AARO Deputy Director Misstates Facts
To Whom It May Concern,
In two recent interviews, former All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
Deputy Director Timothy Phillips stated that AARO will address select
reports of incidents involving UFOs and nuclear weapons in a forthcoming
historical report. According to Phillips, AARO determined that a “cascading
transformer failure” triggered by an “electrical storm”, and not UFO
activity, led to the March 1967 shutdown of a 10-missile “flight” of
nuclear-armed Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles at Malmstrom Air
Force Base, Montana.
Conversely, a 6 June 2025 Wall Street Journal story, citing AARO
officials, states that an unannounced Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) test
caused the shutdown.
However, official u...