Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident — UFOs Reportedly Disable Ten Nuclear Missiles Simultaneously

On March 16, 1967, at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, two separate Minuteman ICBM missile flights reported that their missiles went into a "No-Go" status — meaning they were taken offline — in rapid succession while UFOs were reportedly observed over the facilities by security personnel on the surface above.

At Echo Flight, commanded by Captain Eric Carlson and 1st Lieutenant Walt Figel, the missiles failed one after another in a matter of seconds while Figel was receiving a report from a security guard that a glowing red UFO was hovering above one of the missile silos. Ten missiles at Echo Flight went offline in rapid succession. A separate flight, Oscar Flight, reportedly experienced a similar event the same morning.

The missiles failing was extraordinarily unusual. Minuteman ICBMs were designed with extensive redundancy precisely to prevent simultaneous failures. The Air Force investigation could find no technical explanation for the simultaneous shutdown of multiple missiles in the hardened underground capsules. Boeing engineers were brought in and also could not reproduce or explain the failure mode.

Former Air Force officers including Robert Salas, who was deputy commander of Oscar Flight, have repeatedly testified publicly about the events, including at a National Press Club event in 2010. They maintain that UFOs were responsible for disabling the weapons. The Air Force has not officially confirmed the connection. If accurate, the Malmstrom events represent the most alarming documented interaction between UFOs and nuclear weapons systems.