1112 Biolabs like Wuhan are common in US & Europe too. Air Force Officers attest UFO encounters at Nuke sites

Biolabs like Wuhan are common in US & Europe too. Air Force Officers
attest UFO encounters about dangers of Nukes

Newsletter published on January 26, 2020

Air Force Officers addressed the National Press Club in the US on 27
Sept 2010, telling of their UFO encounters at nuclear weapons sites. The
UFOs, they said, deactivated some Nukes.

"They wanted to shine a light on our nuclear weapons and just send us a
message," get rid of them because it's going to mean our destruction."

Biological weapons are dangerous too. The US and Europe have many more
labs than they need for managing natural outbreaks of disease. These
labs must be for Biowarfare.

(1) Wuhan Lab experiments with highly pathogenic microorganisms that
cause fatal diseases
(2) Chinese lab to study pathogens could create bioweapons - Nature
magazine, 22 Feb 2017
(3) China plans another six Biolabs like Wuhan
(4) UFO Disclosure Conference, National Press Club 27 Sept 2010 - video
(5) Disclosure Conference, National Press Club 27 Sept 2010 - announcement
(6) Air Force Officers give Testimony on UFOs at National Press Club -
media reports
(7) Military and Security officials call for Governments to disclose UFO
info (2001)
(8) UFO Claims by military, government, and aviation personnel
(9) Navy refuses to release top-secret UFO info

(1) Wuhan Lab experiments with highly pathogenic microorganisms that
cause fatal diseases

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/real-umbrella-corp-wuhan-ultra-biohazard-lab-was-studying-worlds-most-dangerous-pathogens

The Real Umbrella Corp: Wuhan Ultra Biohazard Lab Was Studying "The
World's Most Dangerous Pathogens"

by Tyler Durden

Thu, 01/23/2020 - 14:10

Now that not one but seven Chinese cities - including Wuhan, ground zero
of the coronavirus epidemic - and collectively housing some 23 million
people, are under quarantine [...]

  it was brought to our attention that in February 2017, Nature penned
an extensive profile of what it called the "Chinese lab poised to study
world's most dangerous pathogens." [...]

And here's why all this is an issue:

Worries surround the Chinese lab. The SARS virus has escaped from
high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes
Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in
Piscataway, New Jersey.

Below we repost the full Nature article because it strongly hints,
without evidence for now, that the coronavirus epidemic may well have
been a weaponized virus which "accidentally" escaped the Wuhan biohazard
facility.

If that wasn't enough, here is January 2018 press release from the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, announcing the launch of the "top-level biosafety
lab."

China has put its first level-four biosafety laboratory into operation,
capable of conducting experiments with highly pathogenic microorganisms
that can cause fatal diseases, according to the national health
authority. Level four is the highest biosafety level, used for
diagnostic work and research on easily transmitted pathogens that can
cause fatal diseases, including the Ebola virus.

The Wuhan national level-four biosafety lab recently passed an
assessment organized by the National Health and Family Planning
Commission, according to a news release on Friday from the Wuhan
Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Virologists
read data on a container for viral samples at China's first level-four
biosafety lab at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan

After evaluating such things as the lab's management of personnel,
facilities, animals, disposals and viruses, experts believed the lab is
qualified to carry out experiments on highly pathogenic microorganisms
that can cause fatal diseases, such as Marburg, Variola, Nipah and Ebola.

"The lab provides a complete, world-leading biosafety system. This means
Chinese scientists can study the most dangerous pathogenic
microorganisms in their own lab," the Wuhan institute said.

It will serve as the country's research and development center on
prevention and control of infectious diseases, as a pathogen collection
center and as the United Nations' reference laboratory for infectious
diseases, the institute said.

Previous media reports said the Wuhan P4 lab will be open to scientists
from home and abroad. Scientists can conduct research on anti-virus
drugs and vaccines in the lab.

The lab is part of Sino-French cooperation in the prevention and control
of emerging infectious diseases, according to the news release.

The central government approved the P4 laboratory in 2003 when the
outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome spread alarm across the
country. In October 2004, China signed a cooperation agreement with
France on the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases.
This was followed by a succession of supplementary agreements.

With French assistance in laboratory design, biosafety standards
establishment and personnel training, construction began in 2011 and
lasted for three years. In 2015, the lab was put into trial operation.

(2) Chinese lab to study pathogens could create bioweapons - Nature
magazine, 22 Feb 2017

https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487

Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens
Maximum-security biolab is part of plan to build network of BSL-4
facilities across China.

