Creator Robert Hastings Has Added an Essential Replace to his Groundbreaking Quantity on UAP Exercise Involving Nuclear Weapons
| The Second Version of my 500-page e-book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, was revealed in early 2017. Some months later, the now-famous article exposing the existence of a extremely secret UAP investigations group on the Pentagon—the Superior Aerospace Risk Identification Program or AATIP—was revealed by The New York Times.
Written by journalists Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, and Helene Cooper, the exposé revealed that dramatic work had been secretly carried out by the Protection Intelligence Company, from 2007 to 2012, to look at nationwide security-related UFO exercise, together with disturbing incidents at nuclear missile amenities, when a number of |
 By Robert Hastings |
ICBMs have been mysteriously deactivated simply as a disc-shaped craft silently hovered above them. ©The UFO Chronicles. All rights reserved.
That startling article within the mainstream media heralded quite a few dramatic occasions over the following couple of years, culminating with former, high-level US authorities workers testifying earlier than Congress in regards to the existence of ultra-secret UFO crash-retrieval and reverse engineering packages, involving the alleged restoration of useless alien our bodies.
As a result of all of those stunning developments occurred after the publication of my e-book’s Second Version, I consider that offering my readers with an summary of them—successfully an replace—is warranted and, due to this fact, have simply added an Epilogue to the amount, which has additionally been inserted under.
Though this can be a new model of the e-book, I must stress that it’s NOT a brand new version. Ninety-nine % of the textual content is an identical to the previously-published Second Version. Regardless of my editor’s sturdy competition that the newly-released tome needs to be promoted as a Third Version, I used to be involved that some individuals who’ve already bought UFOs and Nukes prior to now would purchase it once more beneath the mistaken perception that the up to date model accommodates principally new materials. It doesn’t.
In any case, a few of the essential UAP-related developments in recent times stemmed from, at the very least partly, my five-decade-long analysis challenge. For instance, in keeping with journalist George Knapp, the late US Senator Harry Reid—who secretly sought funding to create AATIP’s predecessor, the Superior Aerospace Weapon System Purposes Program (AAWSAP)—informed Knapp that, upon studying my e-book, he was extraordinarily involved about most of the disclosures showing in it—that’s, quite a few statements made to me by dozens of US navy veterans whom I had interviewed over time. Based on Knapp, Reid informed him that these revelations have been one of many causes he had pushed for a brand new, secret UFO investigative effort by the US authorities. I used to be surprised once I discovered of this. It was actually stunning and gratifying information to me!
Anyway, with out additional ado, right here is my e-book’s new Epilogue.
Epilogue
This second version of my e-book was revealed in 2017. The next up to date materials was added to it in April 2026:
In 2005, as I used to be engaged on the primary version of UFOs and Nukes, I reached out to a handful of physicists who had beforehand written about theoretical faster-than-light journey being utilized by technologically-advanced aliens and future people. I deliberate to incorporate a chapter on the subject within the e-book and was looking for steering from an professional who can be prepared to evaluation my written materials, to make sure its accuracy. The one who agreed to help me was quantum physicist Dr. Harold “Hal” Puthoff, who later revealed the peer-reviewed paper, Superior House Propulsion Primarily based On Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering.1
In November 2008, a couple of months after UFOs and Nukes was revealed, Puthoff purchased a replica. At the moment, I didn’t use Amazon to promote the e-book however as a substitute distributed it from my very own web site. Consequently, I knew the id (or pseudonym) of anybody who positioned an order. Once I noticed Hal’s identify, I used to be delighted.
Nevertheless, a month later, Puthoff unexpectedly emailed me and requested whether or not I might ship in a single day 4 extra copies to him. Once I checked into the transport price, I found that it was a really pricy $115, whereupon I requested Hal what was so pressing that he was prepared to pay that quantity? He responded by saying that, two days therefore, he had a gathering with “some movers and shakers in Washington,” and deliberate to offer a replica of the e-book to every of them.
