The internet is awash with videos that appear to show UFOs flying near high-speed aircraft, warheads and even nuclear reactors, and experts have an alarming theory about why these locations are being targeted.
In 1976, British Airways aired an advertisement for its Concorde flight in which an orb-shaped UFO hurtles toward the plane at incredibly high speed, seemingly scans the plane, and then accelerates away.
The unconfirmed UFO sighting that has resurfaced on Reddit UFO Subchannelwhere purported craft videos are shared, debunked, or upvoted if deemed legitimate, is one of many that showcases the strange, almost inquisitive behavior of these unknown objects.
In June 2022, at the Queen’s Jubilee, the longest-serving royal monarch was honoured by a group of nine fighter jets spewing plumes of smoke in the red, white and blue colours of the Union Jack, and an unidentified disc.
Although it has been circulated in the media, a clear answer has never been given as to what it is about.
In 1976, British Airways aired an advertisement for its Concorde flight in which an orb-shaped UFO hurtles toward the plane at incredibly high speed, seemingly scans the plane, and then accelerates away.
In June 2022, at the Queen’s Jubilee, the longest-serving royal monarch was honoured by a group of nine fighter jets spewing plumes of smoke in the red, white and blue colours of the Union Jack, and an unidentified disc.
Even more curious are the nearly dozen UFOs that appeared over Japan’s Fukushima laboratory after its nuclear disaster in 2011. Witnesses told the Netflix documentary series Encounters that the UFOs saved them by reducing radioactivity levels.
Local media captured several glowing white orbs above the plant — extremely similar to previous cases — diving into the lab before emerging again, in a sort of assembly line.
In pop culture, the History Channel show The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch has featured dozens upon dozens of similar UFOs over its five seasons, with many of them appearing after its scientists have tested a rocket in the air.
Skeptics have offered a litany of explanations for these various phenomena, from insects to balloons. But for researchers who have dedicated their lives to this phenomenon, there is much more to these videos than meets the eye.
The question arises: Do UFOs approach high-speed aircraft because they are concerned that they contain nuclear capability?
Experts in the field have already analyzed similar behavior as evidence that whatever is up there cares about us, especially when it comes to the prospect of blowing us up with nuclear weapons.
Dozens of UFOs appeared over Japan’s Fukushima laboratory after its nuclear disaster in 2011. Witnesses told Netflix documentary series Encounters that the UFOs saved them by reducing radioactivity levels.
UFO sightings over America’s nuclear arsenal seemed to divert its interest from bomb-making to bomber silos and bases as the Cold War arms race escalated (above)
UFO activity and nuclear devices and sites have been intertwined since the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945, and the phenomenon has been observed by both civilians and military personnel.
“All of the nuclear facilities — Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River — had dramatic incidents where these unknown craft appeared over the facilities and nobody knew where they were from or what they were doing there,” said investigative journalist George Knapp. History.com.
Former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Lue Elizondo, agreed that “there seems to be a lot of correlation” between UFO sightings and nuclear sites.
And independent researcher Robert Hastings, who has been working to achieve full disclosure of UAP activity by the government, said in 2010: “Declassified U.S. government documents and testimony from former or retired U.S. military personnel confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt the reality of continued UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites.”
Now, new research, in the form of three studies Led by a retired US Air Force sergeant, Larry Hancockand data analyst affiliated with Harvard’s UFO-hunting Project Galileo, Ian Porritt — shows that not only has there been unusual activity around nuclear weapons and facilities, but that it has changed over the years.
At first, the UFOs seemed interested in nuclear weapons production, but later they began appearing around silos and bomber bases.
“You saw this interest” in the silos when they were being installed before “activity slowed down,” Porritt previously told DailyMail.com.
Independent researcher Robert Hastings (pictured), who has been working to achieve full government disclosure of UAP activity, said in 2010: “Declassified US government documents and witness testimony from retired or ex-military US military personnel confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt the reality of continued UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites.”
These patterns in the historical UFO record, according to the researchers, were also accompanied by another clear trend: As UFOs increasingly appeared over sites armed and prepared with nuclear weapons, the apparent craft also began to appear more at night (above).
And when a new arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles was built in the 1960s, UFOs became “much more intrusive” in their approach to ICBM bases, Porritt said. “They fly at very low altitudes and penetrate the security perimeters of the base.”
Two Air Force veterans previously told DailyMail.com that they testified before the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in June 2023 that UFOs turned off their nuclear warheads.
On top of that, former U.S. Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile launch officer Robert Salas said the AARO contacted him via email to gather information after he said an orange flying disc stopped 10 warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in 1967.
Despite extensive investigations by the military, no conclusion was reached, but not before Salas said he was forced by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations to sign a confidentiality agreement on the matter.
This echoes what former US Air Force First Lieutenant Robert Jacobs said happened in 1964, when a UFO “defused” an unarmed warhead in 1964.
Former USAF 1st Lt. Robert Jacobs, pictured bottom row center, with his crew
“Remember, this whole thing is going thousands of miles an hour. So this thing shoots a beam of light at the warhead, hits it, and then moves up… shoots another beam of light… comes down and shoots another beam of light and then flies out the way it came in. And the warhead tumbles out of space,” he said in a 2000 interview.
Jacobs said he was later told “never to speak of this encounter again.”
Eerily similar to these encounters are cases of UAP following fighter aircraft that were revealed by the UAP Task Force, including a giant “Tic Tac” UFO witnessed by veteran Navy fighter pilot Commander David Fravor in 2004.
Like the other craft pictured above, Fravor’s co-pilot Chad Underwood witnessed the “perfectly white” wingless oblong captured on flight video from his cockpit.
Given the shared similarities, there appears to be a connection between UFO behavior towards aircraft and nuclear weapons, and it may stem from the same reason.