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Why so many UFOs near nuclear facilities?
July 7, 2019
We should not worry about overtaking Iran, because they are certainly already well monitored ... Indeed, it started in the 1940s, near the atomic bomb development sites. More recently, something has harassed the strike groups of nuclear carriers.
Why are there so many reports of UFOs near nuclear facilities - and why does the government not have more urgency to assess their potential threat to national security ?
These are questions posed by a team of former US defense and intelligence officials, aerospace veterans, academics, and others associated with the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
The team investigated a wide range of these observations and advocated for more serious government attention.
Their investigations are the subject of HISTORY's limited series "Unidentified".
Throughout history, unexplained aerial phenomena have shocked, frightened and fascinated observers of the sky. And in the last century, more than a few have been reported in military contexts.
At the end of the Second World War, American airmen called them "foo fighters": strange bright orange lights on the Franco-German border.
During the Korean War, soldiers claimed that "pulsed light" emitting a blue-green light made all their battles sick of what, for some, looked like radiation poisoning.
Less well-known: Over the past 75 years, US officials and intelligence services have also reported NAPs near sites associated with nuclear power, weapons and technology, early development sites, and test sites. the atomic bomb to the fleets of active nuclear ships.
"All the nuclear facilities - Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River - have all had dramatic incidents where these unknown devices appeared above the facilities and no one knew where they came from or what they were doing there. down, "said investigative journalist George Knapp. who has been studying the UAP-nuclear connection for over 30 years. Knapp has compiled documents by filing Freedom of Information Act applications with the Departments of Defense and Energy.
"There seems to be a lot of correlation there," said Lue Elizondo, who from 2007 to 2012 led a secret team of UAP researchers operating within the Ministry of Defense.
The program, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), received $ 22 million from the Pentagon's $ 600 billion budget in 2012, the New York Times reported. Elizondo is now helping to lead the investigations of To the Stars.
The UFO-nuclear connection began at the dawn of the atomic era.
Adjacent nuclear observations date back several decades, says Robert Hastings, UFO researcher and author of the book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Meetings on Nuclear Weapon Sites. Hastings says he interviewed over 160 veterans who witnessed strange things in the skies around nuclear sites.
"Some objects tracked by radar operate at speeds that no earthly object can reach," says Hastings.
"You have [military] eyewitnesses. You have jet aircraft pilots. "
Witnesses of these incidents are often highly qualified personnel with maximum security clearance. In recent years, their reports are corroborated by sophisticated technology.
In late 1948, "green fireballs" were reported in the skies near nuclear laboratories in Los Alamos and Sandia, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was developed and tested.
A declassified FBI 1950 document mentions "flying saucers" measuring nearly 20 meters in diameter near the Los Alamos laboratories. Knapp interviewed more than a dozen workers at the Nevada desert atomic test site, where dozens of A bombs exploded in the years following the Second World War. He says they told him that the UFO activity was so commonplace there that employees were assigned to monitor the activity.
In the 1960s and 1970s, repeated UFO sightings occurred at the Malmstrom Air Base in Montana, a nuclear-far-end intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) storage facility.
In one of these presumed sightings in 1967, former Air Force Captain Robert Salas stated that several of these missiles had become inoperative at the same time the base security reported seeing a glowing object, about 30 feet in diameter, hovering above the installation.
Salas, who commanded intercontinental ballistic missiles as a launching officer and later worked in the aerospace and Federal Aviation Administration sectors, told CNN that "the missiles were starting to get into what the we call a "no-fly" condition or an incredible condition. "
Observers can only speculate on the origin of these unexplained phenomena. But the repeated proximity of sensitive defense sites linked to the most powerful weapons in our country has raised the question of whether they could come from known or unknown adversaries.
The Benthingyers-Rendlesham Forest Incident
In late December 1980, air traffic controllers were faced with an alarming problem near Benthingyers of the Royal Air Force in England. Used by the US Air Force as a European base during the Cold War, Benthingyers housed a secret nuclear weapons store in 25 fortified underground bunkers.
"We looked up on the radar and saw something ... that looked nothing like what I had seen before," Ivan Barker, US Air Force Air Traffic Controller told HISTORY.com working that night.
Barker, a second sergeant-in-command at the facility, said he was an 18-year-old veteran at the time and knew "all US, NATO and US aircraft Soviet ". This object shocked him, he said. and his two colleagues that night with his remarkable speed and maneuverability. On the radar, he traveled 120 miles in seconds, he said: "He had to move Mach 5, 6, 7 or 8, faster than anything else than a missile.
