From the Daily Mail: "Multiple US military whistleblowers reveal how a disc-shaped UFO intercepted nuclear missile and disabled it with 'laser-beams' in mid-air over California." From the article:
The US military is in possession of a video of a UFO apparently disabling a nuclear warhead during a routine test, according to multiple former officials.
They claim the video in question captured a saucer-shaped craft circling the unarmed, dummy warhead shortly after it detached from the Atlas missile booster, then shooting four beams of light at the warhead, disabling it.
Retired US Air Force officers Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann claim to have viewed the recording of the 1964 encounter before the tape went missing.
The former officials were part of a team responsible for capturing video of missile test launches in California with telescopic photography and videography equipment.
Two days later, after they screened the video, they claim that two plain-clothed CIA agents confiscated the footage and swore them to secrecy.
The incredible account is part of a pattern that some UFO experts have identified, where UFOs seem to interfere with nuclear weapons.
Obviously, in considering such incidents, the first question you have to ask is whether the witness(es) are lying or mistaken (e.g., it is very easy to see a bright star or hazard light on a radio tower from a distance while riding in a car at night and imagine that it is moving around in the sky; I've seen footage of supposed UFO's that were clear--at least to me--to be some aircraft firing off anti-missile flares seen from a distance such that the aircraft could not be seen, just the light from the flares). Even where there was no mistake or deception on the part of the observer, the majority of cases probably involve some other natural phenomena such as various types of plasma (e.g., ball lightning, sprites, or earthquake lights).
If deception or mistake can be discounted, then you must also consider whether it is part of a government program. For instance, in 1946 there were a large number of "UFO" sightings over Scandinavia that turned out to be tests of captured V2 rockets. In pre-satellite days, many UFO sightings from aircraft coincided with the Air Force using high altitude balloons to detect nuclear tests made by the Soviets. And the so-called Cash-Landrum incident is so clearly a case of a USAF test of a malfunctioning nuclear jet or rocket that I would consider any other explanation to be "disinformation". How many people saw test flights of stealth aircraft that they mistook for UFOs because the shape didn't match any known aircraft?
In this case, per the article, the missile was flying at over 8,000 mph over the Pacific. The incident occurred in 1964. Thus, I would first have to question how the camera was able to resolve the detail claimed in the incident, or whether it was seeing something else such as plasma or an interaction between the missile and the atmosphere due to the high speed (e.g., a shockwave pattern of some sort). Or perhaps something from the missile, itself. The article mentions:
Beyond the video, there is some limited evidence supporting the story.
A declassified but unreleased set of radar data of the September 15, 1964 event apparently confirmed that an unidentified aerial object was observed near the dummy warhead during the missile test, a source told Hastings.
The analysis of the radar data at the time suggested that the unidentified object could have been debris. It's also possible that it was 'chaff,' metallic objects meant to confuse radar to prevent enemies from pinpointing the exact location of a warhead.
'So, perhaps the mysterious target tracked on radar near the warhead was merely the chaff,' Hastings wrote. 'On the other hand, it may have indeed been the actual UFO, whose presence the author of the radar data report would probably not have known about, given the incident’s Top Secret status.'
Still dubious.
ReplyDeleteI think this one is very dubious.
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