New “UFOs and Nukes” Film Trailer: The Amazing Big Sur Incident

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By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 1-31-16

     I have recently begun to receive a steady stream of inquiries regarding my documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, which was first publicized on the Coast to Coast AM radio show, over a year ago, and more recently at my website. The latter update noted that the film had finally been finished last summer and that efforts were/are currently underway to have it licensed-for-broadcast by one or more television networks. A five-minute trailer is available online.

Meanwhile, I offer here a second film trailer, inserted above, relating to the nearly unbelievable, still-Top Secret Big Sur UFO Incident. Two former U.S. Air Force officers—Drs. Robert Jacobs and Florenze Mansmann—have publicly discussed the inadvertent and totally unexpected filming of a UFO shooting down a dummy nuclear warhead in flight during a 1964 missile test at Vandenberg AFB, California. Private correspondence relating to the event, written years later, reveals the stunning details of the encounter

According to then-Major (later Dr.) Mansmann, two CIA officers confiscated a 16mm version of the film, following a screening of it in his office, attended by Lieutenant (later Dr.) Jacobs and a few other individuals. By that time, the original, 35mm film had already been "rushed East” on a special military flight, probably to be delivered to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center, the unit that famously discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962, resulting in the near-disastrous Cuban Missile Crisis.

Interestingly, a couple of UFO “skeptics”, James Oberg and Kendrick Frazier—long affiliated with the UFO-debunking group CSICOP, now CSI—have diligently attempted to discredit the Big Sur case, claiming that it never happened as Jacobs and Mansmann describe. While portraying themselves as “scientific” investigators of UFOs, attempting to find logical explanations for alleged paranormal phenomena, both men have rather interesting backgrounds which have received very little publicity over the years.

From 1970-72, Oberg was an Air Force officer whose assignments with the Battle Environments Branch at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, located at Kirtland AFB, involved the development and utilization of computer codes related to the modeling of laser and nuclear weapons. Oberg also served as a “Security Officer” while at the weapons lab and was, therefore, responsible for monitoring the security procedures used to safeguard the classified documents generated by his group.

After Bob Jacobs went public with the UFO shoot-down story, Oberg wrote to him, chastising Jacobs for revealing “top secret” information. In a 1989 MUFON UFO Journal article, Jacobs wrote that after he broke his silence, “...James Oberg, a frequent ‘mouthpiece’ for certain NASA projects and self-styled UFO Debunker wrote to disparage my story and to ask provocatively, ‘Since you obviously feel free to discuss top secret UFO data, what would you be willing to say about other top secret aspects of the Atlas warhead which you alluded to briefly...?’

It is almost certain that Oberg would not have criticized Jacobs for exposing “top secret UFO data” had he known that Jacobs would subsequently publish his remark. So, here we have one of CSICOP’s leading UFO debunkers—whose public stance is that UFOs don’t even exist—angrily asking Jacobs in a private letter whether he would also openly discuss “other” top secret aspects of the missile test.

For his part, Kendrick C. Frazier is the executive editor of Skeptical Inquirer, the official CSICOP/CSI publication. Many years ago, I discovered that Frazier was in fact employed, beginning in the early 1980s, as a Public Relations Specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Yes, the same Sandia Labs that has been instrumental to the success of America’s nuclear weapons program since the late 1940s, through its “ordinance engineering” of components for bomb and missile warhead systems.

In my opinion, Frazier’s affiliation with Sandia Labs—he retired after working there for over two decades—is highly significant, given the hundreds of references in declassified government documents, and in the many statements by former military personnel, which address ongoing UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites over the past seven decades.

Considering these disclosures—which clearly establish a link between UFOs and nukes—I find it interesting, to say the least, that the longtime editor of the leading debunking magazine—whose pages routinely feature articles discrediting UFOs and those who report them—worked for over 20 years as a public relations spokesman for one of the leading nuclear weapons labs in the United States. Interestingly, Frazier failed to mention this job in his otherwise comprehensive online bio and it was left to me to publicize the facts in my 2008 book UFOs and Nukes.

Consequently, here is the situation: In what is arguably the most dramatic nuclear weapons-related UFO incident ever revealed, two former U.S. Air Force officers insist that one of our experimental nuclear warheads was actually shot down by a flying saucer. And who is responsible for publishing debunking articles about the Big Sur incident, in which it is claimed that the UFO encounter never happened? Why, a PR guy working for the U.S. government’s nuclear weapons program!

So folks, when a UFO skeptic tells you that the Big Sur UFO Incident never happened, please direct him/her to the publicly-available commentary offered by the two witnesses—Bob Jacobs and Florenze Mansmann—who have described the amazing images on the film that was confiscated by the CIA.

Finally, the 1964 event described by Jacobs and Mansmann was not unique. In the article below, a U.S. Army spokesman officially announced to the media the existence of a very similar incident—involving a UFO flying near a dummy nuclear warhead in space—which occurred some nine years after Big Sur.