I instantly inquired in regards to the identities of these people however Hal gently deflected my query. Though I used to be very curious in regards to the apparently essential individuals who presumably had an official curiosity in UFOs, it appeared clear that additional inquiries about them would even be rebuffed. So, I let the matter go.
9 years later, on December 16, 2017, The New York Occasions revealed the seminal, now-famous article that exposed the existence of a secret UFO investigations unit on the Pentagon, designated the Advance Aerospace Risk Identification Program (AATIP), headed-up by a senior Division of Protection intelligence official and particular agent named Luis “Lue” Elizondo.2 The group had apparently been created in 2007, however was disbanded in 2012, beneath stress from high-ranking, religiously-oriented officers who believed that UFOs have been demonic and, due to this fact, didn’t warrant investigation by the navy. Elizondo later resigned from US authorities service to protest that unreasonable resistance and interference and, in 2017, started talking publicly about AATIP’s essential work.
Once I learn the Occasions article, I used to be happy however not stunned to study that the DoD had secretly engaged in one other examine of UFOs lengthy after the highly-publicized closure of the Air Drive’s Venture Blue Guide, in January 1970, when the US authorities supposedly misplaced curiosity within the phenomenon. What did shock me was that the article recognized Dr. Harold Puthoff as AATIP’s scientific advisor!
Upon studying this, I emailed Hal and requested him if he recalled the “movers and shakers” episode in 2008. He stated that he did and informed me that Elizondo had been one of many recipients of my e-book. I used to be surprised! I requested who the opposite three recipients had been however he once more declined to reply me. I then requested whether or not he can be prepared to place me in contact with Elizondo, in order that I might interview him, whereupon Hal consented to take action.
Lue and I subsequently met in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in early February 2018. He confirmed that he had certainly obtained a replica of my e-book whereas with AATIP and informed me that his group had themselves investigated a number of nukes-related UFO incidents. Understandably, he wouldn’t focus on any still-classified materials with me, nevertheless, he did inform me that my analysis was “proper on track”.
Elizondo expanded on that remark in a 2021 podcast by saying, “There was loads of data [about the nuclear weapons-related UFO incidents] that we didn’t have entry to, and it seems that Robert Hastings did. He did a implausible job in his one e-book in regards to the nuclear connection. And we have been capable of validate and substantiate precisely what he was saying, by way of intelligence reporting, so he was proper. Not solely was it good and correct [data] however on the finish of the day it was useful. In some circumstances, there was a little bit bit of knowledge that we didn’t have, that he did. After which in another circumstances, we had categorised data that he didn’t have…Truly, due to him, I used to be capable of interview some people who I didn’t even know existed, and so it was very useful.”3
One essential revelation made by Elizondo, in 2023, involved the September 15, 1964 Huge Sur Incident (mentioned in Chapter 9) which concerned the inadvertent movement image filming of a UFO maneuvering close to a dummy nuclear warhead in flight. Lue stated that whereas he was with AATIP, he had sought and been given entry to the Prime Secret footage, then held by the CIA. Upon watching it on a DVD, he found that it confirmed precisely what former US Air Drive Lt. (later Dr.) Bob Jacobs had lengthy claimed: A domed-disc spacecraft had approached and circled an inactive nuclear warhead throughout a check flight, then disabled it, utilizing weaponized beams of sunshine.
Harry Reid Reads My Guide
Importantly, along with Lue Elizondo’s quite a few public statements about ongoing nuclear weapons-related UFO exercise, throughout numerous interviews, in November 2024, the well-known investigative journalist George Knapp revealed that he had given his longtime pal, distinguished US Senator Harry Reid, a replica of UFOs and Nukes. After studying it, Reid informed Knapp that he was extraordinarily involved in regards to the many ominous disclosures by the US navy veterans who I had interviewed.
