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Thursday, 11 June 2020

UFO Article:
“The Briefing Room” (Nuclear Connection Project)


By Francis L. Ridge, 1 February 2017
(NICAP.org)

The whole article:
“The Nuclear Connection Project was established on July 1, 2003. It has been fourteen very interesting years, probably the most enlightening work accomplished in the last half-century. Enlightening because it tells more about the ‘why’ of the [bona fide] UFO situation than any other field of study.
 
The evidence for a UFO/Nuclear Connection grows by the day. Official FBI, CIA, Army and Air Force documents establish, beyond a doubt, that UFOs have been seen and reported where uranium and plutonium are mined and manufactured (the Congo, New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the Hanford Plant at Washington, the Savannah River facility at South Carolina). Official reports are on file of UFOs seen where bomb development takes place (Los Alamos, Sandia Base) and where nuclear weapons are stored (Manzano Mountain near Kirtland, NM, and Killeen Base at Camp Hood, TX). Even where the bombs are transported to the testing areas: See U.S.S. Curtiss Incident. The Camp Hood/Killeen incidents are listed in the Project Blue Book ‘Unknowns’. Some of the most dramatic incidents involve interference with our missile sites (shutdown of Minuteman missiles at Malmstrom AFB, Montana). Even the absence of incidents is uncanny, such as during one of the most dangerous periods in history, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Accidental war, where UFOs could be mistaken for Russian missiles or jets during very tense time, was a distinct possibility. Official documents show that UFOs had caused quite a stir at other times in our history, several times setting off nationwide alerts.

Our thanks to all the NCP Staff, in particular, Dan Wilson, for his fine work with the Blue Book files and many of the files below. Our thanks to Rebecca Wise and the Project Blue Book Archive for the documentation which made all this more than just hearsay and inaccurate reporting. The documents speak for themselves. And without our technological workhorse, Jean Waskiewicz, most of what we do would not be usable or even accessable. And Robert Duvall’s insight into what all this implies, is right on the mark when it comes to the ‘connection’, both nuclear and strategic. And although not a member of NCP by choice, Robert Hastings has provided more evidence for the nuclear connection in the form of researched and investigated missile incidences, than anybody.

Our primary goal at this time is to research, document, and post reports with the more obvious evidence of nuclear connections, which includes a files on White Sands, Camp Hood, Texas, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee:

Nuclear Connection Cases
The New Mexico Sightings
The Killeen Base/Camp Hood, TX Sightings (not yet ready)
The Oak Ridge, TN Sightings (to be updated)

Next, we will continue to research and post potential NC incidents with case synopses and documents on nuclear information on the NICAP site. Any category of UFO report (from category 1 thru 11) can be marked as a potential or suspected nuclear connection case.

Other Related Papers
NCP Papers by Staff Members and Associates
Nucnotes, Miscellaneous memos
Nuctests & UFOs

Video on YouTube
Ridge [Supports] Edwards Case

If you have any suggestions or information you think would be of interest to the NCP Working Group, please email me at your convenience.”


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Francis L. Ridge, NICAP Site Coordinator &
Coordinator, Nuclear Connection Project
(Photo: nicap.org)

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

UFO Video Report:
“50th Anniversary of Malmstrom
missile shutdowns”


By Robert L. Salas

Source: Bob Salas (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“March 16, 2017 is the 50th anniversary of the Minuteman missile shutdowns at Echo flight. The Oscar flight shutdowns occurred on March 24. There is a series of seven video clips by Robert Salas describing these events.”

Robert L. Salas (then First Lieutenant) was witness to the 
24 March 1967 Malmstrom Air Force Base (Great Falls, Montana
UFO incident.