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By Robert Hastings
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2-7-09

     Journalist Terry Hansen is the author of the excellent book, The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up, which authoritatively exposes the U.S. government's infiltration of the American elite media over the last several decades—for the purpose of covertly promoting officially-sanctioned propaganda on a variety of subjects, ranging from communism to UFOs.

Regarding CSICOP [now renamed the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, or CSI], Hansen examines the possibility that the organization which publishes Skeptical Inquirer magazine was infiltrated early on by a small but determined group of U.S. government-affiliated operatives, whose true motives have far more to do with disinformation than skepticism.

He writes, “[The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal] is an organization of people who oppose what they contend is pseudo-science...CSICOP, contrary to its impressive-sounding title, does not sponsor scientific research. On the contrary, its main function has been to oppose scientific research, especially in areas such as psychic phenomena and UFOs, two topics that, coincidentally or not, have been of demonstrated interest to the intelligence community over the decades. Instead, CSICOP devotes nearly all of its resources to influencing the American public via the mass media. As author Jerome Clark, editor of the International UFO Reporter, once pointed out, ‘CSICOP’s ability to influence media is legendary. It’s Manual for Local, Regional and National Groups devotes 17 pages to ‘Handling the Media’ and ‘Public Relations’ and, tellingly, a mere three to ‘Scientific Investigations’…’ ”

Hansen continues, “CSICOP can accurately be described as a propaganda organization because it does not take anything approaching an objective position regarding UFOs. The organization’s stance is militantly anti-UFO research and it works hard to see that the news media broadcast its views whenever possible. When the subject of UFOs surfaces, either in the news media or any other public forum, CSICOP members turn out rapidly to add their own spin to whatever is being said. Through its “Council for Media Integrity” CSICOP maintains close ties with the editorial staffs of such influential science publications as Scientific American, Nature, and New Scientist. Consequently, it’s not too hard to understand why balanced UFO articles seldom appear in those [magazines].”

Hansen also notes, “...CSICOP [now CSI] members typically publish their thoughts on UFOs and other 'paranormal' phenomena via Prometheus Books, a closely related publishing house that also offers a surprising number of volumes on such topics as child-adult sexuality, prostitution, sadomasochism, and pornography. It would be interesting to know which titles sell better; those devoted to debunking UFOs and paranormal research, or those about sex. Perhaps it's worth pointing out at this point that cross-subsidizing unprofitable activities with profitable ones has been a hallmark of many covert intelligence operations.”

The long-time and still-current Executive Editor of Skeptical Inquirer, Kendrick Frazier, worked for more than two decades as a PR Specialist at Sandia National Laboratories—although one will have to look high and low to find references to that employment in his magazine and even in his self-published online biography. Sandia Labs is one of the U.S. government's most important nuclear weapons labs.

Those of you familiar with my research know that a UFO-Nukes Connection has been confirmed by hundreds of declassified USAF, FBI and CIA documents, as well as by the courageous testimony of nearly 100 USAF veterans who were involved in still-classified incidents. According to these documents and sources, UFO activity at America’s nuclear weapons sites has been ongoing since 1948. Most dramatically, reports of Minuteman missile malfunctions, occurring just as a UFO was in their vicinity, are now offered by several former Air Force missile launch and targeting officers stationed at various U.S. Air Force bases during the Cold War era. One of my launch control sources even refers to the temporary activation of his missiles by a UFO. My interviews with these persons appear in my book, UFOs and Nukes.

So, who is routinely trying to debunk the reality of UFOs and the notion of a UFO cover-up in CSI’s Skeptical Inquirer magazine? Why, a PR guy working for the U.S. government's nuclear weapons program! (Although he is strangely shy about publicly acknowledging where he picked up his paycheck for over 20 years, during the same period he was feverishly debunking UFOs, supposedly because of his “skepticism” about them!)

One of the nuclear weapons-related UFO cases CSI has attempted to debunk is the Big Sur Incident, which involved the filming of a UFO shooting down a dummy nuclear warhead in flight, on September 15, 1964—according to two former U.S. Air Force officers, Dr. Bob Jacobs and Dr. Florenze Mansmann. Frazier's rag tried to debunk the case in 1993, by publishing a demonstrably bogus article by Kingston A. George. Now, in the wake of my well-documented investigation of that case, which I posted at my website in 2008, Skeptical Inquirer's latest issue once again attempts to erase the Big Sur UFO Incident from public consciousness, with another article by George, in which he uses the same sleight-of-hand tricks, distortions, and outright falsehoods he trotted out earlier. In other words, it’s the same BS, newly-packaged.

I am currently preparing a rebuttal and will post it on this forum and elsewhere. The title will be: "Kingston George's Latest Comments in Skeptical Inquirer on the Big Sur UFO: Deep Denial or Disinformation?"

The actual facts about Big Sur may be found on the ARTICLES page at my website, ufohastings.com.

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