Disclaimer: all of the stories featured on this episode of The Infographics Show come
from actual military service members or other government officials, many of them vetted
by independent researchers and local or national media outlets.
It was late on a chilly February morning, 2007.
At approximately 0230 hours, a security patrol stationed inside the nuclear weapons storage
area of Nellis Air Force Base- otherwise known as Area 2- called in to central security control
a sighting of what appeared to be vehicle headlights far outside the outer perimeter
fence, a mile or two in the distance.
This wasn't uncommon, as Area 2 was detached from Nellis Air Force Base and everything
from hikers to off-road enthusiasts would inadvertently stumble upon the little known
facility in the desert.
Following standard procedure, the two outer security patrols- Oscars 1 and 2, were dispatched
to assume overwatch positions on the reported headlights.
Their job was as it often was in these dark desert nights, to simply observe and if the
civilian vehicle approached too close to the facility perimeter, intercept it and have
them turn around.
As the two outer security patrols arrived atop of tall bluffs overlooking the reported
sighting area, they spotted and confirmed what appeared to be two vehicle headlights
approaching down the side of a nearby mountain.
Inside of the nuclear weapons storage area, two additional patrols had moved close to
the section of fence the vehicle headlights were approaching, along with the site security
supervisor, Security 1.
A grand total of 11 Air Force security personnel were watching when suddenly, the lights disappeared.
Fearing that the oncoming off road vehicle had turned off its headlights so as not to
be tracked, Oscar 1 left its position on the bluffs and moved to an intercept position
along the incoming vehicle's estimated avenue of approach.
The site's security controller requested the assistance of a main base K9 unit which happened
to be in the area, and the two patrols linked up and leaving their vehicles behind, moved
out into the desert to set up an LP/OP- or listening post/observation post.
The desert though was quiet.
Despite the incoming vehicle having been within two miles of the fenceline, there was no sound
of a revving engine across the still, dark desert.
Scans with both thermal imagers and night vision goggles revealed nothing.
And then, suddenly, the radio came to life.
Patrols on the interior of the nuclear weapons depot began calling in lights on either side
of the dismounted Oscar 1 and K9 patrol.
From their vantage point atop the tall, igloo-style weapon bunkers, they could see a series of
lights appear to the 12 o'clock, 9'oclock, and 3'oclock of the dismounted patrolmen.
Incredibly though, the three men and one dog on the ground could see, nor hear anything.
Then the site security supervisor came on the radio, “Oscar 1, be advised, the lights
are moving on you!”
The three mysterious lights, seen only by interior patrols, suddenly rushed the dismounted
patrolmen.
The senior patrol leader ordered his partner and the K9 patrolman to lock and load.
With lights approaching their position on the desert floor at high speed, he was taking
no chances.
As far as he was concerned, the mysterious and now aggressive behavior of the lights
indicated hostile intent.
What happened next depends on which side of the fenceline you happened to have been on.
For the three patrolmen and one dog on the outside of the fenceline, nothing happened.
The three men held their breath, M-4s at the ready, and nervously scanned the desert with
thermals and night vision- but spotted nothing.
They even checked with the dog, who was trained to indicate if it sensed danger- and yet,
nothing.
After a few minutes, the patrol leader called back in over the radio to ask for an update
on the lights, but received nothing but static.
Trying a second, and then a third radio, the exterior patrols got no reply, and slowly
walked back to their vehicles to attempt to make contact with the interior patrols again.
On the inside of the fence though, at least two dozen security forces patrolmen, including
the Master Sergeant security supervisor, had seen the lights converge on the location of
the dismounted patrol and then simply disappear.
Even more incredibly though, when the exterior patrolmen finally made contact with the interior
patrols they were told that they had been out of contact for twenty minutes.
Yet each man involved in the incident and outside of the fenceline swore that only three
or four minutes had passed for them.
Where had over fifteen minutes of time, all spent without radio contact, gone?
Things would get weirder though before they got any better.
This incident would prove to be only the opening act to some of the strangest events ever reported
by US military personnel, and we can tell you about it in first person, because The
Infographics Show got a chance to sit down with one of the security forces patrolmen
involved in these incidents.
“After the exterior light show incident, things started to get weird.
I mean there had always been weird things out in Area 2, we had everything from ghost
stories to weird animal sightings.
I would probably think it was all BS, or just tricks the dark plays on you, except a lot
of this stuff was seen by numerous people at the same time, or with the help of pretty
advanced night vision and thermal imaging devices.
What started happening after the lights incident though took the cherry in weird, and outright
dangerous.
Within a week of the incident one of the daytime exterior patrols ran across the corpse of
a donkey, which wasn't that weird since there was no civilization around us and animals
sometimes wandered out there.
What was weird though was that this donkey had no head, it was cleanly cut off, and though
there was some crusted blood around the neck, there was no blood anywhere around the body
on the ground.
We ended up shrugging it off, figuring that somebody had butchered the animal and just
dumped it in the desert, completely unaware of how close they got to our facility in doing
so.
But then just a few days later another donkey corpse was found, and this one was missing
its head and all four of its legs.
Again, no vehicle tracks, no blood on the ground.
Just a decapitated, legless donkey.
The very next day after that, a third donkey was discovered by an exterior patrol, this
time at night.
This donkey was also missing its head and its legs, but had had its stomach cut open
with one clean incision, and the entire contents of the body cavity were gone.
Once more, there was no blood on the desert floor, and no vehicle tracks.