As he looked up from the radar to look directly at it, the craft approached, slowed down and then stopped over the water tower at the base: "Like a hovering helicopter, except that a helicopter allows you to move up and down. It was motionless. It was between about 1500 and 2000 feet tall. The thing was ... at least a block away ... in diameter.
Barker says it looked like a giant basketball, with portholes around the center, from which lights emanated. "I was shocked ... there was nothing aerodynamic about it. Basketball balls do not fly.
Newspaper headlines recounting the UFO report in the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England.
Geography Photos / Universal Images Group / Getty Images.
Il s’est arrêté au-dessus du château d’eau pendant seulement quelques secondes, a-t-il dit, avant de changer de cap et de revenir à la vitesse d’arrivée: « C’était comme – swish! … ça a disparu. »
Barker n’a pas signalé l’observation à ses supérieurs. «Vous ne comprenez pas ce que l’armée de l’air a fait aux personnes qui ont signalé des ovnis», dit-il.
Barker's story joins that of Colonel Charles Halt, deputy commander of Benthingyers at the time.
Halt led a patrol that night to investigate strange colored lights seen in the nearby forest of Rendlesham. Halt described to Elizondo what he had seen from inside the forest: a red light moving horizontally through the trees, "obviously under a sort of intelligent control." I was literally in shock.
Then, the beam source quickly left and headed north towards the base, said Halt, who recorded the event on audio tape. "We could hear rumors on the radio that the beams had descended into the weapons storage area. "
Later, his commander played the audio for a general, who dismissed the need for further investigation. They were reluctant to get involved, Halt said.
Marine Observations in the Atlantic and the Pacific
In recent years, unidentified aerial phenomena have been observed in the US Navy.
F-18 fighter pilots from USS Theodore Roosevelt's nuclear-powered strike group attended PANs almost daily for several months between summer 2014 and spring 2015, while Training maneuvers along the east coast between Virginia and Florida, witnesses told Elizondo.
"Wherever they were, they were there," says Ryan Graves, an active F-18 fighter pilot with USS Roosevelt, a graduate in aerospace engineering.
The objects appeared in three forms, says Graves: some were disks, others looked like a cube inside a sphere, while smaller round objects flew together in formation. All lacked visible engines or exhaust systems.
An infrared video published by the US Department of Defense in 2017 reveals some inclinations like tops in mid-flight. Graves and another F-18 pilot, Danny Accoin, confirm this video, as well as another published by the government. , had been shot down by fellow Roosevelt pilots in the air.
A craft, says Grave, almost caused a terrifying collision by slipping dangerously between two planes. An aviation safety report has been filed, he says, but has never been investigated.
Graves explains that unidentified objects reappeared once the Roosevelt was deployed as part of its mission to the Persian Gulf.
"It is difficult to find a prosaic explanation for a tactical group of operators besieged by an unidentified aircraft crossing the Atlantic in an overseas operations area in the Middle East," said Chris Mellon, former undersecretary. American Defense for Intelligence, Deputy in the United States. during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, who are now part of the To The Stars team. "This is an extremely convincing argument for the existence of technologies that we thought impossible. "
Leon Golub, lead astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Center, told the New York Times that there may be several "unlikely" prosaic explanations for Roosevelt's observations. They include "bugs in [radar] code for imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections [and] neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight."
Nevertheless, the Roosevelt reports echo those of the navy pilots who participated in training exercises on the other side of the country.
In November 2004, USS Nimitz aircraft carrier pilots and radar operators saw a tick-flying object flying over the ocean as it flew 150 km off the coast of California. near San Diego. When the F-18 fighter jets were scrambled to approach the object, they accelerated, easily overtaking the Navy's supersonic ship.
Increasing attention to the subject
While previous reports were "career killers" for military personnel, the Pentagon and Capitol are increasingly open to viewing these sightings as a potential threat.
In April 2019, the US Navy announced that it was updating its guidance on how pilots and personnel should report unexplained airborne phenomena, allowing members to report sightings to their superiors without encountering stigma and professional reactions. And Congress, starting with former senatorial majority leader Harry Reid, has shown more interest in being informed.
George Knapp says it's more activity than he has seen in three decades. He and many others think it's too late.
"At the facilities where we designed and built the nuclear weapon ... at the places where we were processing the fuel ... at the facilities where we were testing the weapons ... at the bases where we deployed these weapons, on board the ships ... the nuclear submarines ... All these places, all the people who work there have seen these things, "says Knapp.
"Are they all crazy? He continued. "Because if they are, they should not have their hands on nuclear weapons. "
www.history.com/news/ufos-near-nuclear-facilities-uss-roosevelt-rendlesham
source and the site: www.elishean.fr/
Copyright Hathor © Elishean / 2009-2019 / Elishean mag
F I N .
