The Jesse A. Marcel Library

Category: UAP

  • UFO Disclosure: The Role of Congress and NPI

    UFO Disclosure: The Role of Congress and NPI

    Normally I do not take time to listen to long podcasts, but I made an exception for this one. What we hear reinforces the reasons why the mission of New Paradigm Institute (NPI) is so important.

    Thanks to The SOL Foundation for making this forum available to all of us!

    Kirk McConnell is a retired congressional national security staffer who spent more than 35 years working on defense and intelligence policy in the U.S. Congress. He served on the staffs of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, helping oversee military intelligence, cybersecurity, and emerging technology programs. He retired from the Senate in 2024 following a long career advising lawmakers on national security issues. Most importantly, Mr. McConnell is a strong proponent for UFO Disclosure.

    NPI is presently interfacing with every member of Congress, insisting on their formal pledge to support UAP/UFO transparency from our government. Each member’s of Congress response to this pledge will be posted for all to see on NPI’s website. McConnell makes it clear that the road to UFO Disclosure is best paved through Congress. When our elected representatives become educated about UFOs/UAP and convinced that transparency about this topic is what their constituents want and insist upon, Congress will become a powerful motivating force to make that happen. That is the mission of New Paradigm Institute, a well organized and working liason between We, the People and our government regarding UFO truth and transparency. Please watch and consider joining NPI as a member volunteer. It’s free to join. Working together and with Congress, we can make UFO Disclosure a reality.

  • A New Front in the Fight for Our Planet:

    A New Front in the Fight for Our Planet:

    Why Environmental Organizations Should Pursue UAP Disclosure

    Submitted t0 the Montana Environmental Information Center

    By Richard O’Connor, M.D.

    For decades, organizations like the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) have waged courageous legal and legislative battles against the coal and petroleum industries. MEIC’s attorneys have walked into courtrooms in Helena, MT and Washington, D.C., armed with scientific data, public trust doctrine arguments, and an abiding love for Montana’s rivers, skies, and communities. Those battles have mattered enormously, and the people who fought them deserve every ounce of credit we can give them.

    But I want to ask a harder question — one that I believe every serious environmentalist needs to sit with: What if we are now spending our finite time, money, and political energy fighting the wrong war?

    What if, while we are in court battling over the margins of coal ash regulations and natural gas pipeline permits, the key to ending the fossil fuel era entirely is locked away in a classified government vault — and has been for decades?

    I am not speaking in metaphor. I am speaking about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (aka UFOs), and about the extraordinary physics that a team of credentialed scientists has now published in a peer-reviewed journal. The numbers they have produced should stop every environmentalist cold.

    The Day the Physics Changed

    On November 14, 2004, the USS Princeton — a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser equipped with one of the most sophisticated radar systems in the world, the SPY-1B — was conducting routine training exercises off the coast of Southern California with Carrier Strike Group Eleven, which included the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Over the preceding two weeks, Princeton’s radar operators had been tracking objects behaving in ways that defied any known explanation: objects appearing at altitudes of 80,000 feet or higher, then dropping to near sea level in seconds, with no sonic booms, no heat signatures, and no exhaust.

    On that November morning, the objects returned. The Princeton’s radar tracked one of them drop from 28,000 feet to sea level — approximately five miles of altitude — in 0.78 seconds. That’s an average velocity of 24,475 mph. The ship’s captain ordered an intercept. Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich of the U.S. Navy, both experienced combat aviators, were dispatched in F/A-18F Super Hornets. What they found hovering above a churning disturbance on the ocean surface was a smooth, white, wingless, cylindrical object roughly 40 feet long — approximately the size of an F/A-18 itself — with no visible flight control surfaces, no exhaust ports, no wings, and no discernible means of propulsion. The object accelerated away at a speed that Commander Fravor, with decades of military aviation experience, described as unlike anything he had ever seen.

    A second pilot, Lieutenant Chad Underwood, captured a similar encounter on his aircraft’s Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod — footage that the U.S. Department of Defense officially declassified and authenticated in 2020. That video, which shows the object moving against the wind with no heat trail and no propulsion signature before abruptly departing the frame, is now part of the public record.

    The incident would likely have remained a classified curiosity except for what came next: a group of credentialed scientists decided to do what scientists do. They ran the numbers.

    The Physics No One Is Talking About

    In 2019, Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, a professor of physics at the University at Albany (State University of New York) and former NASA research scientist, together with Robert M. Powell and Peter A. Reali of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, published a paper titled “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles” in the peer-reviewed journal Entropy (Vol. 21, No. 10, 939). The paper is open access and freely available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central database.

    Dr. Knuth and his colleagues did not speculate. They used established physics, conservative assumptions, and standard kinematic equations to calculate what the observed maneuvers of these objects would require in terms of acceleration and energy. The results are staggering.

    The Tic Tac object tracked by the USS Princeton’s radar during its 0.78-second descent from 28,000 feet was calculated to have undergone an acceleration of approximately 5,880 times the force of Earth’s gravity — written as 5,880 g. For perspective, the human body begins to lose consciousness at approximately 5 g. The airframe of an advanced military fighter jet is stressed to withstand perhaps 9 g briefly. A conventional aircraft or missile subjected to 5,880 g would be reduced to fragments in an instant. The Tic Tac exhibited no such structural failure. It left no sonic boom. It left no heat signature commensurate with the energy its movement implied. It simply moved.

    The authors of the paper went further. They estimated the peak power output required to execute maneuvers of this nature. Their calculations, accounting for a craft of the observed size, produced an estimated power output of approximately 1,100 billion watts for specific maneuvers — with other maneuver sequences requiring estimates that reach into the tens of thousands of billions of watts.

    To grasp what that number means, consider this: a single household incandescent light bulb consumes 60 watts. A typical American home uses roughly 1,200 watts on average. The entire nuclear power generating capacity of the United States — every nuclear plant operating in this country — produces approximately 100 billion watts of electricity in total. But the comparison that should truly stop you cold is this: according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the total electricity-generating capacity of the United States from every source combined — every natural gas plant, every coal plant, every nuclear reactor, every wind turbine, every solar panel, every hydroelectric dam — amounts to approximately 1,190 billion watts. The power estimated for a single maneuver of a single craft the size of a fighter jet is nearly equal to the entire generating capacity of the United States of America. All of it. At once.

    The paper’s conclusions are characteristically restrained in the way that good science demands. The authors write that the extreme estimated flight characteristics reveal that these observations are either fabricated or seriously in error, or that these craft exhibit technology far more advanced than any known craft on Earth. Given the weight of the witness testimony — which we will examine next — the authors favor the latter conclusion.

    The Witnesses Are Not Cranks

    Environmental advocates are accustomed to dealing with the credibility wars that industry wages against scientific witnesses. We know what it looks like when fossil fuel companies try to discredit researchers, and we know how important witness credibility is to every argument we make in court and in the legislature.

    By any standard we would apply to testimony in an environmental proceeding, the witnesses to the 2004 Nimitz encounters are exceptionally credible.

    Commander David Fravor retired from the U.S. Navy after 18 years of service, including combat deployments. He has spoken publicly and repeatedly about what he witnessed on November 14, 2004, describing an object that appeared to react to his aircraft, mirroring his movements before departing at a speed he described as instantaneous compared to anything in his experience. Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich, his wingman that day, has provided independent corroborating testimony. Lieutenant Chad Underwood, who captured the FLIR video, has spoken in detail about the object’s failure to produce any heat signature in the infrared spectrum consistent with any known form of propulsion.

    The radar operators aboard the USS Princeton had been tracking anomalous objects for approximately two weeks before the November 14 intercept. Senior Chief Operations Specialist Kevin Day, who has spoken publicly about his experience, tracked the objects on the Princeton’s SPY-1B radar over that extended period, watching them behave in ways that he could not reconcile with any known aircraft. The SPY-1B is not a consumer product. It is one of the most sophisticated phased-array radar systems in the U.S. military arsenal, designed specifically to discriminate real targets from noise and electronic countermeasures.

