A veteran UFO investigator has claimed that UFOs have visited America’s nuclear weapons sites since the dawn of the atomic age — and he believes these intruders may have the power to ‘neutralize’ such weapons.
Robert Spearing is an investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which has 700 investigators in the US and is one of the world’s oldest UFO organizations, having collected evidence of suspected extraterrestrial encounters since the 1960s.
Spearing said that among MUFON’s files — and the organization has nearly 137,000 reports on UFO encounters from the US and around the world — there are multiple cases alleging alien visitors hovering above nuclear bases and nuclear-armed ships.
‘There is enough evidence that the visitors have the ability to neutralize their use,’ as Spearing told DailyMail.com.
‘The question is whether it is for defensive purposes or offensive purposes,’ according to Spearing. ‘It’s either to save us from ourselves or to ensure they could destroy us if they had to.’
When former Pentagon counterintelligence official Luis Elizondo reemerged this summer, the veteran UFO hunter floated an equally dire theory: the dozens of UFOs sighted near nuclear bases since 1945 could be scouts for a potential invasion.
Spearing personally investigated one sighting from the Vietnam War, which he believes shows at least a definite ‘connection’ between UFOs and nuclear sites.
Above, US Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert took this photo through a window screen on July 16, 1952 – allegedly capturing four unidentified flying objects in a ‘V’ formation over the Salem Massachusetts Air Station – back in the early days of the ‘UFOs and Nukes’ mystery
Whether their intentions were for good or ill, as he told DailyMail.com, ‘There was all sorts of stuff coming out of the South China Sea’ during the war, as well.
January 15, 1973 – South China Sea
‘I enjoy the Vietnam cases the most,’ Spearing said.
‘This particular encounter happened when, in theory, no one knew that the United States had nukes that were close to China and Vietnam,’ according to the MUFON director, who previously worked as a forensic investigator for railroads as part of the New York Port Authority.
‘But,’ Spearing added, ‘somebody knew.’
A witness on board ammunition ship the USS Mauna Kea reported seeing a strange orb of pulsing light come out of the sea, while the man was loading nuclear-tipped missiles onto the USS Oklahoma City.
He described the encounter in his report as a ‘hovering pulsating orb shape color, similar to a large beach ball hovering about 30 to 50 feet above the water, hovering at approximately 16 to 18 knots.’
‘Could see reflection on water,’ the witness continued, ‘could see clearly underneath no wake.’
When the encounter occurred, the man was loading nuclear weapons with a forklift.
‘This sighting was in the South China Sea off the port beam,’ he said. ‘Our ship was an ammunition ship carrying nuclear weapons. It felt as if we were being probed.’
Spearing interviewed the witness himself, and said that the man ‘felt chills and felt he was being observed’.
A witness on board the ammunition ship the U.S.S Mauna Kea reported seeing a strange orb
The orb was ‘car-sized’ and was visible up close for around 10 minutes, between two and four AM.
When the witness checked the radar room, no one had registered images of the object.
Spearing described the encounter as ‘very suspicious,’ saying, ‘There is, of course, the possibility it was a plasma ball, like ball lightning, which was carried along by being magnetically linked [attracted] to the ship hull.’
‘However, the duration of sighting is too long for ball lightning and ball lightning would have been [further] attracted into the hull and would have exploded.’
May 1960 – Mountainside, New Jersey
A witness approached MUFON about an eerie encounter in 1960 near a nuclear base in New Jersey.
The witness told MUFON’s investigators that a group of young children and teens saw a formation of silver discs hovering near a nuclear base while leaving their homes at dusk.
The Watchung Mountains base housed Nike Ajax missiles designed to shoot down incoming bombers – the project experimented with nuclear-tipped missiles, before the focus shifted towards ICBMs rather than nuclear bombers.
The children knew there was a base in the area, and had done many safety drills in school as a result — making it easy to determine that that these mysterious discs were hovering above the base.
In 1957, during the Cold War, the U.S. army declared that it would construct a Nike missile base on the Watchung Reservation
Above, a Minuteman III missile in a silo in the late 1970s.
‘I know this was a long time ago,’ the witness said, ‘but… when exiting the woods above our homes we were shocked to find a perfect V formation of five plain, dull silver discs hovering over us. No sound. No movement.’
‘After about five minutes they took off to the west without making sounds of any kind. The location where we were is on the edge of “first mountain” just west of New York City,’ the witness told Spearing.
‘Directly above us, about one mile, on the top of the mountain was a deeply buried nuclear anti-ballistic missile in a military outpost in the Watchung Mountains which was part of NYC area defense system,’ the source continued.
‘We realized when talking about it, that it seemed that these discs were hovering above that nuclear warhead site. I have never forgotten it.’
MUFON closed the case (which has never been reported before in the mainstream media), classifying the oddity as an ‘unknown UAP’.
The USS Kilauea was in a group with other ships including the carrier U.S.S. Mason
Above, three classic flying saucers in a photo dramatization
Early 1974 – Vietnam
While investigating the first encounter in Vietnam, Spearing came across another eerie account of an orb visiting another nuclear-armed ship.
The witness said that they were in a group with a destroyer and an aircraft carrier, the USS Mason, when they saw a incredible craft exit the water.
‘We were watching the USS Mason in front of us and the glowing trail of ocean it was kicking up from the phosphorus algae in the water when the ocean in front of us lit up, started glowing,’ the witness said in astonishment.
‘It got brighter and brighter and then this really bright orange/yellow ball came out of the water on the right-starboard side of the destroyer.’
‘It flew over the top of the destroyer and went back in the ocean on the port side, with the same glowing ocean water and then disappeared,’ this Navy source continued. ‘We all just stared at each other with our mouths open.’
‘We could not believe what we saw, but I asked friends of mine who were on watch on the bridge if they saw it,’ he noted, ‘and they all did.’
The witness said that the object was up to 200 feet in diameter — and that officers on the destroyer must have had a ‘good look at it’ although nothing was ever officially recorded.
What does it all mean?
Retired US Air Force staff sergeant, Larry Hancock, who has contributed to a series of studies on the UFOs and nukes connection for the Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies (SCU), believes that just the regularity of these events offers solid clues.
Solid military and police cases from 1945 to 1975, Hancock told DailyMail.com this year, appear to show intentional study of America’s most sensitive weaponry.
‘I mean, focus implies intention,’ he said. ‘And focus obviously implies intelligence.’
‘The way it progressed from one type of facility to another type — I mean, it starts with manufacturing plants, moves on through assembly plants, storage, deployment, it’s hard to read that as anything other than someone having an agenda,’ according to Hancock.
Hancock’s research partner, Ian Porritt, ventured even a little further: ‘They may have a better understanding of the future, our future, than we do.’