A FORMER Air Force missile officer has described the chilling moment glowing red UFOs allegedly knocked US nuclear missiles offline during the Cold War.
He claimed the mystery craft broke through some of the military’s toughest protections without firing a shot.
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Former Air Force officer Robert Salas claims glowing red UFOs hovered over Montana’s Malmstrom base in 1967Credit: YouTube / Danny Jones
Salas said 20 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana were disabled across two 1967 incidentsCredit: Alamy
At the time, Salas was one of two officers inside an underground launch control capsuleCredit: Alamy
Robert Salas said 20 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana were disabled across two 1967 incidents.
Salas, now 85, said the encounters happened on March 16 and March 24, when guards reported strange lights moving at high speed, stopping instantly and glowing bright red.
At the time, Salas was one of two officers inside an underground launch control capsule.
He said guards first called in to report unusual lights in the sky over the base.
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Salas said the situation escalated when security reported a pulsating reddish object hovering over the front gate.
He then claimed the missiles began dropping offline one after another.
“All of a sudden, we get a large horn go off and we know what that means,” Salas said on the Danny Jones Podcast.
He added, “Look at the board and sure enough, one of them went from green to red. No go. No launch, no ability to launch.”
“Very quickly thereafter, bing, bing, bing, bing, all 10 of them went down. They all went red,” he said.
Salas said the guards insisted the objects were not Soviet aircraft and reported seeing similar lights over two missile silos about a mile away.
He also claimed incursion alarms were triggered, suggesting something had entered a fenced missile area.
The veteran said a Boeing-led investigation later could not explain what caused the shutdown because the missile cabling was built to resist outside electromagnetic interference.
“They had no idea how this signal could have been injected into each of the missiles,” Salas said.
“The cabling system that we had was triply shielded against electromagnetic interference from the outside.”
Salas told the podcast he believes intelligent non-human beings were trying to stop humanity from destroying itself in a nuclear war.
“It’s another civilization out there that is visiting us and are concerned about us destroying this planet through nuclear war, for many reasons, probably some we don’t even understand,” he said.
He said Air Force investigators later ordered him and his commander to sign strict secrecy agreements threatening prison if they spoke publicly.
But the official US position remains far more skeptical.
The Pentagon’s AARO office said in 2024 it had found no verifiable evidence that any UAP sighting represented extraterrestrial activity or that the government had access to extraterrestrial technology.
That has not stopped pressure for more disclosure.
In February, President Donald Trump said he would direct Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files related to aliens, UAPs, and UFOs.