(Published: 15 March 2017)

(Published: 16 March 2017)

(Published: 17 March 2017)

(Published: 19 March 2017)

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(Published: 20 March 2017)

(Published: 21 March 2017)

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Aerial view of Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana 
(wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)

Friday, 2 August 2019

UFO Report:
“The 1962 UFO Chronology”


Created: 27 April 2006
Updated: 26 March 2017
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is a chronology of UFO incidents for 1962. Most notable was the reported crash of a UFO on April 18 near Las Vegas, Nevada. A high speed brilliant maneuverable object was tracked by radars and sighted visually across the continent by numerous military and civilian witnesses. Next was the NE New Jersey mini-flap of Sept. 15-28. Across the Hudson River from New York City, was the scene of a definite flurry of sightings of UFOs, with the heaviest concentration in the Oradell-Hawthorne area. In October (18-29) the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. It was the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war. Right in the middle of this crisis an F-106, armed with nuclear-tipped missiles, was scrambled from Palermo AFB to intercept a UFO over New York.

The Air Force put its first ten Minuteman ICBMs on operational alert at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, in October 1962. Deployment proceeded at an equally furious pace, and within 5 years (the 1967 UFO sighting wave) 1,000 of the solid-fuel missiles stood poised in their silos.

Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

Hillenkoetter Resigns From NICAP
Vice-Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter resigned from NICAP in Feb 1962 and was replaced on the NICAP Board by a former covert CIA high official, Joseph Bryan III, the CIA’s first Chief of Political & Psychological Warfare (Bryan never disclosed his CIA background to NICAP or Keyhoe).

April 30, 1962, Edwards AFB, Cal.
X-15 flight, piloted by Joe Walker; Photograph (no visual sighting) of 5 or 6 ‘disc-shaped or. . .cylindrical’ objects. Slides later shown in Seattle conference. NICAP unable to obtain prints. [NICAP UFO Evidence]”


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Runways on and near Rogers Dry Lake, at Edwards Air Force Base.
Located in the Mojave Desert, California. (text by Wikipedia) 
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Saturday, 29 June 2019

UFO News Article:
“Where did all the UFOs go?...”


19 March 2019
(The Kenmare News, North Dakota)

The article reports on Robert L. Hastings’ documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed and the UFO incidents that occurred at Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases in the United States and military bases in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The bases that are mentioned in the article are F. E. Warren (located outside Cheyenne, Wyoming), Grand Forks (North Dakota), Malmstrom (Great Falls, Montana) and Minot (North Dakota) Air Force Bases.

Quote from the article:
“And since North Dakota had silos from Cavalier to the Montana line, and south to Cooperstown and Killdeer, it’s no wonder so many people reported UFOs, especially during the 1960s.

Three years ago a number of UFO sightings that had been classified, were placed into the public domain. Almost all of them were sightings that were directly related to an Air Force Base.

The same is true with these more recent Freedom of Information Act requests.”


Wikipedia article: “Strategic Air Command”:


The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was deactivated in 1992.

Wikipedia article: “Air Force Global Strike Command”:


Wikipedia article: “United States Strategic Command”:


Wikipedia article: “Cold War”:


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Map of Strategic Air Command (SAC)/
STRATCOM Military Bases, U.S.A. 
(russ-nancy.com) (russ-nancy.com image)

UFO Article:
“History’s ‘Unidentified’ Examines
Nuclear Weapons-Related UFO Incidents”


By Robert L. Hastings, 28 June 2019
(The UFO Chronicles)

Hastings focuses on the fifth episode of Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.


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Tuesday, 25 June 2019

UFO Article:
“Why Have There Been So Many UFO
Sightings Near Nuclear Facilities?”


21 June 2019
(History, New York City, New York)

The article focuses on UFO incidents that have occurred at or near U.S. nuclear research facilities and installations, nuclear enrichment facilities, nuclear weapons bases, nuclear aircraft carriers and nuclear power plants.