Based on Knapp, Reid stated that these worrisome revelations—along with dramatic categorised data supplied to him by numerous individuals in authorities—had compelled him to secretly search funding for a brand new investigation of UFOs by the Protection Intelligence Company. The highly-classified examine, formally designated the Superior Aerospace Weapon Programs Utility Program (AAWSAP), was later surreptitiously nicknamed AATIP, in order that it might be freely mentioned in Reid’s unclassified correspondence with numerous Congressional leaders.
Once I discovered about Senator Reid’s confidential admission to Knapp, I used to be shocked. I had revealed this e-book to teach the American public, and other people in every single place, in regards to the UFO-Nukes Connection. By no means for a second did I count on it to have such a major impression inside high-level US authorities circles. This was very gratifying information!
A New Designation
Of observe, the US authorities’s official shift from the time period “UFO” (Unidentified Flying Object) to “UAP” (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) occurred round 2020–2021, marked by the Pentagon’s institution of a UAP Process Drive and the Director of Nationwide Intelligence’s choice to difficulty an annual report on the subject. The time period was additional broadened to “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in late 2022, following Congress’ passage of the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act, in order to incorporate submerged and trans-medium phenomena.
AARO Interviews the “Nukes” Veterans
In December 2023, a US Senate Armed Companies Committee investigator, Kirk McConnell, contacted me and requested whether or not I might be prepared to strategy a few of the US navy veterans who I had interviewed over time, to search out out if any of them would comply with testify beneath oath earlier than the recently-created US authorities UAP investigations group, the All-domain Anomaly Decision Workplace (AARO).
The successor to the UAP Process Drive—a U.S. Division of Protection initiative, established in 2020, to enhance the evaluation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena that would pose a nationwide safety risk—AARO was promoted to the general public as an authoritative physique that might objectively analysis key navy UAP sightings and render its verdict on the character of every incident.
Nevertheless, it quickly grew to become clear that the group, beneath the path of physicist Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, was something however goal and had apparently been created to dismiss or at the very least downplay the circumstances that it “investigated”. Given its distressing observe file, I, and most different UAP researchers, shortly concluded that AARO was simply one other Venture Blue Guide, or Condon Committee, designed to whitewash legit UAP occasions in order to pacify public opinion and disrupt the momentum towards “Disclosure” that had not too long ago been constructing in Congress.
Nevertheless, despite this, I informed McConnell that I might certainly strategy the handful of US Air Drive veterans with whom I used to be nonetheless in contact—people who had served within the Nineteen Sixties or ‘70s—and encourage them to talk to AARO. I reasoned that, if the vets declined to conform, debunkers would allege that they’d completed so as a result of there was nothing substantive to their assertions of getting witnessed UAP exercise at nuclear weapons websites, in an effort to discredit them.
Finally, eight veterans independently supplied testimony to 1 AARO member or one other in February and March of 2023. Most of those that did have been happy with the reception they obtained, at the very least initially, saying that they have been allowed to current their account uninterrupted and with none skeptical push-back. Nevertheless, two of the veterans did have reservations, after asking whether or not their interview was being recorded, solely to be informed “no”. This instantly raised pink flags for them, and me, suggesting that the data being supplied was not being taken severely sufficient to even file it for posterity.
Stated former Minuteman missile launch officer David Schindele, “One of many first issues I requested AARO was whether or not they have been recording the interview. Sean [Kirkpatrick] stated, ‘No, we’re transcribing it.’ I requested, ‘What does that imply?’ Sean stated, ‘We’re taking handwritten notes.’ And I might hear a couple of snickers within the background.” Clearly, one thing was amiss. Regardless of AARO’s declare to be a severe, goal, investigative group, their actions indicated in any other case.
