The Canadian
9 February 2012
Hastings kicks off the story with what he believes is one of the most disturbing incidents from a U.S. military base - the testimony of David H. Schuur, who was a Minuteman missile crew member in the 455th/91st Strategic Missile Wing at Minot AFB from December 1963 through November 1967.
The testimony includes Schuur's account that a UFO once activated the launch sequence in most of his Minuteman missiles. Part of that testimony includes:
“However, when the object passed over our flight, we started receiving many spurious indications on our console. The object was apparently sending some kind of signals into each missile. Not every missile got checked [out] by the object, but there were several that did. Maybe six, seven, or eight.
Maybe all ten got checked, but I don’t think so. As this thing was passing over each missile site, we would start getting erratic indications on that particular missile. After a few seconds, everything reset back to normal. But then the next missile showed spurious indicators so the object had apparently moved on to that one and did the same thing to it. Then on to the next one, and so on. It was as if the object was scanning each missile, one by one."
The next day, the logs and tapes were turned in, and personnel were told - "It never happened."
Following publication of these and other similar events in Hastings' book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinatry Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, former Soviet Union military came forward with their own encounters.
Hastings writes: "One of those events occurred on October 4, 1982, near the Ukrainian town of Byelokoroviche, when a disc-shaped object apparently hovered over an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) base for an extended period. At one point during the encounter, a number of nuclear missiles suddenly activated—without authorization from Moscow or any action being taken by the missile launch officers—and were preparing to launch."
Hastings report quotes a Russian newspaper article where a military eyewitness to an event there talks about what happened on October 4, 1982.
“It was unbelievable. Approximately one-and-a-half kilometers from us hovered an elliptical-shaped object,” the former rocketeer excitedly told Life. “The dimensions of the UFO shocked us—as large as a five-story house! Barely-visible lights flew up to the object. The guys [and I] were on our way to dinner when we all saw it! The UFO continued to hover, slowly moving to the left, as if drifting. One officer tried to get closer to it in a car but the UFO flew away. At this time all of the missile launchers malfunctioned. The UFO [also] blocked radio signal reception in the bunker.
