Vandenburg AFB UFO Encounter with Atlas Missile Nosecone (1964)

In 1964, ex-US Air Force First Lieutenant Robert Jacobs was a photographic officer at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, responsible for filming missile tests. During a test flight of a missile with a dummy warhead, Jacobs and his team allegedly witnessed a strange object enter the frame of the film, which he claimed resembled a flying saucer. According to Jacobs, the object appeared to be interfering with the missile, causing the warhead to malfunction and fall to the ground. Jacobs’ claims about the incident have since become a topic of debate in the UFO community and have been the subject of several books and documentaries.

Robert Jacobs is the main figure in this incident, and his claims about the flying saucer sighting have been widely discussed in the UFO community. According to Jacobs, he and his team witnessed a flying saucer-shaped object enter the frame of the missile test footage and interfere with the missile’s trajectory, causing the warhead to malfunction and fall to the ground. Jacobs claimed that he was ordered to keep the incident quiet by his superiors and that the footage was later confiscated and destroyed.

There have been several other claims made about this incident by people who have come forward over the years. Some have claimed to have seen the footage of the incident, while others have claimed to have heard secondhand accounts of the event. Some have also claimed that they were present at Vandenberg Air Force Base during the incident and witnessed it firsthand.

Several books have been written about this incident, including “The Roswell Legacy” by Jesse Marcel Jr. and Linda Marcel, which includes a chapter on the Jacobs incident. The book “UFOs and Nukes” by Robert Hastings also discusses the Jacobs incident in detail, along with other alleged UFO sightings at nuclear weapons facilities. The 2011 documentary “UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed” also features interviews with Jacobs and other military personnel who claim to have witnessed UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites.

Jacobs claims that he witnessed the flying saucer-shaped object on the missile test footage and that it caused the missile’s warhead to malfunction. However, there is no publicly available footage of the incident, and it is unclear whether the original footage was ever made public or destroyed, as Jacobs claims.