    The encounter was cross-corroborated by multiple sensor platforms simultaneously: the Princeton’s surface radar, the airborne radar of an E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft, the F/A-18s’ onboard radar, and the ATFLIR infrared imaging system. Dr. Knuth and his colleagues note explicitly in their paper that they selected cases for analysis specifically because they involved multiple professional witnesses observing the UAV in multiple modalities — sight, radar, and infrared imaging simultaneously — making fabrication or simple misperception extraordinarily unlikely.

    In December 2017, the New York Times broke the story of a classified Defense Department program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which had been studying UAP encounters in secret. This was followed in 2020 by the Pentagon’s official authentication of three UAP videos, including the Nimitz FLIR footage. In 2022, Congress established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) specifically to investigate UAP incidents. In 2023 and 2024, multiple members of Congress held public hearings at which former military and intelligence officials testified under oath about the existence of UAP programs and, in the case of former intelligence official David Grusch, about alleged government possession of non-human craft, alien bodies (“biologics”), and materials.

    We are not talking about fringe claims. We are talking about a subject that has moved into the domain of serious congressional oversight, peer-reviewed scientific literature, and authenticated Department of Defense documentation.

    What This Means for the Planet

    Now let us return to the question that ought to matter most to every person who reads this magazine.

    The climate crisis is, at its foundation, an energy crisis. Everything we burn — coal, natural gas, oil — we burn because we need energy. We need energy to heat our homes, power our factories, run our transportation systems, and sustain our food supply. The fossil fuel industry does not survive because people love carbon emissions. It survives because it has, for over a century, offered the most energy-dense, transportable, and economically accessible fuel source humanity has possessed.

    Everything MEIC does — every lawsuit, every legislative intervention, every public comment against a new mine or pipeline — is, at its core, an attempt to make fossil fuels more expensive and more difficult to develop, in the hope that we can hold back the tide long enough for alternatives to become economically viable. It is important work. It is necessary work.

    But it is also, increasingly, a rearguard action. The fossil fuel industry has resources that dwarf those of every environmental organization in Montana combined. Every courtroom victory we achieve is met by industry with an appeal, a regulatory workaround, or a lobbying campaign in the next legislative session. We win battles. The planet keeps warming.

    Now consider the possibility — seriously, soberly, as the scientists are beginning to do — that there are craft flying through our skies that are generating power on the order of 1,100 billion watts from a propulsion system that leaves no exhaust, no heat dump, and no sonic boom. Whatever is powering those objects, it is clearly not combustion. It is not nuclear fission in any configuration we understand. It is, based on the physics, something categorically beyond our current technological vocabulary.

    If that technology could be (or currently is) understood — even partially — it would represent the most significant scientific and engineering development in the history of our species. A propulsion and energy system that can produce thousands of billions of watts from an object the size of a small aircraft, with zero detectable emissions, would make every coal plant, every gas well, every oil pipeline as obsolete as the horse and buggy. Not marginally cleaner. Not incrementally more efficient. Obsolete.

    The fossil fuel industry would not survive contact with such technology. MEIC would not need to fight any more pipeline battles. Montana’s rivers and skies would not need defending from extraction industries that would simply have no customers.

    The Argument for a Strategic Pivot

    I am not suggesting that MEIC shut down its legal operations tomorrow. I am suggesting that the organization, and the broader environmental movement, needs to begin treating UAP disclosure as an environmental issue — because it is, potentially, the most consequential environmental issue of our time.

    What would that look like in practice?

    It would mean demanding, in MEIC’s public communications and legislative advocacy, that the U.S. government fully disclose what it knows about UAP propulsion systems. It would mean joining the growing chorus of voices — including members of Congress from both parties — calling for the release of classified materials related to UAP technology. It would mean funding or supporting scientific research, like the work of Dr. Knuth and his colleagues, that takes this subject seriously as a matter of physics rather than folklore.

    It would mean recognizing that the peer-reviewed science already exists. Dr. Knuth’s paper is not a speculative document. It is a careful application of Newtonian mechanics to observed data, published in a legitimate scientific journal, indexed in the National Library of Medicine, and freely available for anyone to read. The paper concludes that these craft exhibit technology far more advanced than anything on Earth, and it invites the scientific community to take that conclusion seriously.

    It would mean having the intellectual courage to say, publicly, what the physics implies: that somewhere — whether in classified government archives, in the hands of private defense contractors, or in the materials that witnesses like David Grusch have described under oath — there may exist evidence of energy and propulsion technology that could, if disclosed and made available to scientists, end the fossil fuel era within a generation.

    Environmental organizations are not strangers to courage. MEIC has taken on coal companies, oil pipelines, and hostile state legislatures with limited resources and enormous tenacity. That same tenacity, directed at the question of what our government knows about non-human technology and energy systems, could open a door that no amount of courtroom litigation has ever been able to open.

    A Word About Credibility

    I anticipate the objection. It goes like this: If MEIC starts talking about UFOs, we will lose credibility with the policymakers, judges, and journalists we need to take us seriously on climate and environmental issues.

    This objection deserves a direct answer.

    Fifteen years ago, the suggestion that UAP should be taken seriously as a scientific subject would have been professionally risky for any credentialed researcher. Today, a professor of physics at a State University of New York campus has published peer-reviewed work on the subject. The House Committee on Oversight has held multiple hearings. The Pentagon has authenticated video footage. Former senior intelligence officials have testified under oath. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has begun issuing statements acknowledging the scientific significance of the data.

    The credibility risk has changed. What would have seemed eccentric in 2005 is, in 2026, a matter of active congressional investigation and published scientific literature. The question is no longer whether UAP are real. The Pentagon has told us they are real. The question is what they are and — critically — what they can teach us.

    An environmental organization that says, clearly and soberly, “We believe that the peer-reviewed scientific evidence regarding UAP flight characteristics demands that our government disclose what it knows about these propulsion systems, because that knowledge may be the key to ending the fossil fuel era” is not making a fringe argument. It is making a logical argument, grounded in published physics, from a position of principled advocacy for the planet.

    That is exactly what MEIC has always done.

    Montana Is Already in the Crosshairs — And the Government Knows It

    There is one more dimension of this story that belongs in any honest conversation about Montana’s environment, and it is perhaps the most sobering of all.

    Malmstrom Air Force Base, located just outside Great Falls, is home to the 341st Missile Wing, which operates and maintains approximately 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles dispersed in silos across a vast swath of the Montana plains — in Cascade, Fergus, Judith Basin, Meagher, Wheatland, Golden Valley, and Musselshell counties, among others. These weapons, each carrying a nuclear warhead of enormous destructive power, make Montana one of the most strategically significant — and strategically targeted — pieces of real estate on the planet. If the United States and Russia or China were ever to exchange nuclear strikes, Montana would not be a bystander. It would be among the first places on Earth to be hit, and hit repeatedly.

    Every river MEIC has defended, every wilderness it has protected, every community it has helped shield from toxic contamination — all of it exists within the blast and fallout radius of what would happen to this state in a nuclear exchange. Environmental law, however well crafted, offers no protection against a 300-kiloton warhead. This is the ultimate threat to Montana’s environment, and it is one that almost no environmental organization in the country is talking about in connection with UAP.

    They should be. Because UAP have a documented history of showing up at Malmstrom — and they have not been friendly to the missiles.

    In March 1967, then-Lieutenant Robert Salas was on duty as a deputy missile combat crew commander, stationed 60 feet underground in a launch control facility at Malmstrom AFB. In the early morning hours, his flight security controller called from the surface, reporting strange lights in the sky making maneuvers no known aircraft could perform — stopping on a dime, reversing course, moving in total silence. Salas told him to keep watch. Minutes later, the controller called again, his voice frantic: a large, glowing, pulsating red oval-shaped object, roughly 30 to 40 feet in diameter, was hovering directly over the facility’s front gate. Guards had drawn their weapons. Salas woke his commanding officer. And then, one by one, alarms began flashing on the launch control console. All ten of the nuclear-armed Minuteman ICBMs under the facility’s control went to a “no-go” status — unable to launch.

    Eight days earlier, on March 16, an almost identical event had occurred at another Malmstrom launch control facility — Echo Flight — where ten more missiles had simultaneously gone offline while security personnel reported a UAP hovering directly above one of the launch sites. In total, at least twenty nuclear-armed missiles under Malmstrom’s control were disabled during a roughly two-week period in March 1967, coinciding directly with documented UAP sightings at the facilities.