Why so many UFOs near nuclear facilities?
July 7, 2019
We should not worry about overtaking Iran, because they are certainly already well monitored ... Indeed, it started in the 1940s, near the atomic bomb development sites. More recently, something has harassed the strike groups of nuclear carriers.
Why are there so many reports of UFOs near nuclear facilities - and why does the government not have more urgency to assess their potential threat to national security ?
These are questions posed by a team of former US defense and intelligence officials, aerospace veterans, academics, and others associated with the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
The team investigated a wide range of these observations and advocated for more serious government attention.
Their investigations are the subject of HISTORY's limited series "Unidentified".
Throughout history, unexplained aerial phenomena have shocked, frightened and fascinated observers of the sky. And in the last century, more than a few have been reported in military contexts.
At the end of the Second World War, American airmen called them "foo fighters": strange bright orange lights on the Franco-German border.
During the Korean War, soldiers claimed that "pulsed light" emitting a blue-green light made all their battles sick of what, for some, looked like radiation poisoning.
Less well-known: Over the past 75 years, US officials and intelligence services have also reported NAPs near sites associated with nuclear power, weapons and technology, early development sites, and test sites. the atomic bomb to the fleets of active nuclear ships.
"All the nuclear facilities - Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River - have all had dramatic incidents where these unknown devices appeared above the facilities and no one knew where they came from or what they were doing there. down, "said investigative journalist George Knapp. who has been studying the UAP-nuclear connection for over 30 years. Knapp has compiled documents by filing Freedom of Information Act applications with the Departments of Defense and Energy.
"There seems to be a lot of correlation there," said Lue Elizondo, who from 2007 to 2012 led a secret team of UAP researchers operating within the Ministry of Defense.
The program, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), received $ 22 million from the Pentagon's $ 600 billion budget in 2012, the New York Times reported. Elizondo is now helping to lead the investigations of To the Stars.
The UFO-nuclear connection began at the dawn of the atomic era.
Adjacent nuclear observations date back several decades, says Robert Hastings, UFO researcher and author of the book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Meetings on Nuclear Weapon Sites. Hastings says he interviewed over 160 veterans who witnessed strange things in the skies around nuclear sites.
"Some objects tracked by radar operate at speeds that no earthly object can reach," says Hastings.
"You have [military] eyewitnesses. You have jet aircraft pilots. "
Witnesses of these incidents are often highly qualified personnel with maximum security clearance. In recent years, their reports are corroborated by sophisticated technology.
In late 1948, "green fireballs" were reported in the skies near nuclear laboratories in Los Alamos and Sandia, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was developed and tested.
A declassified FBI 1950 document mentions "flying saucers" measuring nearly 20 meters in diameter near the Los Alamos laboratories. Knapp interviewed more than a dozen workers at the Nevada desert atomic test site, where dozens of A bombs exploded in the years following the Second World War. He says they told him that the UFO activity was so commonplace there that employees were assigned to monitor the activity.
In the 1960s and 1970s, repeated UFO sightings occurred at the Malmstrom Air Base in Montana, a nuclear-far-end intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) storage facility.
In one of these presumed sightings in 1967, former Air Force Captain Robert Salas stated that several of these missiles had become inoperative at the same time the base security reported seeing a glowing object, about 30 feet in diameter, hovering above the installation.
Salas, who commanded intercontinental ballistic missiles as a launching officer and later worked in the aerospace and Federal Aviation Administration sectors, told CNN that "the missiles were starting to get into what the we call a "no-fly" condition or an incredible condition. "
Observers can only speculate on the origin of these unexplained phenomena. But the repeated proximity of sensitive defense sites linked to the most powerful weapons in our country has raised the question of whether they could come from known or unknown adversaries.
The Benthingyers-Rendlesham Forest Incident
In late December 1980, air traffic controllers were faced with an alarming problem near Benthingyers of the Royal Air Force in England. Used by the US Air Force as a European base during the Cold War, Benthingyers housed a secret nuclear weapons store in 25 fortified underground bunkers.
"We looked up on the radar and saw something ... that looked nothing like what I had seen before," Ivan Barker, US Air Force Air Traffic Controller told HISTORY.com working that night.
Barker, a second sergeant-in-command at the facility, said he was an 18-year-old veteran at the time and knew "all US, NATO and US aircraft Soviet ". This object shocked him, he said. and his two colleagues that night with his remarkable speed and maneuverability. On the radar, he traveled 120 miles in seconds, he said: "He had to move Mach 5, 6, 7 or 8, faster than anything else than a missile.
