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. Are UFOs monitoring our nuclear weapon sites? Is it coincidence that every major nuclear
weapon or production facility in the United States has had a long history of UFO sightings? For a growing number of people, the UFO interest
in our nuclear weapons is very real, and the case was only strengthened when after the
fall of the Soviet Union, former Soviet military and government officials revealed that their
nuclear sites had also been host to UFO incidents. Are we being visited by aliens? Check out our video Were these historic moments
actually secret alien invasions? Or perhaps you'd rather watch something a
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