Tim Hebert, on 25 June 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:
Bob Jacobs, "Big Sur UFO"? Kingston George provides a compelling rebuttal to that story. Unfortunately, the video of the Atlas launch and it's aftermath is currently no where to be found...the video would go a long way in clearing up the matter.
I never saw the actual film, and in that lecture I mentioned the guy only had slides of the UFO paralleling the missile and firing something at its nose, causing it to go out of control. As I recall, the name Bob Jacobs was not even mentioned, but it sounded very much like the incident he described.
Once again, though, the lecturer only had these black and white slides that were taken from the film, with frames that showed the UFO most clearly as it flew alongside the missile. He did not claim to know what this UFO really was or where it came from, only that it flew it, knocked the missile down, then flew away again. My impression is that they just didn't know what it was, but that the incident was very disturbing.
That's why I don't think Jacobs was lying about what he saw on that film, although I have no idea where the actual film might be now.