Malmstrom AFB Witnesses Press Conference 2010

On September 27, 2010 — the 33rd anniversary of the Petrozavodsk UAP event — seven former US Air Force officers who had served at nuclear missile bases held a coordinated press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The witnesses, organized by researcher Robert Hastings, publicly disclosed for the first time in a coordinated format that UAP had repeatedly interfered with nuclear weapons at their facilities during the Cold War. Captain Robert Salas described the 1967 Malmstrom Echo Flight incident in detail — a UAP hovering at the launch facility while all ten of his Minuteman missiles went offline. Other officers described similar incidents at Minot AFB, Ellsworth AFB, and other SAC bases. Former Captain Bruce Fenstermacher described a UAP event at Warren AFB in 1976. The press conference was covered by CNN, Fox News, and international media. It represented the most publicly coordinated disclosure by former US nuclear weapons personnel and generated significant public and Congressional attention. The officers collectively called on the US government to officially acknowledge UAP incursions at nuclear facilities. The event directly influenced subsequent discussions about UAP policy and the transparency of UAP-nuclear interactions in the US military record.