At an unusual press conference recently held in Washington, D.C., a UFO author and a half-dozen or so former U.S. military airmen asserted that "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it." They claim that since 1948, extraterrestrials in spaceships have not only been visiting Earth but hovering over British and American nuclear missile sites and temporarily deactivating the weapons.

UFO author Robert Hastings, who organized the news conference, said, "I believe - these gentlemen believe - that this planet is being visited by beings from another world, who for whatever reason have taken an interest in the nuclear arms race."

Hastings claims that a global conspiracy exists in which all major governments have been covering up evidence of UFOs for decades. [Top 10 Conspiracy Theories]

Despite claims that the airmen were "breaking their silence," there was very little new information presented at the press conference; in fact many of the UFO reports they cited date back 30 or 40 years, and had appeared in magazine articles, books, and websites. Instead of any new evidence or real proof they offered merely a rehashing of old, discredited reports that didn't yield any significant evidence when they were originally reported decades ago.

These "revelations" in fact raise more questions than they answer.

For example, if extraterrestrial intelligences have been watching over humanity and are so concerned about nuclear weapons, why didn't they prevent the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II? Preventing those bombs from exploding - instead of demonstrating the atom's awesome destructive power to the world - could have been a much more effective way to head off a nuclear arms race.

Furthermore, the point of the press conference is muddled in contradictions. On one hand, the stated purpose was to encourage governments of the world to finally publically admit that they are aware of aliens, presumably because they pose a threat to national security. On the other hand, the larger message seems to be not to worry about nuclear proliferation, because our alien space brothers will take care of us and avert any potential nuclear attacks (at least in the US and UK -no word on if the aliens are concerned about Iran's nukes).

If that's true, then the aliens would not really be a threat to national security since they seem to be playing galactic peacekeepers.

The information presented at the press conference is only the most recent in a long line of similar claims.

UFO folklore and reports - especially from the 1960s and 1970s - often contained supposed messages from our peace-loving and ecologically aware space brothers warning us quarrelsome and destructive earthlings to treat the planet better and seek world peace. That is undoubtedly good advice (regardless of whether its origin is terrestrial or extraterrestrial) though if Hastings and his colleagues are right, the aliens - if they exist - may have everything under control.

We are close to disclosher very close its already began

I think thats AWESOME if its true,, someone has some sense after all to know the warring and fighting is pointless....

During the Cold War (sometime in the early 80's of it) UFOs blasted the caps off of two nuclear missle silos, one in the US and one in the USSR....on the same day. Maybe they will stop us from totally ruining this planet...one would hope...or maybe they are just preserving their food..lol.

been a rash of UFOs in china recently too.... too cool if it's true

Sorry, been hearing that for so long...not sure if it will happen anytime soon. The problem is that so many humans are religious and would freak out. Not sure people could handle the truth.

We'll see...maybe.

actually, there was one reported today in china, posted on yahoos front page news

try watching the "disclosure project" on youtube. if that vast of government doesnt convince you, nothing will!

yea, this was a side-post from that...but that film looked the one from a month ago

can you post a link please?

Let us face two facts here...

One: the universe is HUGE. The sheer number of stars and the mechanics of the universe would mean that if life sprang up here it could and would spring up in other places. Life is an innate characteristic of this universe. Earth isn't the only place in this universe to harbor life and possibly life that had a chance to enjoy a long history of evolution and also evolving to be smart enough to not risk annihilating themselves over some stupid BS like the power games we play among our selves!

Two: if aliens REALLY REALLY wanted to take over all they would have to do is nudge a couple of big asteroids onto a collision course with the earth and wait five years to take over so the damage has a chance to settle down and the smell of all the death to go away after they wipe everything out with the resulting dust cloud blacking out the planet. All it would take is two full weeks of planetary darkness to kill EVERYTHING on earth. No need for nukes.


If anything the reason they are so keen on our Nukes is the fact that they can pollute this planet so badly! If I did meet a real alien I would apologize to them for the rest of my species being such idiots and thank them for their patience with us! I am very certain they are watching us and have been for a very long time.

Our society at large may still not be able to grapple with the reality of not being the only ones in the universe. Until we arise from our homocentralism we will never be ready to go into the stars!

I agree. "Threat to national security"? Like if the governments disclosed any information on them that would pretty much do jack squat. Being that have mastered space travel could pretty much kick the crap out of us whenever they wanted. I'm just hoping the aliens turn out to be sex starved amazon space women like in the movies!

it's more of a matter of feasibility right now... as a race, we are to young

The reports in china are true their is footage out their of all the shut downs at the airports look it up u might have to dig but its their

Supposedly a military test (given as an answer).

But wouldn't be kinda stupid to test military aircraft too close to a commercial airport?...ya think? I don't buy that explanation.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/new-sighting-of-ufo-over-china-22306325

they said that 4 months ago, a rocket fired in turkey or somewhere...
i didn't buy it then either...

I recall a story about a UFO sometime in 1967 that disabled one of our nuclear missles at the missle siloh in North Dakota.

It had the military on edge for a couple of hours.

yea, thats what they are talking about...can't wait to meet an alien

It's the same aliens behind 9/11!