Vandenberg / Big Sur (1964 Atlas test)
Also: Vandenberg AFB; Big Sur film

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Minuteman III launch from Vandenberg (2006)
The streak of an unarmed Minuteman III test launch across the morning sky over Vandenberg, 7 April 2006. Vandenberg's missile tests are the backdrop to the 1964 Big Sur film claim and the 2003 'red square' report. Official Air Force photograph · context.
This image was released by the United States Air Force with · 2006 ↗Public domain — US government workLicence terms ↗Richard Barr · 0:16:21
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedRobert Jacobs · 0:25:50
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedThe California launch site whose September 1964 Atlas test, filmed from Big Sur, is the subject of Lt Robert Jacobs' account of an object circling a dummy warhead. Jacobs and Michels describe the film and its classification on the show. The base and test are documented; the film is not public.
Where the pin is
34.7420, -120.5724 exact
Public gazetteer: Vandenberg Space Force Base; the Big Sur camera site lies ~200 km north.
Santa Barbara County, California, United States
What is claimed
Richard Barr testified that he served as a USAF air policeman in the 4392nd Combat Defense Squadron at Vandenberg AFB in 1963-65, that his DD-214 and service records exist, and that Robert Hastings vetted him, including calling three friends to confirm the account predated any public telling.
- 0:16:21 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
gave it to to Robert Hastings >> by Robert Hastings and uh that was one of the things you know he's very very >> uh when you read his book >> he each case is well documented is thorough when he vets he vets each person that he interviews >> he's extremely thorough >> and
- 0:16:21 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
Barr testified that on a foggy night in September 1964, at Minuteman site D5, a trench-coated figure emerged from the fog, his right arm went paralyzed when he tried to draw his .38, he passed out, and he came to in a circular room where he was told telepathically not to look at the beings.
- 0:30:27 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
I tried to pull my pistol and my right arm was paralyzed. I couldn't move it. I could move my body, but I couldn't move my arm and I became more terrified. And it became closer to
- 0:30:27 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
Barr testified that years later he blew a chrome-plated BB-like ball out of his nose, and that during 2001 nasal surgery the surgeon reported something in his right nostril 'so hard I almost couldn't break through it', which was suctioned out and discarded without analysis.
- 1:10:11 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
I found something in your right nostril that was so hard I almost couldn't break through it." He said, "It was the damnest thing, you know, and he was saying, you know, I've done this for many years. I've never seen anything like it or encountered anything like it." Whatever
- 1:10:11 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
The host inferred that the recurrence of UAP reports at nuclear sites — Vandenberg, Malmstrom, Loring, Ellsworth — is non-random and indicates focused interest in nuclear weapons.
- 1:21:13 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Jesse Michels ▶
So, Vandenberg is definitely a hot spot. It's one of these places like Malmstrom uh you know base in Montana where throughout the years you have recurring patterns of UFO sightings. So >> I do think there is some sort of intimate connection there. >> Oh yeah.
- 1:21:13 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Jesse Michels ▶
Robert Jacobs recounts being tasked at Vandenberg in 1964 to film an Atlas missile launch with a large tracking telescope and later describing an anomalous object interacting with the warhead/reentry vehicle imagery.
- 0:25:50 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Robert Jacobs ▶
thing fast forward to 1964 we're on vandenbberg Air Force Base in California called Atlas testing dummy nuclear warheads being launched from intercontinental ballistic missiles a photo instrumentation specialist Lieutenant Bob Jacobs was tasked with capturing the launch of two
- 0:25:50 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Robert Jacobs ▶
Barr was taken aboard a craft hovering over Vandenberg and given an anti-nuclear message by non-human beings.
- 0:51:20 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
they're not going to let it, you know, go to nuclear war. They needed to stop these missiles from launching. They were trying to get the data on how to was their task then. And that there wasn't they weren't going to allow these missiles to be launched.
- 0:51:20 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
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Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens 9 February 2026
- 0:16:21 ▶ Richard Barr
gave it to to Robert Hastings >> by Robert Hastings and uh that was one of the things you know he's very very >> uh when you read his book >> he each case is well documented is thorough when he vets he vets each person that he interviews >> he's extremely thorough >> and
- 0:30:27 ▶ Richard Barr
I tried to pull my pistol and my right arm was paralyzed. I couldn't move it. I could move my body, but I couldn't move my arm and I became more terrified. And it became closer to
- 0:51:20 ▶ Richard Barr Barr was taken aboard a craft hovering over Vandenberg and given an anti-nuclear message…
they're not going to let it, you know, go to nuclear war. They needed to stop these missiles from launching. They were trying to get the data on how to was their task then. And that there wasn't they weren't going to allow these missiles to be launched.
- 1:10:11 ▶ Richard Barr Barr testified that years later he blew a chrome-plated BB-like ball out of his nose…
I found something in your right nostril that was so hard I almost couldn't break through it." He said, "It was the damnest thing, you know, and he was saying, you know, I've done this for many years. I've never seen anything like it or encountered anything like it." Whatever
- 1:21:13 ▶ Jesse Michels The host inferred that the recurrence of UAP reports at nuclear sites — Vandenberg…
So, Vandenberg is definitely a hot spot. It's one of these places like Malmstrom uh you know base in Montana where throughout the years you have recurring patterns of UFO sightings. So >> I do think there is some sort of intimate connection there. >> Oh yeah.
- 0:16:21 ▶ Richard Barr
UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) 24 December 2024
- 0:25:50 ▶ Robert Jacobs Robert Jacobs recounts being tasked at Vandenberg in 1964 to film an Atlas missile…
thing fast forward to 1964 we're on vandenbberg Air Force Base in California called Atlas testing dummy nuclear warheads being launched from intercontinental ballistic missiles a photo instrumentation specialist Lieutenant Bob Jacobs was tasked with capturing the launch of two
- 0:25:50 ▶ Robert Jacobs Robert Jacobs recounts being tasked at Vandenberg in 1964 to film an Atlas missile…
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Sources on this record
- Vandenberg / Big Sur (1964 Atlas test) — Wikipedia
- 0:16:21 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
gave it to to Robert Hastings >> by Robert Hastings and uh that was one of the things you know he's very very >> uh when you read his book >> he each case is well documented is thorough when he vets he vets each person that he interviews >> he's extremely thorough >> and
- 0:30:27 Meet the Nuclear Missile Guard Abducted by Aliens · Richard Barr ▶
I tried to pull my pistol and my right arm was paralyzed. I couldn't move it. I could move my body, but I couldn't move my arm and I became more terrified. And it became closer to
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