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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

The Ohio air base where the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations, Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book, from 1947 to 1969.

Est. 1948
Location
Near Dayton, Ohio
Modern country
United States
Formed
1948, merging Wright Field and Patterson Field
UFO projects
Sign (1947–49), Grudge (1949), Blue Book (1952–69)
Also home to
National Museum of the US Air Force
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What is Wright-Patterson Air Force Base known for?

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by merging Wright Field and Patterson Field, sites tied to the Wright brothers' early flights. It is one of the largest US Air Force bases and houses Air Force Materiel Command and the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

The base's technical intelligence units ran the Air Force's official UFO investigations: Project Sign from late 1947, Project Grudge in 1949, and Project Blue Book from 1952 until it closed in 1969. Blue Book logged 12,618 reports and concluded that none showed a threat to national security or evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles. Its records are now in the US National Archives.

Popular legend holds that wreckage and bodies from Roswell were stored at the base in a 'Hangar 18'. The Air Force denies this, and the Pentagon's 2024 historical review found no evidence for any recovered alien craft.

Why it is on Credible Theories

Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official UFO investigation, was based at Wright-Patterson.

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Sources

  1. US National Archives, 'Project Blue Book - Unidentified Flying Objects'Primary text
  2. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, official fact sheet (US Air Force)Reference

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