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A former officer of the US Air Force has come forward with claims that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) once disabled nuclear missiles at a Montana military base. The incident allegedly occurred decades ago, according to the retired officer.
Robert Salas, who is now 85, recounted the event on the Danny Jones Podcast. He said that in 1967, an unexplained phenomenon rendered 10 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles inoperative at Malmstrom Air Force Base. These missiles were armed with nuclear warheads.
During the Cold War, Salas was tasked with overseeing and potentially launching nuclear missiles. He recalls an evening on March 24, when he and his colleague were stationed in an underground control facility around 10 p.m. when a series of frantic calls came in from security personnel above ground, reporting an unidentified aerial presence.
“The lead guard contacted us, saying, ‘Sir, we’re witnessing some unusual lights in the sky, moving directly overhead,’” Salas explained.
According to Salas, the guards were adamant that the objects were not Soviet aircraft. They described the strange lights darting across the sky and then coming to a halt directly over the underground missile silos.
He initially brushed off the report, thinking it was a prank — but five minutes later, the guard called back, “screaming into the phone.”
“He’s yelling. He’s babbling. He’s frightened,” Salas recalled.
After calming down, the guard told Salas his men had their weapons pointed at the crafts hovering above the base’s front gate, emitting a “pulsating reddish light.”
Salas said the panicked guard asked what to do next, and he told him, “Do whatever you have to do.”
The guard then said one of his men had just “got injured” before hanging up.
Salas said he then went to wake his partner, who was resting, when “all of a sudden” a loud horn sounded at the controls, signaling something was wrong with the missiles.
“We looked at the board, and sure enough, one of them went from green to red. No ability to launch,” Salas said. “Then, very quickly thereafter, bing bing bing bing, all 10 of them went down. They all went red.”
They jumped up and ran through their checklist, then realized two launch facilities miles away were showing that “someone or something” may have breached the fenced missile area.
Salas said he immediately sent guards out to the missile silos, and when they were about a mile away, they saw the lights hovering above the launch areas.
“They were scared to death,” he said. “They didn’t want to go any further. They were so frightened of these things.”
Salas said he later heard the injured guard may have hurt his hand while clearing a jam in his rifle or cut it on barbed wire during the encounter.
He also learned guards claimed to have seen the crafts in the area in the days before the encounter, with movements that could reverse direction, snap into sharp 90-degree turns and fly in total silence.
The former nuclear missile officer said a Boeing-led investigation could not determine what shut down the warheads, adding the systems were designed to prevent jamming.
“They had no idea how this signal could have been injected into each of the missiles,” he said. “The cabling system that we had was triply shielded against electromagnetic interference from the outside.”
Salas said he’s convinced that intelligent non-human civilizations visited Earth to prevent a nuclear war.
“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,” he said.
Air Force investigators forced Salas and his commander to sign strict gag orders following the encounter, warning they could face prison time if they ever spoke about it.
He ultimately went public decades later after reading about a similar incident in a UFO book and concluding the information had already been exposed.