We all know the Military stand on UFO's is that, if they exist, they are no threat to "National Security." This has been the official conclusion since the Condon Report in the 1950's. There have been incidents that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the very misinterpretation of a UFO can be so serious as to threaten not only National Security but the very existence of life on Earth as we know it.

Police Officer Kenneth Storch discussing his report on the UFO incident he experienced as a young Air Force Sergeant. Photographic Screen Capture from MUFON video interview.


The primary report of this potentially deadly incident comes from Kenneth Storch, a policeman in Aurora, Colorado and Field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The incident he reports happened in 1974 when Mr. Storch was an Air Force Sergeant at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. At the time he worked in the Communications Department for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and held both a Top Secret and Restricted Clearance as his job required handling any document that came in to SAC. For whatever reason at the time, the Air Force only required silence for 30 years. Being an honest and honorable man, Mr. Storch waited the full 30 years before filing the report with MUFON.

At approximately 2:00 in the morning (Mr. Storch did not recall the exact date) NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) picked up 5 radar targets emerging from the Pacific Ocean. The unidentified objects leveled off at about 180,000 feet and headed toward the United States at speeds between 4,000 to 6,000 miles per hour; just the speed for a submarine launched Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The contact was immediately forwarded to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a DefCon 4 situation was initiated. This meant that the nation's military was put on instant alert to repel a preemptive nuclear attack. SAC bombers were ordered to their Fail-Safe points, launch codes were given to and input into our own nuclear missiles. The world was less than 30 seconds away from the beginning of a nuclear holocaust that could well have wiped all life from the planet.

Titan 2 missile launching from silo. Photograph is Public Domain


At what could only be called the proverbial "nick of time" the five contacts did something that an early 1970's era ICBM could not do, they changed course. This was in the time before cruise missile technology. Once fired they could not deviate from their course, but these five radar contacts did just that. Messages continued to fly from the Pentagon through SAC and other military branches and the order was given to hold for just a moment before launching the collected nuclear arsenal of a Superpower nation. The objects, still unidentified, passed over the Pacific Northwest of the United States and crossed over Canada, headed at speed toward Russian air space. President Nixon quickly got on the Hotline to Moscow to convince the Russians that the radar contacts they would soon be receiving were NOT U.S. missiles.

Ultimately the five contacts passed out of Earth's atmosphere to wherever their otherworldly destination lay, leaving behind the shaken military might of two nuclear-powered nations to contemplate how close to mutual destruction they had come. Sergeant Storch, back in Nebraska was debriefed for three hours after the incident while OSI officers collected all the hard-copy data that had accumulated about the incident. In what he describes as a "deprogramming" process, he was asked what he had seen and read and told that such things were, in fact, NOT what he had seen of read. Finally convincing the officers of his silence on the matter (at least for the 30 year time limit of his non-disclosure agreement) he was released to go home.

It is speculated that the possibility of such alien misunderstandings was one of the many reasons President John Kennedy pushed so hard for the "hotline" phone. It proved that in times of hyper suspicion and mistrust, the two great nuclear powers of the world needed to be able to inject a small amount of common sense into potentially deadly situations. That we were driven as close to nuclear war by five UFO's as we were by the incidents of the Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrates how huge a lie the statement of UFO's being "No Threat" really is. A potential hostile alien culture could have so easily destroyed life on this planet without lifting a single death ray themselves!