A recent article in the Daily Mail has revealed how the US Government planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The title of the newspaper story is an exaggeration; the moon itself would not be seriously harmed by the blast, however the explosion would have created a flash of light visible to people on Earth, including in the USSR. See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238242/Cold-War-era-U-S-plan-bomb-moon-nuclear-bomb-revealed.html. It’s important to understand that the Cold War was as much about psychology and playground domination tactics as it was about missiles, spies and bunkers. The intention of this operation was to “shock-and-awe” the people of the world, especially in the Soviet Union, into submission to the Democracy and “Freedom” of the West. The Soviets were equally irresponsible and childish, exploding the world’s largest hydrogen bomb, the fifty megaton “Emperor of Bombs”, over the Novaya Zemlya islands in 1961. It broke windows as far away as Helsinki, Finland and caused terrible damage to the surrounding environment, see: http://sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=90 The pilots dropping the bomb were on a semi-suicide mission because the planners of the test were not certain that the aircraft would be able to fly away quickly enough to survive the blast. The purpose of this test was the same: “shock-and-awe” the world into accepting global socialist “Freedom”.
The secret project to nuke the moon had a very euphemistic and pacifying name: “A119- a Study of Lunar Research Flights”. This is often the case with these kinds of government operations; the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima was called “Little Boy” instead of something like “Jap-Killer”. After the Soviets triumphed with Sputnik in 1957 the Americans wanted to strike back, and like every humiliated bully-ego they became extreme to the point of madness. I was surprised to see that Carl Sagan had been involved in the project because he was also renowned as a peace campaigner and advocate for nuclear disarmament. A119 was shelved before it reached the advanced planning stage, supposedly because of fears to public safety if the rocket failed at launch, but the testimony of Prof. Robert Jacobs might indicate an alternative hypothesis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCMiDOFy2s I’ve made a mistake in the past in which I thought Jacobs’ UFO experience was directly related to plans to bomb the moon, but in fact Jacobs’ encounter took place a few year later, in 1964, during the test of an intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile. Jacobs was in the US Air Force and his job was to film the launch with optical instruments. His memories of what happened after the experience, together with the testimony of his commanding officer, Major Mansman, indicates that by 1964 the US Government already had experience of dealing with UFO encounters and had a contingency plan of action in place. This is why these men in “grey suits” were on the scene so quickly and the film suppressed and confiscated so methodically. There was no hesitation or indecision apparent in the aftermath of Jacob’s encounter. Perhaps this is the real reason why “a Study of Lunar Research Flights” was cancelled.
UFO’s do seem to take an interest in human activity related to nuclear weapons and nuclear power. As you can see in the linked video above, it also discusses the experience of Capt. Robert Salas in which UFO activity disabled an entire field of ballistic missiles a few years later. I myself took a photo of a UFO near another nuclear weapons facility, the Trident base at Faslane, Scotland: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/long-lost-ufo-photo-update.html Many of the most significant UFO incidents take place around these facilities. Obviously it is not every day that UFO’s directly intervene in human rocketry endeavours, but it is clear that if necessary they will act against us. In this case maybe there’s some kind of message they’re giving us; there’s no way to know for sure but to me it runs something along the lines of: “We don’t approve of you having nuclear weapons, but if you insist of using them, please keep them on your own planet.”
I recently noted the above comments regarding UFO interference with ICBM sites at Malmstrom AFB in March 1967, and decided to correct a few misconceptions Robert Salas seems to be so obsessed with. This apparently stems, for the most part, from his refusal to accept the claims of the only two people who were present at the time: Eric Carlson, the commander of Echo Flight, and Walt Figel, his deputy commander. Both men have repeatedly asserted that UFOs were not involved with those events in 1967. You are welcome to believe whatever you like, but Robert Salas, author of "Faded Giant" (and Robert Hastings, author of "UFOs and Nukes") has been repeatedly accused of lying about and/or embellishing details of these incidents by those military veterans who served their nation well during the hottest period of the Vietnam War and the coldest of the Cold War.
