6 August 2008
Hi Linn,
I was a guest on CNN's Larry King Live on July 18th. I research nuclear weapons-related UFO activity, utilizing declassified U.S. government documents and the testimony of former/retired U.S. military personnel.
Over the last few months, I have interviewed several former SPs and LEs who were at the twin bases, who saw UFOs, either at or near the WSA, or over the forest in the early 1980s. With their permission, those persons' statements have been published in my new book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.
Perhaps some of the people visiting this site would be interested in the book, which is available only at my website, ufohastings.com
Thank you,
Robert Hastings
Press Release - published on this website 29 August 2008
Noted UFO researcher Robert Hastings’ long-awaited book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, is now available at ufohastings.com.
The author may be contacted for an interview at hastings444@att.net
You may read a direct excerpt from the book, right here on this website.
Hastings recently appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live (7/18/08) to discuss his 35-year investigation of UFO sightings at U.S. nuclear weapons installations, including Minuteman missile sites at five different U.S. Air Force bases. Utilizing declassified USAF, FBI and CIA documents, as well as the testimony of Air Force veterans who worked with nukes, Hastings has uncovered a six-decade-long pattern of UFO activity at nuclear weapons laboratories, bomb test sites, weapons storage areas, and ICBM launch facilities.
According to dozens of former or retired Air Force missile launch officers, targeting officers, missile maintenance personnel, and missile security guards, UFOs have repeatedly buzzed and hovered over our ICBM sites. These sources state that, on a few occasions, the UFOs disrupted the missiles’ operational readiness, apparently by inducing various hardware and software failures in them. Upon request, Hastings will provide interested journalists with contact information for several of these veteran “missileers.”
One former launch officer interviewed by Hastings, David H. Schuur—who was stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota in the mid-1960s—states that several of his Minuteman ICBMs were actually activated and temporarily placed in launch mode, just as his security guards reported a UFO moving from missile to missile. Schuur states that he and his missile commander had to manually override the launch command in each missile. A nearly identical incident occurred in Soviet Ukraine, in October 1982, according to retired Soviet Army officers interviewed in 1994 by ABC-TV (later CNN) reporter David Ensor.
Many of the declassified USAF and FBI documents utilized by Hastings refer to UFOs repeatedly violating highly sensitive airspace at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons are designed, and at Sandia Base (now Sandia National Laboratories) which has engineered nukes since the 1940s. Other documents confirm reports of UFO activity at Oak Ridge, the Hanford Plant, and the Savannah River Plant, all of which produced fissile materials for U.S. nuclear bombs and missile warheads during the Cold War era.
Hastings contends that there exists a credible link between the appearance of nuclear weapons in the mid-1940s, and the overall increase in UFO sightings worldwide since that time. Moreover, he believes it is probable that one of the reasons the U.S. government has attempted to conceal its extensive knowledge of the UFO phenomenon from the public relates to its apprehension about having to acknowledge that unknown observers, piloting enormously superior aerial craft, have been systematically monitoring—and occasionally tampering with—our nuclear weapons.
Since 1981, Hastings has lectured on the UFO-Nukes Connection at over 500 colleges and universities nationwide, including Stanford University, in 1987. His program, “UFOs: The Hidden History” has been popularly and critically acclaimed for its documented, objective approach. “I am not condemning any government agency for its policy of secrecy regarding UFOs,” says Hastings, “but I believe that the American public, and the whole world, should be given the facts.”