    The Air Force investigated. The Boeing company, which manufactured the Minuteman systems, was brought in to determine what had caused the shutdowns. Their conclusion, according to subsequent accounts, was that the guidance and control systems (“logic couplers”) had been disrupted by an external electromagnetic signal — one that had penetrated deep underground through jamming systems designed to prevent exactly that kind of intrusion. No official report was published , nor was any conventional explanation ever publicly confirmed. Salas and other personnel were ordered by Air Force investigators to sign non-disclosure agreements and never speak of the incidents. Salas honored that silence for nearly thirty years, finally breaking it in 1996 after discovering a published reference to the incidents in a UFO research book. He has since testified publicly before Congress, signed sworn affidavits, and written three books on the subject.

    Salas is not alone. Captain David Schindele was a Minuteman ICBM launch crew commander and deputy commander stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota in September 1966 — just months before the Malmstrom incidents. On his very first duty shift at a launch control facility near Mohall, he was met by security personnel who described an object, estimated to be 80 to 100 feet wide, with bright flashing lights, that had hovered just outside the perimeter fence during the night. Every one of the ten nuclear missiles at that facility had been taken offline while the object was present. Schindele and everyone who witnessed the event were told, in no uncertain terms, that it had never happened — that they were never to speak of it. He carried that secret for nearly forty years. He has since written a book titled It Never Happened, Volume 1: U.S. Air Force UFO Cover-up Revealed and has testified at public forums including the Citizens Hearing on UFO Disclosure held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

    Former nuclear missile targeting officer Captain Robert Jamison, also stationed at Malmstrom in that period, independently corroborated the pattern. He was dispatched on one occasion to re-target missiles at the Oscar Flight launch facility that had inexplicably gone offline, only to learn upon arrival that the county sheriff had reported a UFO in the area at the same time the missiles failed. Jamison’s summary, offered at the 2021 National Press Club press conference alongside Salas and Schindele, was blunt: “Even though I never saw a flying saucer or a UFO, I do know they exist because they knocked down our missiles. That just doesn’t happen every day.”

    The pattern of UAP incidents at nuclear weapons facilities is not limited to Montana and North Dakota in the 1960s. It stretches across decades and continents. Dr. James Lacatski, the Defense Intelligence Agency rocket scientist and intelligence analyst who designed and managed the U.S. government’s largest acknowledged UAP investigation program — the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP — has stated publicly that UAP interventions at nuclear weapons facilities have occurred not once or twice, but “dozens of times”. He made that statement during an appearance on Weaponized, the investigative podcast hosted by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and award-winning investigative journalist George Knapp. Almost none of these incidents have ever been officially disclosed to the public, precisely because they are classified. The men and women who witnessed them were ordered to silence.

    What is the message in all of this? Captain Salas, who has thought about little else for thirty years, believes he knows. When asked at a congressional hearing what he thought the disabling of nuclear missiles was meant to communicate, he was direct: the visitors, in his view, were sending a message about nuclear weapons — a message that our most destructive technology is known to others, that it is being watched, and that its continued existence is, at minimum, a matter of concern to intelligences beyond our own.

    Whether one accepts that interpretation or not, the environmental implications are stark, and they are entirely separate from any question about the origin of these craft. Montana’s Minuteman missiles are, today, primary targets for any adversary contemplating a first strike against U.S. nuclear capabilities. If those missiles were ever to become the aiming targets for Russian or Chinese ICBMs — and military planners on all sides agree that they would be — the environmental devastation visited upon Montana would be devastating and permanent. The rivers, the wilderness areas, the air quality, the human communities that MEIC has spent decades protecting: all of it would cease to exist in any meaningful sense.

    This threat is not on the radar of environmental organizations. It is not the subject of any lawsuit MEIC has filed, any legislative testimony it has delivered, or any public comment it has submitted. It is invisible to the environmental movement not because it is unreal, but because it is classified — because the government that controls these weapons has, for sixty years, refused to tell the public what it knows about the craft that have already demonstrated the ability to neutralize U.S. nuclear weapons.

    That is the final argument for UAP disclosure as an environmental cause. It is not merely about clean energy, though the energy implications alone are transformative. It is about the survival of the place we are trying to protect. You cannot save Montana’s environment after it has been incinerated and made radioactive. And the only path to ensuring that it is not incinerated runs through a full, honest accounting of what our government knows — about the weapons pointed at this state, about the craft that have already visited those weapons, and about the technology that may offer humanity a way out of the nuclear trap it has built for itself.

    What You Can Do Right Now: Join the Fight for Disclosure

    None of this will change on its own. Classified programs do not declassify themselves. Secret keepers do not voluntarily open their vaults. The history of every major government transparency movement — from the Pentagon Papers to the Church Committee hearings to the declassification of CIA programs that once seemed permanently buried — tells the same story: secrets yield to sustained, organized, public pressure. Nothing else has ever worked. Nothing else will work here.

    The good news is that the organizational infrastructure for that pressure already exists, and it is gaining momentum in Congress right now. We must let the secret keepers know that we are ready to officially receive the truths recently expressed by Col. Karl Nell:

      “So, non-human intelligence exists, non-human intelligence has been interacting with humanity. This interaction is not new, and it’s been ongoing, and unelected people in the government are aware of that.”

    The New Paradigm Institute and its grassroots campaign Citizens for Disclosure, led by legendary civil rights and environmental attorney Daniel Sheehan — a man who has spent more than fifty years taking on the hidden architecture of government power, from the Pentagon Papers case to the Iran-Contra investigation — is working directly with members of Congress to draft and pass a bipartisan, standalone UAP Disclosure Act. Sheehan is co-drafting the legislation alongside Representatives Eric Burlison of Missouri, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, and Tim Burchett of Tennessee — a bipartisan group (https://uapcaucus.com) that has become the most persistent and vocal UAP transparency coalition in Congress. The bill would establish a UAP Records Collection at the National Archives, create an independent review board with real subpoena authority, mandate the release of UAP records more than 25 years old, provide legal immunity for Legacy Program whistleblowers who come forward, and ensure that disclosure is conducted responsibly while safeguarding legitimate national security concerns. As Representative Burlison has stated plainly: “I’m asking you to act and push on members of Congress, because otherwise they won’t do anything about it.”

    This is not a fringe effort. It is a bipartisan, constitutionally grounded legislative campaign, backed by former senior intelligence officials, military officers, and credentialed scientists, working through the normal channels of democratic government. It is exactly the kind of effort that a broad public coalition can push over the finish line — if enough people show up.

    That is where you come in. And that is where MEIC, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, and every other environmental organization in this country come in.

    Environmental groups have something the UAP disclosure movement urgently needs: organized, passionate constituencies that know how to apply political pressure, how to contact legislators, how to show up at hearings, how to generate media attention, and how to sustain a campaign over years. The UAP disclosure movement, in turn, has something the environmental movement urgently needs: a potential path to the most transformative clean energy breakthrough in human history, and a new argument for why the existential threat of nuclear war — and Montana’s place at the center of it — demands a level of government transparency that has never yet been achieved.

    These two movements belong together. An alliance between NPI and environmental organizations like MEIC would represent exactly the kind of unexpected, broad-based coalition that changes political calculations in Washington. When the people demanding disclosure are not only UAP researchers and retired military officers, but also the hunters and fly fishermen who care about the Blackfoot River, the ranchers who worry about what a nuclear exchange would do to Montana’s vast grazing lands, the parents who want their children to inherit a living planet rather than an irradiated one — that is when the secret keepers have to start paying attention.

    Learn more about NPI and the UAP Disclosure Act. Visit newparadigminstitute.org to read the legislation, understand the arguments, and sign up for action alerts. NPI’s Citizens for Disclosure initiative exists specifically to mobilize ordinary citizens into this campaign. There is a chapter in Montana.

    Contact your elected representatives. Montana’s U.S. Senators and House Representatives need to hear from their constituents on this issue. Tell them you support the UAP Disclosure Act. Tell them you believe government transparency about UAP technology is an environmental issue, an energy issue, a national security issue, and a fundamental question of democratic accountability. Ask for their pledge to support the UAPDA. Tell them the people of Montana — who live next door to 150 nuclear-armed missiles and who have spent decades fighting to protect one of the most beautiful environments on Earth — deserve to know what their government knows.

