1967 · Malmstrom AFB, Montana
Missiles shut down at Malmstrom
Part ofThe nuclear connection
WhenMarch 1967
WhereMalmstrom AFB, Montana
Backing3 independent
Witnesses1 named
Evidencedocuments, official records
Security guards reported a glowing red object hovering over the gate of Oscar Flight. Moments later, according to launch officer Robert Salas, the nuclear missiles in his capsule began dropping offline one after another. A week earlier, all ten Minuteman missiles at nearby Echo Flight had also gone offline at once. Salas has told this story for decades, including in The Age of Disclosure.
Evidence, in date order (3)
- 1967Unit historiesdocumentRecord the shutdown of ten Minuteman missiles at Echo Flight
- 12 Oct 2026Jay StrattonwitnessDIA video of a triangle over nuclear missile silos Silo triangle video
- 12 Oct 2026Marco Rubio (Secretary of State; Senate Intelligence)officialRepeated incursions over restricted nuclear facilities, "not ours" Age of Disclosure
How plausible · Very high
The Echo Flight shutdown is in unit histories, a named launch officer speaks firsthand, and senior officials describe activity over nuclear sites.
- ●●Access Launch officers.
- ●●Cost of speaking Named officers.
- ●●Consistent over time Decades.
- ●●Character record Air Force officers.
- ●●Independent convergence Several officers; Stratton, Rubio.
- ●●Checkable details check out Unit histories.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- The Echo Flight shutdown of ten missiles is recorded in unit histories.
- Salas's public statements, including the 2010 National Press Club event on UFOs and nuclear weapons.Edwards 1965Narsarsuaq lights
- DOW-UAP-D175 (BAASS for DIA, 2010) records the March 1967 "simultaneous disabling of multiple missiles" with a UAP nearby.
- DOW-UAP-D168 (2008) asks DIA to obtain nuclear-site incident data including Malmstrom and plans Project Northern Tier on "interference with ICBM functional integrity".Northern TierIndian Point 1984Byelokoroviche / Usovo
- DOW-UAP-D170 (April 2009): Deputy Sheriff Keith Wolverton's 250+ Malmstrom-area events, August 1975 to December 1977.
- DOW-UAP-D171 (June 2009) lists Malmstrom August-December 1975; DOW-UAP-D173 (November 2009) puts the work on hold: "BAASS currently does not have the Need to Know for this information."Northern Tier
Claims
UFOs deliberately disabled nuclear weapons as a demonstration.Edwards 1965Narsarsuaq lightsspeculationSourced, unconfirmedbelievers
A DIA contractor history states that in March 1967 there was a "simultaneous disabling of multiple missiles" with a UAP nearby.BAASS Summary Report on UAP Analysis Capabilities (23 November 2010)analysisOn the recordBAASS capabilities report for DIA (DOW-UAP-D175)
BAASS recommended that DIA obtain nuclear-site incident data, including Malmstrom, and listed Malmstrom first among the Northern Tier bases with "interference with ICBM functional integrity".BAASS Project Management Plan for DIA (2 December 2008)Northern TierIndian Point 1984Byelokoroviche / UsovoanalysisOn the recordBAASS Project Management Plan (DOW-UAP-D168)
Deputy Sheriff Keith Wolverton logged more than 250 events in the Malmstrom area between August 1975 and December 1977.BAASS monthly reports to DIA (March, April, June and November 2009)Northern TiersecondhandOn the recordBAASS Northern Tier plan (DOW-UAP-D170)
Malmstrom August-December 1975 is on BAASS's Northern Tier incident list, a project "one of the sponsor's top priorities" that was later put on hold for lack of "Need to Know".Northern TieranalysisOn the recordBAASS, D171 and D173
Salas swore to the event in a 2010 affidavit, and Robert C. Jamison, Patrick McDonough and Dwynne Arneson swore their own affidavits.UFOs and Nuclear Weapons - A Fascinating ConnectionfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedaffidavits of Salas, Jamison, McDonough and Arneson (2010)
Where
Malmstrom AFB, Montana
47.5°N 111.3°W
In The picture
The pictureThe atomic bomb woke it up. Foo fighters, the ghost rockets and Los Angeles 1942 came first, then Roswell in 1947, the green fireballs over Los Alamos, Washington DC in 1952, the radar-tracked intercept at Lakenheath in 1956, Malmstrom in 1967, Rendlesham in 1980 and the activity around nuclear sites ever since. The …
They came when we split the atomFrom 1948, green fireballs flew over Los Alamos and Sandia; Sandia logged 209 sightings and Los Alamos held a conference of physicists about them. In March 1950 the Farmington paper named a dozen townspeople, a few hours' drive from Los Alamos, who watched hundreds of silvery discs fly in formation; in 1953 an F-84 c…
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Sources
- Wikipedia: Robert Salas
- war.gov: Related: 209 orb and disc reports at Sandia nuclear base, 1948–50
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