We forgot about the donkeys after a while, and even though people kept reporting strange
lights, nothing too dramatic happened until about six months later.
What happened next took the cake, and was almost a full-blown national nuclear security
incident.
We used to practice assaulting our own storage facilities just in case bad guys got in and
tried to steal a nuke, or just barricaded themselves so they could set off a nuke in-place
and irradiate large swathes of nevada.
On one of these nights we underwent our usual exercise scenario, involving a response by
multiple patrols and an assault into our designated training structure- all in all somewhere around
17 to 18 people were involved.
Most of the patrols were at the assault training structure, but we kept a patrol armed with
an M249 machine gun on overwatch just to keep an eye on the desert behind us.
Now Area 2- the nuclear weapon storage depot- was huge, several square miles, so there was
lots of empty desert inside the fence perimeter.
As we were lining up to assault the training structure, we suddenly got a call over the
radio from our overwatch patrol located on a hill about a quarter mile from us.
The patrol said, hey, you got two figures lying prone in the desert behind you.
We assumed this was part of the training exercise, so our on-scene commander redeployed a small
element to secure our rear as the rest of the response force prepared to assault.
However, our flight leader, or security supervisor, immediately came running up to us and told
us to lock and load.
He then called over the radio and told central security control to terminate the exercise.
Then, he turned to look at us and said, “I didn't put anyone out in the desert.
Whoever's out there, it's not us.”
Now our security supervisor was in charge of running the exercises, and he would task
random people with playing the bad guys, so when he told us that he hadn't put anyone
out there, our blood ran cold.
This was about as high a security an area as you can get in the US military, home to
dozens of nuclear weapons.
Anyone who had somehow penetrated our security was not here to have a friendly chat.
We immediately returned our magazines to our weapons and charged them, switching safeties
off.
Our overwatch patrol had good eyes on the figures.
One of the the guys on that patrol was using a sensitive thermal camera, and the other
was using night vision- that's standard procedure for us since it gives you two vision modes
to ID a target.
According to them, the figures seemed to be laying on their bellies, watching us from
about 100 meters behind us, hiding behind a small berm.
The desert out there was pitch black, so we got into a long line and formed a sweeping
element.
Two heavy gunners on humvees watched our backs and got ready to light up anything that turned
hostile as we started our sweep into the desert.
As we approached, our overwatch patrol warned us that the figures were crawling into new
positions.
They were actually reacting to our movements, and trying to remain hidden.
According to the two guys who could see them over night vision and the thermal unit, the
figures appeared frantic, as if panicking at having been discovered observing us.
Yet they never stood up, and stayed low on the ground on their bellies.
For us on the sweeping element, we couldn't see a thing, despite also using our own night
vision goggles.
However the desert was thick with brush, so staying unseen would've been pretty easy for
anyone laying low.
We kept on moving forward, weapons at the ready, as our overwatch patrol stayed in constant
contact with us, letting us know what the figures were doing.
Then, as we got within twenty five meters, they just vanished.
According to the overwatch patrol, the two figures were there one moment, and then completely
disappeared the next.
No flash of light, no sound, nothing, just disappeared.
We rushed forward to the last known location and swept the area, finding nothing- although
one of our guys had brought his handheld thermal imager and was actually able to pick up traces
of warmth on the desert floor.
Somebody, or something, had in fact been laying on that floor, long enough to heat it up,
watching us as we practiced our assault techniques.”
That incident may have been bone chilling to hear about, definitely to have lived through,
but it was far from the only incident involving possible UFOs, or even aliens, and nuclear
weapons.
Throughout the cold war, the United States, and even the Soviet Union, had several extremely
high profile incidents involving nuclear weapons and UFOs, and these incidents have been reported
by individuals with extremely high levels of credibility.
In 1977, unidentified flying objects not only proved they could intrude on US air space
unimpeded, but that they might even have full control over our nuclear weapons.
As told by United States Air Force Technical Sergeant Thomas E. Johnson, who was a Flight
Security Supervisor at the time, one night a security alert team was dispatched in response
to strange lights low in the sky.
At the time Johnson was stationed at a North Dakota missile field, home to dozens of Minutemen
intercontinental ballistic missiles housed in underground silos, ready to fire on the
Soviet Union at a moment's notice.
As the team neared the reported area, they spotted lights in the sky ahead of them, varying
in color.
The lights would zoom from one location to another, at impossible speeds, or other times
would simply blink out in one location and blink in at another location.
The security team leader later said that he couldn't tell if there were multiple objects,
or just one incredibly fast object.
Prior to the incident, the security personnel had been briefed by Air Force Office of Special
Investigation agents that unknown helicopters had been reported at other Strategic Air Command
Bases.
The Office of Special Investigation- or OSI- is like the Air Force's FBI, and the special
briefings indicated that something very peculiar was going on at US air force bases.
Yet that night, the object- or objects- didn't move like helicopters, and made no sound.
What they did do though was far more terrifying.
Directly under the lights, the missile launch officers responsible for launching the Minuteman
in case of war, reported that they lost control over some of the 10 missiles they were in
charge of.
One of the launch officers later said that they couldn't communicate with the missiles,
and if they had needed to launch, would have been unable to.
Incredibly though this type of incident would be repeated numerous times throughout the
Cold War, and sometimes the actual targeting codes programmed into each missile would be
altered or completely erased!
Each of these occurrences always happened in conjunction with sightings of UFOs.
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