#USS Wyoming

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"WHICH WAR DOG WILL SURVIVE?

Both USS WYOMING (BB-32) (left) and USS ARKANSAS (BB-33) (right) must be scrapped under the terms of the London naval treaty. But one will escape the scrap heap as a training ship. They wait in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, while officers decide."

Date: May 14, 1930

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The nuclear submarine USS Wyoming at an undisclosed location in the Atlantic. Along the length of the four-story ship run an array of missile tubes, their circular exit doors ominously visible on the hull.

Photograph by Philip Montgomery.

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The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) approaches Naval Submarine Base King Bay, Ga, (Jan. 9, 2009).

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USS Wyoming building up steam to leave New York, 1915.

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A-10 Warthogs Escort Ballistic Missile Submarine USS Wyoming

For the second time in the last few months, A-10C jets escorted an Ohio-class nuclear submarine and also took part in a life fire exercise.

Stefano D'Urso

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An A-10C Thunderbolt II maneuvers over the ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming. (Image credit: U.S. Navy)

A formation of A-10C Thunderbolt II close-air support aircraft were employed once again to escort an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS Wyoming (SSBN 742). The images, shared on social media by Submarine Group Ten, depict Wyoming and its escorts navigating in an undisclosed location in the United States, with six A-10Cs flying overhead.

The aircraft, assigned to Moody Air Force Base, escorted the submarine and were also involved in a live fire exercise with their GAU-8 30 mm gun and 70 mm rockets. The U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Force Protection Unit Kings Bay, USNS Black Powder (T-AGSE-1), and USNS Westwind (T-AGSE-2) also participated in the escort of the submarine.

The rare sighting is not unprecedented, as earlier this year the USS Nebraska was also escorted by a quartet of A-10 Warthogs while navigating the Strait of San Juan de Fuca. In that occasion, however, the A-10s did not take part in any life fire activity and flew without carrying external ordnance.

“Joint operations, such as this one which involved the Air Force, Coast Guard, and Navy, ensure the U.S. military is ready to meet its security commitments at home and abroad,” mentioned the statements on both occasions. The services did not further elaborate on the extend of the joint operations.

The A-10C and the maritime domain

While no other details were released, it appears the Warthogs practiced overwatch of the extremely high-value strategic asset during one of the most vulnerable phases of its navigation. The live fire exercise might have also been used to simulate the defense of the USS Wyoming from surface threats.

A-10s have been used to target swarms of boats and to strike small naval vessels in previous training exercises, demonstrating the attention that these types of asymmetric threats attracted following recent real word events, such the attacks in the Red Sea or the Black Sea.

Four A-10Cs fly over the USS Wyoming, while two other jets can be seen in the background. (Image credit: U.S. Navy)

The A-10, which was born as a pure Close Air Support and anti-tank platform, has never been employed to large extent in the maritime domain, seeing only limited use. One of the most notable episodes was in 2011 during Operation Unified Protector, when an A-10 and a P-3C Orion engaged together a patrol boat and several small attack craft in the port of Misrata, Libya.

Since the last two couple of years, the Warthog was part of multiple Maritime Surface Warfare exercises and conducted unit defense training. One of the exercises saw, in Sept. 2023, two A-10s engage simulated surface threats in the Gulf of Oman with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem.

The A-10’s maneuverability at low airspeeds and altitude, highly accurate weapons-delivery capabilities, and extended loiter time are all key attributes that make it highly effective at providing aerial support to American and coalition forces on land and at sea, mentioned the U.S. Air Force after one of these exercises last year.

Asymmetric threats to maritime assets

The events in the Black Sea and Red Sea highlighted once again how asymmetric threats cannot be underestimated. In the past, the U.S. Navy had experience countering small fast attack crafts, especially in the Persian Gulf where Iran regularly harassed U.S. ships in the area.

More recently, Ukraine and the Houthis demonstrated the effectiveness and the danger posed by Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), used in kamikaze attacks against larger ships. The small, unmanned boats, filled with explosives, can exploit their limited dimensions and high maneuverability to avoid detection and interception, with devastating effects on their targets.

An A-10C Thunderbolt II engages a simulated target with its GAU-8 30 mm gun. (Image credit: U.S. Navy)

Highly defended targets could be overwhelmed by coordinated swarms of USVs, challenging the traditional naval strategies. The presence of multiple, fast approaching and maneuvering targets against a limited number of weapon systems on a naval asset could confuse the defenses, which would be forced to prioritize targets as to maximize the hit probability and avoid wasting precious ammo.

