor at The Atlantic, reported that President Barack Obama had been informed that on October 23, fifty nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had gone offline. The fifty ICBMs accounted for one-ninth of the entire missiles owned by the United States. For over an hour, all fifty missiles had gone into a ‘LF Down’ status, meaning that though the missiles were offline, they still could have been launched. However; they could only have been controlled from airborne command.
The commanders at the base informed the two other nuclear missile command centers, as well as the National Military Command Center in Washington of the situation, although at the time they were unaware of what had caused the missiles to go offline. Speaking about the incident, an unnamed military officer stated:“We’ve never had something as big as this happen. We can deal with maybe five, six or seven at a time, but we’ve never lost complete command and control and functionality of fifty ICBMs.” 76
What makes this incident even more bizarre is that Robert Hastings, a notable UFO researcher who has interviewed hundreds of former air force personnel and the same individual who had hosted the September 2010 press conference the previous month, received an abundance of reports in which individuals had seen a UFO in Wyoming on the same day the nuclear missiles had gone offline. Civilians, as well as military personnel, made similar reports, all of which described a cigar-shaped object hovering silently in the sky.
One of the witnesses who Hastings interviewed was a retired missile maintenance technician. On the morning of October 23, this witnesses had seen the Wyoming UFO as he was driving through western Cheyenne at around 08:30: “I’ve seen Goodyear blimps in person, overhead, and they are ‘blimp’ shaped. What I saw was very long and I don’t remember seeing any structures under it. It didn’t appear shiny, but dull and gray … I would guess it was 7:1, or seven [units] long to one [unit] wide, or so it looked. It was tapered on both ends and very big. It was not short and squat like normal blimps. It appeared to be moving northerly and was over the buttes east of town.” 77
Conclusion
It seems evident after all these witness reports that these visitors seem to have a particular interest in our nuclear missiles. Many have questioned the reason why, and although we may never find the answer, it could be the case they are interfering with our weapons to prevent further wars and global catastrophes. Could it be that these visitors are interfering in order to preserve life on Earth?
67. National Press Club press conference, aired September 27, 2010 on CNN, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0EP4mP1lI.
68. Ibid.
69. National Press Club press conference, aired September 27, 2010 on CNN, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0EP4mP1lI.
70. National Press Club press conference, aired September 27, 2010 on CNN, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0EP4mP1lI.
71. Ibid.
72. National Press Club press conference, aired September 27, 2010 on CNN, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0EP4mP1lI.
73. National Press Club press conference, aired September 27, 2010 on CNN, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0EP4mP1lI.
74. Ibid.
75. Ibid.
76. Marc Ambinder, “Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles,” The Atlantic, October 26, 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/failure-shuts-down-squadron-of-nuclear-missiles/65207/.
77. Robert Hastings, “Huge UFO Sighted Near Nuclear Missiles During October 2010 Launch System Disruption,” The UFO Chronicles, June 21, 2011, https://www.theufochronicles.com/2011/06/huge-ufo-sighted-near-nuclear-missiles_19.html.