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Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
My guess is that they are large military balloons with video recorders attached to get those beautiful shots to scare the # out of other countries.
Oh... Um... I guess it could be Aliens too.
AAC
Robert Hastings Presents:
Major UFO Press Conference In Washington, DC
September 27th, 2010
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects
Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles
Group to call on U.S. Government to reveal the facts
Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former U.S. Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality. One of them, ICBM launch officer Captain Robert Salas, was on duty during one missile disruption incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base and was ordered to never discuss it. Another participant, retired Col. Charles Halt, observed a disc-shaped object directing beams of light down into the RAF Bentwaters airbase in England and heard on the radio that they landed in the nuclear weapons storage area. Both men will provide stunning details about these events, and reveal how the U.S. military responded.
Captain Salas notes, "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it." Col. Halt adds, "I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted—both then and now—to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation." The group of witnesses and a leading researcher, who has brought them together for the first time, will discuss the national security implications of these and other alarmingly similar incidents and will urge the government to reveal all information about them. This is a public-awareness issue.
Declassified U.S. government documents, to be distributed at the event, now substantiate the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites extending back to 1948. The press conference will also address present-day concerns about the abuse of government secrecy as well as the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons.
WHO:
Dwynne Arneson, USAF Lt.Col. Ret., communications center officer-in-charge
Bruce Fenstermacher, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer
Charles Halt, USAF Col. Ret., former deputy base commander
Robert Hastings, researcher and author
Robert Jamison, former USAF nuclear missile targeting officer
Patrick McDonough, former USAF nuclear missile site geodetic surveyor
Jerome Nelson, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer
Robert Salas, former USAF nuclear missile launch officer
Originally posted by ElOmen
Raw footage would of been awesome for this one
Originally posted by homeskillet
i would agree with weather balloons as well. but why are they not moving from the blast? that shockwave would have to be immense even at far distances. i would guess that even where the camera and observers are there would at least be some effect.
not saying aliens btw
edit on 7/25/2012 by homeskillet because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Orkojoker
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
My guess is that they are large military balloons with video recorders attached to get those beautiful shots to scare the # out of other countries.
Oh... Um... I guess it could be Aliens too.
AAC
That sounds reasonable. Can anyone confirm that the military did use such balloons to document these tests?
To obtain measurements of the yield of the first atomic bomb, gamma detectors were flown from barrage balloons at heights of 150-300 metres. The balloons were about 20 metres away from ground zero. Additional gamma ray detectors were buried at some distance, their sensitive probes sticking out of the sand.
At 5.29am the bomb was detonated. In the instant before the balloons and their detectors were destroyed they flashed their data back to recording instruments.
Between 1966 and 1974, France conducted nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere at the atolls, including 41 nuclear tests and five “safety trials”. In a safety trial, a nuclear weapon is destroyed with conventional explosives with no, or very little, release of nuclear energy. With the exception of four tests (three at Mururoa and one at Fangataufa) carried out on barges floating in the lagoons, most atmospheric tests were carried out, suspended from balloons, hundreds of metres above the lagoons so that there was very little local fallout of radioactive material.
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
I think they are barrage balloons
Ive seen them mentioned on other tests of the early American nuclear weapons.
That be barrage balloons but when they are used in a test they don't make it out alive. The UFOs in question don't appear to be phased.