On April 19, 2023, Dr. Kirkpatrick testified earlier than the US Senate Armed Companies Committee, hosted by Senator Kirstin Gillibrand, in a listening to meant to replace Congress relating to the group’s progress in investigating military-related UAP incidents. At one level, Kirkpatrick unequivocally said that “AARO has discovered no credible proof up to now of extraterrestrial exercise, off-world know-how, or objects that defy the recognized legal guidelines of physics.” 4
Upon listening to this, quite a lot of the veterans who had testified earlier than AARO grew to become extraordinarily offended. In any case, the narratives they’d supplied variously described:
• UAPs that exhibited no seen technique of propulsion, carry, or flight-control surfaces
• a number of disc-shaped craft performing right-angle turns within the sky at excessive velocity, earlier than instantaneously stopping in mid-air.
• a glowing disc that hovered immediately over a Minuteman missile Launch Management Facility, simply as all ten of its ICBMs dropped offline.
• a diamond-shaped craft that generated a deafening buzzing sound whereas hovering low over an ICBM Launch Facility, simply earlier than the missile malfunctioned.
Much more superb, one of many witnesses, Dr. Bob Jacobs, had described inadvertently filming a domed-disc craft pacing, circling, and then shooting down—using plasma-like beams of light—a dummy nuclear warhead that was flying thousands of miles-per-hour in outer space!
In short, the UAPs the veterans reported to AARO were so anomalous—clearly exhibiting capabilities vastly more advanced than any current technology would yield—that a non-human origin for them was the only reasonable explanation.
However, despite all of that amazing testimony, Kirkpatrick was, in his formal statement to Congress, completely, arrogantly rejecting the veterans’ sworn, eyewitness assessment of the various phenomena they had observed.
Congressional Hearing on UAP
On September 9, 2025, the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducted a hearing titled Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection, presented by the committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Representative Anna Paulina Luna.5
Among the witnesses who testified was journalist George Knapp. At one point, in response to questioning by Representative Tim Burchett, Knapp mentioned the October 1982 incident in Soviet Ukraine (discussed in Chapter 22) when a UFO hovered over a nuclear missile base and, at one point, temporarily activated several of the weapons.
In response to questioning by Representative Eli Crane, Knapp further addressed the nuclear weapons connection with UFOs/UAP by mentioning both the 1964 Big Sur case, revealed by Dr. Bob Jacobs, and one of the ICBM-shutdown incidents at Malmstrom AFB in 1967, revealed by former missile launch officer Bob Salas (mentioned in Chapter 11).
Finally, in response to questioning by Representative Andy Biggs, Knapp said that the AARO group—rather than actually investigating UAP—seemingly “operated as a counter-intelligence operation, to get people to come in and tell their stories, and then discredit all of them.” He added, “I can’t imagine that any whistleblower or witness will ever go to AARO again because of what happened [to those individuals]”. At this, Representative Biggs suggested to Task Force Chairperson Luna that AARO itself should be investigated. She responded by saying that she would be willing to issue a subpoena to the group’s former director, Sean Kirkpatrick. As of the publication date of this book’s updated second edition, in January 2026, no such investigation has yet occurred.
Shortly after the hearing, former Minuteman missile launch officer Bob Salas—who was in the audience—met with one of the task force members, Representative Eric Burlison, and summarized his March 24, 1967 experience at Malmstrom AFB, noted above, when a UFO shut down all ten of his missiles. Salas forcefully but politely proposed that another Congressional UAP hearing be held, devoted solely to the self-evidently important nukes-related cases, with the witnesses being a few of the military veterans who had actually experienced the disturbing encounters—as well as myself, given my decades-long investigation of those kinds of incidents. Thus far, no such hearing has taken place.
“Transients”
In October 2025, a peer-reviewed scientific paper was published by Drs. Beatriz Villarroel and Stephen Bruehl which summarized their discovery of a link between the occurrence of dozens of atmospheric nuclear tests in the early-to-mid 1950s, and the sudden, unexplained appearance of mysterious, luminous objects in geosynchronous Earth orbit on the day following each test. These “transients” were inadvertently recorded on astronomical photographic glass plates during an ongoing daily sky survey conducted by the famous Palomar observatory in California.
