UFOs, Nukes & Swamp Gas Journalism
Our Shifting Reality By CJ Arabia
July 2025
To view a video from Robert Salas about the 50th Anniversary of the Malmstrom missile shutdowns
I really can't think of another phrase to describe the recent June 6 Wall Street Journal Article, “America’s UFO Mythology,” by Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha, that explained away some of our most believable UFO sightings and witnesses to date. I call it Swamp Gas Journalism.
In that article, the two authors cite the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office or AARO as their main source of information for this article. AARO, long believed to be a propaganda arm of the Pentagon by many in the UFO community, has now come up with very terrestrial explanations for some of the most credible UFO encounters of the past generation. The article seems to focus on the famous Echo and Oscar flight nuclear missile shut downs at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in 1967- a story of recent interest to Congress.
The nuclear shutdown and UFO sightings have been explained away as part of some deep state disinformation campaign. The shut-down of nuclear weapons at Malmstrom was simply described as our own military's top secret testing of EMP vulnerability - using active nuclear missile launch facilities as their test subjects WITHOUT notifying ANYONE at the facility (or specifically Echo and Oscar flights)!
That suggests that our own military allegedly secretly tested EMP on live nuclear missile sites without notification.
Retired USAF Captain Robert Salas
Here's where they really muddy the waters. It's true that the government was testing the effects of EMP on nuclear facilities. They wanted to see what would happen to our nuclear facilities in the event of an attack, and that's an extremely valid reason to test EMP and its effects. But they tested them on non-operational facilities.
High levels of EMP could fry the panels and everything inside the capsules, including the men. It's ludicrous to insinuate this kind of testing would have been performed without prior knowledge on a live site.
This is similar to the attempt to discredit David Grusch. The Pentagon and the DoD desperately wanted to slander and discredit him after his historic 2023 Congressional testimony, and it felt desperate.
It appears they were trying to do the same and rewrite the story that now retired USAF Captain Robert Salas has been telling for 30 years. Basically, our own military is accusing him – a military hero - of being a liar and purveyor of misinformation himself.
Sketch of a Minuteman I Launch Control Facility (LCF)
On March 24, 1967, Bob was locked up in a secure nuclear launch center near Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, 60 feet underground at the time. He was not able to visually verify sightings above due to security requirements and had to rely on communications from above. The men guarding the site above ground were frantically relaying to Bob that an unknown craft (a giant orange “orb”) was hovering above the main gate.
Generic Orange Orb Image
If the military was really doing a top secret test of an EMP at the site, and the orange orb was some kind of cover story, it was one of the most dangerous misdirects played in the history of the nuclear age. Stanley Kubrick would be proud.
You can learn more about Robert Salas and Echo and Oscar flights on his YouTube Channel HERE
I am not buying the veracity of this Wall Street Journal article, and I remain more convinced than ever that the powers that be in the Pentagon and the DoD will go to any length to keep Disclosure from happening. They will continue to smear, defame, discredit, and fling mud at any credible witnesses that come forward.
If Disclosure is going to happen, it's up to us to make it happen.
Bob Salas' book UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle: Visitations, National Security, and the Need for Transparency, is available on Amazon.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on my concept of Swamp Gas Journalism! You can email me at mufoncj@gmail.com
A longtime UFOlogist and lifelong Experiencer, C.J. Arabia is Director of Social Media for The Hollywood Disclosure Alliance; and both Chief Investigator and ERT Case Manager for Southern California MUFON.
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