By Robert L. Hastings, 23 August 2011
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“Thousands of declassified U.S. Washington D.C.
I have investigated the UFO-Nukes Connection since
1973 and have interviewed nearly 130 former or retired U.S.
One of the most remarkable cases, known as the Big Sur
Incident, involved the inadvertent motion picture filming of a UFO that
approached, circled, and—using four beams of light—shot down a dummy nuclear
warhead in flight as it raced downrange over the Pacific Ocean to a designated
splashdown site near Kwajalein Atoll. Although the exact date is uncertain at
this point, because the documents are still classified, the available evidence
suggests that this event occurred sometime in September 1964.
The former U.S. Air Force officer in charge of filming
the interrupted test flight, former Lt. (now Dr.) Robert M. Jacobs, broke the
amazing story in 1982 and has publicly discussed it countless times since then,
most recently on the Larry King Live program in July 2008.
Jacobs’ account has been entirely corroborated by
another officer, retired Major (later Dr.) Florenze J. Mansmann, who carefully
studied the Top Secret film at Vandenberg AFB, California
Shortly after releasing the fourth bright burst, the
UFO raced out of camera frame while the stricken warhead began to tumble,
eventually falling into the ocean hundreds of miles short of its target.
Private letters between Jacobs, Mansmann and two other individuals, in which
the amazing event is discussed in detail, are available for review.
However, significantly, independent confirmation of
UFO activity during missile launches at Vandenberg has appeared in, of all
places, The New York Times. On June 17, 1974, the prestigious newspaper carried
this story:
There has been little official comment on what the
scientists found during the exercise, but Major Dallas Van Hoose, an Army
spokesman, confirmed recently that ‘some unexplained aerial phenomena’ were
observed during the exercise last August [1973]. Scientists, many of whom are
reluctant to be named in interviews because of general public skepticism over
unidentified flying objects, say privately they have been unable to find any explanation
for the ‘ghost ships.’
‘We have never seen anything precisely like this
before,’ said one ballistic missile defense expert who works for an Army agency
here and who is familiar with the advanced radar used to test missiles and
warheads. Huntsville houses the Army’s ballistic
missile defense systems command which tests in the Kwajelein [sic] Atoll region of the Marshall Island
Trust Territory
held by the U.S.
Last August the Air Force launched a Minuteman ICBM
from Vandenberg Air Force base aimed for the Kwajelein missile range which is
used by the Army, Air Force, and Navy. The radar experts in the Pacific found
they were also tracking an unidentified flying object next to the ICBM’s nose
cone. Radar picked up an inverted saucer-shape object to the right and above
the descending nose cone and watched it cross the warhead’s trajectory to a
point which was below and to-the-left of it before the phantom ship
disappeared. The ghost ship was described as being 10-feet high and 40-feet
long. Two separate radar systems saw it at the same time which may eliminate
the probability that there was a malfunction in one of the radar systems. It
was also reported that 3 other identical objects were seen in the vicinity—the
same size, shape, and dimensions. One scientist said the data indicated that
the phantom ship ‘flew under its own power’ but could not explain what sort of
‘power’ was involved.
So far none of the experts here believe the ghost ship
was a natural phenomenon caused by freak weather conditions or echoes commonly
seen on radar screens.”
Wikipedia article: “Vandenberg Air Force Base”:
Wikipedia article: “Kwajalein Atoll”:
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