Robert Hastings spent decades tracking the mysterious overlap between unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and the nation's nuclear arsenal.

As Wyoming prepares to pioneer next-generation nuclear technology, Hastings expects UAP activity to follow and sees their presence as a potential safeguard against catastrophic failure.

“In my opinion, these are non-human entities flying the UAPs,” Hastings, a renowned UFO researcher, author, lecturer and filmmaker who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday. “One might propose that what they’re up to, these entities, is trying to save us from ourselves.”

Hastings’ fascination with UAP and nuclear weapons began when he was a teenager. In 1967, his father was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana. 

That was the same year 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles went offline at once, an event that former launch officers later told Hastings coincided with security personnel reporting a large object hovering over a missile site.

Hastings would come to find out that Malmstrom was far from an isolated event.

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