Person · Registry ID 082
1st Lt. Robert M. “Bob” Jacobs
Retired academic; public witness
Rank First Lieutenant, USAF Documented1 position on the chart1 evidence record
Positions on the chart (1)
- USAF 1369th Photographic Squadron, Big Sur tracking Reported
Registry record
- Past roles
- USAF first lieutenant; 1369th Photographic Squadron; Big Sur optical tracking team
- Credentials
- Ph.D.; former USAF photo-optical officer
- UAP involvement
- Claims he viewed 1964 Atlas missile-test footage showing an unidentified object near a dummy warhead
- Principal disclosures
- 1982 and 1989 published accounts; alleged suppression of footage
- Evidence contributed
- First-person account of film screening; film not publicly authenticated
- Knowledge type
- Firsthand viewing testimony; retrospective
- Corroboration
- Mansmann supportive recollections; George published technical rebuttal
- Assessment
- Disputed; no public original film
- Rank source
- People Registry