Wall Street Journal: "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology"
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedIn June 2025 the Wall Street Journal published an investigation by Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha reporting that AARO had found the 1967 Malmstrom shutdown was caused by an unannounced EMP test and that Air Force officers had seeded UFO stories to protect classified programs. Robert Salas rejects the account in the corpus and links the reporters to Sean Kirkpatrick.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 40.7561, -73.9866 approximate · United States |
| Official response | The article attributes its Malmstrom finding to AARO; AARO had not published that finding in its own reports at the time. |
Reported by
- joel schectman journalist co-author
- aruna viswanatha journalist co-author
Who spoke about it later
- Robert Salas 0:00:33 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas ▶ 2025
- Robert Salas 0:04:44 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas ▶ 2025
- Robert Salas 1:43:36 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas ▶ 2025
Mentioned in the corpus
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“This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas 12 July 2025
- 0:00:33 ▶ Jesse Michels
this kind of ridiculous Wall Street Journal piece comes out by this guy named Joel Shectman. It just seems like a really botched
- 0:00:33 ▶ interview
- 0:04:44 ▶ Jesse Michels
collaborating very closely, probably too closely with a guy named Sean Kirkpatrick, who's the former head of the all domain all domain anomaly
- 0:04:44 ▶ interview
- 0:42:19 ▶
the Air Force thinks that EMP from nuclear testing was the cause of the shut down. That's even better cuz that's like
- 1:43:36 ▶ interview
- 0:00:33 ▶ Jesse Michels
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Wall Street Journal: "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology", Malmstrom AFB missile shutdown (March 1967), AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I, AARO established. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:00:33 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas · Jesse Michels ▶
this kind of ridiculous Wall Street Journal piece comes out by this guy named Joel Shectman. It just seems like a really botched
- 0:04:44 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas · Jesse Michels ▶
collaborating very closely, probably too closely with a guy named Sean Kirkpatrick, who's the former head of the all domain all domain anomaly
- 0:42:19 “This UFO Shut Down 10 Nukes!” - Air Force Officer Robert Salas ▶
the Air Force thinks that EMP from nuclear testing was the cause of the shut down. That's even better cuz that's like
- The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology