VIDEO / Robert Jacob, OVNI et bombe atomique

Spoiler :

I was the officer in charge of optical instrumentation at Vandenberg Air Force Base in the 1369th Photo Squadron. And, as such it was my duty to supervise the instrumentation photography of every missile that went down the Western Test range. In those days, we called them ICBMs (Inter-continental ballistic missiles). Intercontinental, because most of them blew up on launch and our job was to determine why they they blew up to provide the engineers good enough and engineering sequential photography. So they could see what was wrong with the bird as it took off in flight.

What we photographed up affected me for the rest of my life and made a huge impact on my understanding of the universe. And of governmental manipulation of our minds.

The purpose of them was they were ballistic missiles. They were to deliver nuclear weapons on targets. That’s what they were there for. We weren’t launching real nuclear weapons. We were watching dummy warheads. They were the exact size, shape and dimension and weight of a nuclear warhead. For my stunning achievement in finding a place where i could look back at Vandenberg Air Force Base, from up north. And for figuring out how to transmit the timing up there and for getting the thing set up. I was awarded the Air Force guided missile insignia. It was the first photographic officer in the Air Force to get the… they called it « the missile badge ». It was a highly coveted thing at the time. Was defenitely in 1964, because Florenze Mansmann confirmed that. And he knew. He had written it down and knew the exact date of it.

They counted down the missile. We heard engine ignition liftoff when who the missile was under way. And we were looking down south heu… south west. And the missile popped up through the fog. It was just beautiful. And i hollered : There it is ! Then our guys on our M45 tracking mount with 180 inch lenses on it, got it. And the big BU telescope swung over and got it. And we followed the thing. And sure enough we could see all three stages of powered flight as they burned out and dropped away. And then of course to our naked eye always thought (eye all we saw was a kind of) it was a smoke trail going off into sub-space. As it headed off toward its target which was an e we talked Island and he we talked at all.

So we what beating [we whoopied] shouted and heard the film wrap off in the BU telescope. And figured : « well that was our first big deal, we got it. » We sent the film back down to Vandenberg. And i don’t know exactly how long it was after the event. It might have been a day or two. I was called in the major Mansmann’s office at the first strategic aerospace division headquarters.

And i walked into his office and they had a screen and a 16mm projector set up. There was a couch. And major Mansmann said : « Sit down ! » And there were two guys, as i recall, two guys. He in gray suits, civilian clothes, wich was fairly unusual. Hum… And a major advancement said : « watch this ! » And turned on the film projector. And i watched the screen and there was the launch, from the day or two before at Big Sur. It was quite exciting, because of the length of the telescope. As the Atlas missile entered the frame, we could see the whole third stage. Which is… Which has two rocket nozzles like this. And one in the center, or gimballed one in the center, fill il our frame ; from 100 and about 160 miles. It was pretty exciting optics. We watched that stage burn out. We watched the second stage burn out, with watch a third stage burn out. And into the frame came something else. It flew into the frame like this. And shot a beam of light at the warhead. Which is represented by my thumb here.

Now remember by my thumb here now. Remember all this stuff is flying at several thousand miles an hour. So this thing fires a beam of light at the warhead. Hits it. And then, this thing flies up like this, meanwhile we’re all going like this. Fires another beam of light. Goes around like this. We’re going like this. Fires another beam of light. Goes down like this. Fires another beam of light. And then flies out the way it came in. And the warhead tumbles out of the outer space.

Now i saw that. I don’t give a goddamn what anybody else says about it. I saw that on film. Phil Clasp and Kiss my ass he wasn’t there. I was