David Cyranoski

Nature 542, 399–400 (23 February 2017) doi:10.1038/nature.2017.21487

22 February 2017 Updated: 23 February 2017 WUHAN, CHINA

A laboratory in Wuhan is on the cusp of being cleared to work with the
world’s most dangerous pathogens. The move is part of a plan to build
between five and seven biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) labs across the Chinese
mainland by 2025, and has generated much excitement, as well as some
concerns.

Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping, and the
addition of a biological dimension to geopolitical tensions between
China and other nations. But Chinese microbiologists are celebrating
their entrance to the elite cadre empowered to wrestle with the world’s
greatest biological threats.

"It will offer more opportunities for Chinese researchers, and our
contribution on the BSL-4-level pathogens will benefit the world," says
George Gao, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory
of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology in Beijing. There are already
two BSL-4 labs in Taiwan, but the National Bio-safety Laboratory, Wuhan,
would be the first on the Chinese mainland.

The lab was certified as meeting the standards and criteria of BSL-4 by
the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment
(CNAS) in January. The CNAS examined the lab’s infrastructure, equipment
and management, says a CNAS representative, paving the way for the
Ministry of Health to give its approval. A representative from the
ministry says it will move slowly and cautiously; if the assessment goes
smoothly, it could approve the laboratory by the end of June.

BSL-4 is the highest level of biocontainment: its criteria include
filtering air and treating water and waste before they leave the
laboratory, and stipulating that researchers change clothes and shower
before and after using lab facilities. Such labs are often
controversial. The first BSL-4 lab in Japan was built in 1981, but
operated with lower-risk pathogens until 2015, when safety concerns were
finally overcome.

The expansion of BSL-4-lab networks in the United States and Europe over
the past 15 years — with more than a dozen now in operation or under
construction in each region — also met with resistance, including
questions about the need for so many facilities.

"Viruses don’t know borders."

The Wuhan lab cost 300 million yuan (US$44 million), and to allay safety
concerns it was built far above the flood plain and with the capacity to
withstand a magnitude-7 earthquake, although the area has no history of
strong earthquakes. It will focus on the control of emerging diseases,
store purified viruses and act as a World Health Organization ‘reference
laboratory’ linked to similar labs around the world. "It will be a key
node in the global biosafety-lab network," says lab director Yuan Zhiming.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences approved the construction of a BSL-4
laboratory in 2003, and the epidemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory
syndrome) around the same time lent the project momentum. The lab was
designed and constructed with French assistance as part of a 2004
cooperative agreement on the prevention and control of emerging
infectious diseases. But the complexity of the project, China’s lack of
experience, difficulty in maintaining funding and long government
approval procedures meant that construction wasn’t finished until the
end of 2014.

The lab’s first project will be to study the BSL-3 pathogen that causes
Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever: a deadly tick-borne virus that affects
livestock across the world, including in northwest China, and that can
jump to people.

Future plans include studying the pathogen that causes SARS, which also
doesn’t require a BSL-4 lab, before moving on to Ebola and the West
African Lassa virus, which do. Some one million Chinese people work in
Africa; the country needs to be ready for any eventuality, says Yuan.
"Viruses don’t know borders."

Gao travelled to Sierra Leone during the recent Ebola outbreak, allowing
his team to report the speed with which the virus mutated into new
strains1. The Wuhan lab will give his group a chance to study how such
viruses cause disease, and to develop treatments based on antibodies and
small molecules, he says.

The opportunities for international collaboration, meanwhile, will aid
the genetic analysis and epidemiology of emergent diseases. "The world
is facing more new emerging viruses, and we need more contribution from
China," says Gao. In particular, the emergence of zoonotic viruses —
those that jump to humans from animals, such as SARS or Ebola — is a
concern, says Bruno Lina, director of the VirPath virology lab in Lyon,
France.

Many staff from the Wuhan lab have been training at a BSL-4 lab in Lyon,
which some scientists find reassuring. And the facility has already
carried out a test-run using a low-risk virus.

But worries surround the Chinese lab, too. The SARS virus has escaped
from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes
Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in
Piscataway, New Jersey. Tim Trevan, founder of CHROME Biosafety and
Biosecurity Consulting in Damascus, Maryland, says that an open culture
is important to keeping BSL-4 labs safe, and he questions how easy this
will be in China, where society emphasizes hierarchy. "Diversity of
viewpoint, flat structures where everyone feels free to speak up and
openness of information are important," he says.