And here is where overhead protection from and asset like the A-10C could come in handy, as it provides to naval commanders a number of options both for surveillance and kinetic effects.

About Stefano D'Urso

@TheAviationist.com

Stefano D'Urso is a freelance journalist and contributor to TheAviationist based in Lecce, Italy. A graduate in Industral Engineering he's also studying to achieve a Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering. Electronic Warfare, Loitering Munitions and OSINT techniques applied to the world of military operations and current conflicts are among his areas of expertise.

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Title: USS Wyoming (BB-32)

Description: Passing through the Galliard Cut, Panama Canal, 26 July 1919. View looks south. Collection of Colonel J. Willcox, USMC(Retired). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

Catalog #: NH 73825

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USS Wyoming (AG-17) underway in the Atlantic Ocean on 30 April 1945

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BTS - The Pilot and his Girl

I was talking to some mutuals, who also write darker themes, about what we google and I realised readers probably don’t know about the amount of ridiculous research we sometimes put into tiny details in stories. And the ridiculous details we google! 

The Pilot and his Girl covered a lot of darker topics, PTSD, drug abuse and withdrawal, handling grief and trauma among other things. But it also included details about guns, military insignia and markers, Boston weather, Wyoming weather, geographical markers and local flora and fauna. And I did A LOT of googling to cover all the details. 

More below the cut if you’re curious, but my personal favourite was when Google gave me a warning banner about drug addiction, assuring me there was help to be had and here’s a list of local resources. I was only trying to figure out what withdrawals Frankie would go through as he came down off his addiction… 

So I did a fair bit of googling before the outbreak even happened, including the fish Denny catches in the lake on the fourth of July. It’s a fish that lives pretty much all over North America so I didn’t need to specify the state. Had I known that The Pilot would grow into a 300´000+ word fic I would’ve outlined where they lived and how they travelled in more detail in the beginning. 

In the fic they live in Arlington, but that’s not mentioned until after the outbreak and although they are somewhere in the south, where, is never specified. Arlington became their hometown simply because it’s the third most common place name in the US, Franklin being the most common (hence the name of the first QZ…). And Washington Park, where Frankie thinks he kills a man in the early hours of the outbreak, is the second most common place name. 

In one of the earlier chapters Frankie’s PTSD flares up in a bad way after his girlfriend is shot. I, thankfully, have no experience with PTSD so I read up and found good resources online from both treatment centres and stories from people who had suffered from PTSD, especially military veterans. So I put all of that into my writing and received the ultimate comment when one of my readers asked if I worked with PTSD patients because they had experience of it and they thought I had written Frankie’s episode so well. That made me so happy because capturing what he goes through well was important to me because it’s a major theme in the fic.

A small detail readers probably missed are the signs Pope and Frankie leave for each other as they travel from the cabin in Lucía’s town. I don’t know why, but I was adamant about them being correct and spent way too much time looking up what signs special ops soldiers would use. So go ahead, look them up, I can guarantee that they’re correct! 

Oh and their guns? Yeah, it’s not a coincidence that Frankie picks up a Glock when he enters the looted gun shop. It’s one of their preferred handguns. 

After Pope, Benny, Frankie and his girl leave the Arlington QZ and head to New York they have to cross the Appalachian mountains. And the trail they’re on exists, as does the bridge they’re on when they’re attacked and capture Morrow, their guide. The shop they get to as they go through Hoboken, Hoboken Beer & Soda Outlet, is a real place, as is of course, Sinatra Park. And as they travel further north, from New York, up to Boston, you can follow the path they take, first the ship from Orchard Park up to Nonquitt Bay and up past the USS Massachusetts, and through the Boston suburbs. I love geography and I had to make it real, at least for myself! 

Boston winters are harsh, I already knew that, so I had to figure out the timeline of spring potentially arriving and work out when Frankie and his girl could leave after Pope dies. Frankie’s addiction and withdrawals took a lot of googling, as did figuring out what drugs/medicines would still be actually usable. There’s a mention of antibiotics being good for years after their expiration date and this is also true, stored correctly they don’t lose their effect. 

