This article by Andrew Arnett was first published at Substack on 4 March, 2022.

These are grim times. I’m nervous. Anxious. Drinking my third cup of coffee (large) and the sun isn’t even up yet. Here’s the problem: I haven’t had a chance to put away the COVID 19 decorations yet and we’ve moved straight into World War lll season. The war in Ukraine is going on its eighth day. Russian nuclear forces are on high alert. More than one million refugees have fled Ukraine into neighboring countries. On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on national TV, “The end of the world has arrived.”

And who can argue with him? The circumstance is dire. Putin is on a mission. No doubt, he will terminate with extreme prejudice any obstacles that come in the way of his goals. But what are those goals? Zelensky offers a dire warning:

“If Ukraine does not stop all of this; if the world does not unite around the principles of Ukraine,” then, “After Ukraine — if we don’t exist, God forbid — then it will be Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, Poland. And they will keep going on until the Berlin Wall. They will continue.”

It’s a sobering thought. What it boils down to is that Ukraine could turn into a quagmire, as it were, sucking in everyone including the world’s Super Powers. And that could end bad. Real bad. Read: a nuclear conflagration that could engulf the planet, wiping out the entire human race. That bad.

I’ve covered the Iraq War and the Isis attack on Kobani (from the Turkish side) and, as horrific as those events were, this conflict stands apart simply because it is occurring in a First World, European Nation, formerly in possession of nuclear weapons. As it stands, Ukraine has numerous nuclear power plants currently in operation, not to mention the defunct Chernobyl facility that, though decommissioned, still contains high levels of radiation as well as the ominous Elephant’s Foot.

Speaking of which, as I am writing this now, a report has come in about shelling by Russian troops at a large nuclear plant in Ukraine on Thursday night.

The shelling caused a fire to break out at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, located in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar. According to the Associated Press, the fire has been put out and no spikes in radiation have yet been detected.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Friday that a Russian “projectile” hit a building inside of the plant but that it was not part of the reactor itself.

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba has tweeted that if Zaporizhzhya should blow up as a result of armed conflict, “it will be 10 times larger” than Chernobyl.

On Thursday, a Ukrainian rep told the United Nations that the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant houses six nuclear reactors, making it “the biggest power plant in Europe,” adding that “the repercussions on the military attack on this site might be of global nature.”

Conflicting reports have emerged about who now controls the site. Grossi said the Ukrainians were in control of the plant. However, Ukrainian officials have reported that Russian military are now in control of the site, but they are allowing the staff to continue normal operations.

Canada orders report on incursions of UAPs at nuclear facilities

In related nuclear news, though removed from the war in the Ukraine, a Canadian Minister within the Department of Natural Resources has been tasked to write a report on incidents involving UAPs and drones in and around nuclear facilities. The report was commissioned on March 2 by Larry Maguire, Vice-Chair of the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Natural Resources.

Maguire stated:

“In January, the Swedish security service announced an investigation of drones at three of their nuclear power plants, There have also been reports over the years of other unknown drone-type flying objects flying over Canadian nuclear facilities.

In the security that we’re in today, and it has recently been announced in the United States legislation that has just passed for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to report the number of incidents and descriptions thereof of UAP or drones of unknown origin associated with nuclear power generation stations, nuclear fuel storage sites or facilities regulated by the nuclear regulatory commission.

So, I am wondering if any of the department officials are aware of the legislation that was passed in the U.S. Congress regarding these specific clauses?”

With the current conflict in Ukraine blowing up and the threat to nuclear facilities on the rise, wether by drones or off world technology, Maguire thinks it prudent to be working with his U.S. allies currently investigating sightings of UAPs near nuclear faculties. UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) is the government’s official moniker for what is popularly referred to as UFO (Unidentified Flying Object).

A long history of UAP sightings near nuclear facilities

The question of why so many UAPs have been reported around nuclear facilities is currently being investigated by certain aerospace-industry veterans, high-ranking former U.S. defense and intelligence officials, academics and associates of To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. Often times, these reports have occurred during times of military conflict.

In World War ll, the term “foo fighters” was used to designate glowing orange orbs and lights which would follow and harass pilots during missions close to the French-German border. In the Korean War, soldiers reported seeing a blue-green light which shot out “pulsing rays,” rendering entire battalions sick with a kind of radiation poisoning.

In the past 75 years, high-ranking military officers have reported UAP activity near sites housing nuclear weapons, technology and power. Investigative journalist George Knapp stated: “All of the nuclear facilities—Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River—all had dramatic incidents where these unknown craft appeared over the facilities and nobody knew where they were from or what they were doing there.”

In December of 1980, air-traffic controllers reported a disturbing UAP encounter near the Royal Air Force Bentwaters in England. The event has come to be known as the infamous Rendlesham Forest Incident. The Bentwaters base was used during the Cold War by the U.S. to store a secret stash of nuclear weapons, spread out in 25 underground bunkers.

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