1967 Malmstrom AFB Incident: Retired USAF Officer Claims Unidentified Objects Disabled 20 Minuteman Missiles (Unverified)

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Robert Salas, a retired US Air Force officer, says that in 1967 at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana unidentified objects bypassed security and disabled about 20 Minuteman I missiles in underground silos after observers reported moving lights pausing to emit bright red beams, and he believes the objects were not Soviet technology and may have been extraterrestrial craft aimed at preventing a nuclear catastrophe, a claim that has circulated in media and ties into debates about UFOs and access to classified information alongside reports of the later disappearance of retired General William Neil McCasland who reportedly had such knowledge, though it remains unverified and interpretations vary on nuclear safety and national security.