A retired Air Force Captain — who claims to have witnessed a UFO deactivate 10 nuclear missiles in 1967 — believes its ‘alien‘ occupants have a simple, three-word message for humanity: ‘WTF!?’
‘I’m sorry. Did I say something wrong?’ Captain Robert Salas joked after delivering the blunt opinion to Congresswoman Nancy Mace during an episode of the podcast Total Disclosure.
At the height of the Cold War, a then 26-year-old USAF Lieutenant Salas was underground while overseeing Malmstrom Air Force Base’s nuclear equipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in Montana.
He claimed an eerie red glowing UFO above the base’s front gate temporarily disabled 10 ICBMs on the night of March 24, 1967.
‘They knew exactly how our systems worked. Exactly,’ Capt Salas told South Carolina Representative Mace, speaking about the UFO‘s mysterious pilots.
Capt Salas was grilled by Rep Mace about what he thought the UFO’s pilots were trying to convey.
”WTF!? You have nuclear weapons,” he said, paraphrasing these appalled, pacifist aliens. ‘That’s what I think [they meant] .Of course, it’s just my opinion.’
Both Rep Mace and Capt Salas spoke on the podcast Total Disclosure for an episode released online November 24, 2024.
In his analysis of the Malmstrom AFB incidents, the retired official was adamant the nonviolent, nondestructive nature of the UFOs interactions might be a clue as to the potentially extraterrestrial occupants’ peaceful intent.
‘No equipment was fried. Nothing was damaged,’ Capt Salas told Rep Mace.
‘It was simply intermittent electrical pulse that was delivered to a particular part of the guidance system, called the logic coupler,’ he explained.
‘And this was proven by Boeing. Boeing did a test of this so-called logic coupler.’
‘Without that piece of equipment working properly, the guidance system would not properly work,’ he continued. ‘So, the missile shut itself down.’
‘The missiles were all brought back up on alert within 24 hours,’ he noted.
At the time of the 1967 UFO incursions, Capt Salas said he was also told the incident had been classified and that he was forbidden from speaking about it.
‘I signed a non-disclosure agreement,’ he said. ‘Didn’t start talking about it ’til 1996.’
The veteran later learned that his crew commander had dealt with a unnerving and virtually identical UFO episode on the nuclear base just eight days prior to his own.
Capt Salas, who has long advocated for government transparency on UFOs, told Rep Mace that he has published a recent book digging into ’13 similar cases that happened all over the world, including Russia.’
‘In none of those incidents was any significant damage done,’ as he emphasized to the congresswoman this month.
‘To me, that says they’re sending us a message about nuclear weapons.’
In March 2023, Salas and another Air Force veteran told DailyMail.com that they had taken their testimony to the Pentagon’s UFO-hunting All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) expressing concern over UFOs ability to interfere with US nukes.
One now public email confirms that AARO staff contacting former Salas to gather information about his chilling encounter with the orange-red glowing ‘disc’ that inexplicably turned off 10 warheads at Malmstrom AFB.
Although Salas described those early interactions with AARO officials as ‘very magnanimous,’ he has since told the media that he’s disappointed in the office.
The Air Force veteran described the Pentagon office’s March 2024 ‘historical records report’ on UFOs since the Cold War as ‘a ‘Steaming pile of …‘
‘I gave AARO a two hour PowerPoint presentation on the Malmstrom AFB incidents where twenty ICBMs were disabled during UFO encounters,’ Salas said on the social media site X, speaking to incidents at the base beyond 1967.
‘The USGOV owes us, the informed public, much more respect on this subject than offered by AARO’s steaming pile of insults,’ he concluded.
