The Wall Street Journal Is Gaslighting You On UFOs

June 13, 2025

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The Wall Street Journal Is Gaslighting You On UFOs

In March 1967, First Lieutenant Robert Salas was stationed sixty feet below ground at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, overseeing a flight of ten nuclear missiles. He got a call from topside guards reporting strange lights in the sky. Five minutes later, they called back screaming: a red glowing object was hovering just above the front gate. Within moments, all ten missiles went off alert simultaneously. Salas had a colleague present, Bob Jameson, who later backed up his testimony on Larry King. The base's own Strategic Air Command documentation shows they were "extremely puzzled" and brought in Boeing to investigate. Boeing was also puzzled.

This is the kind of case that the Wall Street Journal recently attempted to explain away in an article titled "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology." The article's thesis, as host Jesse Michels presents it, is that UFO sightings at nuclear facilities can be entirely explained by two things: secret electromagnetic pulse (EMP) experiments conducted by the U.S. government on its own nuclear missiles, and Air Force hazing rituals. Michels argues that the article itself is part of the very disinformation campaign its headline purports to expose.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:36) **Introduction: The Wall Street Journal's "Disinformation" Article** - Jesse Michels frames the WSJ article as part of a Pentagon disinformation campaign, not a debunking.
2 (02:05) **The Malmstrom AFB Incident (1967)** - Robert Salas's testimony of a UFO disabling 10 nuclear missiles is presented as the key case the WSJ tries to explain away.
3 (05:33) **The WSJ's "EMP Experiment" Claim Debunked** - Jesse dismantles the article's theory that the Malmstrom incident was a secret electromagnetic pulse test.
4 (08:15) **The "Air Force Hazing Rituals" Claim Debunked** - Jesse attacks the article's second claim that UFO mythology stems from hazing.
5 (11:58) **The Call for Accountability: A Class Action Lawsuit** - Jesse proposes a legal and political response to the WSJ's claims.
6 (13:11) **The Suppressed Op-Ed: A Cabinet Member's Story** - Jesse reveals a personal story of a suppressed op-ed co-authored by a former cabinet member.
7 (16:11) **The David Spergel Connection** - Jesse draws a parallel between current debunkers and historical figures like Don Menzel.

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Show Notes

The Wall Street Journal just published a piece admitting past Pentagon deception about UFOs, while doubling down on dismissing real evidence. In this episode, I respond directly, breaking down why these media narratives mirror Cold War-era perception management and why Congress must demand transparency now. From Malmstrom to Byelokoroviche, the pattern is undeniable. The disinformation machine just changed suits.

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