Mystery of UFOs near nuclear sites as aliens may emit ‘radiation poisoning’

The mystery of why aliens appear to be attracted to nuclear facilities has rumbled on for decades.

More than a few unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) have been reported in military contexts since the 1940s. During World War II, strange orange flying lights near the French-German border were so frequent, they were dubbed «foo fighters» by US airmen.

And during the Korean War, soldiers claimed a blue-green light emitting «pulsing rays» made their whole battalion sick with what some believed to be «radiation poisoning.»

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In late 1948, «green fireballs» were reported in the skies near atomic laboratories in Los Alamos and Sandia, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was first developed and tested. And a declassified FBI document from 1950 mentions «flying saucers» measuring almost 50 feet in diameter near the Los Alamos labs.

In 1980, air-traffic controllers encountered something alarming near Royal Air Force Bentwaters in England which housed a secret stash of nuclear weapons in 25 fortified underground bunkers.

Used by the US Air Force as a European foothold during the Cold War, Ivan Barker, an air-traffic controller working that night told History.com: “We looked up on the radar scope and saw something…not like anything I’d seen before.»

Barker, a master sergeant who was second in charge at the facility, says he was an 18-year veteran at that point and knew “about every aircraft in the US, NATO and the Soviet bloc.”

He admitted the object shocked him and his two colleagues with its remarkable speed and maneuverability. He described it as shaped like a giant basketball with portholes around the centre, from which lights were emanating outward.

Last month, the Daily Star reported how aliens touched down at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the disaster to suck dangerously-high levels of toxic radiation from the air, according to a Netflix documentary.

Investigative journalist George Knapp, who has studied the UAP-nuclear connection for more than 30 years has gathered documentation by filing Freedom of Information Act requests to the departments of defense and energy.

He said: «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.»

He interviewed more than a dozen workers from the Nevada desert atomic test site, where scores of A-bombs were detonated in the post-WWII years. He says they told him UFO activity was so commonplace there, employees were assigned to monitor the activity.

A team of high-ranking former US defence and intelligence officials, aerospace-industry veterans and academics have been investigating UFO sightings near sites associated with nuclear power, weaponry and technology.

In recent years, sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena have emerged from America’s nuclear navy.

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.

“Wherever we were, they were there,” said Ryan Graves, an active-duty F-18 fighter pilot from the USS Roosevelt, who holds a degree in aerospace engineering.

One UAP, Grave says, almost caused a terrifying collision by zipping dangerously between two planes. An aviation flight-safety report was filed, he says, but never investigated.

In November 2004 pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz carrier fleet saw a 40-foot long tic-tac shaped object flying just above the ocean while flying 100 miles off the coast of California near San Diego. When F-18 fighter jets were scrambled to approach the object, it accelerated, easily outrunning the supersonic Navy craft.

Journalist, George Knapp says that’s more activity than he has seen in three decades.

He added: “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.

“Are they all crazy? “Because if they are, they shouldn’t have their hands on nuclear weapons.”

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