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Air Force Veterans Who Are UFO True Believers Return to Newly Attentive Washington
military.com ^ | 10/19/2021 | Travis Tritten

Posted on 10/19/2021 6:01:50 PM PDT by bitt

Three aging Air Force veterans came to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to again tell their strange and extraordinary stories. A fourth veteran was piped into the National Press Club conference by video feed from the Ozark Mountains in Missouri.

Each veteran's story is different, but all share one central claim: In the 1960s, UFOs tampered with nuclear weapons managed by the Air Force, both terrifying and mystifying the airmen who experienced the encounters. Some remained silent for decades, they say.

And none has captured the attention of Washington, even as reports of Navy encounters with unknown flying objects have splashed across national headlines and pushed UFOs back into the political mainstream for the first time in decades.

"I waited 40 years before I opened my mouth, and that's a long time," said David Schindele, a retired captain who served as a nuclear missile launch control officer at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. "I had this terrible secret on my mind for all that time, and I felt such great relief to finally admit to my friends and close relatives what I experienced in the Air Force."

Other accounts, such as the story told by veteran Robert Salas of a glowing red-orange craft hovering at the gate of a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile silo in Montana, have been told for decades and folded into the growing universe of UFO lore. Salas was part of a similar press conference in the same downtown press club in 2010.

Through the years, the government remained indifferent at best to decades-old reports of saucer craft toying with the world's most powerful weapons during the Cold War. The Air Force funded a university study commonly known as the Condon Report in the 1960s, which found no evidence to support the claims -- and recommended

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aatip; afveterans; astronomy; carlosdeltoro; chat; davidschindele; kathleenhicks; pressconference; robertjacobs; robertsalas; science; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 10/19/2021 6:01:50 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 10/19/2021 6:02:09 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

The Lizard people rule us.

3 posted on 10/19/2021 6:04:44 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: bitt

Show me a UFO-believing Air Force veteran, and I’ll show you someone who knows about secret Air Force weapons in need of a cover story.


4 posted on 10/19/2021 6:07:16 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: bitt

Bookmark.


5 posted on 10/19/2021 6:17:19 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: bitt

What are they distracting from now?


6 posted on 10/19/2021 6:19:19 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: C210N

Good point—fascinating book if you have not seen it:

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Beta-Bennewitz-National-Security-ebook/dp/B000FCK0KI


7 posted on 10/19/2021 6:21:14 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: bitt
Managing distractions: nudging the habit | Building Learning Power
8 posted on 10/19/2021 6:22:02 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: bitt

Mr. Spaceman
The Byrds
Track 3 on
Fifth Dimension
Mr. Spaceman is the third track on The Byrds’ 1966 album Fifth Dimension. This song was initially written by The Byrds’ lead singer Roger McGuinn as a screenplay on melodrama… Read More
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Woke up this morning with light in my eyes
And then realized it was still dark outside
It was a light comin’ down from the sky
I don’t know who or why

Must be those strangers that come every night
Whose saucers shaped lights put people up tight
Leave blue green footprints that glow in the dark
I hope they get home all right

Hey Mr. Spaceman, won’t you please take me along
I won’t do anything wrong
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won’t you please take me along
For a ride

Woke up this mornin’, I was feeling quite weird
Had flies in my beard, my toothpaste was smeared
Over my window, they’d written my name
Said: “So long, we’ll see you again”

Hey Mr. Spaceman, won’t you please take me along
I won’t do anything wrong
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won’t you please take me along
For a ride

Hey Mr. Spaceman, won’t you please take me along
I won’t do anything wrong
Hey Mr. Spaceman, won’t you please take me along
For a ride


9 posted on 10/19/2021 6:24:26 PM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: bitt
Project Blue Hair is re-activated!
10 posted on 10/19/2021 6:31:29 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: C210N

Sure, Air Force secret weapons harassing and interfering with U S. special weapons sites. Makes perfect sense. Why didn’t I think of that?

More likely that black program stories were invented to cover up for UAS sightings with no explanation like you’re doing.


11 posted on 10/19/2021 6:34:53 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: DannyTN

My thought exactly. Biden gets nowhere with Manchin and Sinema, not even a framework for negotiations...Bartiromo floats a Pelosi retirement on her show...the administration hasn’t nominated a replacement for the retiring #2 on the Joint Chiefs of Staff...the Fed chief got busted dumping shares before a major Fed announcement...

“LOOK! UFOs!”


12 posted on 10/19/2021 6:37:20 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (Don't blame others for the road you're on. That's your own asphalt.)
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To: bitt
I have thousands of hours aboard the E-3 Sentry (AWACS).

Never saw any UFOs on radar, and pilots never saw anything up front on any of my flights.

Guess I was just unlucky.

13 posted on 10/19/2021 6:37:33 PM PDT by SIDENET (Whatever they're threatening, the vaxx is worse...or they wouldn't be threatening you.)
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WHERE???
14 posted on 10/19/2021 6:39:49 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: bitt

Don’t ask me why, but this is going to play into some anti
Christian activity at some point.


15 posted on 10/19/2021 6:40:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: bitt
Those UFO's just might be outer space looters!
16 posted on 10/19/2021 6:41:06 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Military .com and they call it a frickin’ Minuteman Silo???


17 posted on 10/19/2021 6:43:16 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: DannyTN

Brian Laundrie is in Frankfurt Germany with DB Cooper, and they have two servers. One with UFO data and video of aliens murdering Gabby, and the other with 2020 election rigging.


18 posted on 10/19/2021 6:53:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

What about a video of Epstein hanging himself?


19 posted on 10/19/2021 7:00:03 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: bitt; All
Whether Salas, Schindele, Jacobs and other Air Force veterans who had made similar claims will succeed in convincing others to take their assertions seriously remains a question mark.

"Have we been ignored? For God sakes, we've been shut up and silenced," Jacobs said. "We've been ridiculed; we've had our lives disrupted. This is more than just being ignored. We've been treated like imbeciles."

I can identify with this, I have my own Air Force/UFO encounter story that was very similar to time/details of Lt. Salas story. I've shared it a few times here on FR and other places but no one's ever seemed particularly impressed or interested so from this point on, screw it, I'll just take it to my grave.

20 posted on 10/19/2021 7:14:01 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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