Pentagon Investigating UFOs That Possibly Turned Off Warheads

• Former U.S. Air Force personnel reportedly told the Pentagon about their encounters with UFOs back in the 1960s.
• The officers say the ‘60s-era UFOs supposedly turned off nuclear warheads.
• The Pentagon has an official office for investigating UFO sightings.

It’s been a jam-packed month for unidentified flying objects in the U.S., so let’s add one more juicy piece of UFO news to the pile: Now, the government is supposedly investigating reports of UFOs somehow deactivating nuclear warheads.

The Daily Mail claims that former U.S. Air Force personnel have testified that UFOs interfered with nukes in the 1960s. The officers reportedly recently told the government’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) that they had bizarre encounters with the objects near U.S. military bases.

The Daily Mail says it’s seen an email showing that AARO staff contacted former Air Force ICBM launch officer Robert Salas to get information about the encounter with an orange flying disc that switched off 10 warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, in 1967. Another former officer, Dr. Robert Jacobs, supposedly told AARO that he made a film for the Air Force in 1964 that captured images of a UFO shooting a test missile out of the sky.

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Many observers say UFO sightings should be treated with a great deal of skepticism. Still, the government is trying to corral reports of strange activity in the skies into a format that can be investigated more rigorously. AARO, for example, is a recently created office under the Secretary of Defense that looks into unidentified flying objects and other phenomena.

Former U.S. Navy officer Sean Cahill, who claims to have witnessed the infamous “Tic Tac” incident sighted off the U.S.S. Nimitz aircraft carrier in 2004, said on Twitter recently that he wants more information on UFOs. He urged his followers not to let “those [with] agendas and cognitive blocks … use the current balloon flap to muddy the water.“ He added: “Don’t take the bait; demand identification and evidence of each incident’s origin.”

Whatever the mysterious objects may be, the truth is out there. And if you believe the reporting in the Daily Mail, the UFOs may be coming … for our nukes?

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Sascha Brodsky, a freelance journalist based in New York City and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, writes about many aspects of technology including personal technology, AI, and virtual reality. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and many other publications. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling and hiking.