And once they left, I googled my way across the midwest and marvelled at how FLAT and STRAIGHT those states are! My mind was blown and I spent way too much time using Google Street view to just click my way across Nebraska. I used a lot of those images to describe the landscape that they travelled through, both by car and on foot, and how it changes as you get closer to the Rockies. And of course I googled the climate for that valley that Jackson is in and how a hydroelectric plant works but please forgive me, that is NOT how you repair one. Major artistic licence was taken to make that scene readable…. 

The one MAJOR deviation from facts I had to make was petrol. But as the same deviation is made in both the game and tv-show I let it slide. In reality, they wouldn’t be able to drive the cars with petrol that had been sitting other cars out in the open. Petrol breaks down very fast, even after a month in a car it’s lost a lot of its quality. After a year it starts clogging the car. Twenty years? No way…. The thing is, in the apocalypse, bicycles are what you need! 

But despite all that googling I did, someone did point out (in the nicest possible way) one mistake that I made. In the early days in Jackson baby Jack is fed honey because I figured it would be the one sweetener they would potentially have on hand. But apparently, honey shouldn’t be given to children under the age of one… But I have no kids so the thought didn’t even occur to me that he shouldn’t be eating it. But now I know and I don’t think I’ll ever forget because it will always make me think of baby Jack and Frankie! 

If you’ve read this far, I hope you’ve enjoyed this little “behind the scenes” bit and if you have any questions, just ask. Funnily enough, most writers love talking about their works. ❤❤❤

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USS ARKANSAS (BB-33), USS WYOMING (BB-32) and another battleship in San Diego Bay, California.

Date: August 1919

Online Archives of California: 7622 CD M0189

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Exactly 100 years ago, President Warren Gamaliel Harding escaped the sweltering summer weather and increasingly dark political climate of Washington, D.C. to embark upon a lengthy cross-country trip through parts of the American West still relatively unaccustomed to frequent visits by the nation’s Chief Executive. Billed as a “Voyage of Understanding”, Harding’s trip was seen as a prelude to his potential campaign for re-election the following year, and an opportunity to put some literal and figurative distance between the President and the rumors of rampant corruption swirling around some of Harding’s friends and closest aides from Ohio, as well as several Cabinet members — rumors eventually proven to be true, resulting in indictments, convictions, prison sentences, and even suicides. As President Harding prepared for his Western tour, he could feel the heat as the scandals plaguing his Administration began to reach a boiling point. Speaking privately to the famous journalist and editor William Allen White, Harding said of the Presidency, “My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies…But my damn friends, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.”

Harding’s planned 15,000-mile Voyage of Understanding began on June 20, 1923. Traveling aboard the private Pullman railroad car Superb, the 57-year-old President left Washington, D.C. accompanied by First Lady Florence Harding, Speaker of the House of Representatives Frederick H. Gillett, new Interior Secretary Hubert Work, and a large retinue of aides, friends and their families, doctors, Secret Service agents, and members of the press. Work had become Secretary of the Interior a few months earlier when the previous Secretary, Albert B. Fall, became the “fall guy” for the Teapot Dome scandal. For his role in the scandal, Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes — the first former Cabinet member in American history to serve time in prison for crimes committed while in office. At later points along the journey, Harding’s party was also joined by Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace (father of future Vice President Henry A. Wallace) and Secretary of Commerce (and future President) Herbert Hoover.

The last week of June 1923 was spent traveling through the Mountain West — Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Yellowstone National Park. The beginning of July saw the Presidential party in the Northwest and celebrating Independence Day in Portland, Oregon before boarding the USS Henderson in Tacoma, Washington on July 5, 1923 to sail to Alaska. One of the expected highlights of the Voyage of Understanding was the northernmost  leg of the trip, as Harding became the first incumbent President of the United States to visit Alaska and Canada. The Territory of Alaska had been purchased for the United States by Secretary of State William Seward in 1867 when Warren G. Harding was two years old, and at the time of Harding’s visit, Alaska was still 35 years from being admitted to the Union as the 49th state. But the President spent nearly the entire month of July traveling through the state, mixing public appearances with private recreation and sightseeing. On July 15, 1923, Harding hammered a golden spike in Nenana, Alaska to officially complete the Alaska Railroad. And ten days later, the President crossed into Canada, fishing on the Campbell River in British Columbia on July 25th and then making an official visit the following day in Vancouver, where he was greeted by one of the largest crowds of his voyage — estimated at over 40,000 people — and where he also squeezed in a round of golf at the exclusive Shaughnessy Golf Club.

