It was just a UFO | Medium

In the spring of 2009, two other Air Force veterans who at one time worked at US ICBM silos agreed to appear on Robert Hastings’ Paracast Internet radio broadcasts to testify about how UFOs examined and disabled nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

The two eyewitnesses who approached Hastings, presenting him with the documents proving that in 1966 they were soldiers in the units in question, were Bruce Fenstermacher, former crew commander from the FE Warren Air Force Base, and Patrick McDonough, team leader at the 1381 geodetic surveillance squadron at the Malmstrom base.

They are just the latest arrivals. When he presented his book “UFOs and Nukes” in 2008 on a CNN show with Larry King, Hastings said he had 90 witnesses. Now their number has reached 115. It seems that this increase was also due to the media coverage of the incident in Stephenville, Texas. Here, on January 8, 2008, hundreds of residents reported sightings of several types of UFOs, with descriptions ranging from triangular craft to discs. Many locals said the objects were the size of a football field, while others believed they were nearly a kilometer long.

Some observers saw military aircraft following the apparitions. Larry King commented on the incident a few days after the incident. According to what was declared on the show by Steve Allen, a private pilot, the object he saw passed at a high speed, at a height of about 1000 meters, and was “about half a mile wide and a mile long. It was huge, no matter what it was.” On January 23, after initially denying that they had aircraft in the area, the Air Force stated that night training flights were conducted with ten F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft and this would explain all the sightings.

The 115 witnesses spoke of a series of scary incidents that happened in the sixties. Perhaps the most remarkable case from Hastings’ files is the one reported in 2007 by David H. Schuur. In the summer of 1966 or 1967, as a soldier in the 455/91 strategic missile squadron at Minot Air Force Base (North Dakota), he was the deputy commander at the missile silo called Echo Capsule. Each silo housed ten missiles with nuclear warheads. At one point, after…