According to at least two former American military officials, they personally witnessed a 1964 video, now “missing,” in which a UFO disables a nuclear warhead (dummy) during military tests.
They claim that the footage shows a disc-shaped flying object circling above the warhead without actual nuclear weaponry after it detached from the Atlas missile booster, and then the UFO fires four beams of light at the warhead, disabling it.
The existence of such an incident was previously disclosed by Robert Jacobs, a former chief of the photo-optical instrumentation department in the 1369th Photographic Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. It was his department that filmed the missile with a simulated nuclear warhead during tests and captured the UFO attacking it with beams of light. However, authorities silenced him about this incident.
In addition to Jacobs, Major Florenz Mansmann also spoke about the existence of this video. He stated that shortly after filming, two CIA agents came and confiscated the film cassette.
Recently, this incident has once again attracted attention from the ufology community because it was extensively covered by ufologist Robert Hastings.
Louis Elizondo, former director of the Pentagon’s UFO study program – Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and known for being involved in several high-profile UFO military personnel leaks, also confirmed, according to an unnamed source of Hastings, that the video is entirely real and he has seen it too.
According to Jacobs and Mansmann, the UFO had a disc-like shape with a “dome”:
“It was a classic disc, the center of which seemed to be a convex bubble… the entire lower part in the form of a saucer was glowing and seemed to be rotating slowly… At the beam release point… the object turned, exactly like a ship preparing to fire from a platform… But again, it could have been my own assumption due to my experience in aerial combat,” Mansmann recounted.
Even the most prominent UFO investigator, David Grash, was involved:
“On November 10, 2023, a highly reliable source, whom I cannot name, informed me that UFO investigator David Grash privately confirmed to him that Elizondo also told him about the film screening and that it indeed captured an amazing event involving a UFO interfering with a dummy warhead,” Hastings writes.
During his time in the Pentagon’s UFO study program, Elizondo knew where the files with this classified video were stored. But it turned out that the films from this place disappeared inexplicably.
It is assumed that the Pentagon finally destroyed the files with this video around 2017 after Elizondo left his position as director of AATIP in protest against the Pentagon’s concealment of UFO-related issues.
“This extremely unusual move by the Pentagon is a direct violation of the legal preservation order, which was sanctioned based on Elizondo’s other duties at the time. The order requires all electronic and printed files of Elizondo to be kept indefinitely, including email and correspondence,” Hastings writes on his website.
Unfortunately, apart from this missing video, there are very scanty pieces of evidence to support the truth of this whole story. Allegedly, there is a declassified, yet unpublished set of radar data about what happened during military tests on September 15, 1964. And it explicitly states that an unidentified aerial object was observed near the dummy warhead during the missile test. This information was also provided to Hastings by an unnamed source.