- Note - This story appeared as a featured
net posting by USA Today
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- BATON ROUGE, La. -- Robert Hastings was 16 years old when he saw his first
UFO.
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- He was living on an Air Force base with
his family when he noticed five "unidentified aerial targets"
in the night sky.
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- "I saw them hover and ascend vertically
at high speeds when the base sent missiles after them," Hastings said.
"An important thing to understand is where they were hovering ...
over nuclear missile sites."
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- Hastings addressed students and faculty
at the Union Tuesday with his "Hidden Mystery" presentation.
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- He said the sighting impacted his life
significantly, prompting him to spend the past 30 years researching the
UFO phenomenon, he said.
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- "The experience made a big impression
on me," he said.
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- Hastings has traveled to over 500 universities
across the country in order to raise awareness of UFO sightings and the
numerous government records documenting these events.
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- "The military says sightings are
reported all the time. This is not something to be taken lightly,"
Hastings said.
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- "I am not a missionary. I am not
seeking to convert non-believers. I just want to tell people that this
is real," he added.
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- The Freedom of Information Act has enabled
UFO researchers to uncover approximately 30,000 pages of once classified
government information.
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- "These are the real X-Files,"
Hastings said.
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- Despite repeated denials by the U.S.
government for the past half-century, documents report military sightings
of UFOs and even declared the situation a national security matter, according
to Hastings.
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- "The documents basically say the
Air Force and the government believe UFOs exist," he said.
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- The researcher presented a 30-minute
film which he narrated and listed UFO-related events from the 1920s until
present.
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- The film also included actual photographs,
excerpts from government documents, and touched upon the controversial
topic of alien abductions.
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- "The only ticket to admission this
evening is an open mind," Hastings said before beginning the film.
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- A "wave" of UFO sightings began
in 1947 with Americans from each state, except for Georgia, claiming to
see saucers hovering for periods of time before flying away at high speeds.
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- Military personnel also reported unidentified
objects hovering over top-secret missile sites and atomic weapon development
centers, according to the film.
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- Increased public pressure on the U.S.
government resulted in the Pentagon stating the objects were actually falling
meteors, flattened hailstones or reflections on clouds.
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- "People described the objects as
being shiny, metallic-looking, domed on top and made absolutely no sound,"
Hastings said.
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- The government developed Project Sign
in 1948, stating people were seeing "interplanetary space ships examining
our world for some unknown reason."
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- A startling event took place several
years later when radar detected a flying object invading the restricted
air space over the White House. The military sent planes to chase the craft
but if flew away at speeds up to 7,000 miles an hour.
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- The Pentagon called it "an atmospheric
illusion caused by the weather."
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- After this incident, JANAP 146, a government
organization, required military and commercial airline pilots to report
any sightings immediately, at which point missiles would be sent to intercept
the target.
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- Reports of alien abduction began surfacing
during the 1960s, when the story of Betty and Barnie Hill becoming widely
known, Hastings said.
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- The couple claimed to be driving along
a New Hampshire road when they heard beeping sounds, grew tired and then
lost almost two hours of time with no memory of what had happened.
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- Time-regression hypnosis revealed the
couple's experience being of taken from their car into a spaceship where
they were medically examined and held conversations with the aliens.
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- Over 50 abduction cases have been reported
in the past 30 years with many people claiming the aliens told them they
were slowly preparing for the day to reveal themselves to the world and
to not be afraid because their intentions were not hostile, according to
Hastings.
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- Soon after the release of the Hill story,
the biggest power failure ever recorded took place in New York. Citizens
reported seeing UFOs prior to the disaster and blamed them for the blackout,
he said.
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- City officials claimed a broken circuit
in a Canadian power plant to be the actual problem but it was later revealed
the circuit was actually tripped by a tremendous surge of power, he said.
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- Another top-secret UFO event was revealed
in 1990 concerning a 1947 UFO crash.
