The U.S. government’s recent unidentified flying objects report is unprecedented. It acknowledges, for the first time, that some UFOs (or what the U.S. government refers to as “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”) appear to be real, ultra-advanced craft of unknown origin.
Going back 70 years, virtually every statement by the U.S. military had dismissed the phenomenon as misidentified known objects, such as weather balloons, or optical illusions, or hoaxes. Put simply, the new report is a major departure from the past policy of denial and obfuscation. But that candor goes only so far. The report completely ignores the elephant in the room: Hundreds of reports from military veterans, most of whom I have interviewed myself, involve UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites, including the mysterious disabling of our intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The UFO-nukes connection is clearly an important, if not the most important, aspect of UFO interaction with the U.S. military.
On Sept. 27, 2010, I co-sponsored a “UFOs and Nukes” press conference in Washington, D.C. It was there that seven U.S. Air Force veterans revealed their involvement in UFO-related incidents at nuclear missile sites or weapons storage areas. CNN livestreamed the event, and the video may be viewed on my website. Also available for review are several documents pertaining to various UFO incursions at nuclear weapons laboratories and strategic defense deployment sites.
The crucial importance of the nuclear-related cases has now been openly acknowledged by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid was responsible for the creation of the recently revealed Pentagon UFO study group, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Also on the record concerning the nuclear connection is the former AATIP director, Luis Elizondo, as well as AATIP physicist Dr. Harold Puthoff. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon has also publicly confirmed the long-standing, widespread, and ongoing UFO incursions at our nuclear weapons facilities.
This begs a question: Why was the government’s UAP Task Force limited to investigating 144 U.S. military aircrew sightings of UFOs? And why only since 2004?
Certainly, these cases are important. However, by confining the inquiry only to them, and not the great many incidents involving UFO interference with our nuclear weapons, the new report in effect perpetuates the cover-up of arguably the most important national security consideration. Consequently, current public and media attention is focused on the pilot encounters while reports by dozens of Air Force veterans of UFOs repeatedly shutting down our ICBMs, at several different Air Force missile bases over many decades, remain a taboo subject for open discussion, at least officially.
Significantly, Soviet documents (obtained in 1994 by investigative reporter George Knapp) would indicate that the Soviets experienced UFO interference with their own nuclear missiles as well. The “phenomenon” wasn’t playing favorites during the Cold War era.
Based on my extensive research, it’s clear that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, as well as the Defense Intelligence Agency, are some of the key repositories for reports on the nuclear-related incidents. Until some effort is undertaken, hopefully by Congress, to investigate those still-hidden UFO files, people will not have an accurate idea of the nature and extent of our military’s interaction with UFOs.
This regrettable situation has been pointedly lamented by Mellon in his recent UAP-related “Questions for Congress” list. Mellon wrote, “We know indisputably from documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that there have been numerous UAP intrusions at U.S. ICBM and strategic bomber bases and nuclear production facilities (e.g., Hanford and Oak Ridge etc.). How many such incidents does the classified report [to Congress] reveal? If it doesn’t reveal any, how credible is that conclusion?”
Indeed, how credible? While we in the public domain are not privy to the information contained in the classified version of the report, it appears that nuclear-related cases such as those I have documented were completely sidestepped. Where does this leave us?
Well, while the UAP report is extraordinary due to its fundamental admission that some UFOs appear to be real, unknown craft that demonstrate an interest in U.S. military operations and facilities, it is incomplete. Omitting reference to an undeniably important aspect of UFO activity that, evidence suggests, continues to the present day (note that the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers, which seem to be a focal point for UFOs, are powered by nuclear reactors).
Researchers, the media, and the general public must push hard for more honesty from our government.
Robert Hastings is a UFO researcher. His book, UFOs and Nukes, documents and assesses decades of extraordinary encounters between U.S. military nuclear forces and UFOs.