The President returned to American soil on July 27th, arriving in Seattle and making several speeches in a busy six-hour period — first to Camp Fire Girls at Volunteer Park, then to nearly 30,000 Boy Scouts at Woodland Park, and finishing the day addressing over 30,000 people at what is now Husky Stadium at the University of Washington where he predicted statehood for Alaska, where he had spent most of the month. After making a brief appearance that evening at the Seattle Press Club, Harding boarded his train that night to travel to Portland, Oregon.

But something was not right. The President seemed to be exhausted, perhaps from the grueling trip through geography much wilder than Harding’s native Ohio or swampy Washington, D.C. Despite his exciting journey through Alaska and the energetic welcome provided by the Canadian people, Harding was clearly wiped out by the time he reached British Columbia. The President did head to the country club while in Vancouver, but he was so tired that after six holes of golf his foursome skipped directly to the eighteenth hole, seemingly completing the round without tipping off the press that Harding couldn’t play the entire course.

From the White House, nine days before embarking upon his Voyage of Understanding, Harding wrote a quick note to Solicitor General James M. Beck who had wished the President a safe journey on his upcoming trip. Thanking Beck, Harding wrote, “I shall try to remember not to overdo (it) in crossing the continent.” And, on June 14, 1923, six days before leaving, President Harding wrote a short letter to a young girl from Hartford, Connecticut named Vivian Little, who had recently sent the President a four-leaf clover as a good luck charm. “Thank you so much for the four-leaf clover which you were so good as to press and send to me,” the President wrote. “I hope it will bring me good luck and that it will bring you still more of the same.”

However, any luck that President Warren G. Harding still had seemed to be running out. Ill and exhausted after leaving Vancouver, Harding tried to rest aboard the USS Henderson as it sailed to Seattle in the early morning hours of July 27. At some point around 3 AM, Harding and the other passengers aboard the Henderson were jolted awake as the ship crashed into the USS Zeilin, an American destroyer accompanying the Presidential party while they traveled through the foggy Puget Sound. This was not the first mishap of the Voyage of Understanding. While traveling through Colorado early in the trip, three people from the President’s party had been killed in a car accident. And now, after a few weeks in Alaska where Harding was able to at least temporarily forget about his Administration’s many troubles, the President was not only sick and tired but two of his Navy’s ships had just smashed into each other almost as soon as he had returned to the continental United States. While the USS Zeilin was badly damaged in the collision, the USS Henderson was not and there were apparently no major injuries on either vessel. But when the President’s valet, Major Arthur Brooks, came to Harding’s stateroom aboard the Henderson to inform him that the captain was calling for all hands on deck, he found the depressed President lying on his bed with his face buried in his hands. “I hope the boat sinks,” President Harding quietly muttered.

It was just hours later that Harding made his whirlwind tour through Seattle, putting on a brave face at his public appearances, but clearly not feeling well. While he was never considered a brilliant orator like Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Harrison, or his immediate predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, Harding was a strong speaker and excellent communicator who had a unique ability to connect with audiences, but he was obviously — and unusually — halting and confused while speaking in Seattle on July 27th. As he boarded his train at Seattle’s King Street Station that night, Harding was examined by his doctor and by Interior Secretary Hubert Work, who had once been a physician, and they decided to cancel the next several days of planned activities. Instead of stopping in Portland and then visiting Yosemite National Park, the Presidential party was ordered to proceed directly to San Francisco where Harding could rest before giving a speech on the radio planned for July 31st which was expected to be heard by over 5 million people.

Despite the four-leaf clover that had been sent to him by Vivian Little before his Voyage of Understanding, Warren Gamaliel Harding’s luck seemed to be running out. And, as his train sped through Oregon en route to San Francisco’s Palace Hotel on July 28, 1923, President Harding was also running out of time.  

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A-10 Warthogs Escort Ballistic Missile Submarine USS Wyoming - The Aviationist

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Aerial view of the USS Wyoming in 1944.

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USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) commissioning ceremony at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 13 July 1996. Note in the background the Archerfish (SSN-678) heading to the Mediterranean Sea for a six month deployment.

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Lady Justice

In 1905 naval officers from around the country began assembling in a court room in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard administration building (building 47) for the Court Martial of the Captain and the Chief Engineer of a navy gunboat. A Navy Board of Inquiry had already determined the men were guilty of negligence and the Board’s recommendation for Court Martial was approved by the Secretary of the Navy. Their purported negligence during peacetime had resulted in the death of over half of the crew (62 men) of the USS Bennington (Gunboat 4) in the most horrible fashion imaginable and the Nation was up in arms demanding accountability.

