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I think the assumption that we're dealing with alien visitors is the root of misunderstanding regarding UFO intervention with nuclear arsenal/power. I don’t think we’re actually being visited by ETs. It just appears that way from our point of view. Yes, they're “extraterrestrial” or “ultraterrestrial,” or whatever you want to call them, and they're much more advanced - that's obvious - but they’ve always been here.

They likely spread throughout the Galaxy long ago. I think their interactions with us are more about our emergence into their world via technological advancement. They’re not "space brothers” come to save us, but they’re not completely alien either. There is a relation. I think ET nuclear intervention on Earth is just “foreign policy” of a much different kind, on a much different level than we’re accustomed. I think they’re acting in self-interest and protecting their assets here on Earth. I think it’s time we start questioning the assumption that this is “our” planet.

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I knew Dave Schuur. We were both together in the 455th Strategic Missile Wing at Minot AFB, although we were in different squadrons. We never knew at the time that we both had an "experience," until we met up together at an Air Force reunion in September 2011. We were both Minuteman ICBM Launch Control Officers, and I had an experience in September 1966 when I relieved a launch Crew at November Flight where all ten of their nuclear tipped missiles were taken off "alert" and made unlaunchable by a UFO. The commander of that crew was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement and he is still alive, but is too frightened to talk. He spent 10 years at the Pentagon after Minot, and retired after 28 years of service. I and my crewmate took over responsibility to help coordinate bringing those missiles back to alert status, and the AFOSI told us verbally that "as far as you are concerned, It Never Happened!" We were commanded to never talk about the incident again, or talk to each other about it. I'll accept "whistle blower" status on this, and will testify in front of Congress, although that will probably be when hell freezes over, or when Congress or some other government agency finds the fortitude to do what is right.

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Billy, you are probably one of the few journalists out there that remembers Dennis Kucinich getting humiliated during a 2007 presidential primary debate simply because he said that he saw an object in the sky that he could not identify. Bravo, for remembering!

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I was at a Minot Bravo site with an experiencer. She and two other girls were within 200 yards in 1988 as a UFO came out of launch lid and hovered 25 feet over the site. The other. two girls ran back to Karlsruhe and the experiencer peed her pants. Was involved in a couple other big sightings.

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Yeah, I'm sure the They're Here To Save Us From Nukes theme plays really well in Japan.

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It will be very interesting to see how far the nukes question goes. Perhaps they'll go into closed session if they get that far. I've always been fascinated by the Phenomena's interest in nuclear weapons. I'm aware many surmise They are either trying to save themselves from us or trying to warn us. I don't buy that at all. I think the detonation of nukes and possibly nuclear power wreaks havoc with whatever physics is utilized by the Phenomena making it difficult for them in ways we don't currently understand.

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The article peripherally raises the question of who's running the UFO show in the USAF: Air Force Office of Special Investigations; Secretary of the Air Force, etc. The Pentagon has lots of fiefdoms, but none that seem to wield the power of this one.

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Mornin' Billy,

Another, well-written, detailed piece in your (many years long) coverage of UFOs and Nukes. How many missleers are waiting in the wings to tell their respective stories? I suspect the 167 witnesses that Robert has uncovered is but a small fraction.

Thanks for keeping the fire burning. Covfefe!

Cheers,

Frank

Editor/Publisher

The UFO Chronicles

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