Robert M. Jacobs

Robert M. Jacobs is a retired U.S. Air Force First Lieutenant with a career in military aerospace operations who, after active duty, became a professor of broadcast communications. Stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, in September 1964 he operated a high-speed tracking telescope during an Atlas missile test. According to Jacobs and his superior officer Major Florence Mansmann, the recorded film showed a disc-shaped object circling the nuclear warhead dummy and striking it with beams of light, causing it to tumble.

• Retired U.S. Air Force First Lieutenant; later academic career as a professor of broadcast communications
• Stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
• Operated a high-speed tracking telescope during an Atlas missile test in September 1964
• Recorded a disc-shaped object circling a nuclear warhead dummy
• According to Jacobs, the object emitted beams of light that caused the warhead to tumble
• Film subsequently confiscated by CIA agents, according to Jacobs and Major Florence Mansmann
• Maintained his testimony despite professional consequences and ridicule from colleagues

For the UAP timeline, Jacobs is the rare case of a U.S. Air Force officer who claims to have filmed UAP interaction with an American nuclear weapons delivery system directly. That his account was corroborated by Mansmann, his superior officer at the time, makes 1964 Big Sur one of the most tightly documented cases of possible UAP influence on U.S. nuclear technology.