Robert Hastings has researched the UFO-Nukes Connection since 1973 through declassified U.S. government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos had secretly tested the first atomic bomb. Not long thereafter, according to the declassified documents, someone piloting “flying discs” or “flying saucers” began to monitor America’s atomic and thermonuclear weapons program.