- 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, http://www.ufohastings.com.
A more comprehensive summary may be found in my 600-page book UFOs and
Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The Life Article:
- UFO Hacked Nuclear Codes
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- Russia and the USA were on the brink of nuclear war because
of UFO attacks on military bases where nuclear missiles were on alert.
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- 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.
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- 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!"
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- The Report
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- 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 [suddenly] lit up, indicating the missiles were preparing to launch
toward their strategic targets.
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- 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.
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- [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."
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- USA
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- 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."
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- END OF ONLINE ARTICLE
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- In the hardcopy (print) article that Life circulated
within Russia last week, additional material was published by the newspaper.
Reporter/writer Kornienko sent me that version of the article in both Russian
and Google-translated English. Among the comments appearing in it were
these:
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- My Take
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- 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.
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- --Inessa Kornienko
- Life Reporter
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