Fears of an alien invasion of the United States took hold in the 1960s and ’70s after reports of UFOs flying over military bases flooded the nation.
Now, decades later, a UFO expert has claimed that extraterrestrial spacecraft visited “every major nuclear missile base” and continue to do so to this day.
Robert Hastings, who has interviewed many army personnel about the strange sightings, said: “Those currently operational have been visited repeatedly year after year, according to the sources I have interviewed.”
Hastings recently made waves when he revealed that more than 120 former service members had reported encounters with flying objects near nuclear weapons storage and testing ranges.
“In the meantime, a public and grassroots effort must be made to understand, as best as possible, using the data collected thus far, the nature and intentions of those who pilot UFOs,” Hastings wrote in his recent book recounting the interviews.
“Or perhaps they have a use for our planet, say for scientific purposes, and they know that global nuclear war will disrupt their data collection and/or experiments.”
In his book, UFOs and Nukes, he revealed that investigators are unable to properly investigate cases due to dubious layers of classification.
One thing is for sure, but it is “obvious” that if there are extraterrestrial visitors, they will be “very interested in our nuclear weapons.”
One UFO expert claimed that UFOs have been visiting nuclear bases for a long time and continue to do so. For at least 17 nights in December 2023, swarms of small ‘drones’ were seen penetrating the highly restricted airspace over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Hastings’ comments echo a study published in June that analyzed more than 500 of the best-substantiated UFO cases from the height of the Cold War, which concluded that “this intelligence understands atomic energy and understands atomic weaponry.”
UFO reports about America’s nuclear arsenal appeared to shift from bomb-making sites to missile silos and U.S. air bases as the Cold War arms race grew.
The study was conducted by a retired US Air Force sergeant, data analyst affiliated with Harvard’s UFO-hunting Project Galileo, Ian Porrit, and a research team.
The group focused on official military and police reports on UFOs from 1945 to 1975, avoiding poorly substantiated accounts and ambiguous newspaper stories, to focus on cases with multiple witnesses and evidence of signals, such as radar.
Their study, which only covered US cases, also used reports of UFOs seen over non-nuclear military bases and nearby civilian centers to act as control groups to test their findings about any UFO trends at sensitive US nuclear facilities.
The team found that data from 1948 to 1975 supported the idea that extraterrestrials, or some other intelligence, had methodically monitored the United States’ rise to a nuclear power.
‘This intelligence comprises the development cycle. “They have some contextual knowledge of what they’re looking at and what they’re looking for,” Hancock told DailyMail.com, given these changes in reported UFO sightings over time.
From 1948 to 1952, when American production of atomic weapons first ramped up, waves of UFO sightings began to emerge at the Hanford nuclear production complex in Washington state, as well as at Los Alamos and other sites for the Manhattan Project.
Hastings’ recent claims come just weeks after new government records revealed other waves of UFOs near military sites, including Joint Base Langley-Eustis (pictured).
“What we know now is that within the Air Force for the first seven to ten years they sincerely believed it was the Russians,” Hancock told DailyMail.com.
“And when they couldn’t prove that,” he said, “the situation became very political.”
Beginning in 1952, their study found that cases of UFOs exploring near active nuclear weapons took priority, with a wave of sightings around the United States’ new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) beginning in the 1960s.
“When you get to those ICBM bases, about 1965 to 1975, these things were happening at night,” Hancock said.
And they are much more intrusive. “They are at a very low altitude, they penetrate the security perimeters of the base,” he added.
Hastings’ recent claims come just weeks after new government records revealed other UFO surges near military sites, including 17 nights in December 2023, when swarms of UFOs were tracked over Joint Base Langley-Eustis.
These brazen penetrations over Langley, home to at least half of the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, led to two weeks of emergency meetings at the White House.
To date, the mysterious Langley UFOs have eluded identification by the Pentagon, police and even NASA’s high-altitude research plane, the WB-57F, called in to investigate.
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), who led the mission to shoot down the infamous Chinese spy balloon in February 2023, described the Langley wave as unlike any other known case.
“If there are unknown objects in North America,” General VanHerck told the Wall Street Journal, “go out and identify them.”
Chris Mellon, a former Pentagon security official, told DailyMail.com last week that UFOs were “swarms of smaller craft” released by “motherships.”
He explained that this was “part of a much broader pattern affecting numerous national security facilities.”
“Two of the notable aspects,” he said, “are the fact that our drone signal jamming devices have proven to be ineffective and these craft are making no effort to remain hidden.”
Mellon told DailyMail.com: “I don’t make any claims about their origin, perhaps many are Chinese drones.”
“(But) in some cases,” Mellon was at pains to emphasize, “it’s clear they want to be seen as making fun of us.”