Twenty years ago this October, military contractors working for Boeing reported ‘a gigantic floating red square’ UFO — over 100 yards long — hovering in the morning air over a launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The eerie 2003 event first exploded into public view this July, in sworn testimony before Congress, but now an ex-US Air Force security officer has come forward to detail his official, rapid-response investigation into the UFO on the day it occurred.
‘This is not a joke,’ ex-USAF senior patrolman, Jeff Nuccetelli, told the Merged podcast Tuesday. ‘These are contractors with top secret clearances.’
Nuccetelli also revealed a second reported encounter with the ‘red square,’ in which two of his fellow USAF police patrol officers ‘got buzzed by the UFO.’ ‘When I showed up, it’s just mayhem,’ as Nuccetelli recalled it. ‘Everybody’s excited. They’re scared. Everyone’s freaked out.’
‘I’m getting ready to jump in the car,’ Nuccetelli told Merged host, retired US Navy fighter pilot Lt. Ryan Graves, ‘and then all hell breaks loose and they start screaming over the radio, ‘It’s coming right at us. It’s coming right for us. Now it’s right here.”
‘It was hard to hear,’ the former USAF patrol officer said, ‘because they were screaming and they were scared.’
This never-before-public second sighting, which Nuccetelli said he recorded in a police blotter with copies still in his possession, took place above Vandenberg AFB’s Space Launch Complex 4, which is leased today by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The veteran Air Force security official told that podcast that he had high confidence in the half a dozen fellow USAF police who witnessed the giant red UFO’s flyby.
‘These guys are trained observers,’ Nuccetelli emphasized to Lt. Graves, founder of the new nonprofit, Americans for Safe Aerospace, which is devoted to resolving flight safety concerns around such ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ (UAP).
‘They’re posted out there, you know, 24/7,’ Nuccetelli continued. ‘They know what aircraft look like. They know what fishing boats look like.’
‘I didn’t feel like they were just jumping the gun, because there had been a UFO.’ Nuccetelli gave Lt. Graves his recollection of driving to the launch site, SLC-4 or ‘Slick 4,’ as base police radio transmissions about the UFO came pouring in.
‘This is all playing out on the radio and the dispatchers are communicating with them trying to get more information,’ Nuccetelli said. ‘It’s just chaos, you know? The dispatchers are basically advising everybody to go on alert trying to get information.’
‘Then things calmed down a bit,’ the former USAF policeman continued. ‘They said the object flew off.’
To the best of his recollection, Nuccetelli then interviewed ‘about six people’ then posted to guard SLC-4, with his superior officer, or flight chief, alongside him.
‘I talk to everybody,’ he recalled. ‘Basically what they described was this object came in, was moving strangely, erratically. It got bigger and brighter as it came in.’
‘Then it came at a high rate of speed and flew right up to the entry control point, and stopped. And they all stared at it. And it just shot off.’
