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| I recently watched the first episode of Declassified Secrets with David Duchovny, now airing on the History Channel on Friday nights. As the name indicates, it’s the former The X Files star’s latest series. One segment dealt with the once-hidden but now-famous UFO-related ICBM-shutdown incident at Malmstrom AFB, Montana in 1967, first exposed in 1996 by one of the Minuteman missile launch officers who was on duty when it occurred, former USAF Captain Robert Salas. Given Hollywood’s checkered track record on accurately reporting UFO encounters at the US Air Force’s ICBM sites, in a variety of programs on several different television networks over the years, I |
 The UFO Chronicles 4-11-25 |
In my book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, I discuss the intriguing event at length. Actually, there were at least two UFO-related mass-missile shutdowns at Malmstrom, on March 16th and 24th 1967, and I was responsible for getting a number of former USAF personnel with knowledge of the highly-dramatic, still-classified incidents to go on the record for the first time.
The book’s entire chapter regarding those events is available here.
While some readers may conclude that I am overreacting to the Duchovny show’s treatment of the ten missile-shutdown on March 24th, and that my criticisms mostly concern trivialities, I will disagree. The importance of the reality of UFOs repeatedly interfering with our nuclear missiles at several Air Force bases over the years—as confirmed by scores of USAF veterans who I’ve interviewed—is self-evident. Any public discussion of the situation should strive to be accurately presented.
So, whenever I read or watch an attempted review of those developments that is deeply flawed—due to skeptical ignorance, inept research efforts, or disinformational spin—I just have to respond.
Tellingly, despite the series title, Declassified Secrets with David Duchovny, the Oscar Flight incident remains classified to this day! Given that the show’s producers missed that fact, I guess I shouldn’t have been too surprised at the very faulty summary of it that they foisted on all of us. While I counted more than a dozen factual misstatements in the carelessly constructed six-minute segment, I’ll only address three here:
First, it claims, “Salas [was] in his command headquarters and suddenly he [got] a call from the gate personnel at the entrance to Malmstrom, about some sort of strange light that is flying, moving in a strange pattern over the base itself.” In reality, Salas—and his missile commander Captain Frederick Meiwald, who was with him but is never even mentioned in the program segment—were some 125 road-miles east of Malmstrom in their underground Launch Control Center at Oscar Flight, a group of ten Minuteman-I missiles located near Roy, Montana.
Only later in the segment is there an acknowledgement of Salas’ presence in a Launch Control Capsule far from the base, thereby contradicting earlier statements that the incident occurred on Malmstrom itself.
Following this confusion, the segment then says that the head Security Policeman on-site, who had notified Salas about the mysterious aerial light, then called a second time and, screaming into the phone, said that a glowing, orange-colored “orb” was now silently hovering directly over the gate of the fence surrounding the above-ground Oscar Launch Control Facility building. Actually, as Salas has repeatedly stated in various interviews, the hovering object was reported by the Security Policemen confronting it to be disc-shaped and at least 40-feet in diameter—it was not a small, spherical orb.
More importantly, the segment claims that following the incident the Air Force sent “a team from an ongoing secret investigation, known as Project Blue Book, [to investigate it.]” In reality, although Salas and Meiwald were forcefully interrogated about the incident and told to sign national security non-disclosure statements, Blue Book never investigated the alarming incursion and, significantly, the Air Force continues to officially deny that there has ever been UFO interference with any of our nuclear missiles’ functionality, at any base, over the past seven decades!
Nevertheless, despite the false claim of Blue Book’s involvement in the Oscar Flight case, the segment stubbornly doubles-down and has journalist and wannabe-UFO expert Garrett Graff saying on camera, “Investigators from Project Blue Book look into this incident at Malstrom [sic], and they don’t think that it’s an alien spacecraft but they also can’t find any other logical explanation.” This is simply untrue. No such Blue Book report ever existed.
Later in the segment, Graff opines, “I think the US government knows more about some of these UFO sightings than it lets on, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re alien spacecraft. A mystery is in some ways just as challenging as an actual secret. Still today, the government is just as likely to classify its ignorance as it is its knowledge.”
While this last sentiment—regarding government ignorance often being unacknowledged—is undoubtedly true, the exhaustive research conducted by myself and other researchers conclusively establishes that the Air Force knows tremendously more about UFOs—and the nuclear weapons-related cases in particular—than Graff’s vague, arguably apologist statement suggests. His empty platitude completely ignores the wealth of specific, detailed, formerly-classified material about UAP now in the public domain. It appears that he is either uninformed or too negatively biased to understand its importance.
Indeed, in various skeptical public statements he has made, Graff has doubted the existence of Non-Human Intelligence on Earth, saying, “UFOs could be weird physics [we don’t yet understand] rather than aliens from Alpha Centauri buzzing the USS Nimitz.” He has also endorsed the long-ago discredited CIA claim that “half” of all UFO sightings in the US during the 1950s were due to flights of the still-secret U-2 spy plane.
After noting several of those off-base and generally dismissive claims by Graff during several interviews, I decided that I wouldn’t waste my time reading his 500-page book, UFO: The inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There.
However, one person who did read the book reviewed it at Amazon, saying,
... There is no “inside story” to be found anywhere in the book. Instead, we find many of the familiar stories that include Roswell, Foo Fighters, projects Sign, Grudge, Blue Book, Capt. Mantel, the fraud George Adamski and his blond friend “Orthon” from Venus, the Robertson Panel, the Socorro Incident, swamp gas, ball lightning, the Condon Report, Tehran F-4s, MJ-12, crop circles, cattle mutilations, Phoenix Lights, Skinwalker Ranch, Tic Tac UFO, etc., etc., etc.
[...]
... And yet, many more relevant or intriguing UFO tales are completely missing. Where are Dr. Robert Sarbacher, Admiral Wilson’s near-sacking, Wilbert Smith’s famous quote, Gulf Breeze, Bentwaters, the Trent photos, the Zimbabwe school children, UFO and nuclear ICBM interactions, Illinois police triangles, and many more? Not there!
So, in his 518-page book claiming to be “the inside story” of the US government’s response to UFOs, Garrett Graff apparently fails to even mention UFO activity at nuclear missile sites, let alone discuss it at length—and yet this was the guy chosen by Duchovny’s producers to hold forth on the tremendously important incident at Malmstrom’s Oscar Flight in March 1967.
As for Duchovny himself, despite his UFO-sleuth role on The X Files, the actor is a well-known skeptic on The Phenomenon. Indeed, during the 1990s, when the show was a runaway hit, Duchovny gave several interviews in which he disappointed fans by pooh-poohing UFOs and the notion of a government cover-up of them. “It’s just a show!” he repeatedly exclaimed. I have tried to find examples of those interviews—which I clearly remember—to link to here, but have so far been unsuccessful. (And, candidly, I’m not going to waste any more time trying to locate them online.)
In any case, the producers of Duchovny’s new show need to do much better research for their UAP-related segments in the future, and begin utilizing better informed, less biased talking-heads.
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