Aliens over the Central Coast? This documentary on UFOs seems to think so
Have you seen something from another world in the skies above the Central Coast?
It’s entirely possible, according to a new documentary from director Dan Farah — who produced films such as “Ready Player One” and “Call Jane” — on the possibility of alien life that focuses on recent disclosures of U.S. government programs that have studied, tracked and even potentially recovered extraterrestrial craft and beings.
Released in March, “The Age of Disclosure” follows Luis Elizondo, a former Department of Defense employee and U.S. Army veteran who has become a prominent voice in the world of UFOs — or, as some enthusiasts call them, unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — as the U.S. government declassifies some information on UAPs and holds hearings on the matter over the past five years.
The film also features commentary on UAP hearings from several high-ranking current and former members of the U.S. government, including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York; and former CIA Director John Brennan.
Though many of Elizondo’s claims are disputed by UFO skeptics, scientists and government authorities, the new documentary includes a pair of accounts of potential UAP sightings here on the Central Coast — specifically surrounding Vandenberg Air Force Base, now referred to as Vandenberg Space Force Base.
In the documentary, retired Air Force Lieutenant Bob Jacobs said he saw a UAP while he was working at Vandenberg Air Force Base, though the exact date was not included in the documentary.
Around 60 cameras were pointed at the ignition point of an Atlas D missile carrying a dummy warhead that was launched from Vandenberg, recording the ignition and launch process, Jacobs said.
But once the missile took flight, an unidentified object entered the frame of the recording, he said.
Jacobs said the UAP circled the missile, hitting it with beams of light at several angles, and then exited the camera’s frame in the same direction it came — all while everything being filmed was moving at around 8,000 to 9,000 miles per hour.
“There’s nothing of ours that could have done that,” Jacobs said in the film. “What could have done that?”
More than a dozen people claim to have spotted UAPs at Vandenberg
Jacobs isn’t alone in his claims of UAP sightings around Vandenberg.
In another instance, two individuals — retired Air Force Security Forces members Jeffrey Nuccetelli and Chaz King — shared similar accounts of a pair of 2003 UAP sighting while working at Vandenberg.
“On Oct. 14, 2003, I showed up to work at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and immediately everybody just started to tell me about this UFO incident that had happened earlier that morning,” Nuccetelli said in the documentary.
The first sighting had been reported by a trio of Boeing contractors, who said they saw a “gigantic red square object” hovering over the launchpad the previous evening, Nuccetelli said.
“It was making no noise, it had no obvious signs of propulsion, and it was just hovering silently,” Nuccetelli said in the film. “It was a very serious security breach of the area.”
Neither witnessed the incident firsthand, but said they spent much of the following day driving around the base, searching for other objects like the square.
“Later that night, myself and five security forces members, we observed a bright light approaching the base,” King said in the documentary. “As it got closer, the light was no longer visible, and it was massive, the size of a football field, almost rectangular in shape.”
King said the mysterious matte black rectangle appeared to float in the sky without any propulsion systems, and lacked windows.
After the security forces members had observed it for around 45 seconds, it “shot off, thousands of miles an hour, up the coast,” King said in the film.
Nuccetelli said he spoke with a dozen other individuals at different vantage points, all of whom repeated King’s story.
Because no photographic or video evidence of these claims are publicly available, at the end of the day, verifying their accuracy comes down to just one question: Do you believe?
