It sounds like the opening to a Cold War thriller or the plot of a sci-fi drama, but according to the daughter of a prominent White House advisor, it’s a true story buried for decades beneath layers of top-secret clearance and national security.
Dr. Pippa Malmgren, a well-known economist and former advisor to U.S. presidents, has shared a stunning account passed down to her by her father, the late Harald Malmgren — a man who served as a senior advisor to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.
Now that her father has passed away, Dr. Malmgren says she finally feels safe enough to reveal a story that haunted him for over half a century.
The Orb and the Missile: October 25, 1962
It happened at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, on October 25, 1962 — a moment when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. According to Harald Malmgren, a U.S. missile was launched in a test during this volatile period. But the missile, he told his daughter, was equipped with something highly unusual: a device in its nosecone that he described as “an X-ray machine,” designed to emit radiation powerful enough to disable incoming enemy nukes.
But instead of hitting a missile, it hit something else.
“My father said that as the missile rose into the sky, a white orb suddenly appeared and began flying around it,” Dr. Malmgren explained. “The radiation appeared to disable the orb, which fell into the ocean. The U.S. Navy retrieved it.”
"Tagalongs" and Recovered Technology
Even more astonishing, this wasn't the first — or the last — such event. Harald referred to these strange objects as tagalongs — mysterious orbs that would sometimes shadow U.S. military operations. He told his daughter that this type of incident had happened more than once, and that recoveries had taken place.
He also hinted at something far deeper. Harald, who held some of the highest security clearances, was once informally briefed by CIA legend Richard Bissell — the man behind the U-2 spy plane program, Area 51 operations, and the Skunk Works aerospace projects.
According to Dr. Malmgren, “My father told me he was once brought into a closed-door session with Bissell, where he was exposed to information described simply as ‘otherworld technologies.’”
Why Speak Now?
For decades, Harald Malmgren remained silent, unwilling to go public with what he had seen and heard. He was, after all, a consummate insider — a policy advisor, not a conspiracy theorist. But before his death, he passed the story to his daughter.
With growing public interest in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) and increased transparency from U.S. defense agencies, Dr. Malmgren now believes the time has come.
“I think the world is finally ready to listen,” she said. “My father didn’t want this knowledge to disappear. He believed that one day, it might matter — and that day might be now.”
The Bigger Picture
If true, Harald Malmgren’s testimony adds another puzzling piece to a growing body of reports involving mysterious aerial objects — often observed near nuclear facilities or during weapons tests. Since 2020, the U.S. government has acknowledged that it cannot explain many of these encounters, and congressional inquiries have intensified.
Still, without hard evidence — video, documents, physical proof — the story remains in the realm of shadow and speculation.
But it also comes from a man who lived and worked at the very heart of the U.S. national security machine — a man with nothing to gain by fabricating such a tale.
And it leaves behind a haunting question: Since the dawn of the nuclear age, has someone — or something — been watching us?
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