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- Residents in Roswell, New Mexico, had
reported a crash which left metallic debris scattered over a mile long.
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- Military personnel described the debris
as being "peculiar, shiny, extremely light material which would not
dent or bend," Hastings said.
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- Over 200 officers have publicly reported
the material being flown to several military bases, including several boxes
containing possible dead alien beings.
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- The military declared a faulty weather
balloon was the source of the crashed object but this explanation remains
debated, he said.
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- Hastings concluded his presentation with
a slide show showing excerpts from several official government documents.
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- "UFOs do exist. They are real,"
he said. "The government has been untruthful and the cover-up is massive."
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- Source: http://www.usatoday.com/uwire/offbeat112098009.htm
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- Further Information
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- From Stig Agermose <Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk
- 11-22-98
-
- I posted this item to the IUFO mailing list, too, resulting
in two
- follow-ups, one of which identified the location of Hastings'
experience.
- URL: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/media/mailing/archive/iufo/msg01069.shtml
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- Stig
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- IUFO Mailing List
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- Re: UFOS OVER NUKE SITE TARGETS OF MISSILES?
-
- From: "Jim K"
- Subject: Re: IUFO: UFOS OVER NUKE SITE TARGETS OF MISSILES?
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 09:26:51 -0800
-
- Ash and all..
-
- The incident you mention re the 2 flights of missiles
being shutdown is
- the case I have been assisting Robert Salas with for
about 4 years now.
- A short telling of the case with some documentation
is available at:
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- http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm
-
- This case was indeed the subject of a Sightings episode
wherein Mr.
- Salas and Don Crawford, both ex-USAF missileers involved
with the
- missile shutdown incidents, were reunited. The reason
these courageous
- men felt free to speak is that USAF has declassified
the fact that
- missile shutdowns did occur. I was able, after a lengthy
FOIA effort,
- to obtain this confirmation and also get some other related
material
- declassified and released. No official admission of UFOs
over the
- Malmstrom sites was obtained, which should not surprise
anyone here,
- but many witnesses we have been able to contact confirm
the events.
- Official USAF documentation does exist of many UFO/nuclear
base
- incidents, one of which was also over a Minuteman base
- Minot AFB -
- just a few months prior to the Malmstrom incidents.
-
- Please note that as far as we can tell, no re-targeting
of missiles was
- involved in the Malmstrom missile shutdown events. An
uncorroborated
- story to this effect came through Linda Moulton Howe.
Note also that I
- am not saying that this did not happen, or impugning
Ms. Howe, just
- that the story is uncorroborated at this time.
-
- Mr. Salas and I have spoken with Mr. Hastings in the
course of our
- investigation. His experience was indeed at Malmstrom
AFB in about the
- right time frame to correlate with the incidents we are
researching.
-
- I would be appreciative of any new information anyone
may have related
- to the Malmstrom incidents of March 1967, or of other
UFO/nuclear cases.
-
- Thanks...
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- From: Ashley Rye <ashleyry@netcomuk.co.uk
- To: iufo@world.std.com
- Subject: Re: IUFO: UFOS OVER NUKE SITE TARGETS OF MISSILES?
- Date: Saturday, November 21, 1998 4:51 AM
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- - IUFO Mailing List
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- At 12:32 21/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
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- The military declared a faulty weather balloon was the
source of the
- crashed object but this explanation remains debated,
he said.
-
- <SNIP
-
-
- As regards UFOs 'not being a security issue' there is
the well
- documented case of two nuclear missile silos rendered
inoperative by
- UFOs at the same time, and then returning to normal,
as portrayed on
- 'Sightings'. The individuals in charge of the bases,
no longer
- encumbered by the thirty year rule, if I remember correctly,
felt free
- to speak openly about this incident for the first time
without fear of
- prosecution, and are now the best of friends.
-
- Ash
-
- <SNIP
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- - Posted by: "Jim K" <jimklotz@foxinternet.net
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