Wikipedia article: “Indian Point Energy Center”:


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A large UFO was sighted over the Indian Point Energy Center 
(IPEC), Buchanan (New York) on 24 July 1984 
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Large UFO filmed (by Bob Pozzuoli) over Brewster (New York)
on 24 July 1984 (possibly the same UFO which hovered over the Indian Point Energy Center, according to the book, “Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings”)
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Saturday, 22 June 2019

UFO News Article:
“A new look at how government
views UFO phenomenon”


19 June 1984
(Star Tribune (not Star & Tribune), Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se

UFO author and researcher Terry Hansen presents a book review of Lawrence A. Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood’s UFO book, Clear Intent (the book was retitled “The UFO Cover-Up”).

Quote from the article (Page 1):
“In ‘Clear Intent,’ a book published by Prentice-Hall, authors Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood provide a sensational but not a sensationalized account of how UFOs consistently managed to intrude into sensitive Air Force facilities across the United States during the 1970s. According to the government’s own documents, the UFOs that set off Minuteman security alarms in Montana also haunted bases in Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, New Mexico, Florida and elsewhere. After each visit the UFOs escaped, leaving behind frightened and puzzled Air Force witnesses.”


Wikipedia article: “Strategic Air Command”:

The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was deactivated in 1992.

Wikipedia article: “Air Force Global Strike Command”:


Wikipedia article: “United States Strategic Command”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Strategic_Command














Map of Strategic Air Command (SAC)/
STRATCOM Military Bases, U.S.A. 
(russ-nancy.com) (russ-nancy.com image)

Sunday, 10 February 2019

UFO Report:
“The 1967 UFO Chronology –
The ‘Mother of all Sighting Waves’ ”


Created: 18 September 2006
Updated: 3 December 2018
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is a massive, 85-page, chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1967. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the original 1967 chronology from UFOE II and a huge updated file), William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.

The year, 1967, encompassed a major part of the most intensive and long-lasting UFO sighting wave of all time. The wave was a U.S. and international UFO sighting wave that actually began in 1966. Not only was this a massive sighting wave involving nuclear equipped missile shutdowns, but also a number of humanoid incidents were reported along with the usual ground and air incidents. Other information pertaining to the wave are explored in the following reports, the first one available from the Fund for UFO Research; the others online on the NICAP site:

‘Alien Invasion or Human Fantasy? The 1966-67 UFO Wave’ (Richard Hall)
‘1967: The Overlooked UFO Wave and the Colorado Project’ (Richard Hall)
‘The Sighting Wave of 1967 - Indiana: A NICAP Subcommittee Investigation’ (Francis Ridge)
  • On April 21, 1967 the Strategic Air Command reached the level of 1000 operational Minuteman I and II ICBMs.
  • It is extremely interesting, too, that it was actually 1966 when the US reached a peak of 31,700 of stockpiled nuclear warheads. The year 1967 had 30,893 stockpiled, the third highest total, and 1965 had 31,642 stockpiled warheads, 2nd highest total.
  • This was also the year of the third Arab/Israeli war (June 5-10).
  • By year’s end Project Blue Book received 937 UFO reports, even though they classified only 17 as unidentified.
Regarding the incident at Malmstrom on March 16, the 142-page report by Robert Salas and James Klotz can be ordered at Faded Giant. Other missile incidents are explored in the paper by Robert Hastings, ‘UFO Sightings at ICBM Sites and Nuclear Weapons Storage Areas.’ For information on missile deployment, see To Defend & Deter. (1)

The latest update comes from Ref. 3 (see footnotes) by Jacques Vallee, and lists cases from the USSR.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator


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Aerial view of Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana 
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Friday, 1 February 2019

UFO Report:
“UFOs Are Stalking and Intercepting Dummy Nuclear Warheads During Test Flights –
Retired U.S. Air Force ICBM Targeting Team
Chief Says The Big Sur Incident Was Not An
Isolated Case”


By Robert L. Hastings, 23 August 2011
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“Thousands of declassified U.S. government documents and hundreds of military veterans have confirmed the reality of ongoing UFO activity at American nuclear weapons sites. Seven of those veterans participated in my September 27, 2010 press conference in Washington D.C., which CNN streamed live.

