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Nearly six decades after seminal Montana UFO incidents, air force vets brief Pentagon
Decades after an unidentified force disabled the ICBMs he commanded at a Montana base, Robert Salas finally briefed the Pentagon on it.
calgaryherald.com
On the night of March 24, 1967, Robert Salas was a 26-year-old U.S. Air Force lieutenant cocooned 20 metres below the Montana prairie overseeing weaponry that could obliterate millions.
Instead, without any warning, Salas said his menacing cluster of 10 Minutemen 1 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) burrowed beneath the Malmstrom Air Force base a five-hour drive southeast of Calgary seemed to be prey.
But the assailants, he said, weren’t any Cold War foes.
Soviet technology couldn’t have abruptly disabled the missiles’ guidance and control systems, which is what happened that night.
“You would have to have sent individual signals to each missile and within seconds, we had (no power),” said Salas, 82.
“This had never happened before and we have nothing that could do that now.”
Just moments before the systems failure, a non-commissioned security officer on the surface made a series of increasingly frenzied phone calls to Salas, describing an oval-shaped form within pulsating, glowing orange-red lights hovering over the installation.
The NCO had also described the approach of the silent object which “was making unusual, controlled maneuvers, such as flying very fast, coming to a dead stop, then reversing course and making ninety-degree turns,” said Salas, who was locked into the subterranean capsule for security reasons.
“He was screaming in the phone, terrified . . . I told him to secure the facility at all costs.”
Responding to his orders, other security guards scrambled to other launch sites in the complex, only to see glowing objects hovering over them, said Salas.
“It was reported they lost radio contact with the flight security controller and were very shaken by the experience,” he said.
Less than a minute after the pulsating object had arrived over his launch control centre, it had quickly departed, said the U.S. Air Force veteran.
The dumbfounded officer soon found himself in a meeting with his squadron commander and a special investigations officer and was told the incident didn’t involve any kind of air force exercise.
Salas said he was also told to never speak of the incident as it was now classified.
“I signed a non-disclosure agreement . . . I didn’t start talking about it until 1996.”
He also learned 10 ICBMs had been disabled under identical circumstances in September 1966 at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.
“Within a span of six months, we lost 30 nuclear missiles to UFOs,” said Salas, who provided an air force document declassified in 1996 regarding the March 16 incident at Malmstrom, east of Great Falls.
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