Yuan says that he has worked to address this issue with staff. "We tell
them the most important thing is that they report what they have or
haven’t done," he says. And the lab’s international collaborations will
increase openness. "Transparency is the basis of the lab," he adds.

The plan to expand into a network heightens such concerns. One BSL-4 lab
in Harbin is already awaiting accreditation; the next two are expected
to be in Beijing and Kunming, the latter focused on using monkey models
to study disease.

Lina says that China’s size justifies this scale, and that the
opportunity to combine BSL-4 research with an abundance of research
monkeys — Chinese researchers face less red tape than those in the West
when it comes to research on primates — could be powerful. "If you want
to test vaccines or antivirals, you need a non-human primate model,"
says Lina.

But Ebright is not convinced of the need for more than one BSL-4 lab in
mainland China. He suspects that the expansion there is a reaction to
the networks in the United States and Europe, which he says are also
unwarranted. He adds that governments will assume that such excess
capacity is for the potential development of bioweapons.

"These facilities are inherently dual use," he says. The prospect of
ramping up opportunities to inject monkeys with pathogens also worries,
rather than excites, him: "They can run, they can scratch, they can bite."

Trevan says China’s investment in a BSL-4 lab may, above all, be a way
to prove to the world that the nation is competitive. "It is a big
status symbol in biology," he says, "whether it’s a need or not."

(3) China plans another six Biolabs like Wuhan

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-lab-studying-SARS-Ebola-Wuhan-outbreaks-center.html

China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan - and US biosafety
experts warned in 2017 that a virus could 'escape' the facility that's
become key in fighting the outbreak

The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is the only lab in China
designated for studying dangerous pathogens like SARS and Ebola Ahead of
its January 2018 opening, biosafety experts and scientists from the US
expressed concerns that a virus could escape the lab In 2004, a SARS
virus 'leaked' from a lab in Beijing

Experts say the coronavirus that's infected more than 800 people mutated
in animals and became capable of infecting humans at the Wuhan seafood
market

But a 2017 article warned of the unpredictability of lab animals that
scientists at the Wuhan lab intended to inject with viruses

By NATALIE RAHHAL ACTING US HEALTH EDITOR

PUBLISHED: 09:08 AEDT, 24 January 2020 | UPDATED: 12:56 AEDT, 25 January
2020

Scientists warned in 2017 that a SARS-like virus could escape a lab set
up that year in Wuhan, China, to study some of the most dangerous
pathogens in the world.

Now, a SARS-like coronavirus has infected more than 800 there, spread to
at least 10 other countries and killed 25 in Wuhan and nearby provinces.

China installed the first of a planned five to seven biolabs designed
for maximum safety in Wuhan in 2017, for the purpose of studying the
most high-risk pathogens, including the Ebola and the SARS viruses.

Tim Trevan, a Maryland biosafety consultant, told Nature that year, when
the lab was on the cusp of opening, that he worried that China's culture
could make the institute unsafe because 'structures where everyone feels
free to speak up and openness of information are important.'

In fact, the SARS virus had 'escaped' multiple times from a lab in
Beijing, according to the Nature article.

The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is located about 20 miles away
from the Huanan Seafood Market and some have wondered if the outbreak's
epicentre is coincidental, but the scientific community currently
believes that the virus mutated through and jumped to people through
animal-human contact at the market.

But, 'at this point there's no reason to harbour suspicions' that the
facility had anything to do with the outbreak, besides being responsible
for the crucial genome sequencing that lets doctors diagnose it, Rutgers
University microbiologist Dr Richard Ebright told DailyMail.com.

China's highest-grade lab for studying viruses is located in Wuhan, the
same city at the centre of the current coronavirus outbreak +3 China's
highest-grade lab for studying viruses is located in Wuhan, the same
city at the centre of the current coronavirus outbreak

The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, housed at the Wuhan Institute
of Virology, was set up in the hopes of helping China contribute
research on the world's most dangerous viruses.

Constructed in 2015, the lab was still undergoing safety testing, but
near ready to open in 2017.

It was the first ever lab in the country designed to meet
biosafety-level-4 (BSL-4) standards - the highest biohazard level,
meaning that it would be qualified to handle the most dangerous pathogens.

