This piece, one among other stories of UFO engagements with nuclear weapons, came into my email last week. What a weird world we are in, where reports like this are by and large ignored.

In step with this story, I’m headed for the D.C. area where my movie, “What on Earth?,” is being featured at the yearly X-Conference. The purpose of that event is to get the government to release classified UFO/ET files. (See the next post for more about the film showing.)

The difficulty of being able to prove that UFOs exist is why I focus on crop circles. We can point at evidence. The formations can be studied. In a reality grid that takes science as its chief deity, they give us the best chance for a breakthrough to establish us in a larger reality that we know now. I keep wondering, as the economy teeters, if the intelligence that’s not us also would intervene if we were going too far down the economic tubes. My fantasy has the circlemakers doing something undeniable enough to dispel all doubts of visitation, whereby we would pull together as one humanity to deal with ‘the other.’ How sweet that could be.

How ’bout them defenseless nukes?

By Billy Cox

April 9, 2009

When he tested the limits of his security oath in 1995 and went public with how a UFO crippled a nest of nuclear missiles in Montana during the Cold War, former Air Force captain Robert Salas was on his own. No one else who worked inside or around those subterranean silos dared talk about how the world’s top superpower was unable to defend its own nuclear arsenal.

Today, UFOs and Nukes author Robert Hastings has 115 ex-USAF eyewitnesses on record, due in no small measure to Salas’s willingness to gamble that the feds wouldn’t go after him because prosecution would put them in a credibility jam. “If they did,” Salas says from his home in Ojai, California, “we could have a righteous trial.”

In 2005, the erstwhile deputy missile combat crew commander waved the red cape with even more vigor at the government bull by co-authoring Faded Giant: The 1967 UFO/Missile Incidents.   Salas’s story was augmented by other witnesses and FOIA-acquired USAF documents acknowledging the Minuteman shutdown — but without mentioning the U-word.

Salas and co-author Jim Klotz demonstrated how the hovering phenomenon that disabled fully armed nukes on the early morning of March 24, 1967, acted with impunity and deliberate intent, and that its actions weren’t confined to Salas’s post. On March 16, UFOs also visited an ICBM site some 60 miles away, and shut down all 10 of its missiles in similar fashion.

Having apparently dodged legal repercussions, the 68-year-old former FAA aircraft certification engineer remains puzzled over the lack of MSM interest in the vulnerabilities of our deadliest weapons systems. Aside from appearances on Larry King and niche shows like Art Bell and The History Channel, Salas’s story — and those of a growing number of colleagues — has been pretty much ignored by American media.

“I had high hopes for the Peter Jennings special,” says Salas in reference to the ultimately feckless ABC prime-time “investigation” in 2005. “They seemed really interested. They flew me out to Dallas and got two, three hours on videotape. But a week before the show, they called and said, ‘Sorry, we’ve got to cut you out.’ I don’t know if somebody got to them or what.”

Forty-two years later, Salas remains in awe of what happened at Oscar Flight, the code-named Minuteman silo belonging to the 341st Strategic Missile Wing. Shortly after jittery topside guards reported bright aerial objects pulsing silently above the security gate, klaxons started shrieking and the missiles began losing power in rapid succession, one by one, until six to eight amid the 10-shot cluster were reduced to no-alert status. Security upstairs reported the objects flew off immediately afterwards.

“Somehow,” recalls Salas, who monitored the control panels alongside bunker colleague Lt. Fred Mywald, “these objects were able to penetrate 65 feet of earth and a completely shielded cabling system with an electromagnetic pulse that sent signals to upset the most sophisticated weapons in the world.”

Those signals were strong enough to foil the missiles’ guidance and control mechanisms, Salas says. An account of the March ‘67 incidents is available at http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm, but by no means are they the only ones involving UFO security breaches with nukes. Salas is in contact with plenty of other witnesses who’ve yet to come forward.

But even if they did, would the media bother to shrug?

“To me, it was a benevolent message,” says Salas, whose world view was forever altered by the event. “My own speculation is that these objects were saying we shouldn’t be messing with nuclear weapons because we might destroy ourselves.”

But maybe that’s not news.

[Here’s where you can see video of Robert Salas telling his story: http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case1017.htm.]