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Wright-Patterson AFB & 'Hangar 18'

Wright-Patterson AFB & 'Hangar 18'

Home of the Air Force's foreign technology analysts, Project Sign and Project Blue Book. Lore holds that Roswell debris and bodies were flown here and stored in 'Hangar 18'. In December 2024 the base closed its airspace for hours because of unidentified drones.

On the record

  • Its role hosting Sign and Blue Book; the 2024 airspace closure.
  • Scientists research: The Air Force base that hosts AFRL headquarters and NASIC, and that ran Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. It is the home of the 'Hangar 18' Roswell legend. McCasland commanded AFRL here, and Matthew Sullivan served at NASIC here, so the base is the center of gravity for the UFO reading of this case.
  • Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book were run from Wright Field / Wright-Patterson. Blue Book closed on 17 Dec 1969.
  • NASIC lineage: ATIC (1951), Foreign Technology Division (1961), NAIC (1993), NASIC (2003), all at Wright-Patterson.
  • 13 to 14 Dec 2024: the base closed its airspace for about four hours after small-drone incursions.
  • USAF Roswell reports (1994, 1997) deny that alien debris or bodies were recovered.
  • AARO Vol. 1 (Mar 2024) found no verified evidence of recovered non-human craft.

Claims (8)

Storage of recovered craft and bodies.speculationSourced, unconfirmedbelievers
Roswell debris and bodies were flown to Wright Field in 1947 and stored in 'Hangar 18'.secondhandSourced, unconfirmed
Sen. Barry Goldwater asked Gen. Curtis LeMay for access to the 'Blue Room' of UFO material and was refused.The Blue Room FOIA trail (1980-2012)firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
A 1948 'Estimate of the Situation' favoured an interplanetary explanation and was rejected by Gen. Vandenberg.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
Sullivan had seen UFOs in federal possession and would have exposed the legacy crash-retrieval program.anonymousSourced, unconfirmed
McCasland commanded the lab 'where the Roswell material went'.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
In 1966-68 he saw nine frozen bodies about 4 ft tall under thick glass, heavily guarded, and was told 30 were held on base, with craft at Wright-Patterson, Langley and MacDill.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedJerry Cohake ('JK'), Nike/air intelligence at Wright-Patterson, to Leonard Stringfield (1978)
A naval aviator saw a seamless saucer on engine stands in a base hangar in 1962 or 1963.NASIC: Air Force UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse EngineeringfirsthandSourced, unconfirmed'PJ' to Stringfield (see case/wright-patterson-hangar-1962)

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Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) orgBattelle Memorial Institute orgProject Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly orgAmy Catherine Eskridge personArthur Stansel Jr personBarry Goldwater personEric Henry Wang personMatthew James Sullivan personRep. Mike Turner (R-OH) personMonica Jacinto Reza personNat Kobitz personMaj. Gen. William "Neil" McCasland personAFOSI report on MSgt Ralph Brown's saucer story (27 April 1953) documentThe Blue Room FOIA trail (1980-2012) documentSOM1-01: Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal (1954) document

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