BSL-4 labs have to be equipped with airtight hazmat suits or special
'cabinet' work spaces that confine viruses and bacteria that can be
transmitted through the air to sealed boxes that scientists reach into
using attached high-grade gloves.

There are about 54 BSL-4 labs worldwide.

China's first, in Wuhan, received federal accreditation in January 2017.

Chinese citizens fear the government is keeping information... SHARE
THIS ARTICLE Share Upon opening, it planned to first take up a project
that required only BSL-3 precautions to be in place: a tick-borne virus
that causes Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.

It's as highly fatal disease, killing 10 to 40 percent of those it infects.

SARS, too, is a BSL-3 virus. According to Nature's interview with the
lab's director, Yuan Zhimin, the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory
planned to study the SARS virus.

In January 2018, the lab was operational 'for global experiments on
BSL-4 pathogens,' wrote Guizhen Wu in the journal Biosafety and Health.

After a SARS virus escaped in a 'leak' from another lab in 2004, Chinese
officials worked to improve safety, but also to expand the country's
capacity to continue to study the very viruses its lab had let out.

Scientists at the Wuhan Virology Institute wear high-grade hazmat suits.
On the institute's grounds is the Wuhan Biosafety Laboratory, which is
designated to study the most dangerous pathogens, including viruses like
Ebola and SARS +3 Scientists at the Wuhan Virology Institute wear
high-grade hazmat suits. On the institute's grounds is the Wuhan
Biosafety Laboratory, which is designated to study the most dangerous
pathogens, including viruses like Ebola and SARS

These Hazmat suits are intended to protect scientists from easily
transmitted viruses, like those that can be caught by breathing in,
while working at the Wuhan lab +3 These Hazmat suits are intended to
protect scientists from easily transmitted viruses, like those that can
be caught by breathing in, while working at the Wuhan lab

'After a laboratory leak incident of SARS in 2004, the former Ministry
of Health of China initiated the construction of preservation
laboratories for high-level pathogens such as SARS, coronavirus, and
pandemic influenza virus,' wrote Guizhen Wu.

It's not clear what or where those labs were.

The Wuhan lab is also equipped for animal research.

In 2017, the scientists who spoke to Nature acknowledge the opportunity
this presents for the development of vaccines and treatments.

Regulations for animal research - especially that conducted on primates
- are much looser in China than in the US and other Western countries,
meaning these studies are less costly and face fewer barriers that could
limit or slow them.

But that was also cause for concern for Trevan.

Studying the behaviour of a virus like 209-nCoV and developing
treatments or vaccines for it requires infecting these research monkeys,
an important step before human testing.

Monkeys are unpredictable though, warned Ebright.

'They can run, they can scratch they can bite,' he said, and the viruses
they carry would go where their feet, nails and teeth do.

(4) UFO Disclosure Conference, National Press Club 27 Sept 2010 - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmpaM0PqyI

(5) Disclosure Conference, National Press Club 27 Sept 2010 - announcement

27 Sep 2010

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

WHAT:

Noted researcher Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes:
Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, will moderate a
distinguished panel of former U.S. Air Force officers involved in UFO
incidents at nuclear missile sites near Malmstrom, F.E. Warren, and
Walker AFBs, as well as the nuclear weapons depot at RAF Bentwaters.

CONTACT:

Robert Hastings:
hastings444@kitcarson.net
505 263 3815

Robert Salas
rasalas@roadrunner.com
805 798 0813 ==

(6) Air Force Officers give Testimony on UFOs at National Press Club -
media reports

https://www.wanttoknow.info/ufos/ufos_national_press_club_witness_testimony

UFOs: National Press Club Witness Testimony

U.S. Air Force Officers Speak Out on UFOs

Dear friends,

Six courageous U.S. Air Force officers and one passionate researcher
assembled at the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, DC on
Sept. 27, 2010 to give their intriguing testimony of personal
involvement in a major UFO cover-up. For an excellent 18-minute video
summary of this landmark event on the MSNBC website, click here. Below
are key excerpts of numerous fascinating articles in the mainstream
media which covered this historic event. Each excerpt is taken verbatim
from the major media website listed at the link provided. The most
important sentences are highlighted for those with limited time.

The exciting news is that several of these Air Force officers related
events in which nuclear missiles were deactivated in their silos as a
result of UFO interference. The message from these incidents seems to be
that humanity should stop playing with nuclear bombs. Could it be that
those responsible for these UFOs don't want us to destroy ourselves and
are sending discreet messages to those who manage these lethal weapons?
Other Air Force officers have given similar testimony, which you can
read here.

