Richard Barr Vandenberg missile-site encounter (September 1964)
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Atlas launch from Vandenberg, Complex 3E
An Atlas missile lifts off from Vandenberg's Complex 3E. The 1964 launches from Vandenberg are the setting of the Barr and Jacobs accounts. Official photograph · context, not the launch described.
Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. · 1980 ↗Public domain — US government workLicence terms ↗Richard Barr · 0:28:23
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedRichard Barr, then an Air Force guard at a Vandenberg Minuteman site, says that in September 1964 he experienced an encounter and missing time at the well-lit site whose alarms did nothing. He recounts the core details in the corpus and connects them to Robert Salas's later Malmstrom experience, which he wrote to Salas about.
The event
| Date | (month) |
|---|---|
| Place | 34.7420, -120.5724 approximate · United States |
| Official response | No official body is known to have issued a finding on this report. |
Reported by
- Richard Barr military USAF missile-site security guard
Who spoke about it later
- Richard Barr 0:28:23 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens ▶ 2026
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens 9 February 2026
- 0:17:24 ▶ Richard Barr
I think there's a relationship between my experience and your experience." In
- 0:28:23 ▶ Richard Barr
My core experience was in September. >> And what what happened then? >> Well, I was assigned to a Minute Man missile. Not Yeah, I was assigned to a Minute Man missile site and the guard shack is
- 0:28:23 ▶ interview
- 0:17:24 ▶ Richard Barr
On the map
Richard Barr Vandenberg missile-site encounter (September 1964), Malmstrom AFB missile shutdown (March 1967), Big Sur / Vandenberg missile-film claim (September 1964). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:28:23 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
My core experience was in September. >> And what what happened then? >> Well, I was assigned to a Minute Man missile. Not Yeah, I was assigned to a Minute Man missile site and the guard shack is
- 0:17:24 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
I think there's a relationship between my experience and your experience." In
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