UFOs and nukes press conference 27 sep 2010

[Frank]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS166901+15-Sep-2010+PRN20100915

To present their information in the most credible manner possible, Mr. Salas and Mr. Hastings have asked each of the press conference participants to sign legal affidavits attesting to their experiences. Those will be posted on the internet following the event.

Dwynne Arneson, retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, was the Officer-in-Charge at the Malmstrom AFB, Montana, Communications Center in 1967, when he read a classified message concerning the sighting of a UFO hovering over one of the base’s Minuteman I Launch Facilities (silos), just as several missiles mysteriously malfunctioned. Although Arneson can not recall the designation of the missile “flight” mentioned, researchers now know that two UFO-related full-flight shutdowns—involving 10 missiles each—took place at Malmstrom in March of that year, at Echo and Oscar Flights.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/disclosure/briefing/disclosure07.htm

Bruce Fenstermacher, retired USAF Captain, was a Minuteman III missile launch officer (Missile Combat Crew Commander) stationed at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming in 1976. His Security Alert Team reported a cigar-shaped UFO hovering low over his launch capsule, then ignored a direct order to pursue the object after it raced away and began moving from missile to missile in his flight. Fenstermacher’s squadron’s missile crews were briefed about the incident and told never to discuss it with anyone.

Charles Halt, retired USAF Colonel, was the Deputy Base Commander at a joint Anglo/American airbase, RAF Bentwaters, in 1980. Among other events, Halt observed a disc-shaped UFO directing beams of light down into the base, at one point near the nuclear Weapons Storage Area (WSA), according to several Security Policemen on duty there.

Robert Jamison, former USAF Captain, was a Minuteman I missile targeting officer (Combat Targeting Team Commander) at Malmstrom AFB in 1967. He helped re-start the stricken missiles at Oscar Flight, where Bob Salas was on alert duty at the time of the full-flight shutdown. Jamison says that his team was explicitly briefed about a UFO-connection with the incident before going into the field, thereby corroborating Salas’ report of a UFO being sighted as it hovered over the Oscar Launch Control Facility at the time of the malfunctions.

Jamison states that he assisted in the re-start of an entire "flight" of ten Minuteman ICBMs which had simultaneously and inexplicably shut down immediately after a UFO was sighted in their vicinity by Air Force Security Police. Jamison is certain that the incident occurred at one of the missile flights located near Lewistown, Montana, perhaps Oscar Flight. This event probably occurred on the night of March 24/25, 1967, based on Jamison’s portrayal of related events.

Jamison said that while his and other teams were preparing to respond to the stricken flight, they were ordered—as a precaution—to remain at Malmstrom until all UFO reports from the field had ceased. He further states that his team received a special briefing prior to being dispatched, during which it was directed to immediately report any UFO sighted while traveling to or from the missile field. In the event that a UFO appeared at one of the missile silos during the re-start procedure, the team was directed to enter the silo's personnel hatch, and remain underground until the UFO had left the vicinity. According to Jamison, the Air Police guard accompanying the team was to remain outside and relay information about the UFO to the base Command Post.

Jamison’s own team re-started three or four missiles but did not observe any unusual aerial activity.
Jamison said that while he was at the missile maintenance hangar, waiting to be dispatched to the field, he overheard two-way radio communications at the temporary Command Post, relating to another UFO having been sighted on the ground in a canyon near the town of Belt. He states he recalls hearing that a top commander—either Malmstrom’s base commander, or the 341st Strategic Missile Wing commander—was on-site with other personnel. Based on these recollections, it appears that Jamison is describing the well-documented Belt, Montana UFO sighting of March 24/25, 1967.

Jamison said that immediately after the missile shutdown incident, for a period of approximately two weeks, his team received a special UFO briefing, identical to the one described above, before being dispatched to the field.

Jamison said that approximately two weeks after the full-flight missile shutdown, his team responded to another, partial shutdown—involving four or five ICBMs. Prior to being dispatched, Jamison’s team received a report that the missile failures had occurred immediately after a UFO was sighted over the flight's Launch Control Facility. Jamison recalls that this incident took place at a flight located south or southwest of Great Falls, possibly India Flight, and during daylight hours.

Jamison said that he had subsequently spoken with several individuals, mostly missile security guards, who had witnessed various UFO-related incidents. He reports that they were “visibly shaken” by their experiences.