ReplyDeleteIf you wish to know exactly what happened in 1967, and why the missiles at Echo Flight actually failed, and why the Oscar Flight claims are so pointless, I encourage you to examine without cost the following narratives:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26641522/Americans-Credulous-by-James-Carlson
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42303580/Echo-Flights-of-Fantasy-Anatomy-of-a-UFO-Hoax-by-James-Carlson [this one is an examination of the issues for those unfamiliar with the case]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49495918/The-Bunny-s-Retort-by-James-Carlson
http://www.realityuncovered.net/blog/2011/08/strategic-editing/
http://www.realityuncovered.net/blog/2012/04/how-to-demand-redress-by-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot/
http://www.realityuncovered.net/blog/2012/10/the-aggressive-pursuit-of-ignorance/
I would also recommend that you examine the numerous interviews and articles at the Reality Uncovered website: http://www.realityuncovered.net/. Many of the articles discuss the events at Echo Flight and Oscar Flight in March 1967, and include interviews with both the commander and the deputy commander at Echo Flight on March 16, 1967. To this day, Robert Salas insists that both men confirm his claims of UFO interference, which both men deny strongly. Robert Hastings refuses entirely to discuss these matters in detail or answer any questions regarding the testimonies of these two men, preferring instead to attack the integrity and credibility of those publically raising such issues. He refuses to offer anything substantial in the way of evidence, and fails entirely to explain the details of his claims or to answer any of the valid questions raised by his insistence. What he has done is rely on the craven use of blatant lies and baseless insults in regard to his critics without once managing to refute or even discuss their criticisms. Hastings has even gone so far as to invent entirely the titles and alleged contents of various non-existent books relating epilepsy to paranoia and mental illness in order to suggest that one of his many critics shouldn't be trusted because of the epilepsy he has been afflicted with. Incredibly, he has also publically defamed the author of this missive by insisting that his own father "told him" about a nervous breakdown that has apparently been an ongoing crisis for over three years! Meanwhile, he refuses to answer necessary questions regarding his own numerous, proven lies, and has neglected as well to defend his own theories against numerous accusations of massive fraud and profiteering on a scale UFO proponent communities have only rarely been subjected to.
"Fifth – The event at Malmstrom has a hand written log from me that was turned in just like all the other logs that I wrote over several years. I would think that if I wrote something like that in the log, there would be copies, it would have been classified at the beginning and then released along with the classified SAC messages and base reports. Nothing in that urgent SAC message even hints of UFOs at all and I think that it would if the official logs or telephone calls had referenced that fact.
ReplyDelete"Sixth – When it happened, neither your dad nor I were “visibly shaken” by the events. It was just another day with a unexpected event in our lives. It was rather underwhelming at the time. No one rushed out to see us, no one made us sign any papers, no one interrogated us for hours on end.
"There is no Air Force “cover-up” [of the events of March 1967]; it just did not happen the way Salas and has portrayed the course of events. I am sorry that you are all caught up in a pissing contest with these people, I really am. They are just not going to let go no matter what you say or do. He has made a 15 year career pandering about the country talking about things he has no knowledge about. I am not at all interested in taking them on – it’s not worth my effort – I have more important things to do with my life. I much rather just stay out of it.
"Hopefully, we can move on. I did read about a briefing on the 27th here in DC. I am here in VA about 10 miles away. Interesting. Hopefully this helps you and confirms to you at least that your dad is a straight shooter and does not lie to anyone."
Robert Salas' commander at Oscar Flight, Frederick Meiwald, insists that he doesn't even believe in UFOs -- a strange comment to make in light of Salas' insistence that a UFO took out the missiles at Oscar Flight during an incident that resulted in an injury to one non-commissioned officer, requiring that man to be evacuated from the site by helicopter. When interviewed by Robert Hastings, he stated unequivocably that he doesn't remember anything at all about a UFO. In fact, Robert Hastings himself has written:
“Meiwald then elaborated and said that he couldn’t support everything Salas has said about the incident because he had been resting/sleeping when the first missile or two dropped offline -— which occurred moments after Salas received a report from the Oscar Flight Security Controller about a UFO hovering over the Launch Control Facility’s front gate.
