Two Military UFO Witnesses Break Decades of Silence

Two military witnesses from different countries and different decades have just gone public for the first time with strikingly similar UFO encounter accounts. A former Royal Navy sailor and a former U.S. Air Force security guard, who have never met and served decades apart, are both describing nonverbal communication from nonhuman beings during their respective encounters. Both interviews were released on the same day and both men say they kept silent for decades before deciding this was the moment to speak.

In an interview released by the UAP Files Podcast a former Royal Navy sailor using the pen name John Seer described an incident from 1980 in which his warship’s radar detected a solid object while operating in the North Atlantic. The podcast host confirmed he personally verified Seer’s Royal Navy service credentials before the episode aired. When Seer stepped onto the bridge, he observed a disc-shaped object at the ten o’clock position off the bow, shining light down on the sea. Multiple personnel witnessed it. Fighter jets were scrambled, and according to Seer, the object shot away at a 45-degree angle, leaving a vapor trail, before the aircraft could reach it. The lead pilot confirmed the sighting over the radio as an unidentified flying object in a formal exchange with the ship’s captain.

What Seer never told anyone for 45 years was that while standing on the bridge, he felt the crew being scanned and then received a direct nonverbal communication. He described a visual flash appearing in front of his eyes showing a gray face with a blue tinge of light and three figures in the background. According to Seer, the message conveyed was, “We are your children’s children. From the sea and sky.” He says it was not delivered in English or any language, but arrived as knowledge, as though he already knew it. The experience was accompanied by a wave of emotion he recognized from a near-death experience at age nine, when a severe head injury put him in a coma and he says he was sent back by an entity that told him he had more to do. 

He says information continued to surface over the following 45 years in what he calls broken dreams. Seer chose to come forward after a cancer diagnosis four years ago. He had received a vivid dream at age 36 warning him he would become seriously ill at 56. He changed his lifestyle, and when the tumor was found, it had not spread and he did not need chemotherapy. He told the UAP Files Podcast that after cancer, “it changes your whole understanding of everything.” He has since written a book titled Told, Messages From A Greater Conscious Or The Ramblings Of A Madman.

Richard Barth (left) and John Seer (right)

Separately, Jesse Michels of American Alchemy interviewed Richard Barth, a former Air Force air policeman assigned to the 4392nd Combat Defense Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. According to Barth, during a foggy night in September 1964, a humanoid figure approached his guard post at a Minuteman missile site in D Sector, roughly 20 miles from the main base. He attempted to draw his weapon but found his right arm paralyzed. 

After blacking out, Barth says he regained awareness inside a circular room aboard a craft, where a being communicated nonverbally, instructing him to look through a transparent circle in the floor that showed the ground below. Four figures with large heads, proportionate necks, and large dark eyes sat across from him. He later found himself on the floor of the guard shack, where the being cradled his head and communicated an apology, explaining they needed access to the missile electronics. The being then conveyed that Earth was important to them, nuclear war would not be allowed, and that multiple nonhuman species exist with varying intentions. Barth did not recover the full memory until two weeks later when it came flooding back upon waking. 

Years after the encounter, a small metallic object came out of his nose, and during later surgery for a deviated septum, his surgeon found something unusually hard in his right nostril that he had never encountered in decades of practice. It was discarded before it could be examined.

 Researcher Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes, personally vetted Barth’s account by reviewing his DD-214 service record and independently contacting three of Barth’s friends who all confirmed the same details. Of the more than 150 veterans Hastings has interviewed, only eight described direct contact with beings, and Barth is one of them. 

Notably, that same September at the same base, Lieutenant Robert Jacobs reportedly filmed a UFO circling a dummy warhead during an Atlas missile test and firing beams of light at it before the warhead tumbled off course. His commanding officer ordered him to never speak of it. According to testimony before the House Oversight Committee by former Air Force security officer Jeff Nuccetelli, five additional UAP incidents occurred at Vandenberg between 2003 and 2005, including an event known as the Vandenberg Red Square.

Jeff Nuccetelli

Both Seer and Barth describe the same method of communication, a direct transfer of knowledge without spoken language. Barth says you just know what it wants. Seer says it comes in like knowledge, like you already knew it. Both experienced delayed recall, both kept quiet for decades, and both chose this moment to go on the record. These interviews arrive at a time when the UAP disclosure conversation is accelerating through congressional hearings and military whistleblower testimony. 

When two people who have never met, from different armed forces and different continents, describe the same form of communication and walk away with messages about humanity’s relationship to these beings and to our own weapons, it raises a question worth considering about whether these accounts should continue to be treated as isolated events or as part of a much larger pattern.

Sources

Jesse Michels. (2026, February 9). Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens (ft. Richard Barth) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8br8yYEDM

UAP Files Podcast 🛸. (2026, February 9). Royal Navy UFO: Witness Speaks Out After 45 Years | UAP Files Podcast S4|E7 w/ John Seer (PART 2) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbS3PBXnlNw