Robert Sarbacher Jr
Robert Sarbacher Jr. is the son of Robert Sarbacher, the physicist and DoD consultant who confirmed in 1950 and again in 1983 that the US government's study of flying saucers was classified at a higher level than the hydrogen bomb. Sarbacher Jr. provided researcher D.M. Duncan with firsthand accounts of his father's involvement in classified UAP-related missile development, offering rare insight into the elder Sarbacher's work from a family member who had directly questioned him about UFOs.
| Role | Son of Dr. Robert Sarbacher; source of information about his father's UAP-related work |
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Account to D.M. Duncan
Researcher D.M. Duncan located Robert Sarbacher Jr. near the time of Dr. Robert Sarbacher's death in 1987. In interviews, Sarbacher Jr. relayed that his father spoke "sparingly" about the UFO phenomenon, but the younger Sarbacher had occasionally questioned his father about it. According to Sarbacher Jr.'s account:
- His father knew UFOs were real "for the obvious reason that they would be going 600 mph and then make a 90-degree turn in midair without slowing down, separated from all inertia and gravity."
- Dr. Sarbacher was called upon to develop missiles capable of tracking UAP, as conventional aircraft were too slow to pursue them.
- The missiles were to be equipped with cameras — similar to those installed on V-2 rockets — so that when a UAP entered US airspace, camera-equipped missiles could be launched to track and photograph the objects at speed.
- The goal was not to destroy the UAP but to gather photographic intelligence on their flight characteristics and appearance.
This account aligns with documented UAP activity at White Sands Missile Range, where radar operator Lloyd Eugene Camp observed silver discs circling V-2 rockets during tests in the late 1940s, and with the broader context of Project Twinkle, a 1949 program that studied UAP and green fireball sightings in conjunction with missile launches.
Significance
Robert Sarbacher Jr.'s testimony is valuable because it represents a family member's recollection of private conversations with a credentialed government insider. Unlike formal interviews conducted decades after the fact, these were casual exchanges between father and son about work the elder Sarbacher was involved in during the height of early Cold War UAP activity. The specificity of the details — camera-equipped missiles designed for UAP tracking, the 600 mph / 90-degree turn description — lends credibility to the account and provides technical context for the DoD Research and Development Board's interest in UAP during the period when Dr. Sarbacher served on it.