Danny Jones Podcast #378 - Nuclear Warfare Officer: Something Disturbing Is Controlling Our Nukes | Robert Salas
Mar 13, 2026
Robert Salas, a former U.S. Air Force missile launch officer and propulsion engineer, recounts mysterious 1960s incidents where ICBMs were disabled during UFO sightings. He describes launch procedures, shutdowns tied to strange lights, related events at other bases, investigations that followed, and ongoing concerns about unexplained interference with nuclear systems.
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Discovery That Sparked Salas To Go Public
- Salas recounts discovering Timothy Good's Above Top Secret in a university bookstore which led him to file an FOIA request and find declassified Echo Flight documents.
- That research revealed a separate March 16, 1967 Echo incident eight days before his Oscar event, proving multiple shutdowns at Malmstrom.
Multiple Bases Report Repeated Missile Failures
- Salas catalogs multiple related events: 1966 Minot shutdowns and at least four Malmstrom incidents across 1966–67, totaling about 40 missiles affected.
- He cites newspaper reports, witness interviews, and corroborating crews (Echo, Oscar, Alpha) to support repeated UFO-nuke interactions.
Boeing Found Signal Could Trigger Guidance Failure
- Boeing engineers bench-tested the Minuteman logic coupler and found a specific external electrical signal could momentarily disable it, matching the guidance-and-control failure readouts.
- Boeing noted cabling was triply shielded, so simultaneous external injection into multiple missiles remained unexplained.