I have investigated the UFO-Nukes Connection since 1973 and have interviewed nearly 130 former or retired U.S. military personnel about their experiences at ICBM launch facilities, weapons storage depots, nuclear bomb test sites, and missile test ranges. A summary of their dramatic testimony may be found in my book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, which is available only at my website, www.ufohastings.com.

One of the most remarkable cases, known as the Big Sur Incident, involved the inadvertent motion picture filming of a UFO that approached, circled, and—using four beams of light—shot down a dummy nuclear warhead in flight as it raced downrange over the Pacific Ocean to a designated splashdown site near Kwajalein Atoll. Although the exact date is uncertain at this point, because the documents are still classified, the available evidence suggests that this event occurred sometime in September 1964.

The former U.S. Air Force officer in charge of filming the interrupted test flight, former Lt. (now Dr.) Robert M. Jacobs, broke the amazing story in 1982 and has publicly discussed it countless times since then, most recently on the Larry King Live program in July 2008.

Jacobs’ account has been entirely corroborated by another officer, retired Major (later Dr.) Florenze J. Mansmann, who carefully studied the Top Secret film at Vandenberg AFB, California prior to its confiscation by CIA agents. Mansmann said that his frame-by-frame analysis of the footage, using a magnifier, revealed that the UFO—which appeared to the unaided eye as small, white dot—was actually a domed, disc-shaped craft that had pivoted on is vertical axis before emitting each beam of light.

Shortly after releasing the fourth bright burst, the UFO raced out of camera frame while the stricken warhead began to tumble, eventually falling into the ocean hundreds of miles short of its target. Private letters between Jacobs, Mansmann and two other individuals, in which the amazing event is discussed in detail, are available for review.

However, significantly, independent confirmation of UFO activity during missile launches at Vandenberg has appeared in, of all places, The New York Times. On June 17, 1974, the prestigious newspaper carried this story:

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Experts at an Army missile base say they are puzzled about strange ‘ghost ships’ picked up by powerful radar scanner in the Pacific during a tracking exercise last summer.

There has been little official comment on what the scientists found during the exercise, but Major Dallas Van Hoose, an Army spokesman, confirmed recently that ‘some unexplained aerial phenomena’ were observed during the exercise last August [1973]. Scientists, many of whom are reluctant to be named in interviews because of general public skepticism over unidentified flying objects, say privately they have been unable to find any explanation for the ‘ghost ships.’

‘We have never seen anything precisely like this before,’ said one ballistic missile defense expert who works for an Army agency here and who is familiar with the advanced radar used to test missiles and warheads. Huntsville houses the Army’s ballistic missile defense systems command which tests in the Kwajelein [sic] Atoll region of the Marshall Island Trust Territory held by the U.S.

Last August the Air Force launched a Minuteman ICBM from Vandenberg Air Force base aimed for the Kwajelein missile range which is used by the Army, Air Force, and Navy. The radar experts in the Pacific found they were also tracking an unidentified flying object next to the ICBM’s nose cone. Radar picked up an inverted saucer-shape object to the right and above the descending nose cone and watched it cross the warhead’s trajectory to a point which was below and to-the-left of it before the phantom ship disappeared. The ghost ship was described as being 10-feet high and 40-feet long. Two separate radar systems saw it at the same time which may eliminate the probability that there was a malfunction in one of the radar systems. It was also reported that 3 other identical objects were seen in the vicinity—the same size, shape, and dimensions. One scientist said the data indicated that the phantom ship ‘flew under its own power’ but could not explain what sort of ‘power’ was involved.

So far none of the experts here believe the ghost ship was a natural phenomenon caused by freak weather conditions or echoes commonly seen on radar screens.”


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Aerial view of Space Launch Complex 6 (1985), 
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California 
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Map of Kwajalein Atoll, Pacific Ocean (wikimedia.org)
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