    Urge MEIC and other environmental organizations to engage. Ask MEIC to formally express support for the UAP Disclosure Act and to explore a working alliance with NPI. Ask the Sierra Club’s Montana chapter to do the same. Ask every conservation and environmental organization you belong to why UAP disclosure is not yet on their policy agenda — and make the case that it should be.

    Share this conversation. The most powerful thing any citizen can do in the early stages of a movement is expand the circle of people who are paying attention. Share this article. Talk to your neighbors, your colleagues, your hunting and fishing partners, your fellow hikers. The conversation about UAP has been confined too long to a small community of specialists and enthusiasts. It belongs to all of us — because the implications of what is already in the public record touch every one of us, and every living thing on this planet.

    The secret keepers have held their ground for eighty years by relying on one simple advantage: most people were not paying attention. That advantage is shrinking. Congress is paying attention. Scientists are paying attention. Former intelligence officials are paying attention. The question is whether the broader public — and the organizations that claim to speak for the future of this planet — will pay attention before the window closes.

    Conclusion: The Bigger Fight

    The coal companies and the oil industry have benefited enormously from the public’s willingness to accept the premise that there is no alternative — that hydrocarbon combustion is the best we can do, that the transition to clean energy must be agonizingly slow, that each new pipeline and each new mine is a regrettable necessity.

    What if that premise is false? What if the alternative is not solar panels and wind turbines alone, but a form of energy generation so far beyond our current technology that it operates without any of the physical signatures we associate with power production? What if it has been observed, documented, tracked on military radar, and filmed on military cameras — and what if governments have kept that knowledge classified for reasons that have nothing to do with the good of the planet?

    Dr. Knuth and his colleagues have given us the physics. The witnesses have given us their testimony. The Pentagon has given us authenticated footage. Congress has given us hearings. Captains Salas and Schindele have given us their sworn accounts, at great personal cost, of what happened beneath the Montana and North Dakota plains sixty years ago. What remains is for the environmental movement — which has always been, at its best, a movement willing to speak uncomfortable truths to powerful interests — to demand the transparent UFO Disclosure that could change everything.

    MEIC has spent decades defending Montana’s environment against the destructive power of the fossil fuel industry, battle by battle and courtroom by courtroom. That work is honorable and it matters.

    But the biggest battle may not be in the next courtroom. It may be in demanding that our government tell us what it knows about the craft that left no exhaust over the Pacific Ocean in November 2004 — what is powering them, what they were doing over the missile fields of central Montana in 1967, and what their presence among us means for the future of this planet and every living thing on it. Once we know the truth, we can take it from there.

    The paper discussed in this article — “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles” by Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell, and Peter A. Reali — was published in Entropy, Vol. 21, No. 10 (2019), and is freely available at https://doi.org/10.3390/e21100939 and through the U.S. National Library of Medicine at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7514271/

    The Montana Environmental Information Center can be reached at meic.org.

  • Meet Dan Glockerell – America’s Latest UFO Whistleblower

    Meet Dan Glockerell – America’s Latest UFO Whistleblower

    This video was clipped from a longer interview featuring Jeremy Corbell (YouTube channel Weaponized) and Dan Glockerell. HERE is the link to that longer interview.

    This happened at Eglin AFB in 2006!

    First of all, thank you for your courage Dan. Speaking up as you have is beneficial to all of us. We have a need to know these things and you have helped to set things right. Many thanks!

    So, lets think about what Dan has told us. This happened 19 years ago, yet we have heard nothing about our USAF possessing a craft like this one Dan describes. We did not hear reports of it used in the war in Iraq. Do members of Congress, you know, those we elected, know anything about this? Considering the performance characteristics Dan describes, what would have been the R&D costs involved in producing such a craft? Considering that the U.S. GAO states that the sustainment cost of the USAF’s F-35 stealth fighter in 2023 was estimated to be $1.58 Trillion dollars, it is difficult to imagine what the cost of an “aircraft” like Dan describes would be. I cannot even venture a guess, but whatever it would be, we can be certain the number would also be in the several to many trillions of dollars. It’s no wonder that our national debt recently soared to $38 Trillion dollars and is now climbing faster than ever..

    Dan says the football field size craft he witnessed had no signage like “USAF” on it, yet he viewed this aerial display on/over Eglin AFB. This implies that the craft either belonged to the USAF or the U.S. Space Force, or…what? Might it have belonged to a visiting Non-Human Intelligence (NHI / ETs / aliens)? If the craft was owned and operated by aliens, the scenario Dan describes implies that the USAF, USSF, and/or NSA observers on the ground were expecting and prepared for this aerial air show. The portable generators powering bright mast lights were there and ready, and Dan does not describe a scene of pandemonium or terror with respect to the military observers who were present. That the craft engaged in repetitive “touch and go” maneuvers until Dan became bored strongly suggests this was like an airshow performance.

    Does all of this mean that the USAF or USSF has a relationship with one or more species of ETs who they are in communication with? Well, we know from a man named Dan Sherman that he was trained by the NSA in psionic techniques that allowed him to communicate with ETs. You can read about that in his book titled Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny .

    Book cover of 'Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny' featuring a silhouette of a man in military uniform and an alien figure, with the title and author name prominently displayed.

    If you have the time and the patience you can listen to an interview with Dan Sherman on Jesse Michaels’ YouTube channel American Alchemy HERE.

    We live in a country where universal health care is anathema, many of our citizens cannot afford food, homeless numbers are burgeoning, yet we continue to say, “Thank you for your service.” Who are they serving?

    None of this seems to matter to the U.S. Department of Defense. They will take your tax dollars and spend them on the war machine faster than you can hand them over. What if we lived in a world where we made war anathema? What would that look like?

  • UFO of God?

    UFO of God?

    In 2025 U.S. citizens are witnessing, in real time, our nation’s headlong rush toward becoming an authoritarian national security state. Fascism is rapidly becoming the new red, white, and blue. Blatant transgressions of the First Amendment by the Executive Branch are supported by “shadow docket” decisions coming from the Supreme Court, several of these without explanation. The U.S. military, at one time our world’s greatest “Antifa” powerhouse, now sits on its hands and watches our nation’s descent into fascism from the sidelines. The Republican majority of our elected representatives in Congress lend their full support to a man who is a narcissistic felon with multiple convictions, a man who pardons like-minded felons previously found guilty of serious offenses, and a man who, very likely, is himself a pedophile. Most will agree that this accusation is strongly supported by his name’s numerous mentions within the Jeffrey Epstein Files and the accusations of the women who were his victims.

    How can we comprehend this unprecedented and radical departure from the democratic norms we have been living under and taking for granted throughout our lives? What is driving this dramatic change of course in the relationships between all three Branches of our government, in concert and all at once, and the principles set down in our Constitution by We, The People?

    Is the explanation grounded only in greed and a lust for power on the parts of Trump, Musk, Thiel, and a handful of other billionaire oligarchs who are pulling these strings? Or is there another glaring, yet still sub-rosa factor that has yet to be spoken out loud?

    We Are Being Monitored

    Over the past eight years, previous Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon’s statements concerning the possibility that UAP (UFOs) represent technology stemming from a Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) have evolved from “maybe” to “probably”. Below, listen to Mr. Mellon’s statements in this recent video colloquy produced by UAP Disclosure Fund on which Christopher Mellon sits as Chairman of its Board of Directors.

    Note Mellon’s choice of words;

    “However, there is a large and growing body of evidence indicating that at least one alien civilization has found earth and is monitoring us, perhaps even seeking to influence the trajectory of our development.”

    There is also a large and growing body of evidence indicating that this “realtionship”, such as it is, has been going on for centuries and possibly for millennia. Today, we can legitimately question how they, that is this NHI, might have been influencing “the trajectory of our development”. That question is further addressed below.

    “Believing” in UFOs and NHI is Going Mainstream

    Christopher Mellon is not a “UFO nut”. He has held positions of authority within our government that required equal measures of intelligence, discretion, political savvy, and personal responsibility. We can be certain that, while serving as Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for over a decade, Mr. Mellon honed a keen sense of when to be silent and when to speak as he was exposed to information that neither you nor I will likely ever know. He is speaking now, and we would all do well to listen to what he is saying.

