Wyoming’s Nuclear Future Draws UAP Attention
UFO researcher Robert Hastings is advising residents of Kemmerer, Wyoming, to watch the skies over the Natrium project as the area prepares to host a next-generation nuclear reactor. The Bill Gates-backed facility is projected for completion around 2030, and Hastings believes nuclear developments have historically attracted reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP.
“There are many cases on record where these objects have hovered above or maneuvered around civilian nuclear-power plants,” Hastings told Cowboy State Daily. He said that, if a longstanding pattern involving military and civilian nuclear sites continues, unusual activity could eventually be reported near Natrium. The article provides no independently verified evidence of UAP activity over the project or confirmation that any sightings have occurred there.
Hastings’ Claims About Nuclear Facilities
Hastings, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has spent decades researching alleged connections between UAP and the U.S. nuclear arsenal. His interest began in 1967, when his father was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. That year, 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles reportedly went offline simultaneously. Former launch officers later told Hastings that the failure coincided with security personnel seeing a large object hovering near a missile site.
Hastings said interviews with hundreds of military veterans and government insiders led him to conclude that similar incidents occurred at nuclear facilities across the country. According to his account, unidentified objects have been reported hovering over weapons sites, monitoring launch systems and, in some cases, interfering with them.
“We know beyond a reasonable doubt, based on the testimony of my sources and other people’s sources, that they can tamper with weapons,” Hastings said. “They can temporarily disable them through isolated cases.” He also characterized the alleged objects as “non-human entities,” while acknowledging that his conclusions are based primarily on witness testimony and reported incidents rather than publicly established physical evidence.
The F.E. Warren Incident
The last case Hastings formally investigated involved F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne in 2010. During that incident, communications were temporarily lost with a squadron of approximately 50 nuclear-armed Minuteman III missiles while an unidentified craft was reportedly observed in the area.
Hastings said he believes additional incidents may have taken place since then. “My gut tells me that between 2010 and now there’s certainly been more incidents at F.E. Warren,” he said. “And there will be more in the future.”
Military officials attributed the 2010 outage to a failed receiver card in an underground communications cable. That failure, officials said, produced a cascading effect across the missile field. The explanation has not resolved all questions for some local observers, including Harry Gillway, a former sheriff in Kimball County, Nebraska, where part of the F.E. Warren missile complex is located.
Unidentified Objects Remain Unresolved
Gillway told Cowboy State Daily that he and others later observed drones in the county, including some seen by deputies. He said the objects could not be identified and appeared to stop abruptly and change direction at sharp angles. “No aircraft can do that,” Gillway said, while also acknowledging, “But what were they? I don’t know.”
Those accounts illustrate the central uncertainty surrounding UAP reports: witnesses may describe unusual observations, but the available information often does not establish whether the objects were advanced aircraft, drones, atmospheric phenomena or something else. For now, Hastings’ warning to Kemmerer residents is a prediction based on historical claims, not evidence of a confirmed threat or ongoing activity above Natrium.
