the american observers on december 11th 1967 they managed to get their 1st photo of the giant and one rock and we had it nailed down we watched that baby and i couldn't get over how big it was it was just like a big cone. and we spotted it. always we saw it on the pad and then we saw the effects of it are sure that. when that thing went off it just tore the hell out of it and. they called the end one big mother as well as jay bird because it was being assembled on launch site jay. but what they had actually photographed was just a dummy to train the launch team on ramp procedures it was the same size and had all the fittings that the original had it just didn't fly. another jaybird was sighted on the launch pad in september 1968 but there was still