{"id":1484363,"date":"2022-05-19T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484363"},"modified":"2022-05-19T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:00:49","slug":"former-commander-at-nuclear-missile-site-why-dont-dod-officials-speak-of-ufo-shutdown-of-missiles-that-i-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-commander-at-nuclear-missile-site-why-dont-dod-officials-speak-of-ufo-shutdown-of-missiles-that-i-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Commander At Nuclear Missile Site: Why Don\u2019t DOD Officials Speak Of UFO Shutdown Of Missiles That I Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-commander-at-nuclear-missile-site-why-dont-dod-officials-speak-of-ufo-shutdown-of-missiles-that-i-saw%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-98334460.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A former Minuteman commander at an underground nuclear silo with launch facility secrets blasted Pentagon officials for not mentioning a 1967 incident where an alleged UFO reportedly shut down ten nuclear missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Salas, who served in 1967 as on-duty commander of the underground launch facility at Montana\u2019s Malmstrom Air Force Base, alleged that on March 24 of that year an airman standing watch witnessed \u201ca star begin to zig-zag across the sky\u201d before it drew near to \u201chover outside the front gate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klaxons and warning lights underground sounded to warn that the missiles had become inactive. Salas claimed, adding, \u201cWithin the next few seconds, we had lost six to eight missiles to a \u2018No-Go\u2019 condition,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10830491\/Ex-Minuteman-commander-claims-Pentagon-officials-lied-not-knowing-1967-UFO-incident.html\">according<\/a> to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that no apparent reason for the loss of ten missiles can be readily identified is cause for grave concern to this headquarters,\u201d a Strategic Air Command document stated at the time of the incident. \u201cWe must have an in-depth analysis to determine cause and corrective action and we must know as quickly as possible what the impact is to the fleet, if any.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salas claimed he told his superiors at the time as well as the government\u2019s UFO task force in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, when the first congressional hearing regarding UFOs in roughly 50 years was held, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray, asked about the incident, replied, \u201cThat data is not within the holdings of the UAP [unidentified aerial phenomena] task force\u2026 I have heard stories; I have not seen the official data on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie\u00a0also was questioned by the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Last October at a press conference, Salas played a recording of a phone call between himself and the Echo Flight Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander Colonel Walter Figel regarding the 1967 incident. Figel asserted that security guards informed him of a \u201cUFO hovering over the site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that event, Salas claimed, he sent his evidence to the Department of Defense Inspector General examining the work of the government\u2019s UFO unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sent the Inspector General my information, documents, my story in some detail, and of course invited them specifically to attend my press conference in D.C.,\u201d Salas said. \u201c\u2019After the conference, I contacted somebody who was in touch with the UAP Task Force. The response I got was: \u2018We \u00a0already know your story so unless you\u2019ve got something new, we don\u2019t need to hear what you\u2019ve got to say.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why it shocked me that Mr. Moultrie didn\u2019t seem to know anything about it \u2013 or if he did, he was wanting to avoid the topic,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FOIA documents describe the results of an official investigation into the incident, which concluded it \u2018could not discover the cause\u2019 and chalked it up as a \u2018freak incident,\u2019\u201d the Daily Mail, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10830491\/Ex-Minuteman-commander-claims-Pentagon-officials-lied-not-knowing-1967-UFO-incident.html\">interviewed Salas<\/a>, reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Minuteman commander at an underground nuclear silo with launch facility secrets blasted Pentagon officials for not mentioning a 1967 incident where an alleged UFO reportedly shut down ten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1484377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}