It began with a final act of disclosure. In early 2025, as his health declined, Harald Bernard Malmgren agreed to sit for one last interview. The conversation would run for four hours. It would include names, dates, briefings, and materials. Malmgren was clear. He claimed that in 1962, the United States shot down a non-human craft using a classified directed energy weapon during a nuclear test in the Marshall Islands. He said he held the debris in his own hands. He was shown a video of a surviving extraterrestrial being. And he believed that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in part because of his willingness to reveal the truth about UFOs to the Soviet Union.

The man making these claims was not a former pilot, a whistleblower from the sidelines, or an anonymous voice behind a blurred screen. Harald Malmgren served as a senior advisor to four United States presidents. He held full Q-clearance classification, including access to nuclear and atomic energy programs. He was present in the Situation Room during the Cuban Missile Crisis and was tasked with preventing a military launch against the Soviet Union. He had direct ties to Henry Kissinger, Richard Bissell, Lawrence Gise, and Alan Greenspan. He was part of the group that created the framework for Cold War diplomacy. His reputation was not in question. His access had no precedent.

That is what makes what he revealed in his final interview all the more difficult to ignore. The details he shared do not resemble the stories that typically surround unidentified aerial phenomena. They were structured. They referenced specific events. He claimed knowledge of intentional targeting of craft. He stated that the United States used nuclear detonations as bait and developed weapon systems from information obtained during a recovery. He believed there was a continuous, decades-long effort to keep these facts from the public. And he placed himself not on the edges of these operations, but at the center.

The interview was conducted by Jesse Michels and published on his YouTube channel. It quickly gained traction due to one unshakable fact. This was not hearsay. Malmgren had been there. He had written the memos. He had signed the orders. His tone was not dramatic. He spoke as a man who had finally decided that the world had a right to know what had been done in its name. For decades, speculation about government knowledge of UFOs has existed on the margins of journalism and national security. What Malmgren offered was a direct line from the highest levels of American power to recovered craft, reverse engineering, and classified knowledge of non-human life.