The Navy had no need for this scandal and the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, intent on sending the Great White Fleet around the world in an imperialistic demonstration of US power, wanted the distraction in the rear-view mirror. Despite the desire for expediency by those in charge, an effort to sacrifice the two officers and quickly move on, they found themselves confronted by Lady Justice in a Mare Island courtroom.  Lady Justice is a mythological figure for the belief that courts protect the rights of the people with fair and equal administration of the law, without corruption, avarice, prejudice or favor.

Several months earlier on a typical placid morning on July 21, 1905, the USS Bennington was moored just off H Street in San Diego Bay. Having returned from the Hawaiian Islands her crew had eagerly looked forward to shore leave prior to cruising to South America. Fate intervened as they learned that the aging monitor USS Wyoming (M-10) enroute to San Francisco had lost a propeller and the USS Bennington was to be dispatched to aid and a tow if necessary. Instead of shore leave the entire crew had to spend the previous day doing the back breaking and filthy work of coaling the ship. Now, as the morning went on, the black gang and machinists were busy below firing her four boilers and raising steam to get underway.

She would never make it out of the harbor. As the crew of the USS Bennington went through the routine of raising steam, at 10:38AM things went horribly wrong. Boiler B suddenly exploded crushing bulkheads and ripping other boilers from their mounts. The resulting explosion of scalding steam from all four boilers coursed through nearly every compartment. All the sailors in the boiler rooms were scalded alive and some sailors on deck were observed to be thrown 100 feet in the air. As the boilers and boiler fragments became missiles within the ship, they tore the connections to sea chests apart and sea water rushed into the doomed warship. Heroic crew members and responders beached the doomed vessel preventing her from sinking beneath the waves as her flooded boiler and engine rooms on the starboard side entombed everyone within.

Three days later under orders of the Secretary of the Navy a three-man Court of Inquiry was convened in San Diego. After another three days, the Court of Inquiry submitted its findings to the Secretary of the Navy. The Court recommended the Court Martial of the Chief Engineer, 25-year-old Ensign Charles Wade for not maintaining the safety valves on the boilers and for not demanding written reports (instead of the oral reports he received) demonstrating that they had been overhauled. The Secretary of the Navy concluded from the report that the Captain of the Bennington should also be Court Martialed as he found evidence that the engineering force under his command had potentially fallen into “habits of laxity and inattention to the discharge of their duties.”

On September 15, the hottest part of the year, the Court Martial convened in the courtroom in the Mare Island’s Administration Building. Captain Young was tried first to be followed by Ensign Wade. The prosecution was confident of their case based on the Court of Inquiry. Only one man was alive from the fireroom of Boiler B which had exploded first. He testified that the boiler had been drained of water after the ship arrived from Hawaii and, when ordered to proceed to assist the Wyoming, the boiler was refilled. At the completion of that operation a seaman had been sent up to secure the air valve that vented the boiler. The pressure gauge on the boiler read zero and the fires were started. After over two hours the gauge still read zero while a companion boiler’s pressure had risen to 135 lbs. Then a small leak developed in the furnace of Boiler B and a coal-passer was sent to fetch the boilermaker to assess the problem.

After the coal-passer left the compartment, the ship exploded and he was the only survivor from that boiler room. From his testimony the prosecution’s experts concluded that seaman sent to close the air valve had instead closed the valve leading to the steam gauge. The pressure simply built until the design pressure of the boiler was exceeded and the boiler blew up. The safety valves failed to open and release the pressure because the lack of maintenance by the lax crew left them rusted and inoperable. It was a neat and simple story, but as reported in newspapers nationwide, the defense was relentless and far more technically qualified than the prosecution's witnesses, or the members of the Court of Inquiry.

As noted by the defense, if the air valve had been left open as surmised by the Court of Inquiry, then why wasn’t the boiler venting massive amounts of steam through the air valve? There was no report of such venting. With respect to the relief valves and faulty maintenance, the defense had conducted experiments to deliberately try to cause them to fail to open, including filling them with debris and even concrete. They couldn’t cause them to fail to open. So, what was the defense’s theory of what caused the explosion?

