U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by

Unidentified Aerial Objects

by PR Newswire

Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles

Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby.  Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality.

One of them, ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, was on duty during one missile disruption incident at  Malmstrom Air Force Base and was ordered to never discuss it.  Another participant, retired Col. Charles Halt, observed a disc-shaped object directing beams of light down into the RAF Bentwaters airbase in England and heard  on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area. Both men will provide stunning details about these events, and reveal how the U.S. military responded.

Captain Salas notes, "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it." Col. Halt adds, "I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted—both then and now—to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation."

The group of witnesses and a leading researcher, who has brought them together for the first time, will discuss the national security implications of these and other alarmingly similar incidents and will urge the government to reveal all information about them. This is a public-awareness issue.

Declassified U.S. government documents, to be distributed at the event, now substantiate the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites extending back to 1948. The press conference will also address present-day concerns about the abuse of government secrecy as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons.


WHO: 


Dwynne Arneson, USAF Lt. Col. Ret., communications center officer-in-charge

Bruce Fenstermacher, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

Charles Halt, USAF Col. Ret., former deputy base commander

Robert Hastings, researcher and author

Robert Jamison, former USAF nuclear missile targeting officer

Patrick McDonough, former USAF nuclear missile site geodetic surveyor

Jerome Nelson, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer

Robert Salas, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer



WHAT: 


Noted researcher Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, will moderate a distinguished panel of former U.S. Air Force officers involved in UFO incidents at  nuclear missile sites near Malmstrom, F.E. Warren, and Walker AFBs, as well as the nuclear weapons depot at RAF Bentwaters.


WHEN: 


Monday, September 27, 2010 12:30 p.m.


WHERE: 


National Press Club

Holeman Lounge

Event open to credentialed media and Congressional staff only


SOURCE Former U.S. Air Force Officer Robert Salas, and Researcher Robert Hastings

Persian Gulf states in $123 billion U.S. arms spree

Persian Gulf states in $123 billion U.S. arms spree

By staff and agencies

The U.S. plans to sell F-16 jet fighters to Oman and F-15 jets to Saudi Arabia.

LONDON/ABU DHABI - The Arab states of the Persian Gulf have embarked on one of the largest rearmament exercises in peacetime history, ordering U.S. weapons worth some $123 billion, providing a huge boost to the U.S. military industrial complex.

A package of U.S. arms worth more than $67 billon for Saudi Arabia accounts for the largest single component of this military buildup, The Financial Times reported.

The first phase of this agreement -- soon to go before the U.S. Congress for approval -- is estimated at about $30 billion.

Anthony Cordesman, from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that the U.S. was aiming to achieve a “new post-Iraq war security structure that can secure the flow of energy exports to the global economy”.

The arms sales would “reinforce the level of regional deterrence and help reduce the size of forces the U.S. must deploy in the region”.

The purchase of new weaponry comes at a time when the United States’ defense industry bore the brunt of global economic crisis.

More than eight million U.S. jobs were lost in the slump that was triggered by dodgy Wall Street mortgage investments. The economists warned of a double-dip recession in the United States.

Saudi Arabia will receive 85 new F-15 jet fighters and another 70 will be upgraded. Boeing will be the principal supplier, allowing the U.S. company to strengthen its ability to manufacture advanced military jets, an area where it has been slipping under competitive pressure. A successor agreement is expected to provide for the upgrade of radar and missile defense systems and an ambitious modernization of the Saudi Navy’s eastern fleet, Financial Times’ report by Roula Khalaf in London and James Drummond in Abu Dhabi said.

“The Saudi aim is to send a message especially to the Iranians -- that we have complete aerial superiority over them,” said a Saudi defense analyst.

Other U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf are also involved. Theodore Karasik, from the Institute for Near East and (Persian) Gulf Military Analysis in Dubai, said that the United Arab Emirates had signed contracts to buy military equipment worth $35 billion-$40 billion.

The UAE has received clearance to buy Thaad, a high altitude missile defense system being developed by Lockheed Martin. The UAE and Kuwait have each signed contracts for upgrades to their Patriot missile defense systems, developed by Raytheon, which cover lower levels of an air defense “curtain”.

Elsewhere, Oman is expected to spend $12 billion and Kuwait $7 billion in the period until the end of 2014 on replacing and upgrading warplanes and new command and control systems, according to Blenheim Capital Partners, a consultancy that arranges offset deals. Oman’s package will include 18 new F-16 jet fighters and upgrades for another 12. This will benefit Lockheed Martin, reinforcing its position as the leading U.S. manufacturer of warplanes.

The total value of all U.S. arms deals with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Kuwait is estimated at $122.88 billion over the next four years.

Grant Rogan, Blenheim’s chief executive, said that Middle Eastern and south-east Asian countries had traditionally bought arms on a one-off basis. But now they were replacing western Europeans as some of the biggest regular arms purchasers. “They are the big buyers,” he said.