Last summer I communicated with a Russian reporter who
recently reinvestigated the case, interviewing some witnesses who
had never gone on the record before. My article about all of that is
attached.
Recent
Russian
Newspaper Article Discusses UFO Incidents
at Soviet and American Nuclear Weapons Sites6-21-10 By Robert Hastings Persons familiar with my work know that I investigate nuclear weapons-related UFO activity. Over the past 37 years, I have interviewed more than 120 former or retired U.S. military personnel who were involved in UFO incidents at nuclear missile sites, weapons storage depots, strategic bomber bases, or atmospheric test sites in Nevada and the Pacific. Many of my findings are available at my website, www.ufohastings.com. A more comprehensive summary may be found in my 600-page book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union
in 1991, a number of ex-Soviet Army personnel came forward and began
discussing
their involvement in similar incidents in that country during the Cold
War era.
One of those events occurred on October 4, 1982, near the Ukrainian
town of Byelokoroviche, when a disc-shaped UFO apparently
hovered over a nuclear missile base for an extended period. At one
point during
the encounter, a number of nuclear missiles suddenly activated—without
authorization from Moscow or any action being taken by the missile
launch
officers—and were preparing to launch! Had they done so, World War III
would
have very probably been underway. Fortunately, after 15 seconds, the
anomalous
activation ceased and the missiles returned to stand-by status. A
subsequent
investigation by the Soviet government discovered no equipment
malfunctions
that would have explained the event. This
incident was first publicized in October 1994,
on the American ABC News program Prime
Time Live (which unethically used KGB documents and source leads
provided to
its producers by KLAS-TV reporter George Knapp, without crediting his
contributions). A transcript of that program may be found here. More recently, on June 16, 2010, a
large-circulation
Russian newspaper, Life, published an article about the case,
which may
be found at http://zhizn.ru/articles/show/192. A
badly-mangled English translation of the article, courtesy of Google,
is also available. One of the paper’s reporters, Inessa Kornienko,
interviewed hitherto unidentified witnesses who provided additional
details
about the incident. While preparing the article, Kornienko contacted me
and
asked if I were aware of the case. I told her that not only did I know
about it,
I had once interviewed a former U.S. Air Force nuclear missile launch
officer,
David H. Schuur, who had described a very similar event at Minot AFB,
North
Dakota, in the mid-1960s. A verbatim summary of Schuur’s revelations
may be
found here. Kornienko
incorporated some of my remarks in the Life article,
and noted the obvious similarity between the two
cases. Because
Google’s Russian-to-English translation is so torturous, and thoroughly
incomprehensible at times, I asked the reporter for a few
clarifications, which
she provided, so that a more user-friendly translation might be
achieved. The
result follows here. The Life
Article: UFO Hacked
Nuclear Codes Russia and the USA were on the
brink of nuclear war because of UFO attacks on military bases where
nuclear
missiles were on alert. Sensational
documents and other evidence confirm that the Soviet
military base near Byelokoroviche, Ukraine, and the U.S. Air Force base near
Minot, North Dakota, were attacked by aliens from space. Hovering over
the missiles,
[in each incident,] a UFO in a matter of seconds hacked the codes
required to
launch them, nearly unleashing a Third World War. Journalists working
for Life found revealing documents about [the
Ukrainian incident] and located eyewitnesses to the alien attack.
For
a 20-year-old radio operator, Vladimir Matveyev, assigned to the
50th Missile Division RVSN, Carpathian Military District, October 4,
1982 was a
day that he will remember for the rest of his life. In the evening, he
and a thousand
soldiers and officers saw a UFO for almost an hour, as it hovered over
the R-12
missile silos. “It was unbelievable. Approximately one-and-a-half
kilometers
from us hovered an elliptical-shaped object,” the former rocketeer
excitedly
told Life. “The dimensions of the UFO
shocked us—as large as a five-story house! Barely-visible lights flew
up to the
object. The guys [and I] were on our way to dinner when we all saw it!