    As a U.S. government insider, Mellon knows a lot about this topic and we can be certain that he has not yet said all that he knows. He is trying to tell us something important. He is playing a role in preparing the world for an important announcement that, as my trusted friend and medical colleague Dr. Jesse A. Marcel Jr., M.D. always said, “We are not alone.” Colonel Karl Nell doubled down on this claim when he unflinchingly said the words, “There is zero doubt.” For years, that official announcement that “we are not alone” has been generically referred to as “UFO Disclosure”.

    Have Christians Been Placing Round Pegs In Square Holes?

    On September 21, 2025, a memorial service was held for the outspoken Christian apologist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. Mr. Kirk was murdered by an assassin on September 10, 2025. The service was attended by tens of thousands of people, many of whom, like Kirk, are “born-again” fundamentalist Christians. Hopefully, most of those who attended condemn political violence as being both morally wrong as well as counterproductive toward providing any good solution to the present-day political upheavals facing our nation. For reasons that escape me, a subset of those who attended were expecting to be “raptured” on September 23, 2025. Needless to say, that event did not happen. It was just another day in our nation’s transition into a fascist authoritarian state.

    There is another looming conundrum that Mr. Kirk’s fans may soon be grappling with as they attempt to reconcile their fundamentalist Christian religious beliefs, beliefs and values they shared with Mr. Kirk, with what appears will soon be forthcoming – an official “UFO Disclosure”. That is, an official announcement that, not only are we humans not alone as an intelligent species on this planet, but also that one or more races of Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) have found Earth (perhaps eons ago) and have been interacting with this planet and with our civilization for centuries, if not for thousands of years. That bit of knowledge, as simple as it seems, will have impacts that, thanks to Mr. Mellon and others, have already begun to quietly ripple through our society. But with an official UFO Disclosure announcement, this will build into a tidal wave that will threaten the beliefs and foundational stability of a large contingent of the body politic. Right-wing Christian fundamentalists will be among those who will suddenly find themselves standing on shaky ground.

    For the like-minded fans of Charlie Kirk, this “UFO Disclosure” will result in a forced and unavoidable truth and reconciliation process that will sharply divide opinions about what, over the past 2000 years, has been religious truth and what has been religious fiction. We can see this deliberative process illustrated in this conversation between Mr. Kirk and Chris Bledsoe, UFO/NHI experiencer and author of the book UFO of God.

    To better grasp the nature of this looming conundrum we may all soon be debating, have a listen to this revealing conversation:

    Mr. Bledsoe states the problem succinctly. That is, are UFOs and the NHI that guides them related to the Biblical story? Are NHI/UFOs somehow related to angels, demons, wheels within wheels, fiery chariots, and pillars of light? If they are, how will religious fundamentalists process and react to this news? How will they respond to a government that has gaslit them about this reality for their entire lives? Relevant to this train of thought, what kind of government needs to be functionally in place in order to manage the societal blowback from an official “UFO Disclosure”?

    Is an official “UFO Disclosure” going to require an authoritarian government to navigate our society through these choppy and uncharted waters?

    Apparently, those who are running this show must think so. I do not agree, but I have no say in this matter. This transition toward a fascist authoritarian government is well underway and may have already become unstoppable.

    New Evidence From the Buga Sphere

    A person placing their hand on a metallic spherical object with intricate engravings, partially buried in grassy terrain.
    The Buga Sphere was recovered from the ground in March 2025.

    If you have not been following the intriguing story of the Buga Sphere, you can find out more about it HERE. The Buga Sphere appears to be recovered alien (NHI) hardware displaying advanced anti-gravity, power, propulsion, and guidance technologies that have almost certainly been designed, manufactured, and operated by a NHI.

    The details are still sketchy, but on September 19, 2025, a report on radiocarbon dating of a resin sample allegedly obtained from the orifices surrounding the equator of the Buga Sphere came from the University of Georgia’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies. That report indicates that this resin sample from the Buga Sphere is 12,560 (+/- 30) years old. This fact potentially places the sphere’s origin at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, approximately 6000 years before humans in Mesopotamia discovered and began using the wheel and 10,000 years before the dawn of Christianity. If this data is correct and corroborated (I have written to UGA CAIS Director Dr. Alex Cherkinsky for clarification), this discovery changes everything we think we know about a great many things. Here is a copy of the report:

    Radiocarbon analysis report from the University of Georgia detailing results for a resin sample, dated 12,560 years old.

    The reference to “foraminifer samples” is confusing and needs clarification, but it is clear that a sample of “resin” , “Sample ID BGS” (Buga Sphere) was tested and 14C dated using mass spectrometry. The pMC (parts Modern Carbon) value of 20.94 indicates that this result is, in fact, from an ancient resin sample.

    Is a NHI Related to Anti-Gravity Spheres, UFOs, and/or Angels and Demons?

    Long before humans knew anything about advanced technology, were our ancestors seeing similar anti-gravity spheres and other UFO planforms in the sky? This new radiocarbon dating result (and even some ancient paintings) suggest that this could be so. If our ancestors were seeing these objects and perhaps even interacting with the NHI behind them as many claim to be today, how would they have characterized these beings and their craft? Knowing nothing about technology, would they have likely characterized them as miraculous spiritual messengers, that is, “angels” or “demons”, coming from the heavens?

    Today we have a clearer understanding of technology – what it looks like and what it can do. If the NHI presently interfacing with humanity are one and the same as the “angels” and “demons” from antiquity, then we are obliged to question whether “angels” and “demons” need UFOs to get around. In modern Christian dogma, they do not and they never have.

    Conflating angels and demons with the NHI may well be a gross misunderstanding that our human family has been mired in for over 2000 years.

    These questions have suddenly and surprisingly become relevant philosophical questions. However, unlike many philosophical questions, these are questions that can likely be answered objectively if we can muster the scientific curiosity, intellectual integrity, and the humility it will require to pursue the data. We can be certain that more relevant data will come to light when our government decides to stop gaslighting our people about this important topic. The time for that is over. It’s time for an official “UFO Disclosure”.

    “We are at A Crossroads of a New World”

    I deeply appreciate the open-minded approach expressed by Mr. Bledsoe in this interview when he says,

    “It’s time that we all come together and we quit fighting over what we perceive that we know when we really don’t know what we think we know. I think we are at a crossroads of a new world and a new knowledge, and I think they’re (NHI) going to help bring that about.”

    I do too Mr. Bledsoe, but I don’t think the majority of us welcome or perceive any need to have an authoritarian government in place to manage our society’s response in the days that follow an official “UFO Disclosure”. If that is, in fact, what this is all about, if an imminent UFO Disclosure is what is behind this move toward the USA fast becoming a fascist authoritarian state, this will not “Make America Great Again.” This is a slippery slope that, once it has become fully realized, is one from which our nation may never fully rebound and recover. I’ll take my chances at being abducted by aliens. Freedom cannot ring in a land where masked thug mercenaries have become normalized as “the long arm of the law”. We can do better than this, and we must. Let’s keep the America we know and love as “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

    Become part of the movement! Join New Paradigm Institute and help us push for Congressional passage of the UAP Disclosure Act this year!

    Thanks for reading!

  • Extraterrestrial Non-Human Intelligence Now Proven Through Genetic Testing

    Extraterrestrial Non-Human Intelligence Now Proven Through Genetic Testing

    Because we cannot completely explain how UFOs and the Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) behind them are getting here doesn’t mean they aren’t real. That the job of scientists, not attorneys.

    The job of attorneys is to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a crime or an injustice has been committed, and that is exactly what civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan is doing through New Paradigm Institute. Mr. Sheehan is working with UFO whistleblowers to help pass legislation (UAP Disclosure Act – SA 3111, HR 1187) requiring the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency to finally come clean with American citizens about the real existence of UFOs and the Non-Human Intelligence behind them.