Patrick McDonough, retired U.S. Navy Intelligence Command Master Chief, was a U.S. Air Force geodetic surveyor at Malmstrom AFB in 1966. A disc-shaped UFO briefly hovered some 300-ft. above his team as they worked at a newly-constructed missile silo. They fled the scene, rolling their truck in the process. A Montana State Policeman responding to the accident told the team that some 20 UFO reports had been made that night by civilians living in the area.

Airman 1st Class Patrick McDonough joined the Naval Reserve after active duty with USAF and retired in 2003 as the Navy Intelligence Command Master Chief, Southwest Region, USN Ret.

McDonough stated that his squadron was responsible for setting exact latitude and longitude coordinates for missile and aircraft guidance systems using star observations. The squadron members went TDY worldwide from F.E. Warren AFB to perform these surveys for Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, Mace, Matador, and on missiles carried on B-52 nuclear bombers. They also performed these same surveys for aircraft that also used similar guidance systems such as the SR71.

In early September of 1966, McDonough and his team of two other airmen (A1C Al Cramer and A3C Charley Coates) were living off base in Conrad, Montana, and working on the last 50 missile sites (Fourth Squadron) under construction at Malmstrom AFB and were assigned to SATAF and Boeing (SATAF – Site Activation Task Force; Boeing was prime construction contractor). Their work was primarily done at night.

The three airmen were completing an astro-azimuth observation at a missile site (the concrete blast hatch of the silo was wide open awaiting a missile to be installed at the site) when at approximately 0130, a UFO came in from due North and stopped directly over the missile site. The UFO was at an approximate altitude of 300 feet. It was a circular disk and its diameter appeared to be around 30-50 feet. It appeared to have dim lights outlining the disk and a white light emanating from the center. It stayed there approximately 20-30 seconds, and then from a dead stop above them sped off to the East at a tremendous speed. There was no noise or wind.

After the UFO departed, they immediately grabbed their gear and sped off from the missile site to return to Conrad, and while enroute there and making a high speed left turn at an unmarked T intersection the brand new Chevrolet truck right side tires blew and the vehicle flipped upside down. No one was hurt and they walked to a not-so nearby farm house where the Montana Highway Patrol and a tow-truck were called. When the Highway Patrolman arrived, he stated that his dispatch had received over 20 reports from local residents observing a UFO in the vicinity that night. Incident Reports were made to SATAF, Boeing, and the Air Force. Nothing was ever heard from the Air Force about the incident and no retribution/reimbursement was ever requested for totaling the new truck. It was like the incident never happened.

Airman McDonough stated he had worked on the latest missiles and aircraft that the U.S. Air Force had at that time and never saw any Air Force aircraft that could perform like this craft.

Jerry Nelson, former USAF 1st Lieutenant, was an Atlas-F missile launch officer (Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander) at Walker AFB, New Mexico in 1964. His security guards reported a UFO silently hovering over the Site 9 launch capsule on half-a-dozen occasions over the period of a month or so. The object directed a spotlight onto the missile, frightening the guards. Nelson’s reports to the base command post were seemingly ignored at the time, however, evidence has come to light suggesting that the incidents were classified Top Secret.

Nelson states that on several occasions, while on alert in the underground launch capsule at Atlas Site 9, missile guards at ground-level had frantically reported a silent, very bright UFO hovering over the site. As he told Florida Today columnist Billy Cox, "The guards were scared. These objects would hover over the silo and shine lights down on them without making any noise.” Nelson told me that he had personally been involved in “probably more than three but fewer than ten” such incidents, over a period of a month or so. He also remembered that the sightings had occurred “at least six months, maybe more like a year” after the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when the squadron had been placed on high-alert.

Oddly enough, when Nelson notified the missile squadron’s Command Post about the incidents, his reports met with apparent indifference. Only much later did he learn that agents from the Office of Special Investigation had interviewed another individual regarding his knowledge of a similar incident.

Bob Salas, former USAF Captain, was a Minuteman I launch officer (Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander) at Malmstrom’s Oscar Flight, on March 24, 1967, when all of his missiles dropped-off alert status—malfunctioned—just as one of his guards reported a UFO hovering over the Launch Control Facility’s security fence gate. Salas and his missile commander, now-retired Col. Fred Meiwald, were debriefed about the incident and asked to signed non-disclosure statements by an agent from the Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Meiwald has confirmed that, shortly after the malfunctions occurred, a two-man Security Alert Team was sent out to one of the flight’s missile silos to investigate a tripped alarm there. Upon approaching the site, the team saw a second (or the same) UFO hovering near it, whereupon they became frightened and quickly returned to the Launch Control Facility.