While the flying saucers are of course B.S., the Pentagon did actually create an electromagnetic-pulse weapon of sorts in the late 1960s and tested it on actual nuclear missiles in Montana — EMPs would be generated by nuclear blasts, and the U.S. was worried that a Soviet first strike would knock out its ability to respond with its own ICBM launches. The guys in the missile silos didn't know what the "glowing" oval hovering outside the base was, but they knew their missiles were disabled, and they were told to never, ever talk about the event. In fact, the Journal's investigation was spurred by disclosures in the report that some of the claims investigated were, um... part of the psyop.
Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Matthew DeBord)
Published at: 2025-06-14 21:25:00
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