I have had the privilege of personally meeting two of these courageous
gentlemen, Captain Robert Salas and Lieutenant Colonel Dwynne Arneson.
Capt. Salas was impressed with the work of WantToKnow.info and gave me a
copy of his extensive personal investigation into the UFO cover-up in
which he is involved, which is now posted at this link. For lots more
reliable, verifiable information on the UFO cover-up, see the "What you
can do" box at the end of this message. By choosing to educate ourselves
and to spread the word on this most intriguing and important topic, we
can and will build a brighter future.

With very best wishes,

Fred Burks for PEERS and WantToKnow.info

Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

Former U.S. Air Force Officers Recount Experiences With UFOs at Nuclear
Missile Bases

September 27, 2010, ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/airmen-govt-clean-ufos/story?id=11738715

The U.S. government's official line may be that unidentified flying
objects (UFOs) don't pose a national security threat, but a group of
former Air Force officers gathered Monday in the nation's capital to
tell a different story. During a press conference at the National Press
Club in Washington, D.C., seven former Air Force officers once stationed
at nuclear bases around the country said that not only have UFOs visited
Air Force bases, some have succeeded in disabling nuclear missiles
stationed there. "I want the government to acknowledge that this
phenomenon exists," said Robert Salas, a former U.S. Air Force Nuclear
Launch Officer. Salas said he doesn't think the UFOs he claims to have
encountered had any offensive intent, but he believes they wanted to
leave an impression. "They wanted to shine a light on our nuclear
weapons and just send us a message," he said. "My interpretation is the
message is get rid of them because it's going to mean our destruction."
Other former officers recounted similar stories of unexplained moving
lights and odd-shaped flying objects during their time in the service.
Leslie Kean, an investigative journalist and author of the new book
"UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record,"
said thousands of pages of documentation support the officers' accounts.
She spent the last 10 years researching UFOs and combing through
thousands of pages of declassified government material. Kean said that
one declassified document that she researched for her book, relating to
the Salas incident, said, "the fact that no apparent reason for the loss
of the 10 missiles can easily be identified is a cause for grave concern
to this headquarters."

Note: This is not the first time government and military witnesses have
testified at the National Press Club about a major cover-up of UFOs. To
watch 22 witnesses testifying to remarkable personal stories in May
2001, click here. For a two-page written summary of amazing UFO
testimony from top officials, click here. ==

Ex-Air Force Personnel: UFOs Deactivated Nukes

September 27, 2010, CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/28/national/main6907702.shtml

Whatever the mysterious lights in the sky were, they seemed to have an
interest in our nukes. One of the more out-of-the-ordinary press
conferences held in Washington this week consisted of former Air Force
personnel testifying to the existence of UFOs and their ability to
neutralize American and Russian nuclear missiles. UFO researcher Robert
Hastings of Albuquerque, N.M., who organized the National Press Club
briefing, said more than 120 former service members had told him they'd
seen unidentified flying objects near nuclear weapon storage and testing
grounds. Robert Jamison, a retired USAF nuclear missile targeting
officer, told of several occasions having to go out and "re-start"
missiles that had been deactivated, after UFOs were sighted nearby. [In
a] December 1980 incident near two Royal Air Force Bases in Suffolk,
England ... several U.S. Air Force personnel reported seeing a strange
metallic object hovering. Retired USAF Col. Charles Halt said that in
December 1980, when he was deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters,
strange lights in the forest were investigated by three patrolmen. They
reported approaching a triangular craft, "approximately three meters on
a side, dark metallic in appearance with strange markings." Halt found
indentations in the ground, broken branches, and low-level background
radiation. He and his team also witnessed various lights moving silently
in the sky, of one which was "shedding something like molten metal."
Several of the ex-servicemembers speaking Monday said when they'd
brought their concern of such appearances to superiors, they'd been told
it was "top secret" or that it "didn't happen." Hastings suggested the
presence of such phenomena meant that aliens were monitoring our
weapons, and perhaps warning us - "a sign to Washington and Moscow that
we are playing with fire."

