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Title: Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes, Worry Ex-Air Force Officers
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010 ... air-force-officers/?test=faces
Published: Sep 23, 2010
Author: Fox News
Post Date: 2010-09-23 22:50:02 by christine
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Comments: 70
Captain Robert Salas was on duty in Montana in 1967 when a UFO shut down the nuclear missiles on his base. And he's hardly the only one to make such a claim. On Monday, six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about similar events at the National Press Club, all centering around unidentified flying objects and nuclear missiles. They plan to urge the government to publicly confirm the incidents, stating that they were ordered never to discuss the events. "We're talking about unidentified flying objects, as simple as that," Salas told FoxNews.com. "They're often known as UFOs, you could call them that," he added. Salas, a former U.S. Air Force nuclear missile launch officer, will host the event along with researcher Robert Hastings, author of "UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. According to the pair, 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. "I was on duty when an object came over and hovered directly over the site," Salas said, regarding the March 16, 1967, event at Malmstrom AFB in Montana. "The missiles shut down, 10 Minuteman missiles. And the same thing happened at another site a week later," he said. Are they evidence of unknown military action from a foreign country, or are these extraterrestrial visitors? Salas thinks the answer is clear -- and finds it curious that they're so interested in our nuclear arsenal. "There's a strong interest [in our missiles] by these objects, wherever they come from. I personally think they're not from planet Earth." 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 claim the Air Force warned them never to disclose details of the events. "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it," Salas said. Col. Halt adds, "I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted -- both then and now -- to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation." The group plans to distribute declassified U.S. government documents at the event that they claim will substantiate the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites extending back to 1948. The press conference will also address present-day concerns about the abuse of government secrecy as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons. "This is only the tip of the iceberg, these stories," Salas told FoxNews.com.
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#9. To: christine (#0)
So they're going to disobey orders and spill their guts to the mainstream as a public service. Forgive me. I smell the concoction of a campaign of mental conditioning in the works here. I approach all assertions having to do with "UFO's" with extreme prejudice. The manifestation of extraterrestrial intelligence is a subject that excites the imagination in strange and powerful ways, and one in which the state holds all of the cards as it purports to have most of the corroborating evidence in its voluminous collection of data on the topic. The military works hand in glove with Hollywood and has all the masters of illusion in its pay. The moment one of its officers opens his lips, I am braced to hear the latest gem of disinformation the Pentagon has crafted for us.
Thats fine. I am of the cynical nature about such but I also read with an open mind. There is a long list of military/commercial pilots statements. One was from a fighter pilot named Swimley. We grew up together. He later went on to become a wing commander in the USAF. After his original sighting, he was never involved again in any way that I know of. After my own experience, twenty five years military/FAA, I know what I saw and did not hear. Any explanation was above my pay grade.
I haven't seen any such remarkable things myself, but I have spoken with a number of people that have. I've heard some truly arresting stories form folks that I have no reason to suspect of ulterior motives. There is no compelling reason to believe that the unexplained things that people see originate from outside our sphere. The suggestion that this is so is very compelling simply because of the way that our minds are wired. Mindful of the power that such suppositions have over our minds, it is good to be watchful of how these phenomena might be manipulated.
randge... Christopher Columbus saw a ‘UFO’ according to the book Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs in reference to 'The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus' (1850). Columbus saw ‘a light glimmering at a great distance’ that …vanished, only to reappear several times during the night, each time dancing up and down ‘in sudden and passing gleams’. Michaelangelo (1475-1564) became an apprentice in 1488 to Ghirlandaio just two years after Carlos Crivelli (c. 1435-c. 1495) painted “The Annunciation of St. Emidius” in 1486. Crivelli’s painting clearly shows a flying saucer-like UFO shining a light downward. Long afore the UFO paranoia. All factual that modern man cannot twist nor spin. It is just there, recorded by enlightened men.
Well, several things come into play there. One is that there is a perception. Second there is the interpretation of that perception in the mind of the perceiver. Third there is the report. And fourth there is the interpretation of the report. What may result is an objective transmission of the outline of some phenomenon. There is also lots of room here for the construction of an event completely at odds with what was experienced. I was cruising around in the thirsty desert once in a Land Rover, and I saw a great blue lake in the distance. I even fancied that I saw a tiny boat tooling around on the surface of the water. It was a classic mirage. It's good to have an open mind about the nature of the world around us and things like the possibility of an intelligence other than our own. I believe however that beyond the mere possibility of such things, there is a real need and yearning among humans to believe in such an intelligence other than our own. It's not beyond the power and capability of those who manufacture our culture to use that yearning to their own advantage. So I'll repeat: You should be watchful of the power that such suppositions have over our minds, and think about how these phenomena might be manipulated.
Remember, I am the resident CYNIC here. Remember the time factor is very important. Whether someone may or may not be trying to spin modern day events drops to second place. Beyond Columbus and the others, history is replete with such mention. Long afore the days of instant worldwide communication, the ones I have researched in the past demonstrate there was never any hint of collaboration, in fact it was impossible.
Apologies then. When I sit down at my keyboard, I get delusions of grandeur and sometimes forget my place. I cede any claim to the fitness of my observations to your grizzled wisdom.
If one reads of the Crab Nebula, 1054 AD, long afore Columbus, that event was recorded at several places around the world, even by American Indians. Everyone that did so, did it correctly, it was a celestial event. To them it was just a new star and was so depicted and recorded. So man does not always get carried away, there are those that record what they saw, understood or not. Charlatans involved??? In modern day, yes.
#32. To: Cynicom (#31)
You are the CYNIC; I'll be the SKEPTIC.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestOn Monday, six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about similar events at the National Press Club, all centering around unidentified flying objects and nuclear missiles. They plan to urge the government to publicly confirm the incidents, stating that they were ordered never to discuss the events.
#20. To: randge (#9)
I approach all assertions having to do with "UFO's" with extreme prejudice.
#23. To: Cynicom (#20)
#24. To: randge (#23)
#26. To: Cynicom (#24)
It is just there, recorded by enlightened men.
#27. To: randge (#26)
So I'll repeat: You should be watchful of the power that such suppositions have over our minds, and think about how these phenomena might be manipulated.
#28. To: Cynicom (#27)
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Remember, I am the resident CYNIC here.
#31. To: randge (#28)
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