“UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle will help inform the public and move us forward on our journey toward a new understanding of history, UAP, and of our own true nature with respect to the larger reality that is revealing itself to us.”
—Leslie Kean, bestselling author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
“I can’t overstate the significance of military testimony from witnesses such as former launch control officer Robert Salas. It’s brave folks like him who have kept me pushing for further government transparency on what may turn out to be the biggest story in modern times.”
—James Fox, director and producer of Moment of Contact
Robert Salas, a retired United States Air Force officer, witnessed firsthand a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) while visiting and disabling nuclear missiles. He shares his experience as well as the many incidents of similar visits during the last eighty years that have been covered up.
In 1969, the US Air Force issued a statement that read‚ “No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security.” This statement has been proven untrue by the testimony of many military officers and airmen and the documentation of incidents involving UFOs and nuclear weapons, testimonies of which the US Air Force was fully aware. UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle details many of these testimonies—some for the first time.

Robert Salas is a 1964 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He served seven years on active duty. He worked as a weapons controller, flew target drones, commanded intercontinental ballistic missiles as a launch officer, and a worked as an Air Force missile propulsion engineer on the Titan III program. From 1971 to 1973 he worked as a safety and reliability engineer for Martin-Marietta Aerospace and Rockwell International on Space Shuttle design proposals. From 1974 until his retirement in 1995 he worked for the Federal Aviation Administration. In 2005 he published the book Faded Giant with coauthor James Klotz, which details the UFO incident he witnessed in 1967. Mr. Salas has been publicly speaking about this incident at UFO conferences, on radio, and on television since 1996.

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Stanton T. Friedman is a nuclear physicist who worked on a wide variety of advanced, classified nuclear systems for major industrial companies. He began the civilian investigation of the Roswell Incident; wrote Flying Saucers and Science and TOP SECRET/MAJIC; and coauthored Crash at Corona, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, and Science Was Wrong. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs. Friedman resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Educator and sociologist Kathleen Marden is Betty Hill's niece and trustee of her estate. She has all of Hill's papers and correspondence, and has transcribed the tapes of the Hills' hypnosis sessions with psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon. Marden has also met with the numerous scientists who investigated the case. For the past 10 years, she has served on the Board of Directors of the Mutual UFO Network, the largest International UFO organization and as director of Field Investigator Training for MUFON. Marden lives in Stratham, New Hampshire.

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“UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle will help inform the public and move us forward on our journey towards a new understanding of history, UAP, and our own true nature with respect to the larger reality that is revealing itself to us.”
—Leslie Kean, bestselling author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

“I can’t overstate the significance of military testimony from witnesses such as former launch control officer Robert Salas. It’s brave folks like him that have kept me pushing for further government transparency on what may turn out to be the biggest story in modern times.”
—James Fox, director/producer of Moment of Contact

“Salas takes the reader on a compelling and heartfelt journey through the minefields and thickets of government secrecy and cover-ups as he experienced it from his own encounters with ET, while weaving into his page-turning narrative a concise history of the modern UFO phenomenon.”
—Thomas J. Carey, bestselling coauthor of UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson

“A sober yet heartfelt narrative which dares you to dismiss it without due consideration.”
—Fortean Times

“. . . fasten your seat belt. You are in for a fascinating ride.”
—Stanton T. Friedman, author of Flying Saucers and Science and Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience

“Not only is Bob Salas an Air Force insider who had his ufological teeth cut by firsthand experiences, but he also possesses the scholarly background to analyze those events. With his tireless tenacity and no-nonsense mission towards disclosure, Bob is a genuine throwback to one of my own heroes, Edward Ruppelt.”
—Donald R. Schmitt, bestselling coauthor of Witness to Roswell