    After decades of mendacious counterintelligence efforts targeting American citizens while telling us UFOs and aliens do not exist and/or “they can’t get here from there”, we may now gain the truth through this new and much needed legislation. This legislation will require the DoD and CIA to bring forth the solid evidence, the UFO craft and the NHI bodies that have been DNA-tested and thereby proven to be non-human, to the American people and then out to the world. The impact of these revelations has tremendous implications for our human family’s social, scientific, and spiritual understandings which have been severely truncated by the UFO cover up.

    Please contact your representatives in Congress and tell them you want the UAP Disclosure Act (SA 3111 and HR 1187) and all UFO whistleblower protections passed by Congress THIS YEAR! We deserve to know the truth.

    Kudos to Fox 32 Chicago for airing this compelling interview!

  • The Most Important Question of Our Time

    The Most Important Question of Our Time

    My fellow Montanans, this is a sobering reminder that we live in a state that is loaded with nuclear weapons.To be precise, Montana hosts 150 nuclear missile silos, all presently housing LGM-30G Minuteman 3 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). All are controlled out of Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls, MT. Beginning in 2030, each of these ICBMs and the infrastructure supporting them will be replaced by a new generation of LGM-35A Sentinel nuclear missiles, each of these carrying an approximate yield of 300 kilotons (300,000 tons) of TNT (“dynamite”). These ICBMs are about 20 times more powerful than the 15 kiloton bombs that were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945. Those bombs decimated both of those cities and killed an estimated 250,000 innocent Japanese civilians.

    This Sentinel program is being spearheaded by U.S. military defense contractor Northrop Grumman, and the program’s estimated cost will be approximately $140 billion dollars. This figure comprises only a portion of the U.S. DoD’s plan to upgrade its entire nuclear weapons arsenal at an estimated cost of around $1.3 TRILLION dollars.

    The Ethics of Secrecy: A Public Right to Know? (Written by a neutral third party – claude.ai)

    https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/722a551c-a714-4cff-81ea-dffc7edebf0f

    Despite decades of credible military testimony and documented incidents, the U.S. government and Department of Defense have never officially confirmed these nuclear-UAP encounters to the public. This silence raises profound ethical questions about transparency, democratic governance, and the public’s right to know about events that could affect national and global security.

    The Scale of Official Silence

    The scope of what remains officially unacknowledged is staggering. The government has never publicly confirmed:

    • How many times UAPs have interfered with nuclear weapons systems
    • Whether these incidents represent a pattern or isolated events
    • How the Pentagon interprets these encounters
    • What defensive measures, if any, have been implemented in response
    • Whether similar incidents continue to occur at nuclear facilities today

    This information vacuum exists despite testimonies from over 120 former military personnel and decades of documented encounters across multiple nuclear installations worldwide.

    Arguments for Continued Classification

    Defenders of government secrecy often cite several justifications:

    National Security Concerns: Revealing details about nuclear weapons vulnerability: UFOs and Nuclear Weapons: A Pattern of Encounters at America’s Most Sensitive Sites

    Introduction

    For over seven decades, an intriguing and concerning pattern has emerged from the most classified corners of America’s nuclear weapons program. From the Manhattan Project’s early development sites to modern missile silos and nuclear naval fleets, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) have repeatedly appeared near the nation’s most sensitive nuclear facilities. What makes these encounters particularly significant is not just their frequency, but the credible witnesses reporting them—highly trained military personnel with top-secret clearances who were responsible for safeguarding humanity’s most destructive weapons.

    The Historical Pattern: From Los Alamos to Modern Missile Silos

    The connection between UFOs and nuclear weapons appears to date back to the very beginning of the atomic age. All of the nuclear facilities—Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River—all had dramatic incidents where these unknown craft appeared over the facilities and nobody knew where they were from or what they were doing there, according to investigative journalist George Knapp, who has studied the UAP-nuclear connection for more than 30 years.

    The pattern extends far beyond individual facilities. At the facilities where we were first designing and building nuclear weapons…at the places where we were processing the fuel…at the facilities where we were testing the weapons…at the bases where we deployed those weapons, on the ships…the nuclear submarines… All those places, all the people working there have seen these things, Knapp explains.

    This isn’t a modern phenomenon. It goes back to the 1930s when the science and research was being done to understand fission. But then it really heats up in the 1940s, in particular, right after the detonation of the two atomic bombs in Japan in 1945, according to researcher Julie Andresen, who analyzed declassified reports from agencies like the FBI and CIA.

    (RKO note: linked below is a very recent study demonstrating a strong statistical correlation between “transients” (UFOs/UAP) and above-ground nuclear weapons testing (pre-Sputnik) published by astronomers Stephen Bruehl and Beatrice Villaroel. Their data supports a UFO/UAP -nuclear weapons nexus):

    Some Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) May Be Associated with Above-Ground Nuclear Testing and Reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

    Here is a link to a Tweet that emphasizes just how strong the statistical significance of this research is and what it means:

    The Malmstrom Air Force Base Incident: March 1967

    Perhaps no single incident better illustrates the UFO-nuclear weapons connection than the events at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana on March 24, 1967. This case stands out not only for its dramatic nature but also for the credibility of its primary witness: Captain Robert Salas, then a first lieutenant serving as a deputy missile combat crew commander.

    The Night Everything Changed

    He was stationed 60 feet underground at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in March 1967, monitoring the launch control center for 10 nuclear missiles when he received a call from a guard above ground. What started as routine reports of strange lights in the sky quickly escalated into something unprecedented.

    “Well, in 1967, I was a missile launch officer at Malmstrom AF Base, Montana. But we had control of 10 nuclear missiles, and sometime in the evening, I got the first phone call from my security guard, and he said they’d seen some strange lights in the sky. Making no noise, flying very fast, stopping on a dime, reversing course, making 90-degree turns. Noiseless, Salas recounted in a recent podcast interview.

    The situation rapidly intensified. He calls back about five minutes later and this time he’s screaming into the phone. The guard reported a large glowing, pulsating red oval-shaped object hovering over the front gate.”

    The Nuclear Shutdown

    What happened next was unprecedented in nuclear weapons history. As Salas alerted his commander, alarms went off showing nearly all 10 missiles shown in the control room had been disabled. “They were probably down for about 24 hours, I estimate. After my Commander spoke to the command post, he turned to me and said, “The same thing happened at another site”.”

    Salas later learned that it was the ECHO Flight incident, which happened eight days earlier. This meant that over an eight-day period, UAPs had allegedly interfered with 20 Minuteman ICBMs across multiple sites.

    Official Silence and Recent Disclosure

    For decades, Salas was bound by a non-disclosure agreement that prevented him from discussing the incident. He revealed that he was bound by a non-disclosure agreement that restricted him from discussing the classified incident for years. However, in a significant development, Robert Bob Salas testified before this group [AARO] in February 2023. Although the incident occurred in 1967, it was the first time Mr. Salas was able to officially go on record with any authoritative branch of the Department of Defense/Pentagon.

    Other Significant Nuclear-UAP Incidents

    Rendlesham Forest: Britain’s Roswell

    In December 1980, one of the most well-documented UAP incidents occurred near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England. Deputy Base Commander Colonel Charles Halt investigated reports of strange lights in nearby Rendlesham Forest. Halt found indentations in the ground, broken branches, and low-level background radiation. He and his team also witnessed various lights moving silently in the sky, of one which was “shedding something like molten metal.” Another shined a beam of light down towards them.

    USS Theodore Roosevelt Encounters

    The nuclear connection extends to America’s naval forces as well. F-18 fighter pilots from the nuclear-powered USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group saw UAPs almost daily for several months between the summer of 2014 and the spring of 2015 while executing training maneuvers along the Eastern seaboard between Virginia and Florida.

    Global Nuclear Disasters and UAP Activity

    The pattern isn’t limited to military installations. One of the clearest examples of these sorts of activities around nuclear facilities was the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. “There was a lot of UFO activity reported there also. At the height of the fire in Chernobyl, the reading was 3000 milliroentgens, which is a unit of ionizing radiation. And right at the height of the fire, many people observed a UFO come to the site.

    Similarly, following the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, local witnesses reported numerous UAP sightings. Buddhist monk Genyu Sokyu said “The UFO’s came after the explosion. There were so many of them. I was shocked”, and theorized that “Radioactive energy was leaking everywhere. I believe the UFOs came to readjust the flood of radioactive energy in order to save us”.