The defense presented that oil that contaminated the boiler feed water was a known problem in the type of boilers on the Bennington. When the crew drained Boiler B a layer of oil scum was  deposited on the bottom of the boiler on what is known as the crown sheet that separated the intense fire in the furnace from the boiler water. Such a layer was known to act as insulation between the steel and the water which could cause the plating to overheat. The original plan following the draining of the boilers was to flush them to remove any such oil and debris prior to departure for South America, but the order to proceed immediately to assist Wyoming pre-empted that. The defense examination of the damaged boiler caused them to conclude that, denied direct contact with the boiler water due to the insulation provided by the oil scum, the crown sheet had simply been overheated to the point of distortion. As the crown sheet distorted, rivets designed to carry only shear forces were placed in tension. The rivets were inspected by the defense and were also found to be defective, weaker than called for.

The defense stated that the leak that sent the coal passer out to find the boilermaker was likely the first rivet letting go in the crown sheet with the entire riveted joint ripping apart shortly thereafter. The theory was that the boiler had failed from the overheating of the crown sheet and not from over-pressurizing the boiler as maintained by the prosecution. The pressure relief valve never opened, because boiler pressure never reached the relief point before the crown-sheet failed. The defense never explained why the pressure gauge on Boiler B never registered any pressure, but it could have been an out-of-position valve as maintained by the prosecution, a line blockage or simply a failed gauge. The Court sided with the defense and in January of 1906 the Secretary issued a mildly worded letter of censure that also recognized Young’s “brilliant service in the past.” Chief Engineer, Ensign Wade, was subsequently tried by the same court and quickly acquitted.

Mare Island dispatched divers and a repair ship to San Diego immediately upon being notified of the disaster. After completing interim repairs, the gunship was towed to Mare Island for further assessment. There she was determined to be beyond repair, and she was converted to a barge. The Bennington disaster did have some long-term beneficial effects within the Navy. It spotlighted the fact that the Chief Engineer Wade had never stood an engine room watch before being assigned to the billet. He knew nothing of machinery, and he did not have the technical knowledge to stop the chain of events that led to the tragedy. Not only had he never been required, nor had he been given the opportunity, to acquire the necessary knowledge. When the Mare Island representatives arrived on scene to salvage the ship it was found that he had none of the ship’s plans were available and when asked where the bottom blows were located so they could be plugged he had no idea what such a thing was. The situation helped to force the tradition bound Navy to elevate the status of the engineer within the increasingly complex and technical fleet.

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A long list of nuclear incidents involving UFOS and other incidents.

– **1945**: The first atomic bomb test at the Trinity site in New Mexico was allegedly witnessed by a UFO, according to a letter written by a former Army Air Force intelligence officer named Major Jesse Marcel¹.

– **1947**: A UFO reportedly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, close to the 509th Bomb Group, which was the only unit in the world that possessed atomic bombs at the time¹.

– **1952**: UFOs were seen flying over Washington, D.C., triggering air defense alerts and jet scrambles. Some of the sightings occurred near the Atomic Energy Commission headquarters¹.

– **1967**: Several Minuteman nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana became inoperable after UFOs were sighted nearby, according to former missile launch officers who later came forward².

– **1975**: A series of UFO intrusions at U.S. and Canadian air bases, some of which stored nuclear weapons, prompted investigations by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)¹.– **1945**: The first atomic bomb test at the Trinity site in New Mexico was allegedly witnessed by a UFO, according to a letter written by a former Army Air Force intelligence officer named Major Jesse Marcel¹.

– **1947**: A UFO reportedly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, close to the 509th Bomb Group, which was the only unit in the world that possessed atomic bombs at the time¹.

– **1952**: UFOs were seen flying over Washington, D.C., triggering air defense alerts and jet scrambles. Some of the sightings occurred near the Atomic Energy Commission headquarters¹.

– **1967**: Several Minuteman nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana became inoperable after UFOs were sighted nearby, according to former missile launch officers who later came forward².

– **1975**: A series of UFO intrusions at U.S. and Canadian air bases, some of which stored nuclear weapons, prompted investigations by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)¹. landed in a nearby forest. The base was reportedly storing nuclear weapons in violation of a treaty with Britain¹.

– **1982**: A Soviet military base near Byelokoroviche, Ukraine, experienced a malfunction of its nuclear missiles after a UFO hovered over the launch control facility, according to former officers who later revealed their story³⁴.

– **2010**: Several Minuteman nuclear missiles at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming temporarily lost communication after a large cigar-shaped UFO was seen in the area, according to former missile launch officers who spoke to the press².

