Ex-Air Force officer claims UFOs shut down 20 US nuclear missiles in just eight days

A former US Air Force missile launch officer has detailed terrifying moments when UFOs allegedly disabled US nuclear weapons without firing a single shot.

Robert Salas, now 85, claimed that 20 of the Army’s Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles were disabled by an unknown force that was capable of breaking through all the armor at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, in 1967.

On March 16 and 24 of that year, Salas said base guards reported seeing strange, fast-moving lights in the sky, capable of stopping and hovering instantly, and emitting a bright red glow just before U.S. ICBMs hidden underground went offline.

Salas, who was one of two officers inside the underground launch control capsule during the Cold War, added that the guards calling for help were convinced they were not Soviet planes launching an attack.

The Air Force veteran told the Danny Jones Podcast that he is convinced that intelligent, non-human civilizations visited Earth and tried to prevent World War III from causing a nuclear holocaust.

Salas said: “This is another civilization visiting us that is concerned about the destruction of this planet by nuclear war, for many reasons, some of which we probably don’t even understand.”

The former nuclear missile official added that an investigation by aerospace company Boeing could not determine what stopped the warheads, because US missile complexes were specially built to prevent such signal jamming.

“They had no idea how this signal could have been injected into each of the missiles. The wiring system we had was triple protected against electromagnetic interference from the outside,” Salas explained.

US Air Force ICBM launch officer Robert Salas (photo) testified before Congress about the UFO that disabled 10 nuclear warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base in March 1967.

Pictured: Malmstrom Air Base, home to 10 nuclear warheads that went offline after a strange craft approached the base and missile silos.

According to Salas, the first UFO sighting occurred on March 16, 1967, when 10 ICBMs were simultaneously disabled without warning by the mysterious UFO swarm.

Eight days later, Salas said the encounter began when the senior security guard called him into the underground launch control room around 10 p.m. PST to report that several strange lights were flying in the sky above the nuclear weapons base.

Guardsmen claimed these lights could reverse direction, make sharp 90-degree turns and were completely silent, producing no engine noise.

After dismissing the guard’s story, Salas would soon receive another frantic call from security saying that a pulsing reddish light was being emitted by the UFO hovering just above the front gate of Malmstrom AFB.

After ordering security to prevent the UFO from entering the missile complex, the guards reported seeing the same or similar lights hovering just above two of the missile silos about a mile from the control room.

“All of a sudden a big horn goes off and we know what that means. This means there is a problem with one of the missiles. Look at the board and sure enough, one of them has gone from green to red. No, go ahead. No launch, no launch capability,” Salas told Jones on the March 13 episode.

“Very quickly afterwards, bing, bing, bing, bing, all 10 of them broke down. They all turned red.

Salas revealed that the incursion lights had also gone out, meaning something or someone had entered the fenced area where the missiles were kept.

A guard closing the entrance door to the control center at the Malmstrom Missile Base, Montana, where the Minuteman ballistic missiles were kept, December 1962

When he called the guards to investigate the missile silos, they reported that the UFO had flown away just as they arrived.

Following his meeting, Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) personnel ordered Salas and his commander to sign strict nondisclosure agreements, threatening them with prison time if they discussed the event.

However, the veteran officer went public decades later after reading about a similar incident in a publicly available UFO book and deciding the information had already been leaked.

Boeing engineers investigating the missile complex concluded that an external electromagnetic signal had somehow disrupted the missiles’ guidance and control systems, specifically affecting a device called a logic coupler in each.

Despite finding the probable cause, Boeing also noted that it was impossible for a normal device or test to affect all 10 missiles at once, because each missile was housed independently in a silo designed to block electromagnetic interference.

Officially, the Pentagon has maintained for decades that there is no evidence that UFOs or extraterrestrial beings exist and have visited Earth.

However, President Trump has ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to release all government records related to the search for these unidentified devices so that the public can review the evidence for themselves.