The paper’s hypothesis proposes that the detonation of the weapons by the US military and Atomic Energy Commission—at the Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Proving Grounds—resulted in the temporary presence of the unknown objects, which were judged to be intelligently-operated craft.
In an email sent to the author by Dr. Bruehl a few weeks before the paper’s publication, he wrote,
The proofs [accompanying] our article are attached and they are slightly different from the unpublished version I had sent you previously. You will note that we added analyses to address something you had asked about regarding exact timing of associations between nuclear tests and transients (a journal reviewer asked the same question). We now specify that this association is due almost entirely to transients that appear one day AFTER a nuclear test. Taken together with results of another paper of ours that was just accepted by a mainstream astronomy journal which shows that the number of transients drops dramatically in the Earth’s shadow, we can speculate that our findings suggest that:
1) transients represent thousands of highly reflective and likely artificial objects in orbit,
2) that were observed prior to launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957 so are likely of non-human origin,
3) that show apparently intelligent behavior (curiosity) in response to our nuclear tests, and
4) were near enough to Earth prior to the nuclear tests to be able to appear in Earth orbit within 24 hours (pure speculation but maybe the far side of the moon?).
To me, these studies seem to provide the first publicly-accessible, objective, scientific evidence that supports the possible presence of non-human technology orbiting our planet in the 1950s.
Very dramatic findings! The reader will recall that several of my US military veteran sources, who participated in one or more of the atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s, reported observing UFOs in the vicinity during the various periods of the detonations.
My Documentary Film
In late 2016, I released a 48-minute documentary, titled UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, which was designed to be a filmed model of this e-book. In it, a number of of the US Air Drive veterans whose testimony I had audiotaped over time supplied prolonged on-camera interviews relating to their UFO-related experiences at nuclear weapons websites. The movie was made potential solely due to the beneficiant help of two benefactors, Jared and Laurie Tarbell, who funded it. To make sure a large-scale viewership on the Web, I distributed the movie by way of a couple of main web sites, together with Gaia.com.6
The Different Essential Documentary
In November 2025, a groundbreaking movie was launched, titled The Age of Disclosure, by which 34 former and present US authorities protection and intelligence officers—some serving at a high-level—former navy officers, and scientists engaged on Prime Secret tasks, candidly focus on UAPs and non-human entities.7
Within the documentary, numerous nuclear weapons-related UAP incidents are referenced by, amongst others, former AATIP director Lue Elizondo, former UAP Process Drive director Jay Stratton, and former US Senator (now Secretary of State) Marco Rubio. Additionally interviewed are former Minuteman missile launch officer Bob Salas, former Air Drive photographic crew chief Bob Jacobs, and former USAF Safety Policeman Mario Woods.
These current developments have left me feeling optimistic. Though the “disclosure” course of has superior in matches and begins, it has been shifting in a usually constructive method. True, there hasn’t been the unequivocal announcement from the White Home or the US navy that so many—together with me—are looking forward to. However the motion within the US Congress — and the media — is unprecedented. It is clear that this topic is being taken way more severely than ever earlier than. Although it stays for some a subject for ridicule, many extra folks have been thoughtfully talking out, whether or not about their very own experiences or their basic concern that the topic be taken severely.
And no small variety of these individuals are in governmental positions or skilled fields which have heretofore been broadly silent. Over the previous 20 years or so we have seen a rising variety of resolute contributions from elected officers, journalists, teachers, and members — each former and present — of the navy providers.
What kind “disclosure” takes is a matter of conjecture. Even when the Pentagon have been to return clear in regards to the existence of extraterrestrial proof, it is unlikely that they’d reveal a lot about any technological artefacts of their possession. Additional, given the prevailing secrecy surrounding all issues nuclear, we in all probability should not depend on many revelations relating to the sort of data I’ve offered on this e-book. However one factor is pretty clear: This phenomenon will now not proceed to be swept beneath the rug.
Epilogue References:
1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2184
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5. https://oversight.home.gov/listening to/restoring-public-trust-through-uap-transparency-and-whistleblower-protection/
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