Former airmen claim alien visits

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A group of seven U.S. airmen claims extraterrestrials have been deactivating nuclear missiles at U.S. and British sites since 1948.

Retired Capt. Robert Salas and six other retired airmen said Monday in Washington the U.S. and British governments have been covering up incidents involving UFOs causing nuclear missiles to mysteriously deactivate at military bases, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

"The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it," he said.

Col. Charles Halt, former deputy commander of Royal Air Force Base Bentwaters near Woodbridge, England, said he witnessed such an event at the base 30 years ago, The Sun reported.

"The security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted, both then and now, to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation," Halt said.