Note: For lots more reliable information on the famous RAF Bentwaters
incident, click here. For what may be the best UFO documentary ever
made, watch Out of the Blue, available for free viewing at this link. ==

Former Air Force officers discuss UFO sightings

September 27, 2010, Air Force Times

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/09/ap-Former-Air-Force-officers-discuss-UFO-sightings-092710/

Armed with declassified documents and vivid details, a group of former
Air Force officers gathered Monday to go public with an assertion they
have kept mostly under wraps for decades: that UFOs visited the bases
they were stationed at and caused nuclear weapon system to temporarily
malfunction. The group, convened by UFO researcher Robert Hastings, came
to the National Press Club in Washington to discuss their individual
experiences and to urge a government that tried to ignore and silence
them when they came forward years ago to finally come clean. Hastings
said he believes that visitors from outer space are fixating on nuclear
weapons because they want to send a message: Disarm before the world
destroys itself. Hastings said he has heard of a UFO incident occurring
at Malmstrom as recently as 2007. The declassified documents Hastings
presented at Monday's news conference include decades-old government
memos detailing reports of sightings of objects in the skies above
Alabama, Montana, New Mexico and North Dakota. He has talked to 120
former or retired U.S. military about the presence of UFOs at nuclear
weapons sites across the United States and around the globe as early as
1945, when the world entered the nuclear age with the bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For some of the officers who came forward
Monday, going public wasn't easy. Bruce Fenstermacher, a missile combat
crew commander at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyo., was
"laughed at" by superiors when he reported a UFO sighting at a launch
site that one of his sergeants had passed on to him, he said. He decided
to keep his head low after that. "I was very careful about who I told
what," he said. "I was concerned. I don't want to be considered a kook.
But I think it's more important to come out and tell our story." ==

Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes, Worry Ex-Air Force Officers

September 23, 2010, Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/09/23/aliens-monitoring-nukes-worry-ex-air-force-officers/

Captain Robert Salas was on duty in Montana in 1967 when a UFO shut down
the nuclear missiles on his base. And he's hardly the only one to make
such a claim. On Monday, six former U.S. Air Force officers and one
former enlisted man will break their silence about similar events at the
National Press Club, all centering around unidentified flying objects
and nuclear missiles. They plan to urge the government to publicly
confirm the incidents, stating that they were ordered never to discuss
the events. "We're talking about unidentified flying objects, as simple
as that," Salas told FoxNews.com. "They're often known as UFOs," he
added. Salas, a former U.S. Air Force nuclear missile launch officer,
will host the event along with researcher Robert Hastings, author of
"UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites."
According to the pair, 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. The group plans to distribute declassified U.S.
government documents at the event that they claim will 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. "This is only the tip of the iceberg, these stories," Salas
told FoxNews.com.

Note: Mr. Salas has contacted WantToKnow.info with more information on
his amazing experience. To read this fascinating account, click here.
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(7) Military and Security officials call for Governments to disclose UFO
info (2001)

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98572&page=1

Group Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info

By ABC News 7 January 2006

May 10, 2001

They're out there — and the government knows.

That's according to a group of about 20 former government workers, many
of them military and security officials, who stepped forward on
Wednesday to say they had witnessed evidence of aliens and unidentified
flying objects and called for congressional hearings about such sightings.

"These testimonies establish once and for all that we are not alone,"
said Steven Greer, director of the Disclosure Project, a nonprofit
research organization dedicated to disclosing alleged alien sightings.

Greer, who organized the program at the National Press Club in
Washington, argued that the United States and other governments have
known about UFOs for at least 50 years and have been keeping the
information secret.

Greer said there were some 400 witnesses who claim to have firsthand
experience with UFO sightings or alien evidence, and are willing to
testify before Congress.

Among them is Daniel Sheehan, a well-known Washington lawyer who is
acting as counsel for members of Greer's group.

Sheehan told reporters that during the Carter administration he found
out about government-held UFO information that then-CIA Director George
Bush, father of the current president, would not release.

Sheehan said he was then led into the National Archives, where he was
shown photographs of captured UFOs, complete with what appeared to be
alien writing symbols, but he was only allowed to take notes on a yellow
legal pad. He traced the photos onto the cardboard back of his pad, he said.

International UFO Cabal? James Oberg, an ABCNEWS space consultant and
retired NASA engineer, says Greer has long argued "there's this bizarre
theory that there is a worldwide real X-file cabal that is using UFO
technology."

But Oberg noted not every witness attending the conference necessarily
subscribed to Greer's theory, and says those attending the press
conference shouldn't be mocked.

"People see strange things they can't understand, and that can't be
explained either then or in hindsight, and it's good to keep documenting
these, because often the mysterious sightings are things of interest, to
military intelligence or even to science."

