The Pentagon disinformation that fueled America's UFO mythology

> In 1967, Robert Salas, now 84, was an Air Force captain sitting in a walk-in closet-sized bunker, manning the controls of 10 nuclear missiles in Montana.

> He was prepared to launch apocalyptic strikes should Soviet Russia ever attack first, and got a call around 8 p.m. one night from the guard station above. A glowing reddish-orange oval was hovering over the front gate, Salas told Kirkpatrick’s investigators. The guards had their rifles drawn, pointed at the oval object appearing to float above the gate. A horn sounded in the bunker, signaling a problem with the control system: All 10 missiles were disabled.

> Salas soon learned a similar event occurred at other silos nearby. Were they under attack? Salas never got an answer. The next morning a helicopter was waiting to take Salas back to base. Once there he was ordered: Never discuss the incident.

> When activated, this device, placed on a portable platform 60 feet above the facility, would gather power until it glowed, sometimes with a blinding orange light. It would then fire a burst of energy that could resemble lightning.

So:

- They built at least one 60 foot tower in close proximity a control panel for 10 nuclear missiles and didn’t tell the guards to be ready for it.

- They used a novel directed energy weapon on multiple silos that shot lightning, this worked, was never declassified, and we’ve never heard of it since.

That's what makes me so optimistic about the current revival of interest in UFOs/UAPs, up to the point that you have congressional hearings, news coverage by CNN, and "whistleblowers" being treated as credible--the US military industrial complex must be cooking up some pretty impressive stuff to need this kind of cover.