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Armed Forces Special Weapons Project

Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
  • On the record: a 1947 joint Army and Navy nuclear-weapons body at Sandia Base, with Manzano Base as its weapons store.
  • The claims: Kissner says its people supported the disc analysis; the IPU report has it securing Roswell; Doll ran two of its programs at Upshot-Knothole.
  • Gerb's model (hypothesis): the bridge from the Manhattan Project to the legacy program, with DTRA as its heir.

The joint Army and Navy nuclear-weapons body that Patterson and Forrestal set up on 29 January 1947 at Sandia Base, beside Los Alamos's Z Division. Kissner's 1994 statement says its personnel supported the analysis of the recovered discs, the IPU report places an AFSWP-ordered security detail at Roswell, and Ed Doll, who called Arthur Stansel to Kingman, ran two of its special weapons programs. UAP Gerb sees it as the bridge between the Manhattan Project and the legacy program, with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency as its modern heir.

On the record

  • Founded 29 January 1947 by Patterson and Forrestal; based at Sandia Base with Z Division.
  • Manzano Base (Site Able), an AFSWP nuclear-weapons store begun in 1947.
  • DTRA descends from AFSWP through the Defense Atomic Support Agency and the Defense Nuclear Agency.

Claims (8)

Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal set up AFSWP on 29 January 1947 as a joint Army and Navy body to manage nuclear weapons after the Atomic Energy Commission took over from the Manhattan Project. AFSWP and Los Alamos's Z Division set up at Sandia Base.Sandia National LaboratoriesLos Alamos National LaboratoryfirsthandOn the recordpublic record (cited by UAP Gerb)
Manzano Base (Site Able), begun in 1947 beside Sandia Base, was a top secret AFSWP project whose acknowledged job was storing nuclear weapons. Gerb says the Manzano storage area holds two underground installations.Sandia National Laboratoriesthread/underground-basesfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedpublic record (cited by UAP Gerb)
Kissner's 1994 statement says the work on the recovered discs was supported by Air Materiel Command and by personnel of AFSWP at Sandia Base in Albuquerque.J. Andrew KissnerJ. Andrew Kissner's statement on the 1947 recoveries (1994)secondhandSourced, unconfirmedJ. Andrew Kissner
The IPU report of 22 July 1947 describes a special radiobiological team with a security detail from Sandia, under orders through AFSWP, sent to secure the area around the Roswell crash site. Gerb notes the document surfaced in 1995 and could copy details known to earlier researchers.The 'Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit' report (22 July 1947)RoswellfirsthandLeadIPU report (22 July 1947, disputed; cited by UAP Gerb)
Ed Doll served as technical director for two major AFSWP special weapons programs, including at the 1953 Upshot-Knothole tests where he called Arthur Stansel to the Kingman recovery.Dr. Edward B. DollKingman 1953firsthandSourced, unconfirmedcareer record (cited by UAP Gerb)
Dylan Borland says the DTRA terminals he worked at held old Atomic Energy Commission files on UFOs, and DTRA grew out of AFSWP.Defense Threat Reduction AgencyfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedDylan Borland (Weaponized, cited by UAP Gerb)
AFSWP played 'dual-handed' roles between the Manhattan Project and its successor, the UFO legacy program portfolio, using its security architecture to hide retrieval and exploitation.speculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
AFSWP's modern heir, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, may still hold old Atomic Energy Commission files that conclude some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.Defense Threat Reduction AgencyspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)

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Defense Threat Reduction Agency orgLos Alamos National Laboratory orgSandia National Laboratories orgJ. Andrew Kissner personDr. Edward B. Doll personUAP Gerb (Sam) person

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