Oberg says people sometimes can be too quick to conclude that the
explanation is little green men.

"Often, I've seen people jump to conclusions about what they saw,
because, after all, to have been scared by a distant fireball can be
embarrassing but to have encountered an alien space ship is more exciting."

Military Denies UFOs

The U.S. government repeatedly has denied having any evidence of alien
species, though it investigated UFOs for decades.

The Air Force was responsible for investigating alleged sightings for
the military. From 1947 to 1969, the service's Project Blue Book at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, investigated 12,618 reported
sightings. It said it found explanations for all but 701, such as swamp
gas, airplane lights, weather balloons and other natural phenomena.

Sightings for which explanations couldn't be determined were categorized
as sketchy reports that couldn't be pinned down.

In 1997, the Air Force announced it was formally closing its nearly
50-year investigation into the alleged alien sighting at Roswell, N.M.
It denied that there was evidence of a UFO at Roswell and that the
military covered it up.

"Information obtained through exhaustive records searches and interviews
indicated the material recovered near Roswell was consistent with a
balloon device of the type used in a then-classified project," said a
Pentagon statement. "No records indicated, or even hinted at, the
recovery of 'alien' bodies or extraterrestrial materials."

Alien Energy?

In another statement Wednesday, Donna Hare, a former NASA contract
employee, said that Apollo astronauts saw an alien craft when they
landed on the moon, but were told not to reveal it. Hare's source was a
man who had been quarantined with the astronauts.

Former Air Force Maj. George Filer III told reporters that when he was
at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, an alien craft came down, and
an alien got out and was shot by a military policeman.

"Our security police went out there and found him at the end of the
runway dead," Filer said.

"They asked me to brief the general staff," he said, but was later told
not to. He said he would tell the story in front of Congress.

Filer is not new to UFO sightings. He has his own Web site called
Filer's Files, where he says he also chased an alien ship over England
when flying for the U.S. Air Force.

"I personally have observed a UFO both visually and on radar. I've been
chasing them ever since," he writes.

Greer said extraterrestrials could provide a new, plentiful source of
energy that would supply the world's energy needs.

Information from alien encounters, said Greer, could also have
significant impact on the global environment and the quest for world peace.

ABCNEWS' Katelynn Raymer in Washington and David Ruppe in New York
contributed to this report.

(8) UFO Claims by military, government, and aviation personnel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object

Claims by military, government, and aviation personnel

Since 2001 there have been calls for greater openness on the part of the
government by various persons. In May 2001, a press conference was held
at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., by an organization
called the Disclosure Project, featuring twenty persons including
retired Air Force and FAA personnel, intelligence officers and an air
traffic controller. They all gave a brief account of what they knew or
had witnessed, and stated that they would be willing to testify to what
they had said under oath to a Congressional committee. According to a
2002 report in the Oregon Daily Emerald, Disclosure Project founder
Steven M. Greer has gathered 120 hours of testimony from various
government officials on the topic of UFOs, including astronaut Gordon
Cooper and a Brigadier General.

In 2007, former Arizona governor Fife Symington came forward and
belatedly claimed that he had seen "a massive, delta-shaped craft
silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona"
in 1997.

On September 27, 2010, a group of six former USAF officers and one
former enlisted Air Force man held a press conference at the National
Press Club in Washington, D.C., on the theme "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have
Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects." They told how they had
witnessed UFOs hovering near missile sites and even disarming the missiles.

 From April 29 to May 3, 2013, the Paradigm Research Group held the
"Citizen Hearing on Disclosure" at the National Press Club. The group
paid former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel and former Representatives Carolyn
Cheeks Kilpatrick, Roscoe Bartlett, Merrill Cook, Darlene Hooley, and
Lynn Woolsey $20,000 each to hear testimony from a panel of researchers
which included witnesses from military, agency, and political backgrounds.

Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell claimed that he knew of senior
government employees who had been involved in "close encounters" and
because of this he has no doubt that aliens have visited Earth.

