Former Air Force Officer Reveals UFO Incident That Deactivated 20 Nuclear Missiles

A former officer from the U.S. Air Force has recounted a chilling incident where UFOs purportedly disabled America’s nuclear arsenal without any physical attack.

Robert Salas, now 85, claims that back in 1967, 20 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles were inexplicably rendered inoperative by an unidentified force. This force supposedly bypassed all protective measures at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base.

On March 16 and 24 of that year, Salas recalls, guards at the base observed peculiar, swift lights in the sky that could halt and hover instantly. These lights emitted a vivid red glow just before the U.S. ICBMs, concealed underground, were deactivated.

While stationed as one of two officers in the underground launch control capsule during the Cold War, Salas noted that the guards, who urgently reported the incident, were certain these crafts were not Soviet aircraft executing an attack.

Sharing his story on the Danny Jones Podcast, the Air Force veteran expressed his belief that intelligent non-human civilizations visited Earth with the intention of averting a nuclear catastrophe and preventing a potential World War III.

Salas claimed: ‘It’s another civilization out there that is visiting us and are concerned about us destroying this planet through nuclear war, for many reasons, probably some we don’t even understand.’

The former nuclear missile officer added that an investigation led by aerospace company Boeing could not determine what shut down the warheads because US missile complexes were specifically built to keep out jamming signals like this.

‘They had no idea how this signal could have been injected into each of the missiles. The cabling system that we had was triply shielded against electromagnetic interference from the outside,’ Salas explained.

US Air Force ICBM launch officer Robert Salas (Pictured) has testified before Congress about the UFO that disabled 10 warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base in March 1967  

Pictured: Malmstrom Airforce Base, home to 10 nuclear warheads which went offline after a strange craft approached the base and the missile silos

According to Salas, the first UFO sighting took place on March 16, 1967, when 10 ICBMs were simultaneously disabled without warning by the mystery swarm of UFOs. 

Eight days later, Salas said the encounter started when the topside security guard called down to him in the underground launch control room around 10pm MT to report multiple strange lights flying in the sky over the nuclear weapons base.

The guards claimed these lights could reverse direction, make sharp 90-degree turns and were completely silent, making no engine noises.

After dismissing the guard’s story, Salas would soon receive another frantic call from security saying a pulsating reddish light was being emitted from the UFO hovering right above the front gate of Malmstrom AFB.

After ordering security to prevent the UFO from entering the missile complex, guards reported seeing the same or similar lights hovering right above two of the missile silos about a mile away from the control room. 

‘All of a sudden, we get a a large horn go off and we know what that means. That means that there’s an issue with one of the missiles. Look at the board and sure enough, one of them went from green to red. No go. No launch, no ability to launch,’ Salas told Jones during the March 13 episode.

‘Very quickly thereafter, bing, bing, bing, bing, all 10 of them went down. They all went red.’

Salas revealed that incursion lights had also gone off, meaning something or someone had entered the fenced area where the missiles were kept.

A guard closing the gate to entrance of the control center of the missile base at Malmstrom, Montana, where the ballistic missile ‘Minuteman’ were kept, in December 1962

When he called on the guards to investigate the missile silos, they reported that the UFO had flown off just as they arrived.

Following his encounter, Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) personnel ordered Salas and his commander to sign strict non-disclosure agreements threatening prison time if they ever discussed the event.

However, the veteran officer went public decades later after reading about a similar incident in a publicly available UFO book and deciding the information had already been leaked.

The Boeing engineers tasked with investigating the missile complex concluded that an external electromagnetic signal had somehow disrupted the guidance and control systems of the missiles, specifically affecting a device called the logic coupler in each one.

Despite discovering the likely cause, Boeing also noted it was impossible for any normal device or test to affect all 10 missiles at once because each missile was independently housed in a silo designed to block electromagnetic interference.

Officially, the Pentagon has maintained for decades that there is no proof UFOs or extraterrestrial beings exist and have visited Earth.

However, President Trump has ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to release all government files related to the search for these unidentified craft so the public can examine the evidence for themselves.