REF: UAP/1960s/076Contested
1964-09 (Big Sur)
Big Sur missile-track film claim
Big Sur tracking site, CA · USA·Missile-test film claim (contested)·1960s
Contested
§ ASummary
Lt. Bob Jacobs claimed telescope film showed disc firing beams disabling a dummy warhead over Pacific; supported by Maj. Mansmann's letters; film never released; USAF denies.
§ BWitnesses
Bob Jacobs; Florenz Mansmann (corroborating letters)
§ CEvidence & Documentation
Mansmann correspondence; program records (film unlocated)
§ DOfficial Investigation
None public; participants' testimony only
§ EStatus Assessment
Unverifiable — film absent; endures in nukes-UFO literature
§ FVerifiable Sources
Hastings (2008); Jacobs' published account (1989); skeptic rebuttals
§ GCross-referenced cases6
1964-04-24🇺🇸 USA
Socorro / Lonnie Zamora landing
Police CE2 / landing traces
1964-09-04🇺🇸 USA
Cisco Grove bow-and-arrow encounter
CE3 (entity encounter)
1965-08-03🇺🇸 USA
Heflin photographs
Photographic
1965-09-03🇺🇸 USA
Exeter incident
Police-corroborated CE1
1965-12-09🇺🇸 USA
Kecksburg incident
Crash-retrieval claim
1965-10-07🇺🇸 USA
Edwards AFB tower/radar case
Base radar-visual with tapes