    The Scale of Military Testimony

    The Malmstrom incident is far from an isolated case. UFO researcher Robert Hastings of Albuquerque, N.M., who organized the National Press Club briefing, said more than 120 former service members had told him they’d seen unidentified flying objects near nuclear weapon storage and testing grounds.

    These aren’t casual observers but highly trained military personnel with the highest security clearances. Robert Jamison, a retired USAF nuclear missile targeting officer, told of several occasions having to go out and “re-start” missiles that had been deactivated after UFOs were sighted nearby.

    Official Response and Government Investigation

    For decades, military personnel who reported these incidents faced ridicule and career consequences. Several of the ex-service members speaking Monday said when they’d brought their concern of such appearances to superiors, they’d been told it was “top secret” or that it “didn’t happen”.

    However, attitudes have shifted dramatically in recent years. The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is now actively investigating these historical cases. The Daily Mail says it’s seen an email showing that AARO staff contacted former Air Force ICBM launch officer Robert Salas to get information about the encounter with an orange flying disc that switched off 10 warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, in 1967.

    Theories and Implications

    The Message Theory

    When asked about the meaning behind these encounters, Salas offered a provocative interpretation. When asked what he believed the extraterrestrial visitors were trying to communicate, he interpreted it as a critique of nuclear armaments: “To me, that says they were sending us a message about nuclear weapons: don’t do this!”

    This aligns with researcher Robert Hastings’ assessment that the UAP presence represents “a sign to Washington and Moscow that we are playing with fire” regarding nuclear weapons.

    Technical Capabilities Demonstrated

    What makes these incidents particularly concerning from a national security perspective is the apparent technological sophistication demonstrated. The UAPs consistently showed abilities to:

    • Disable nuclear weapons systems without causing permanent damage
    • Penetrate the most secure airspace in the world
    • Operate silently and perform impossible maneuvers
    • Demonstrate apparent knowledge of weapons systems and locations

    Despite the UFO shutting down the missiles, no damage occurred: “No equipment was fried”, suggesting precise technological control rather than random interference.

    The Roswell Connection

    The nuclear-UAP connection gains additional significance when considering the Roswell incident in its proper historical context. At the time of the Roswell Incident, the nation’s only nuclear strike force was based at the Roswell Army Airfield—a closely held secret. This connection between the most famous UFO incident in history and America’s nuclear weapons program is rarely mentioned but adds another layer to the overall pattern.

    Current Status and Ongoing Investigation

    The UAP-nuclear weapons connection remains an active area of investigation. The government is supposedly investigating reports of UFOs somehow deactivating nuclear warheads, marking a significant shift from decades of official denial and ridicule.

    Numerous UAP-related missile shutdowns have now been publicly acknowledged by former U.S. Senator Harry Reid (deceased), whose efforts resulted in creation of the DOD UAP investigations group known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

    The Ethics of Secrecy: A Public Right to Know?

    Whether these encounters represent monitoring by an unknown intelligence, warnings about nuclear weapons, or something else entirely, they raise fundamental questions about national security, the nature of these phenomena, and humanity’s relationship with nuclear technology.

    The fact that highly trained military personnel with top-secret clearances who were responsible for safeguarding humanity’s most destructive weapons continue to come forward with these accounts suggests that whatever is behind these incidents possesses capabilities that far exceed current human technology and demonstrates a particular interest in our nuclear capabilities.

    As government transparency on UAPs continues to evolve, the nuclear connection may prove to be the key to understanding not just what these phenomena are, but why they’re here.

    This article is based on declassified documents, military witness testimony, and official government reports. The incidents described have been corroborated by multiple independent witnesses and are the subject of ongoing official investigation.

    (This ends claude.ai’s essay.)

    So, here’s the most important question of our time. Do we continue down this path toward our own nuclear destruction? Or, do we follow their advice and change our course?

    In addition to the research of Robert Hastings and the documented whistleblower testimonies from many credible USAF officers who were at the nuclear weapons installations when numerous UFOs vs. nuclear weapons shutdowns have occurred, we now have Dr. Villaroel’s research that statistically demonstrates an interest of “transients” (UFO’s/UAP) in nuclear weapons from the mid-1940s onward.

    We can be certain there are non-human, intelligent (NHI) beings behind the wheel of UFOs.

    If you disagree with this statement, then you are choosing to ignore decades of UFO data while also refusing to listen to credible, high-ranking U.S. military officers, U.S. government officials, and DoD contractors who would know more than you do about this. To wit, these include: Jesse Marcel, Sr., Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr., Brig. General Arthur Exon, Col. Phillip Corso, Dan Burisch, Bob Lazar, Richard Doty, David Adair, Christopher Mellon, Luis Elizondo, Dr. Karl Nell, Jim Semivan, Cdr. David Fravor, Dr. James Lacatski, Senator Harry Reid, Lt. Cdr. Alex Dietrich, Lt. Ryan Graves, CPO Kevin Day, Col. David Grusch, Capt. Robert Salas, Lt. James Penniston, Lt. Jim Burroughs, Charles Hall, Col. Charles Halt, Capt. David Schindele, Lt. Mario Woods, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Dr. Nat Kobitz, Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, Cdr. Jay Stratton, Dan Sherman, Matthew Brown, Bill Uhouse, Jonathan Weygandt, Dr. Gregory Rogers, Jake Barber, Michael Herrera, Dr. Haim Eshed (Israel), and Hon. Paul Hellyer (Canada). Each of these 40 individuals has publicly stated their certain knowledge that, in so many words, “we are not alone”. I take them at their word. There are simply too many now to rightfully ignore.

    We have all been victims of a decades-long UFO cover up. You can choose to continue to be a victim of this counterintelligence program. I choose not to be.

    Good advice?

    They (NHI) appear to be offering us this good advice – ditch the nuclear weapons! On several occasions, such as the Ariel School incident of 1994, they have warned contactees about a future global calamity. What they describe will happen fits with a global nuclear catastrophe. Currently, international conflicts are escalating. The most serious of these conflicts involves nations that continue to brandish nuclear weapons – the U.S., Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan, N.Korea, and India. I believe that we, this planet, and all of its species are living on borrowed time.

    Even General Colin Powell publicly stated that nuclear weapons are “useless”. My vote is that we immediately enact an enforceable, worldwide ban of any and all nuclear weapons. What is your take on this? Do we ignore the NHI’s advice and “stay the course”, or do we try to move toward a world without any nuclear weapons of mass destruction? This is the most important question of our time.

  • Journalist Ross Coulthart’s “Estimate of the Situation”

    Journalist Ross Coulthart’s “Estimate of the Situation”

    Some refer to the long standing UFO cover-up as America’s “Cosmic Watergate”. In his keynote address at this summer’s 2025 Contact in the Desert conference, Australian journalist Ross Coulthart of News Nation castigates U.S. military leaders, members of Congress, and mainstream media “journalists” for their abject failure to meaningfully address to UFO cover-up. Mr. Coulthart’s message, however, also inspires hope for those of us who are no longer tolerant of being gaslighted by our government about the reality of UFOs and the non-human intelligence behind them. We know this is real, and we are winning the battle for UFO truth and transparency!

  • Why UFO Secrecy Matters to You

    Why UFO Secrecy Matters to You

    Please visit https://newparadigminstitute.org

  • Will the U.S. Government Ever Take Responsibility for Gaslighting the Public About UFOs?

    Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality. The term derives from the 1944 film Gaslight and became popular in the mid-2010s.

    Christopher Mellon served our country as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Chief of Staff for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He has been exposed to classified information that you and I have not been allowed to know. In this video, Mr. Mellon asks, “Why isn’t the public clamoring for more information regarding these sensational claims (about UFO/UAP encounters) made by brave, highly educated, and reliable military personnel?“

    Why isn’t the public “clamoring” for more information?

    Here’s the short answer to that question, Mr. Mellon. It’s because only until very recently has our government and the cooperative mainstream media NOT been propagandizing the American public against the reality of UFOs and aliens. I’m almost 70 years old and, for my entire life, I’ve been told that UFOs and aliens do not exist and, if I think they do exist, then I am naive or stupid. That’s the main reason, Mr. Mellon. Another reason is that, also until recently, American citizens like me trusted our government to tell the people the truth. I no longer trust the U.S. government to tell me the truth about anything, and that’s not just because of UFOs and aliens.