The UFO
continued to hover, slowly moving to the left, as if drifting. One
officer
tried to get closer to it in a car but the UFO flew away. At this time all of the missile
launchers
malfunctioned. The UFO [also] blocked radio signal reception in the
bunker. We
heard only complete silence, which we could not understand, because
this had
never happened before. We were [later] told that the radio
equipment was
burnt!”
The Report
In
his official statement on the incident, Major Michael Katzman, who
was responsible for the missiles’ guidance systems, reported that the
computer
equipment and security systems had been disabled by a powerful
[electromagnetic] pulse. He wrote that all of the control panels had
lit up,
indicating the missiles were preparing to launch toward their strategic
targets. Former
TsSBUiS [missile division] Chief Yuri
Zolotukhin told a Life journalist, “I
too was a witness to these events and also saw the UFO, but could not
reveal
what had happened to the sensitive equipment because I signed a
non-disclosure
document [designed to] protect state secrets.” These events happened in
the
underground bunker where the missile control panels display the
missiles’
readiness status. [During the incident] the panels lit up, indicating
that the
missiles had gone to full combat readiness and were preparing to
launch.
[Ordinarily] this is possible only after obtaining an order from
Moscow. In
this case, it happened by itself. The officers on duty at their battle
stations
were shocked. [Figuratively speaking,] their hair had turned gray. They
said
that the information appearing on the control panels indicated that all
security
measures designed to prevent an unauthorized launch of the missiles had
been hacked!
Within just a few seconds, the launch officers had lost control over
their
nuclear weapons. Immediately after this occurred, the officers called
Moscow. The
reply they got was that no order to launch had been issued. After 15
seconds, all
of the controls reset to the normal position.
[Former]
rocketeer Vladimir Matveyev says, “A few days later, a commission
came to the base and interviewed the witnesses. The guys gave them
their
drawings of the UFO. One of the officers swore on his [Communist] Party
membership
that he wasn't drunk. A few days later we were lined up [for our
morning
inspection by our officers] and read an order from the
Commander-in-Chief of the
Strategic Rocket Forces, designated number R010, which said, ‘If you
see a UFO,
do not panic and do not shoot.’ Then I realized why the officers who
had their finger
‘on the button’ looked so old and had gray hair.”
USA A
U.S. Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, once experienced a similar
incident, this Life journalist was
told by American UFO investigator, 60-year-old Robert Hastings. He is
the
author of research on UFO activity at strategic nuclear facilities.
Hastings
personally spoke with a [former] Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
commander, [then]
Lieutenant David Schuur. “Schuur told me that in 1966 he was involved
in an
event in which an Unidentified Flying Object repeatedly activated [the
launch
sequence in his] missiles,” says the ufologist. “Schuur told me that
his
missile guards had informed him that a big, bright object was [moving
from
missile to missile]. When the UFO [hovered over] a [given] missile, his
control
panel indicated that it was preparing to launch. This meant that
somehow it had
received a launch authorization. Every time that happened, Schuur had
to
manually enter a launch ‘Inhibit’ command. The UFO seemed to be
scanning the missiles
[because various other functions were temporarily activated as well].
The next
day, Schuur’s commanders said that there was nothing to discuss.”
END
OF ONLINE ARTICLE
In
the hardcopy (print) article that Life circulated
within Russia last week, additional material was
published by
the newspaper. Reporter Kornienko
sent me that version of the article in both Russian and
Google-translated
English. Among the comments appearing in it were these:
My Take
I
think [the UFO] technology allows [their pilots] to launch our
missiles. However, they choose not to do so. Cases such as Byelokoroviche and Minot [suggest] that
aliens are trying to understand how these
systems work, and what they need to do in the event of war breaking
out, to
stop the feuding children, i.e., us. I believe that the UFO [pilots],
by
running the rockets’ pre-launch countdown, learned how to stop it.
--Inessa
Kornienko Life
Reporter |