Big Sur UFO Filming - Sept 15, 1964

Francis Ridge:
Update: 15 March 2006
What appeared to have been a UFO disabling a dummy warhead on an Atlas missile, may have been something to do with the warhead test itself. We still do not know for sure. Even the date is now in question. USAF Lt. Robert Jacob's was Officer-in-charge of Photo-Optical Instrumentation for the 1369th Photographic Squadron at Vandenberg AFB. He disclosed his crew's filming of an Atlas missile launch where a UFO allegedly caused the ICBM's warhead malfunction. At the time of the filming apparently no one knew anything about a UFO. But the next morning Jacobs was ordered to report to the office of Maj. Florenz Mansmann, First STRAT AD, his commanding officer where he was shown the film and was told to forget it ever happened. Kingston George, the project engineer for the experiments, and who probably never saw the film, "identified" the object as "nothing to do with UFOs" in an article by the Skeptical Enquirer (Winter of 1993). Before Mansmann's death, and 40 years after the actual event, the major confirmed a UFO incident in writing. The opinion of some serious researchers on our team, however, suggests that the telescope imaging system was not adequate enough to produce the results described by Jacobs and Mannsman. However, four people who were involved in this type imaging attest to it being "remarkably successful". So, the question remains, however, was this a UFO sighting or a cover-up about an important warhead test?