– **2015**: A UFO was detected by radar and seen by pilots near the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, off the coast of Florida. The incident was investigated by the Pentagon’s AATIP program².

– **1976**: Iranian Air Force pilots encountered a UFO over Tehran that jammed their instruments and weapons systems, preventing them from firing at it. The UFO also reportedly disabled the electrical systems of a nearby nuclear facility.

– **1989**: Belgian Air Force jets chased a triangular UFO that was seen by thousands of witnesses over Belgium. The UFO was detected by NATO radar and exhibited extraordinary maneuvers and speeds. The UFO was also sighted near a nuclear power plant in Tihange.

– **1990**: A large triangular UFO hovered over a nuclear weapons storage area at RAF Woodbridge in England, where the famous Rendlesham Forest incident occurred 10 years earlier. The UFO was seen by multiple witnesses, including the base commander, and was captured on film.– **1994**: A UFO flew over the restricted airspace of the Cap de la Hague nuclear power plant in France, triggering an alert and a jet scramble. The UFO was tracked by radar and witnessed by the pilots, who described it as a luminous sphere that changed colors and size.

– **2004**: The USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered a fleet of UFOs that were dubbed the “Tic Tac” objects, due to their shape and appearance. The UFOs demonstrated advanced capabilities, such as hypersonic speed, instantaneous acceleration, and cloaking. The UFOs were also seen near the San Clemente Island nuclear power plant.

– **2007**: A UFO was spotted near the Pelindaba nuclear research facility in South Africa, where highly enriched uranium was stored. The UFO was described as a bright green light that hovered and moved erratically. The incident coincided with a security breach at the facility, where intruders attempted to access the uranium vault.

– **2012**: A UFO hovered over the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden, causing a shutdown of one of the reactors. The UFO was witnessed by several employees and captured on video. The UFO was described as a large blue light that emitted a beam of light.

rendlesham AFB UK 1980s … nuclear storage facility

The Rendlesham Forest incident was a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England, in December 1980, which became linked with UFO landings

also another good case but not nuclear related “raf cosford ufo” and try searching for “night of the triangles wales uk”

A recent SCUAP report had a Excel spreadsheet of cases between 1945-1975. There are nearly 600 cases on the spreadsheet.

SCU UAP Pattern Recognition Study 1945-1975 US Atomic Weapons Complex Data.xlsx

https://zenodo.org/record/7295958#.ZC4YzC_MLT_

The original study –

https://www.explorescu.org/post/uap-pattern-recognition-study-1945-1975-us-military-atomic-warfare-complexAccording to Jacques Vallée, there was a lesser known UFO crash (before Roswell) that happened within days after the Trinity 1st nuclear explosion in 1945 and he wrote a book (not a good one) about it: Trinity: The best kept secret

Indian Point nuclear power plant went into full lock down while a huge triangle hovered over it at close range in New York in 1980s.

1968: At Minot AFB, UFOs were observed by personnel on the ground and in the air (B-52) also tracked on radar, well-documented testimonies with radarscope photos from the B-52.

This was one of the great sightings, most people don’t know anything about it. There were multiple sightings, radar, the crew of the B-52 changes course and tried to get a closer look. There are reports the base was broken into and the lid of the missile silo was removed.

The Bluebook file – https://archive.org/details/1968-10-7170577-MinotAFB-NorthDakota/page/n27/mode/2up?view=theater

The radar images – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVZD29lmOQ4&t=42s

The base was broken into according to the official Bluebook report, but apparently Quintanilla believed that was just nothing very important – https://archive.org/details/1968-10-7170577-MinotAFB-NorthDakota/page/n93/mode/2up?view=theater

The lid removed from the silo, and the guards rendered unconscious – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOcXpGfij1A

1953: Kingman UFO crash after after nuclear test (operation Upshot Knothole)

1979: Soesterberg

In the early morning of February 3, 1979, a giant black triangular object flew over Soesterberg Air Base. At least twelve soldiers witnessed this bizarre spectacle.

One of the most interesting ones I couldn’t see here – is the “green fireball” sightings over Los Alamos nuclear lab aprox 1949. I read about them in Richard Dolan’s UFO’s and the National Security State Volume 1. I haven’t researched it in detail, but if memory serves they were witnessed by many of the atomic scientists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxTSW8PWTIE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fireballs

https://www.history.com/news/ufos-green-fireballs-nuclear-facilities-new-mexico

https://www.outkick.com/air-force-missile-shoot-down-ufo-1960s-story/