Book Review: UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle: Visitations, National Security, And the Need for Transparency
By Nick Blake
The powers-that-be who control information related to the UFO phenomenon via a system of security classifications have long maintained that the general public does not have a “need to know” and it’s not in our best interest to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Robert Salas refutes this in his recent book, UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle. It’s a follow-up to his first book, Faded Giant (co-authored with James Klotz), which details the 1967 Oscar Flight UFO Incident at Malstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Using witness testimony and publicly available documents, as well as information released by the Air Force via Freedom of Information Act requests, Salas and Klotz prove that the witness testimony of a UFO appearance that shut down all the nuclear weapons on our base is accurate, and reveal some of the silencing techniques employed by the security apparatus.
Salas’ latest book, UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle, builds upon his early experience with decades of research. The result is a richly detailed, compact assessment of UFOlogy since the Roswell crashes of 1947, featuring the best and most reliable sources. Many of the conclusions will be no surprise to anyone who has researched the subject for themselves: the 1947 Roswell crashes triggered the creation of a cabal of scientists and military folks who have overseen the subject since then. Under the name of “national security” they have silenced witnesses, hidden technologies & downed craft from the pubic, and flooded the media with disinformation.
Robert’s book is worth reading because he cites his wealth of research based on decades of his first-hand experiences and engagement with the UFOlogy community. As a result, the book is filled with important details.
For example, I’ve long known about Admiral Hillenkoetter’s public statements in the early 1960s urging Congressional action on the subject of UFOs, including a published editorial in the New York Times. As an influential member of Major Keyhoe’s NICAP and first director of the CIA, he was vocal that the Air Force was misleading the public about the subject and it was a problem, as President Eisenhower warned the previous decade. For years I’ve wondered why Congress didn’t step forward back then. Robert’s book has the answer: just before hearings were to take place in 1962, Hillenkoetter suddenly resigned from NICAP and gave a public statement saying the Air Force should be trusted. The hearings were cancelled.
As another example, I’ve heard Danny Sheehan and others talk for years about the myriad web of intelligence agencies that are part of our national government. In public interviews Sheehan says there are eighteen but hasn’t published a list to the best of my knowledge. Seventeen of them are listed in Robert’s book. None of them are surprising. Basically, every branch of the military and military-adjacent organizations in Washington D.C. Everyone wants “in” on the intelligence game. On a related note, the growth of classified material has grown significantly alongside a dysfunctional database and accountability system, creating a corrosive, detrimental force in our government and democracy.
Another important detail I learned about from Robert’s book is the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. He details the sobering, terrifying reality of nuclear-armed nations in the modern world. What began as an arms race between the USA and Soviet Russia has blossomed into a world with eight nations with nuclear weapons, some of whom are locked in endless conflict, like India and Pakistan. Last century’s fear of nuclear war has turned into a precarious modern likelihood.
The book is also filled with pertinent questions. For example, since many UFO experiencers report that the various alien species are concerned about our nuclear weapons, and we’ve seen in some UFO incursions that they can disable nuclear warheads, why don’t those aliens share that warhead-disarming technology with us?
Another important question: How would we account for our stewardship of planet Earth? If the aliens landed today to make official Contact to all humans on the planet, how would we justify our world of intense competition and frequent bloodshed through warfare? Given how aggressive and prone to violence we are, is it any wonder that a galactic federation might be shy about approaching us and wanting to make Contact?
The book reminds us of the urgent need for peace. We need to learn how to live together in peace and harmony if we are to ascend to the stars and join the galactic federation.
Salas believes we have a “need to know” the full truth about UFOs and deserve full Disclosure because our future relationship with these beings could be critical to our survival as a species.
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ABOUT NICK BLAKE:
A Founding Member of The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, Nick Blake is also a writer, musician, and producer whose first indie video game, Dragon Battle, continues to sell and attract new audiences, years after its release. Additionally, Nick’s research project into the Bigfoot phenomenon has resulted in a 400-page manuscript with a 20+ page bibliography that includes chapters on high strangeness phenomenon and possible extraterrestrial connections.
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