Bob Jacobs

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Robert “Bob” Jacobs is a former U.S. Air Force photographic officer who says a disc-shaped object was filmed interfering with a missile test in 1964.

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Robert Jacobs is an American academic and former U.S. Air Force officer who worked with photographic instrumentation at Vandenberg Air Force Base during the 1960s. He later taught communication and became a university administrator. His place in UFO history comes from an Atlas missile test filmed from the Big Sur area in September 1964.

After his military service, Jacobs built a career in film, broadcasting, and higher education rather than remaining inside missile operations. He taught communication and produced documentary work, skills that later shaped how he presented the Big Sur story to the public. His account also became intertwined with Major Florenze Mansmann, whom Jacobs identified as the superior who had shown him the film. Their recollections form the human core of the allegation even though the original footage has not surfaced publicly.

Jacobs has said that when the film was reviewed, it showed a disc-shaped object approaching the missile’s dummy warhead, directing flashes toward it, and departing before the warhead fell out of its planned trajectory. According to Jacobs, Major Florenze Mansmann told him not to discuss what they had seen, and the relevant film was removed. Mansmann later supported important parts of Jacobs’s account, while skeptics and former personnel have disputed the interpretation and details. The original footage has not been made public for independent examination.

Jacobs’s testimony is a central entry in nuclear facilities and UAP literature because it describes an apparent interaction rather than a distant light. His documented assignment gives the story a specific military setting, but the absent film limits what can now be established. He is both a named firsthand claimant and a case study in how sensor evidence becomes dependent on memory when the underlying record remains classified or missing.

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There's a post going around showing comments on a 2022 livestream from a person named Dylan Borland. Main takeaway: he's an experiencer; feels Grays are demons; and this runs in his family. If that's @TheDylanBorland, he now joins Robert Hastings, Jim Semivan, Bob Jacobs, Mario Woods, Robert Salas, and NUMEROUS others who say they've encountered non-human beings up close and had traumatic experiences. As far as the demon label? Dylan is a passionate Catholic so that shouldn't surprise anyone....

I just finished reading the section of Robert Hastings's UFOs and Nukes where he goes into extreme detail on the Dr. Bob Jacobs 1964 Big Sur UFO incident. If there are any doubters that the incident did occur just like Dr. Jacobs describes it, I suggest reading Hastings's treatise on it. It will change your perspective entirely. - Occurred early one morning in September 1964. - Atlas D Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was launched from Vandenberg AFB carrying an experimental enemy ra...

User maniaUFO shared it on X but looking for Robert Jacobs testimony I saw it had been shared in youtube too a year ago. EDIT: to be clair, users posting this don't say it is this precise video, I just made the connection 'In his testimony, Robert Jacobs claims that while serving at Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1964, his team filmed an Atlas missile test through a telescopic camera system. According to Jacobs, the footage showed a disc-shaped unident...

I found this video and it's worth highlighting now that we're in a period of declassification. The video is from a classic episode of Larry King Live. In it, Dr. Robert Jacobs and former Minuteman missile officers discuss UFO intrusion incidents at missile bases (such as the Malmstrom and Vandenberg incidents) in the face of Bill Nye's skepticism.

The 1964 Vandenberg UFO Incident The Setup: A U.S. Air Force Atlas missile launched from Vandenberg AFB carrying a dummy nuclear warhead. Who Recorded It: A high-speed telescopic tracking camera team led by former USAF Lieutenant Robert Jacobs. The Summary: The footage allegedly shows a disc-shaped UFO fly up to the moving warhead, circle it, and fire four beams of light that disabled the dummy weapon and caused it to crash.

The story comes from claims by former U.S. Air Force officer Robert Jacobs and others who said they saw footage of a UFO disabling a dummy nuclear warhead during an Atlas missile test near Vandenberg Air Force Base in September 1964. According to the claim, the object fired beams at the warhead and caused it to fail.

The story comes from claims by former U.S. Air Force officer Robert Jacobs and others who said they saw footage of a UFO disabling a dummy nuclear warhead during an Atlas missile test near Vandenberg Air Force Base in September 1964. According to the claim, the object fired beams at the warhead and caused it to fail.

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