As he looked up from the radar to look directly at it, the craft approached, slowed down and then stopped over the water tower at the base: "Like a hovering helicopter, except that a helicopter allows you to move up and down. It was motionless. It was between about 1500 and 2000 feet tall. The thing was ... at least a block away ... in diameter.
Barker says it looked like a giant basketball, with portholes around the center, from which lights emanated. "I was shocked ... there was nothing aerodynamic about it. Basketball balls do not fly.
Newspaper headlines recounting the UFO report in the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England.
Geography Photos / Universal Images Group / Getty Images.
Il s’est arrêté au-dessus du château d’eau pendant seulement quelques secondes, a-t-il dit, avant de changer de cap et de revenir à la vitesse d’arrivée: « C’était comme – swish! … ça a disparu. »
Barker n’a pas signalé l’observation à ses supérieurs. «Vous ne comprenez pas ce que l’armée de l’air a fait aux personnes qui ont signalé des ovnis», dit-il.
Barker's story joins that of Colonel Charles Halt, deputy commander of Benthingyers at the time.
Halt led a patrol that night to investigate strange colored lights seen in the nearby forest of Rendlesham. Halt described to Elizondo what he had seen from inside the forest: a red light moving horizontally through the trees, "obviously under a sort of intelligent control." I was literally in shock.
Then, the beam source quickly left and headed north towards the base, said Halt, who recorded the event on audio tape. "We could hear rumors on the radio that the beams had descended into the weapons storage area. "
Later, his commander played the audio for a general, who dismissed the need for further investigation. They were reluctant to get involved, Halt said.
Marine Observations in the Atlantic and the Pacific
In recent years, unidentified aerial phenomena have been observed in the US Navy.
F-18 fighter pilots from USS Theodore Roosevelt's nuclear-powered strike group attended PANs almost daily for several months between summer 2014 and spring 2015, while Training maneuvers along the east coast between Virginia and Florida, witnesses told Elizondo.
"Wherever they were, they were there," says Ryan Graves, an active F-18 fighter pilot with USS Roosevelt, a graduate in aerospace engineering.
The objects appeared in three forms, says Graves: some were disks, others looked like a cube inside a sphere, while smaller round objects flew together in formation. All lacked visible engines or exhaust systems.
An infrared video published by the US Department of Defense in 2017 reveals some inclinations like tops in mid-flight. Graves and another F-18 pilot, Danny Accoin, confirm this video, as well as another published by the government. , had been shot down by fellow Roosevelt pilots in the air.
A craft, says Grave, almost caused a terrifying collision by slipping dangerously between two planes. An aviation safety report has been filed, he says, but has never been investigated.
Graves explains that unidentified objects reappeared once the Roosevelt was deployed as part of its mission to the Persian Gulf.
"It is difficult to find a prosaic explanation for a tactical group of operators besieged by an unidentified aircraft crossing the Atlantic in an overseas operations area in the Middle East," said Chris Mellon, former undersecretary. American Defense for Intelligence, Deputy in the United States. during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, who are now part of the To The Stars team. "This is an extremely convincing argument for the existence of technologies that we thought impossible. "
Leon Golub, lead astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Center, told the New York Times that there may be several "unlikely" prosaic explanations for Roosevelt's observations. They include "bugs in [radar] code for imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections [and] neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight."
Nevertheless, the Roosevelt reports echo those of the navy pilots who participated in training exercises on the other side of the country.
In November 2004, USS Nimitz aircraft carrier pilots and radar operators saw a tick-flying object flying over the ocean as it flew 150 km off the coast of California. near San Diego. When the F-18 fighter jets were scrambled to approach the object, they accelerated, easily overtaking the Navy's supersonic ship.
Increasing attention to the subject
While previous reports were "career killers" for military personnel, the Pentagon and Capitol are increasingly open to viewing these sightings as a potential threat.
In April 2019, the US Navy announced that it was updating its guidance on how pilots and personnel should report unexplained airborne phenomena, allowing members to report sightings to their superiors without encountering stigma and professional reactions. And Congress, starting with former senatorial majority leader Harry Reid, has shown more interest in being informed.
George Knapp says it's more activity than he has seen in three decades. He and many others think it's too late.
"At the facilities where we designed and built the nuclear weapon ... at the places where we were processing the fuel ... at the facilities where we were testing the weapons ... at the bases where we deployed these weapons, on board the ships ... the nuclear submarines ... All these places, all the people who work there have seen these things, "says Knapp.
"Are they all crazy? He continued. "Because if they are, they should not have their hands on nuclear weapons. "
www.history.com/news/ufos-near-nuclear-facilities-uss-roosevelt-rendlesham
source and the site: www.elishean.fr/
Copyright Hathor © Elishean / 2009-2019 / Elishean mag
F I N .
