Case · UFO Afrinews No 11, Feb. 1995
Big Sur Atlas missile film, recounted from the MUFON Journal
1964 ยท Big Sur, California coast; Vandenberg Air Force Base, Vandenberg Air Force Base, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind retells a MUFON Journal (January 1989) account to support her third conjecture. In 1964 photographer Bob Jacobs, Ph.D., and his crew filmed a dummy Atlas missile test near Big Sur on 35mm film and delivered it to the Vandenberg Air Force Base laboratory. Major Mansmann later summoned him to view it: the dummy warhead was sailing about 60 miles up when an object flew into frame from left to right, manoeuvred around the missile at 18,000 mph and emitted four intense flashes that haloed the image tube. Its shape resembled a UAP. The warhead then malfunctioned and tumbled out of orbit. The Major ordered that the matter never be discussed; Jacobs went public in 1982. Hind is convinced many similar incidents exist and says she knows of two others.
What Hind made of it
Hind takes it as evidence that UAPs are insatiably curious about human activities they do not understand, and that their message is a warning about our destruction of Earth.
In their words
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The Major made it clear that this matter should not be talked about to anyone.
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I am convinced that there are many more incidents of such a nature and of which we are not aware.
Cross references
- MUFON Journal January 1989
- 11-05-1 Case No 95 third conjecture