Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes

An anonymous reader quotes Reuters "Witness testimony from more than 120 former or retired military personnel points to an ongoing and alarming intervention by unidentified aerial objects at nuclear weapons sites, as recently as 2003. In some cases, several nuclear missiles simultaneously and inexplicably malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object silently hovered nearby. Six former US Air Force officers and one former enlisted man will break their silence about these events at the National Press Club and urge the government to publicly confirm their reality." I won't worry until Gort shows up.

Comments

Of course they are

[w00tsauce]

If we nuke everything, it's gonna be difficult for them to plunder our natural resources and turn us into sex slaves.

Re:Don't Eat That!

[NReitzel]

Be very careful. Aluminium foil will not work effectively. On needs genuine tin foil to be safe.

Re:Correlation

[Hognoxious]

I'm not sure if radiation makes people delusional.

But let's assume that it does - do you have an explanation for why they have the same delusion?

[disclaimer: I am employed by the Illuminati as a unicorn trainer]

Excited?

[Anonymous Coward]

The aliens prefer severely-chaffed orifices. Something about the blood and chunks of tissue rubbing against their bladed tentacles really does it.

Re:SPACE TRAVEL IS IMPOSSIBLE! Stop the Garbage

[SecurityGuy]

What a relief! I was afraid we were going to actually have to discover all of physics and cosmology. You may not realize it, but you've saved us a vast sum of money and the productive lives of scientists who can now skip all that and play facebook games instead.

Re:Not a Reuters story

[Red Flayer]

Newspapers used to have a position called a "fact-checker" and rather than just reprinting corporate and political press releases verbatim, they fact checked them first and would write a story about the release, pointing out any falsehoods. It isn't about book sales versus newspaper sales, it is about journalistic integrity.

I figured fact-checking was mostly for original work. If the byline is AP or Reuters, you'd think the paper would be off the hook when they print their retraction on page C35 right before the obituaries. Maybe that's just how they are doing it now.

Re:Obligatory

[WillDraven]

I haven't yet, but think I've got one coming up in the next half hour.

Wait, I thought we were supposed to be doing this on Twitter not Slashdot....?

Re:Correlation

[Waffle Iron]

For example, you are actually exposed to less radiation while onboard a US nuclear sub than you would receive on the surface.

This is especially true after all the missiles have been launched.

Time Travelers

[Geek_Cop]

I've been skeptically following a lot of this UFO traffic for a couple of years..because I really want to know. But I have a theory that these "aliens" aren't really aliens. Take for instance the increasing number of homosexuals in the world. If what they say is true, that homosexuality is a genetic inheritance, could it mean that the human race is slowly evolving to become hermaphrodites? How many alien sightings have said that the aliens had sexual organs? Anyways, say that in the future humans are hermaphroditic time travelers? And perhaps they are traveling back in time to prevent the inevitable? I don't know, but I sure am seeing an increase of lesbians on dating sites.

Re:journalistic integrity?

[sharkey]

Look it up, it's in the dictionary: right next to "Slashdot Editor".

Re:Journalism used to be a profession

[Bartab]

There's more to it than that. As journalism became a profession in the middle of the last century, news organizations would actually compete to be seen as the most factual and least biased sources of news.

BS.

Prior to television, ALL news sources were biased, and wore their bias proudly. Search how many newspapers have "Union" in their name.

With the advance of television, and to a lesser extent radio, it became obvious that a limited availability of transmission capability - not to mention receiver channels - that all parties involved, stations and viewers both decided impartiality was a goal worth having.

Newspapers kinda got drug along for the ride.

Now, with the internet and 1000 television stations, the -mutual- incentive for impartiality is gone, and so the actual impartiality is gone.

I, for one, welcome bias. So long as the participants are clear they're not neutral. It's a shame Fox claims to be "fair and balanced", but it's a larger shame that CNN makes similar claims.

Re:RIP CJ Rehnquist

[russotto]

Chief Justice Rehnquist frequently dissented in cases requiring the extension of individual freedoms to entities like corporations.

That is merely because Chief Justice Rehnquist was pretty much against individual freedom full stop.