'UFOs
are real,' lecturer claims By
WILL MANLY A
guest lecturer in town this week intends to confirm beyond any reasonable doubt
that unidentified flying objects do, in fact, exist. They
take a particular interest in nuclear missile sites, Robert Hastings says. Hastings
is a speaker who says he will use interviews with highly credible former military
personnel and declassified government documents obtained via the Freedom of Information
Act to prove the existence of UFOs. "UFOs
are real. Their technology is better than ours," Hastings said, quite bluntly,
in an interview. "We're dealing with visitations from somebody." Those
visitations, Hastings said, occur near nuclear missile launch sites at an alarmingly
frequent rate. And
he said he's visited with multiple retired Air Force personnel who related to
him a chillingly similar tale: That of a flying saucer appearing over nuclear
launch sites, hovering for several moments, and then, mysteriously, the launch
site's missiles activating without authorization from authorities. In each case,
the missiles were immediately powered down by military personnel. "If
you have 100 former launch officers who are saying, 'There are flying saucers
that have hovered over our nukes,' That obviously is a front-page story,"
Hastings said. "You have to ask yourself why 100 people who had their finger
on the button are suddenly going crazy." "Long
story short, there's some very strange and spooky things going on at the missile
sites," Hastings said. The
interviews he's conducted and the documents he's reviewed will be presented at
Hastings' lecture in Hays, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the
Cody Commons of Fort Hays State University's Memorial Union. The event is free
to the public. Hastings
began UFO research after an incident in 1967. His dad was in the Air Force, stationed
at Malmstrom Air Base, near Great Falls, Mont. And Hastings was a kid working
a part-time job as a janitor at the base when, one night while he was sweeping
up in an air traffic control tower, he witnessed something that made the controller
extremely nervous. Five
UFOs were tracked on radar for several minutes, Hastings said. Air Force interceptor
jets were scrambled to meet them. As the jets closed in, the UFOs skeedadled --
at a rate so fast they could not have possibly been of this world. Since,
Hastings said, he has researched constantly. He has conducted interviews, reviewed
documents, and shared his findings in more than 500 lectures. And he says he tries
not to persuade audiences of anything he can't back up with evidence. "I'm
very nuts and bolts in my approach. I just let the documents and the retired Air
Force personnel do the talking," Hastings said
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