Former US Air Force Officer Reveals UFO Incident That Disabled Nuclear Arsenal
In a startling revelation, a former US Air Force missile launch officer has provided a detailed account of the terrifying moments when unidentified flying objects allegedly shut down America's nuclear weapons without firing a single shot. Robert Salas, now 85 years old, claims that 20 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles were disabled by an unknown force that penetrated all shielding at Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967.
The Mysterious Events of March 1967
According to Salas, the incidents occurred on March 16 and 24 of that year. Guards at the base reported observing strange, fast-moving lights in the sky that could stop and hover instantly. These lights emitted a bright red glow right before the US ICBMs, hidden underground, went offline. Salas, who was one of two officers inside the underground launch control capsule during the Cold War, emphasized that the guards calling for help were convinced the craft were not Soviet airplanes launching an attack.
The Air Force veteran told the Danny Jones Podcast he is convinced intelligent non-human civilizations visited Earth and attempted to prevent World War III from causing a nuclear holocaust. Salas stated: '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.'
Technical Investigation and Findings
The former nuclear missile officer added that an investigation led by aerospace company Boeing could not determine what shut down the warheads. 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.
According to Salas, the first UFO sighting took place on March 16, 1967, when 10 ICBMs were simultaneously disabled without warning by a mystery swarm of UFOs. Eight days later, 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 soon received 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.
Immediate Aftermath and Security Response
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 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. When he called on the guards to investigate the missile silos, they reported that the UFO had flown off just as they arrived.
Government Secrecy and Disclosure
Following his encounter, Air Force Office of Special Investigations 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.
Official Stance and Recent Developments
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.
This incident raises profound questions about national security, technological vulnerabilities, and the possibility of extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs. Salas's testimony adds to a growing body of accounts from military personnel who claim to have witnessed unexplained phenomena affecting critical defense systems.
