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(Sept. 28) -- UFOs have monitored and occasionally tampered with

nuclear weapons sites, both in the U.S. and abroad, for nearly 60 years.

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That was the allegation based on eyewitness testimony of several former SECRETS OF SWORD SWALLOWING
Air Force officers who came together Monday at the National Press Club
Lee Speigel in Washington, D.C., to tell their remarkable stories and to urge the
Contributor government to finally make this information available to the public.

Co-host of the news conference, author and researcher Robert Hastings, told AOL News, "The
purpose of the press conference was to draw worldwide media attention to the reality of UFO
incursions at nuclear weapons sites, which have been going on since the 1940s."

Hastings, author of the book "UFOs and Nukes," insists

that UFOs have been largely ignored by the media, and
he felt the best way to draw more attention to the
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attention to.

"The documents that have been declassified through the

Freedom of Information Act and the witness testimony
from over 120 former or retired military people who I've
interviewed conclusively proves that UFOs are
interested in our nuclear weapons, and have not only
monitored them decade after decade but have, on
occasion, tampered with them, have temporarily
activated missiles and have shut down missiles on a
number of other occasions -- some pretty dramatic
stuff," Hastings said.
"We simply think that the public's right to know the
facts trumps military secrecy and so, we're attempting
to bring these very credible witnesses -- persons who
had experiences at missile sites, at weapons storage
Courtesy Charles Halt
Former Air Force Col. Charles Halt was
deputy base commander at a joint
British/American airbase, RAF Bentwaters, in
1980. Halt saw a disc-shaped UFO directing
beams of light down to the ground near him.
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areas -- to tell their stories." WEIRD NEWS PHOTO GALLERIES

One former Air Force officer on hand in Washington was Col. Charles Halt, who, in December
1980, was the deputy base commander at joint British/American airbases, Bentwaters and
Woodbridge, in the Rendlesham Forest in England. Over the course of several nights, UFO
activity was high at the base, including reports of unidentified objects near the nuclear weapons
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On one evening, Halt was summoned into the forest near the base to investigate a UFO sighting.

"There was a glow in the forest near indentations from where a supposed object had rested two
nights before," Halt told AOL News.
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"So we went into the forest, and we were examining things, and suddenly, we saw something. We
looked out in the farmer's field and there was this almost elliptical object with a black center. It
appeared to be winking, is the best way I can describe it, and it was dripping, like, molten metal
off it, just like it was shedding something.

"It wasn't perfectly round, it was a little bit flattened, and it moved from side to side, then it came
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into the forest, moving through the trees, avoiding the trees, it bobbed up and down a bit in the
process, and at one point, it actually approached us."
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Halt, understandably, became concerned with this chain of events, trying to determine a rational
explanation.
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But as Halt would shortly discover, the UFO encounter was far from over.

"Across the road, we stumbled through a creek, got all wet and went out into the plowed field,
just looking around, and we looked in the sky and there were objects in the sky -- several to the Becky Lauren Nazmul Teddy Kevin

north and several to the south.

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And then, apparently, one of the objects took a sudden interest in the soldiers. TODAY'S RANDOM QUESTION

"One of them approached us at very high speed -- I'd say it was at 2,000 to 4,000 feet in altitude, Would you try breast milk ice
cream?
and it came almost directly overhead and sent down the equivalent of a laser beam -- it's the best
I can describe it. It did not go like a light beam and fan out; it came straight down, maybe 8 or 10
inches in diameter, and fell just 8 or 10 feet from our feet. Sure, that sound titillating!

"We stood there in awe, you know, 'Is this a warning, is this a signal, is this a communication? Nope, that's for boobs!
What is this? A weapon?' And just as suddenly as it appeared, it disappeared, and the object
moved back away from us a bit, and while we were standing there, then we noticed another Depends on whether it's an A-
object over the Woodbridge base, sending down the equivalent of similar beams." cup or B-cup.

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"I found out later that British radar had actually picked up some things on a screen -- I didn't
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at a nuclear missile site -- the same kind of thing happened that has been described by U.S.
military sources:

"A saucer hovers over a missile site, suddenly missiles are temporarily activated, everybody's Internet Explorer cannot displa
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"Because it's a career

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frankly, at the time it happened, I really didn't want any publicity, didn't want to be involved in it.
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to do with it; he kept it at arm's length."

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But a big question still remains: If it's true that some UFOs may not be from our earthly
neighborhood, why would the military want to keep all of this a secret?

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"Well, that's a good question," Halt said. "The only thing I can think of is they're afraid that the
public couldn't handle it. Or that we may have some type of contact."

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More information And why did Halt agree to join with other Air Force
colleagues in Washington to put themselves on the line
and talk about possible alien UFOs?

"I'd like to get the truth out there, that we push people a
little further to true disclosure. Is that going to happen? Probably not, but this might be another
step."

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