    Lying about the real existence of UFOs and Non-Human Intelligence (NHI, ETs, Aliens – whatever you want to call them), and getting away with it for decades, seems to have habituated “leaders” in our Executive Branch, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Communities to engage in this practice as their “go-to” strategy, an easy and effective means of ensuring they are able to do whatever they want to do without the meddlesome interference of public opinion or opposition. This habitual practice of lying to the people may be expedient, but in no way can it be construed as good government. A U.S. government “Of the people, by the people, and for the people” no longer exists in this country, and we will be damned lucky if we can ever get that back.

    Anyway, what Mr. Mellon is trying to tell us in this video is that UFOs guided by a NHI are real and they are here with us. We are finally being told the truth about this. Major Jesse A. Marcel and his son, Dr. Jesse A. Marcel, Jr., told us this truth a long time ago. But the U.S. Department of Defense quickly snuffed out their truth with a carefully constructed package of lies and propaganda telling us that UFOs and Aliens do not exist.

    Hopefully, these statements by Mr. Mellon herald a new age of truth and reconciliation between those in our U.S. government who know about UFOs and ETs and the American people. However, given past experience, every citizen will need to exercise our greatest powers of discernment when it soon comes to the details we will be told concerning who the ETs are, where they come from, how long they have been here, what our relationship is with them, and what they hope to accomplish here on Earth.

    I will be listening expectantly to what Mr. Mellon and others will soon be revealing about UFOs and aliens but, from now on, I will be thinking for myself. I hope that you, dear reader, will do the same.

  • Nuclear Weapons Are No Longer a Trump Card!

    Nuclear Weapons Are No Longer a Trump Card!

    The National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) is taking public comments (through July 14, 2025) on a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to begin manufacturing a new generation of “nuclear pits”. Nuclear pits are an integral part of a nuclear warhead. The nuclear pit serves as the plutonium “trigger” that initiates the nuclear chain reaction inside the warhead of a nuclear weapon.

    What is the National Nuclear Security Administration?

    “The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal agency responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile; works to reduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the United States Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad.

    This was my comment during yesterday’s NNSA hearing on its PEIS (Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement) concerning the manufacturing of new nuclear pits:

    Dear NNSA,

    I’m Dr. Richard O’Connor, a retired physician, a longtime member of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and Montana’s Director for New Paradigm Institute’s (NPI) initiative called Citizens for Disclosure. NPI is currently working with Congress, and especially with members of the Congressional UAP Caucus, to pass the UAP Disclosure Act that was first introduced in 2023 and was unanimously passed by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The UAP Disclosure Act was introduced by Senators Chuck Schumer and Michael Rounds and is a bipartisan act intended to establish, by law, a Congressional mandate requiring the DoD, DoE, and IC to submit all data they have collected since 1945 that is relevant to UAP (UFOs) and the Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) behind them. This information is to be funneled to a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) review board appointed by the President. It is remarkable that the UAP Disclosure Act mentions NHI 22 times.

    Why is this relevant to nuclear pits or nuclear weapons? Researcher Robert Hastings interviewed over 150 previous USAF Officers who performed as missileers at various U.S. nuclear weapons installations situated in our homeland. Each of these individuals testified to their personal knowledge of and involvement in events during which U.S. nuclear weapons were suddenly rendered completely inoperable at times during which UFOs of non-human origin were visually sighted by base security personnel while silently hovering over the involved nuclear missile installations. Mr. Hastings book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites details these events, as does a documentary he produced titled UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed.

    Both previous USAF Officers Capt. Robert Salas and Capt. David Schindele have testified before members of the SSCI concerning their direct involvement in these incidents. Luis Elizondo, a previous Director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), has publicly acknowledged the truth of these events, both in an open hearing before Congress and in his (DOPSR-reviewed) book titled Imminent. Jay Stratton, previous Director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) program, has publicly stated that his team was tasked with overseeing the reverse engineering of recovered NHI/ET/alien spacecraft as part of the AAWSAP agenda. Stratton has plainly stated that he has “seen with his own eyes alien bodies and alien craft”. Because the U.S. DoD and IC have never seen fit to rightfully inform the American people about these events does not mean they have not happened. Plenty of firsthand eyewitness evidence now informs us that they have.    

    This is all to say that there is apparently a neglected, or rather deliberately ignored third party involved in mankind’s nuclear weapons controversy. They are here, they are evidently highly intelligent and very technologically advanced, and they seem to be deeply concerned about mankind’s nuclear weapons. They appear to be weighing in on the question of whether our human family should continue to be trifling with nuclear weapons. I concur with their apparent sentiments. I think these NHI/ET interventions involving nuclear weapons must be considered as a relevant factor as we address the question of whether it is wise, or even appropriate, for the U.S. DoD to consider spending $946 billion USD over the coming decade to produce more nuclear weapons of mass destruction. The NHI/ETs have proven, on multiple occasions, that they can disable these weapons at will. I firmly believe that, if we continue down this nuclear path, there are going to be serious and perhaps devastating consequences in response. We should be doing everything possible to avoid going there. Manufacturing new nuclear pits isn’t that.

    If you think all of this is nonsense, please watch the trailer of a new documentary titled The Age of Disclosure. In it, you will hear from 34 individuals presently holding or who previously held USG security clearances who all assure us there is at least one NHI/ET species engaging with this planet and with our people. If you don’t think this is nonsense, then please join in supporting the efforts of New Paradigm Institute. NPI is firmly aligned against nuclear weapons. So am I.

    Sincerely,

    Richard O’Connor, M.D.

    A remarkable irony: the U.S. is now held hostage to nuclear weapons.

    From the day it began, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by numerous threats from Putin referencing an escalation to WWIII if the U.S. dares to intervene in the war in Ukraine. President Biden took that warning seriously. He pressed U.S. military involvement in Ukraine right up to that red line. Since taking office, President Trump has almost entirely backed away almost entirely from any U.S. military involvement in Ukraine. There can be no doubt that Putin has found President Trump’s stance on Ukraine entirely satisfactory – until recently.

    Yesterday, Russia (Putin) voiced yet another reference to WWIII after President Trump, for the first time through a “Tweet”, criticized Putin for his indiscriminate bombing of Ukraine’s cities and private citizens. News Nation (our only reliable mainstream media source for news related to UFOs, the Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) behind them, and the U.S. government’s decades-long UFO/NHI cover-up) reported on Putin’s response to Trump’s criticism HERE.

    What would WWIII look like? Would either the U.S. or Russia initiate a nuclear first strike against the other? Has the fear of an escalation to a full blown nuclear war influenced the U.S. DoD’s response to the war in Ukraine? It is difficult to imagine otherwise. The nuclear weapons that the U.S. developed and then championed during WWII are now severely restricting any latitude the U.S. might have otherwise had in determining how it can respond to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

    How would the Non-Human Intelligence (NHI/ET) engaging with this planet respond to a nuclear war?

    We don’t know, but X’s AI Grok thinks that previous NHI/ET interventions at both U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons installations may be influencing U.S. policies regarding the use of nuclear weapons. We should hope so. After all, the NHI/ETs have made it abundantly clear that they disapprove of nuclear weapons of mass destruction. If you don’t know about these incidents, you should read these books:

    Written by Robert Hastings, this book summarizes his research on the nexus between UFOs and nuclear weapons.
    USAF Capt. Robert Salas account of a UFO disabling nuclear missiles at Malmstrom AFB Oscar Flight in March 1967.
    USAF Capt. Robert Salas’ account of a UFO disabling 10 nuclear missiles at Malmstrom AFB’s Oscar Flight in March of 1967.
    Version 1.0.0

    If you don’t like reading, then please watch this documentary titled UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed

    If you wish to comment on the NNSA’s PEIS:

    Email: PitPEIS@nnsa.doe.gov

    Address: Ms. Jade Fortiner, NEPA Document Manager, National Nuclear Safety Administration, Office of Pit Production Modernization, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave.SW, Washington, DC 20585

    Thanks for reading!