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Their claims include how several missiles inexplicably malfunctioned while unidentified disc-shaped object hovered nearby.
One alleged incident they say was covered up is the Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting in Suffolk — known as the UK's Roswell by the alien watchers community.
It was claimed that 30 years ago a UFO directed beams of light into RAF Bentwaters, close to the forest — one of the few US military bases in Britain to hold nuclear weapons at the time.
The base's deputy commander Colonel Charles Halt has long claimed the incident was covered up.
He said: "The security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted, both then and now, to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation."
Col Halt, now retired, added: "The UFOs I saw were structured machines moving under intelligent control and operating beyond the realm of anything I have ever seen before or since.
"I believe the objects that I saw at close quarters were extra-terrestrial in origin."
Col Halt will be among six former officers, and one other enlisted man, who will break their decades-long silence on the matter at a press conference in Washington today.
Robert Hastings, the author of 'UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites', will host the press conference.
Last night he said: "At long last, all of these witnesses are coming forward to say that, as unbelievable as it may seem to some.
"UFOs have long monitored and sometimes tampered with our nukes."
Mr Hastings says the group will discuss the national security implications of the UFO incidents and will urge US government to come clean on the issue.
Nick Pope, who investigated unexplained air threats for the Ministry of Defence, called for a US probe into the claims.
He said: "There's no middle ground here. Either it happened or it didn't. Given the seriousness of the claims and the credibility of the witnesses, the US government should launch an inquiry.
"The UFO community believe aliens may have tampered with nuclear weapons so cannot be used in space."
The Rendlesham Forest incident made headlines in December 1980 when UFOs were reported three nights running.
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