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*Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes, *

*to appear on Larry King Live on July 3, 2009*



Noted UFO researcher, lecturer and author Robert Hastings will make his
second appearance on CNN's *Larry King Live *on July 3, 2009. Hastings
will discuss important declassified U.S. government documents which confirm
a decades-long UFO-Nukes Connection, that began with some 150 reports of UFO
activity at the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory as early as December
1948. According to one FBI document, dated January 31, 1949, these incidents
were “considered top secret by the army and the air forces.”



On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos had secretly tested the first atomic bomb in
the desert near Alamogordo; bombs two and three were dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, Japan on August 6th and 9th respectively, thus ending World
War II and ushering in the Nuclear Age. Not long thereafter, according to
the declassified documents, someone piloting “flying discs” or “flying
saucers” began to monitor America’s atomic and thermonuclear weapons program
on an ongoing basis.



Information uncovered by Hastings and other researchers reveals that
intermittent UFO surveillance of Los Alamos, and other nuclear
weapons-related sites, continued throughout and the Cold War era and beyond,
occurring as recently as 2006. One Air Force document declassified in 1977
reveals that several UFOs maneuvered near a number of Minuteman nuclear
missile sites outside of Malmstrom AFB, Montana, in November 1975. Some of
those objects, which alternately hovered and flew around at high velocity,
were also tracked on radar and chased, unsuccessfully, by jet fighters. One
UFO was reported by missile security personnel to have an “orange white
disc” appearance.



These dramatic incidents occurred some six years after the Air Force closed
down Project Blue Book—its supposedly definitive UFO investigation—claiming
that it had terminated the project because there was no evidence that UFOs
posed a threat to national security. However, another now-declassified USAF
document states that “Reports of unidentified flying objects which affect
national security...are not a part of the Blue Book system.” Of course, the
American public was never officially informed of this fact, which only
became known after the document’s release years later. Researchers now have
evidence that national security-related UFO incidents, including the missile
base cases, were actually investigated by the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations (OSI) and various counter-intelligence groups.



Hastings will also present stunning testimony from a few of the
100-plus former or retired U.S. Air Force personnel he has interviewed, who
were involved in one or more of UFO incidents at nuclear missile sites over
the years. According to those sources—which include missile launch officers,
targeting officers, and maintenance personnel—missiles malfunctioned on a
number of occasions, at different bases during the 1960s and ‘70s, just
as UFOs were sighted hovering above their underground silos, or above their
launch control facilities.



In other words, if nuclear war with the Soviet Union had erupted during any
of those incidents, the affected missiles—which displayed what the Air Force
refers to as a “Guidance and Control NO-GO” error—would have sat useless in
their silos.



Even more shocking than those cases is the incident reported by former
Minuteman missile launch officer David H. Schuur, who was stationed at Minot
AFB, North Dakota, in the mid-1960s. According to Schuur, late one night, a
UFO actually activated most of the ten missiles he controlled. At the time,
he was in the underground Echo Flight Launch Control Capsule, receiving
frantic calls from missile security guards topside, who were reporting an
extremely bright object in the sky which rapidly moved from missile to
missile, briefly hovering over each one. As the UFO lingered, that
particular missile’s “Launch in Progress” button suddenly lit up on the
control panel in the capsule. Schuur states that he had to quickly press an
"Inhibit" circuit button to override the launch command apparently being
sent to each missile by the UFO.



Schuur told Hastings that he does not know whether the missiles would have
actually launched, had he not disrupted their countdown sequence, because
several other “spurious indicators” had simultaneously appeared on his
missile-readiness display panel. Significantly, a nearly identical
incident occurred in Soviet Ukraine, on October 4, 1982, according to two
retired Soviet Army officers interviewed by ABC News in 1994. The reporter,
David Ensor, later worked at CNN as the network’s Chief National Security
Correspondent.



Hastings has researched the UFO-Nukes Connection since 1973 and has been
invited to speak about his findings at over 500 U.S. colleges and
universities since 1981. He has just returned from two international
lectures, in Stockholm Sweden and Curitiba, Brazil. His book, *UFO and
Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites*, is available ONLY
at www.ufohastings.com



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*The July 3, 2009 Larry King Program:*



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*First half:*



Guests include James Fox, Fife Symington, General Wilfred De Brouwer and
Edgar Mitchell.



Fox is a filmmaker whose UFO documentary "Out of the Blue" is considered to
be a "must-see" by Hastings and many other researchers.



Symington is the former governor of Arizona, and a former USAF officer, who
saw a mile-wide, boomerang-shaped UFO with a string of bright lights on its
leading edge, move silently over Phoenix on the evening of March 13, 1997.
This object was officially explained away by the U.S. Air Force as several
military flares dropped from helicopters. Symington kept his silence about
the dramatic sighting for nearly a decade. Hundreds of other people in
Phoenix have reported seeing the same huge object that night.



De Brouwer is a retired Belgian Air Force general who publicly announced,
on June 22, 1990, that the BAF had flown numerous UFO-intercept missions in
1989 and 1990. Some of the UFOs were tracked on radar, performing maneuvers
that would have destroyed any known aircraft.



Edgar Mitchell is a former NASA Apollo astronaut who walked on the moon. He
has recently stated that the U.S. government knows that UFOs exist and are
extraterrestrial.



*Second half:*



Guests include Hastings, Fox, Seth Shostak, Bill Nye.



Shostak is an astronomer with the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence) Institute and a UFO debunker.


Nye, best known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy" is a science-explainer and a
UFO debunker.


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