The US military is in possession of video of a UFO apparently disabling a nuclear warhead during a routine test, several former officials said.
They claim that the video in question captured a saucer-shaped vehicle circling the unarmed, dummy warhead shortly after it separated from the Atlas rocket booster, and then shot four beams of light at the warhead, disabling it.
Retired U.S. Air Force officers Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann claim to have viewed the recording of the 1964 encounter before the tape disappeared.
The former officials were part of a team responsible for capturing videos of missile test launches in California with telescopic photography and videography equipment.
Two days later, after showing the video, they claim that two plainclothes CIA officers seized the footage and swore them to secrecy.
The incredible story is part of a pattern some UFO experts have identified in which UFOs appear to be interfering with nuclear weapons.
Retired Air Force Major Florenze Mansmann claimed he saw a flying saucer disable a dummy warhead during a missile test. He was ordered not to say a word about what he had seen
The alleged incident took place almost sixty years ago, on September 15, 1964, but has recently become widely known through author Robert Hastings’ investigation.
Luis Elizondo acknowledged the existence of the video and claimed he had seen it, according to a Feb. 10 post by Hastings on The UFO Chronicles website.
Elizondo says he was the former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program to study UFOs, and has been involved in several high-profile leaks of military images claiming to show UFOs.
Graphic reconstruction of what happened in the 1964 video when a UFO reportedly intercepted the Atlas rocket over the Pacific Ocean
An unnamed source revealed to Hastings that Elizondo confirmed details of the event in internal interviews.
In the 1960s, Jacobs was in charge of a military telescopic photography site in Big Sur, California, which captured the video as the rocket traveled thousands of miles per hour on its planned flight path over the Pacific Ocean.
At the time, Mansmann was the chief photographic imagery analyst at Vandenberg Air Force Base – now called Vandenberg Space Force Base – in Santa Barbara County, California.
The Cold War progressed rapidly and included many Black Ops programs that tested advanced and secret military hardware. Some UFO skeptics have claimed that reports of UFOs provided cover for these programs.
Lieutenant Bob Jacobs, center and bottom, pictured with his crew. Jacobs reported his sighting in the press in 1982, but was ridiculed and threatened for his claims
The craft that was inadvertently captured on film was dome-shaped and disc-shaped, according to Jacobs and Mansmann.
It was a “classic disk, the center appeared to be a raised bubble… the entire lower saucer shape glowed and appeared to rotate slowly,” according to one letter Mansmann wrote about the incident in 1983.
‘The moment the beam was released… the object turned like an object that should be able to fire from a platform… but again this could be my own assumption, because I was in a dogfight. ‘
Forty years later, a US Senate investigator told Hastings that Elizondo had confirmed this description in an official interview the previous year.
“During that briefing, the former AATIP director confirmed the existence of the video, the details of what it showed and the location of a copy of it in AATIP work areas,” Hastings said. wrote in the new post.
Despite Mansmann telling Jacobs not to talk about what they had seen, Jacobs started talking about the event in 1982, thinking that enough time had passed since the event that he could speak freely about what he saw.
But his claims were rejected by skeptics and he was even subjected to intimidation and anonymous death threats.
Hastings’ new report appears to match Elizondo’s memory of the video.
Luis Elizondo, former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), told a Senate investigator that he had seen the 1964 video
When investigators looked for the DVD recording of the video, which Elizondo had told them was there, it was not there, Hastings reported.
And although the recording is missing and the account of Elizondo viewing the recording comes secondhand from an investigator, Hastings reported that he has additional evidence to support this:
“On November 10, 2023, a very reliable source – whom I am not allowed to identify – told me that UAP whistleblower (unidentified anomalous phenomena) David Grusch privately confirmed that Elizondo also told this it about showing the Big Sur film, and that it did indeed capture an astonishing, UFO-related, fake warhead interference event.”
It appears the video was lost when the Pentagon destroyed Elizondo’s files and emails, Hastings wrote. This is said to have taken place in 2017 after he resigned as director of AATIP, which he said was in protest against the Pentagon’s cover-up of UFO cases.
“This highly unusual move by the Pentagon is in direct violation of a legal detention order imposed at the time based on Elizondo’s other duties,” Hastings wrote. “The order requires that all of Elizondo’s electronic and paper files be retained indefinitely, including email and correspondence.”
Besides the video, there is limited evidence to support the story.
A declassified but unreleased set of radar data from the September 15, 1964 event apparently confirmed that an unidentified aerial object was sighted near the dummy warhead during the missile test, a source told Hastings.
The analysis of the radar data at that time suggested that the unidentified object could be debris. It’s also possible that it was “chaff,” metal objects intended to confuse radar and prevent enemies from pinpointing the exact location of a warhead.
“So perhaps the mysterious target tracked on the radar near the warhead was just the chaff,” Hastings wrote. “On the other hand, it may indeed have been the actual UFO, which the author of the radar data report would likely have been unaware of given the top secret status of the incident.”