By Samira Sadeque
While cyber-attacks, terrorism and global warming are all prominent national security concerns, one researcher and a slate of ex-military officials say there is yet another threat out there.
Way out there.
Unidentified flying objects [UFOs] have been visiting U.S. and Russian nuclear sites, according to UFO researcher Robert Hastings.
“This is a national security issue, but it is also a need to know issue, a right to know issue,” Hastings told reporters Monday during a briefing at the National Press Club. “Isn’t it time for the truth to be revealed? Not only to the U.S. citizens but to people of the world.”
Hastings was joined by about half a dozen former Air Force officials who discussed the alleged phenomenon.
The stories from the officials all shared the same qualities: The objects spotted included a pulsating light, were round in shape, silent and appeared and disappeared suddenly. They had been spotted around missile sites shutting off or disabling missiles, temporarily in all cases.
“They could’ve done a lot more damage - permanent damage- which they didn’t,” said Robert Salas, who had been a missile launch officer in 1967. “If they wanted to destroy [the missiles], they could have. But they didn’t. I personally don’t think [there] was a hostile intent.”
The officials said that when they wanted to report their respective events, they were asked to keep quiet about it.
While Hastings stopped short of attributing the reports to little green men, he did contend that the occupants of the crafts could be conveying a message to the world community.
“They are sending a signal to Washington and Moscow that we are playing with fire. The possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons potentially threaten the human race and the integrity of the planetary environment,” Hastings said. “This is speculative, but regarding the given facts, this is a viable scenario.”