Beginning in the late 1990s, Salas received widespread publicity for his claims that UFOs disabled a missile flight he was crewing in 1967. Later investigations confirmed that Salas' missile flight was, indeed, disabled, though the matter was due to the nearby test of an electromagnetic pulse simulator.
Salas served on active U.S. Air Force duty for seven years, during which he was an ICBM launch controller and missile propulsion engineer and was variously posted to Florida, Montana, and Ohio.[1][2]
In 1971, Salas resigned his Air Force commission because, he says, the Vietnam War "got too much for me to stomach".[3] He briefly thereafter worked for Martin-Marietta and Rockwell International, before going to work for the FAA in 1974, from which he retired in about 1995.[1][4] After retirement, from 1999 to 2016, he worked as a math teacher.[5][6]
In 1994, Salas read a book by UFO author Timothy Good and came to believe an incident he experienced in 1967 was the result of UFO intervention.[7] As first recounted by Salas in a 1996 interview he gave to the Great Falls Tribune, while manning a missile launch control center in Montana, he received a call from an Air Force Security Police officer charged with guarding the center.[1] Salas said the second-hand report he received from the guard was of a "glowing red object" that appeared to be hovering in the air.[1] According to Salas, ICBMs at his Echo complex site lost power shortly thereafter.[8] Sometime after reading Good's book, Salas began to believe that intergalactic forces had interceded to save the world from nuclear conflict.[7][9][3] In later years, Salas also began to claim that he was abducted by grey aliens from his home in 1985.[10]
A later investigation determined the loss of power and visual disturbance Salas reported were due to the nearby test of an electromagnetic pulse simulator.[9]
Salas, Robert (2005). Faded Giant. BookSurge. ISBN1419603418.
Salas, Robert (2014). Unidentified: The UFO Phenomenon: How World Governments Have Conspired to Conceal Humanity's Biggest Secret. Weiser. ISBN978-1601633422.
Salas, Robert (2023). UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle: Visitations, National Security, and the Need for Transparency. New Page Books. ISBN978-1637480168.
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