“Although Salas had quickly told Meiwald about that telephone conversation, Meiwald says that he can’t remember it.”
In another interview conducted by Hastings, Meiwald is equally clear:
"RH: Okay. Now, when Bob, I think moments [after] he woke you up, or you got up and sat down at the commander’s consol—he of course had received a call from the Flight Security Controller, saying that there was a bright red, oval-shaped object hovering over the security fence gate—my understanding is that is what he told you as soon as you were at your consol, that he had received this call and, uh, that of course coincided with the missiles beginning to malfunction. Do you recall him telling you that?
"FM: I really don’t remember that portion of it, relative to the bright object. I remember an unusual condition [but] as far as the details, uh, I can’t elaborate on that."
The following exchange is also revealing:
"RH: Okay. He of course has also said that you two were, uh, when you were back at Malmstrom, you were debriefed by OSI and required to sign non-disclosure statements. Do you remember that?
"FM: I remember being directed to do that. But that was no problem. I’ve been one of these people, when told to forget something, I forget it—eventually [inaudible].
"RH: Right, well, is that a polite way of saying that you really don’t want to discuss this, even though you know more than you’re saying?
"FM: No, I’m saying I don’t remember."
For nearly ten years Salas was using Meiwald as confirmation of the events at both November Flight and Oscar Flight, stating that either my father or someone else called Meiwald on March 16 and told him all about Echo Flight. When interviewed by Hastings, Meiwald stated, "Whatever happened over at Echo, I have no idea." He has rebuffed completely the attempts by Hastings and Salas to establish confirmation for the UFOs they've invented.
ReplyDeleteMeiwald has also clearly stated in other interviews with Salas that only 3-4 missiles failed during the one missile failures event he has recalled; he's NEVER stated outright that the UFO story he told Salas in 1996 had anything at all to do with missile failures; it's never even been mentioned in context.
My father, the commander of Echo Flight in March 1967, was present when all ten missiles were taken off of strategic alert by an electronic noise pulse generated internally at the launch control facility. This pulse interfered with the normal operation of the logic coupler on the guidance and control module for that facility, causing thereby the failure of the missiles, which were, in effect, simply turned off. The incident was very well documented and was thoroughly investigated, and every word that Robert Salas and Robert Hastings have ever said on the subject has been repeatedly discounted or proven outright to be little more than lies and embellishments created for the purpose of making money from the sales of their books, the sales of associated videos, and the speaking fees they charge as a matter of course when retelling their ridiculous little folk tales.
I'm not asking you to believe these points I've outlined. It isn't necessary, as they're already included in the public record and can be examined by anyone who's interested in the subject. I do ask, however, that you give some further thought to claims you've discussed. You should be aware that there is another point of view in regard to this matter -- one that has been repeatedly confirmed by those men who were actually involved with this singular event in USAF history, has been very well-documented through the years, and was very thoroughly investigated by the USAF for some months after the incident itself.
There were only two witnesses at Echo Flight in March 1967: the commander of the flight, CAPT Eric D. Carlson, and the deputy commander, COL Walter Figel, Jr. Both men have publically afirmed that there was no UFO. Robert Hastings is merely an agitator -- a liar and a fraud who has repeatedly misrepresented the claims of the men involved in these incidents. He started utilizing this methodology years ago, found out it was convincing to a few ignorant people, and continues his path of slander and disruption as a result of this minor success. He's just a petty con-man and a fraudulent huckster -- nothing more.
Most sincerely,
James Carlson
Albuquerque, NM
Hi James. Thanks for all that information. I'll have a read through it.
ReplyDeleteOK, James. I've read this material. Obviously, if I ever write a future article of Capt. Salas story I'll have to take your revelations into account as well as others.
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