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Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

11/02/2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES -UFO expert Robert Hastings will discuss unidentified flying objects and will present evidence he claims documents their existence in a lecture at Northwestern State University Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

For almost 40 years, Hastings has collected thousands of pages of previously classified documents that he believes prove the U.S. government has hidden the existence of UFOs from the public.

In 1967, Hastings was involved in a UFO sighting at an Air Force missile base in Montana. It was an experience that inspired him to begin collecting evidence of an official government cover up of unidentified flying object activity. Hastings was a self-described "16-year-old Air Force brat" who knew several air traffic controllers on base. He was in the tower that March, when five unidentified aerial targets suddenly began to be tracked on multiple radarscopes.

"On the night in question, it was immediately apparent to these gentlemen that the objects they were tracking on radar were neither conventional aircraft nor helicopters," Hastings has told audiences. "For approximately a 30-minute period, these aerial objects were observed on radar at times to hover; at other times, they performed high speed aerial maneuvers.

"At one point during the radar tracking, two jets were launched to attempt an intercept of these objects, whereupon they were observed to ascend in unison at an extreme rate of speed."

Hastings said the five objects were maneuvering near nuclear missile silos southeast of the base.

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