Summary

US Air Force First Lieutenant who in September 1964 oversaw a telescopic camera crew filming Atlas missile tests from a mountaintop near Big Sur, California. The film reportedly captured a disc-shaped UAP circling the missile's re-entry vehicle and firing four pulses at it - after which the missile test failed. His superior, Major Florenz Mansmann, confirmed the account in a 1987 letter. Jacobs first broke his silence in 1982 and has maintained an entirely consistent account for over 40 years. The Big Sur film itself has never been publicly released and its current whereabouts are unknown.

Roles

• -First Lieutenant, US Air Force (ret.)
• -Officer in Charge of Photographic Instrumentation, Vandenberg AFB (1963-1966)
• -Professor and Filmmaker (post-service career)

Organizations

Education

• -Post-service academic career; later worked as a professor and filmmaker

Early Career

• -Commissioned into the US Air Force and assigned as Officer in Charge of Photographic Instrumentation at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (1963-1966)
• -Oversaw a team operating a high-powered telescopic camera system positioned on a mountaintop near Big Sur to film missile re-entry vehicles during live Atlas and Nike test launches
• -His role required detailed knowledge of both film systems and ballistic missile operations; he held a standard Secret clearance but not the higher-level clearances held by senior officers involved in classified warhead programs

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