Canonical: https://aliennews.co.il/en/articles/ellsworth-guards-reunion Language: en datePublished: 2026-09-07 dateModified: 2026-09-10 NEWS · SECOND WITNESS September 7, 2026 Updated: September 10, 2026 **Documented** **Work type:** Source analysis and news update # Nearly fifty years later: the two Ellsworth missile guards meet again Mario Woods has long said that he and Michael Johnson encountered an extraordinary phenomenon near a Minuteman missile facility at Ellsworth Air Force Base in 1977. After Jesse Michels's team located Johnson, the men reunited for a filmed interview lasting two hours and 47 minutes. We reviewed the complete transcript and distilled its central testimony for readers who cannot watch it all. By Avi Moas and [Orion](https://aliennews.co.il/en/about#orion) Orion is an AI writing and research partner. Avi Moas is the responsible editor. ## At a glance **What is known:** Mario Woods and Michael Johnson appear together in a recorded interview. **The claim or interpretation:** Woods described an unusual 1977 event near Ellsworth's missile facilities. **What remains open:** The reunion does not verify every remembered detail; contemporaneous records remain unavailable. ![Illustration of two guards in a patrol vehicle facing a luminous object and an approaching black sphere](https://aliennews.co.il/ellsworth-encounter-natural-v2.webp) Original AI illustration based on the Ellsworth testimony. Not a photograph of the alleged encounter. Complete interview · two hours and 47 minutes ## Mario Woods and Michael Johnson meet again The central testimony and transcript are condensed in the article, so readers do not need to watch the entire film to understand what was said. ## The alarm near the missile site In Woods's longstanding account, he and Johnson served as security personnel for Minuteman missile facilities at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota in 1977. They were sent to investigate a perimeter alarm near a site holding nuclear weapons. Woods described an enormous luminous object close to the ground and a smaller black sphere approaching their vehicle. ## Four figures and five and a half missing hours Woods said he saw four figures before losing consciousness. He said roughly five and a half hours had passed when he recovered and that their vehicle was miles from where the episode began. This is Woods's account, not a fact established in a public military record. Johnson was named as the second witness for decades, but his voice was largely absent from the public record. ## The missing person in the case returns On September 7, 2026, Michels published a clip showing Woods and Johnson meeting after almost fifty years. It allows comparison of Johnson's words with Woods's longstanding version. It does not include an independent record of Johnson's memories before the reunion. ## What Johnson recalled before hypnosis During the ordinary interview, Johnson immediately identifies the 1977 episode as a UFO encounter. He recalls a large bright light moving closer and farther away, being frozen at the steering wheel and unable to speak or blink, and hearing Woods call his name. He remembers burning eyes, human shaped forms moving around the vehicle and a message resembling ‘do not fear.’ He says that after returning to base he received a medical examination and an injection, underwent an eye check, and experienced intense head pain and confusion. He also says his right arm remained weaker afterward. These are the interview's most important claims because Johnson stated them in normal conversation before the hypnotic session. ## What emerged during hypnotic regression Johnson later undergoes hypnotic regression on camera. He describes three small creatures with large eyes and prominent foreheads, another taller figure, gliding movement, being removed from the vehicle, a space without visible ground, pressure in his head and needles near his ears. He describes lying on his back and hearing Woods nearby. Johnson also recalls a silver glove on a shiny floor, while Woods says one glove from that night is missing. This part requires care: hypnosis can produce vivid accounts, but can also increase confidence in inaccurate memories. Details recovered there therefore do not carry the same evidentiary weight as Johnson's earlier unaided recollections. ## What else the long film contains The film compares the story with other reports involving nuclear weapons, discusses the men's treatment after returning to base and explores the event's effect on their lives. Johnson also describes a later experience as a truck driver in which he became lost after seeing an aerial object and says he unexpectedly reached Nevada. The programme adds broader commentary about 1977, the Wow signal, Voyager and Spielberg's film. Those passages provide cultural context rather than evidence for the Ellsworth case. ## The next record that could change the case The first part of the joint interview, before hypnosis, preserves which details Johnson raises himself and which follow questions. Comparison with 1977 still requires service records, alarm logs and vehicle movement records. ## Part of a wider pattern The Ellsworth story joins cases in which witnesses describe missing time, loss of control and memories of examinations or entities. Alien News's deeper abduction report brings those repeating patterns together, including the filmed Israeli testimony of Yury Isakov. ## Sources and context **Editorial clarification** · September 7, 2026 A sentence left over from the early report was corrected: the full interview is already available and summarised here. The remaining questions concern independent records of the alleged event. A clip published by Jesse Michels on September 7, 2026, records Mario Woods and Michael Johnson meeting again. Woods has long identified Johnson as the fellow Air Force serviceman who was with him during the alleged event near Ellsworth's missile facilities. The joint interview is available to watch. What remains missing is a separate record of Johnson’s account before renewed exposure to Woods’s version, alongside service records, alarm logs and vehicle records from that night. [The complete American Alchemy interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUdn6FklAU)[Earlier interview with Mario Woods](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-the-nuclear-base-employee-abducted-by-aliens/id1771917740?i=1000684319730)[Deep report: The missing hours](https://aliennews.co.il/en/articles/missing-hours-people-who-returned-saying-they)[Yury Isakov's filmed account](https://aliennews.co.il/en/articles/i8)[Back to all reports](https://aliennews.co.il/en#latest)[עברית](https://aliennews.co.il/articles/ellsworth-guards-reunion) ## Source references * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUdn6FklAU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUdn6FklAU) * [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-the-nuclear-base-employee-abducted-by-aliens/id1771917740?i=1000684319730](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-the-nuclear-base-employee-abducted-by-aliens/id1771917740?i=1000684319730) * [https://aliennews.co.il/en/articles/missing-hours-people-who-returned-saying-they](https://aliennews.co.il/en/articles/missing-hours-people-who-returned-saying-they) * [https://aliennews.co.il/en/articles/i8](https://aliennews.co.il/en/articles/i8)