In May 2019, The New York Times reported that American Navy fighter jets
had several encounters with unexplained objects while conducting
exercises off the eastern seaboard of the United States from the summer
of 2014 to March 2015. The Times published a cockpit instrument video of
an object moving at high speed near the ocean surface as it appeared to
rotate. Pilots observed that the objects were capable of high
acceleration, deceleration and maneuverability. In two separate
incidents, a pilot reported his cockpit instruments locked onto and
tracked objects but he was unable to see them through his helmet camera.
In another encounter, an object described as a sphere encasing a cube
passed between two jets as they flew about 100 feet apart.[114]
Nonetheless, some at the very highest levels of government may be
skeptical of such accounts.[115]

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(9) Navy refuses to release top-secret UFO info

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/navy-says-release-files-into-ufo-sightings-would-damage-security-2020-1

The Navy cryptically says it has top-secret UFO briefings that would
cause 'exceptionally grave damage' to US national security if published

SINÉAD BAKER

JAN 15, 2020, 9:47 PM

The Navy said it "discovered certain briefing slides that are classified
TOP SECRET" in response to a freedom-of-information request, which asked
about a series of videos that showed pilots baffled by mysterious, fast
objects in the sky.

The Navy previously confirmed it was treating these objects as UFOs –
which means they are being treated as unexplained but not necessarily
extraterrestrial.

One of the videos was published by published by The New York Times in
2017, and pilots told The Times they saw the objects accelerate, stop,
and turn in ways that went beyond known aerospace technology.

The Navy has said it has top-secret information about unidentified
flying objects that could cause "exceptionally grave damage to the
National Security of the United States" if released.

A Navy representative responded to a Freedom of Information Act request
sent by a researcher named Christian Lambright by saying the Navy had
"discovered certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET,"
Vice reported last week.

But the representative from the Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence said
"the Original Classification Authority has determined that the release
of these materials would cause exceptionally grave damage to the
National Security of the United States."

The person also said the Navy had at least one related video classified
as "SECRET."

Vice said it independently verified the response to Lambright’s request
with the Navy.

Lambright’s request for information was related to a series of videos
showing Navy pilots baffled by mysterious, fast objects in the sky.

The Navy previously confirmed it was treating these objects as UFOs.

An image from a 2004 video filmed near San Diego showing a UFO. The term
UFO, along with others like "unidentified aerial phenomena" and
"unidentified flying object," does not necessarily mean the object is
thought to be extraterrestrial. Many such sightings ultimately end up
having logical and earthly explanations – often involving military
technology.

A spokeswoman for the Pentagon had also previously told The Black Vault,
a civilian-run archive of government documents, that the videos "were
never officially released to the general public by the DOD and should
still be withheld."

The Department of Defence videos show pilots confused by what they are
seeing. In one video, a pilot said: "What the f— is that thing?"

The Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Gough said this week that an
investigation into "sightings is ongoing."

Joseph Gradisher, the Navy’s spokesman for the deputy chief of naval
operations for information warfare, told The Black Vault last year: "The
Navy has not publicly released characterizations or descriptions, nor
released any hypothesis or conclusions, in regard to the objects
contained in the referenced videos."

According to The Black Vault, Gradisher said the Department of Defence
videos were filmed in 2004 and 2015. The New York Times also reported
that one of the videos was from 2004.

You can watch the 2004 video here, as shared by To the Stars Academy, a
UFO research group cofounded by Tom deLonge from the rock group Blink-182:

One of the videos was shared by The New York Times in December 2017,
with one commander who saw the object on a training mission telling The
Times "it accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen."

Another pilot told the outlet: "These things would be out there all day."

Pilots told The Times that the objects could accelerate, stop, and turn
in ways that went beyond known aerospace technology. Many of the pilots
who spoke with The Times were part of a Navy flight squadron known as
the "Red Rippers," and they reported the sightings to the Pentagon and
Congress.

"Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible
engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet
and hypersonic speeds," the Times report said.

Scientists also told The Times they were sceptical that these videos
showed anything extraterrestrial.

Gough, the Pentagon spokeswoman, would not comment to Vice on whether
the 2004 source video that the Navy possessed had any more information
than the one that has been circulating online, but she said that it was
the same length and that the Pentagon did not plan on releasing it.

John Greenewald, the curator of The Black Vault, told Vice in September
that he was surprised the Navy had classified the objects as unidentified.

"I very much expected that when the US military addressed the videos,
they would coincide with language we see on official documents that have
now been released, and they would label them as ‘drones’ or ‘balloons,'"
he said.

"However, they did not. They went on the record stating the ‘phenomena’
depicted in those videos, is ‘unidentified.’ That really made me
surprised, intrigued, excited, and motivated to push harder for the truth."

US President Donald Trump said in June that he had been briefed on the
fact that Navy pilots were reporting increased sightings of UFOs.


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