UAP Record

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Mario Woods

well-supported military status · verified public figure

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Mario Woods · 1:25:38

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American Alchemy · 0:01:05

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American Alchemy · 1:13:20

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Woods says that in 1977 he and a colleague saw a large object over a missile site, lost time, and later suffered health effects. Robert Hastings documented the case. The corpus cites him among nuclear-site witnesses.

Who

RoleFormer USAF security policeman who reported an object over a Minuteman silo at Ellsworth AFB in 1977
Sidemilitary
Statusverified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true)

Interviews and appearances

Claims made

  • Woods testified that during the event the words 'do not fear' moved through his body 'like a vibration like a hiss', repeatedly, and that Johnson heard the same refrain.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 1:25:38 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      do not fear travel through my body like a vibration like a uh like a hiss
  • Woods testified that around 9:15-9:40 p.m. he exchanged light signals with a stationary object east of the November control facility — four rounds of facility-light flashes answered by off-on patterns — with partner Michael Johnson present and flight security controller Bill Hollman inside on the phone.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 0:09:28 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      all of a sudden this thing goes out on out on out and on and it just sent shivers up me and I went wow they do see me
  • Woods testified that at the site they found a sphere 'the size of a Walmart building' ten feet over the blast door, that a light release nearly blinded him and stopped his breathing, that a black vented ball bounced around the truck, that an ammonia stench filled the cab, and that he saw four gliding beings — three small identical ones and a taller one with a pulsating chest device — before blacking out.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 0:31:31 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      I see these four I'm going to call them beings and they are not walking as you and I walk they are just gliding across the ground
  • Woods testified that he came to behind the Newell Lake Reservoir dam — about 8.5 miles from November 5, a place he had never been — with the sun rising, his watch past 6 a.m., mud under his boots despite 9-13 F temperatures, and only one set of tire tracks at the dam's center.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 0:37:44 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      missing time and I can't explain any of it
  • Woods testified that Johnson sat catatonic with eyes open gripping the steering wheel through the event and for hours after, that Woods checked his pulse and put a finger in his ear without response, and that Johnson told him weeks later he had seen and heard everything — the craft, the black sphere, the smell, 'do not fear' — but could not move.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 1:11:34 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      he saw the craft he saw the black sphere in front of the vehicle jumping up and down he smelled the smell he heard do not fear
  • Woods testified that about eighteen days later Johnson knocked on his door in Rapid City, and that the two drew what they had seen separately — 'we drew the exact same pictures' — the last time they ever met.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 1:11:03 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      I want you to draw what you saw and I'm going
  • Woods testified that after the event he developed an unbidden obsession with pyramids and archaeology, and that he froze in his stride the first time he saw the Communion cover and stared at it for hours before reading it.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 1:29:46 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      the first time I saw that picture I froze in my I froze in my in my stride
  • Woods testified that at about 12:15 a.m. a two-pronged alarm (above-ground and below-ground sensors) at launch facility November 5 dispatched him and Johnson to the site.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:15:12 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
      sit for November 5 which is a two-pronged alarm it's an above ground and a below ground sensor that has been affected

Mentioned in the corpus

Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.

Named in 19 uploads (automatic name matching, 29 mentions)

On the map

Ellsworth AFB "November 5" encounter (Mario Woods, November 1977), Ellsworth AFB. Open the full map filtered to this record.

Sources on this record

  • 1:25:38 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
    do not fear travel through my body like a vibration like a uh like a hiss
  • 0:09:28 Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction · Mario Woods
    all of a sudden this thing goes out on out on out and on and it just sent shivers up me and I went wow they do see me

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