By Billy Booth, About.com Guide
Wright-Patterson Hangar-18
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On July 6, 1931, the area east of Huffman Dam, which included Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield Air Depot, and the Huffman Prairie was renamed Patterson Field. This was to honor the memory of Lt. Frank Stuart Patterson. Patterson died in 1918, when a plane he was flying a test in, crashed after its wings separated from the craft. In 1948, the fields were merged under one name, Wright-Patterson AFB.
Wright-Patterson is instrumental in testing new weapon technology, along with research and development, education, and many other defense related operations. It is the home of the Air Force Institute of Technology, supporting the Air Force and the Department of Defense. The USAF's National Air & Space Intelligence Center is also part of Wright-Patterson.
The base was well known for reverse engineering of foreign government aircraft during the Cold War. The base expertise in the disassembly and recreation of MIG fighters has only enriched the theories that alien craft have been studied there. The workforce is estimated at 22,000, giving us an idea of the massive amount of work being done at the base.
Wright-Patterson is most well known for its connection to the Roswell crash, although links can be made to other crash retrievals. Several eyewitness accounts of military personnel and even civilian workers who handled debris from the Roswell crash, and saw bodies of creatures not of our world, give us a very plausible Wright-Patterson connection to the study of alien technology and physiology.
The same day that the famous Roswell headlines ran in newspapers around the world, there was an enormous amount of activity at the Roswell base. Some debris from the crash, and possibly alien bodies were sent to Ft. Worth, Texas. It is now commonly accepted by researchers that before the Ft. Worth flight, another flight to Wright-Patterson had already taken place, carrying debris and alien bodies. This shipment was secretly stored and studied in the infamous Hangar-18.
UFO researcher Thomas J. Carey, coauthor of "Witness to Roswell," states that: "We believe some of the stuff was loaned around, but the main repository was the foreign technology division at Wright-Patterson. "We've heard stories over the years of people who say that they're still trying to figure out what that stuff is."
Could this alien material and technology be so advanced, that even after many years of study by our best scientists, they still fall short in understanding the secrets behind it? If scientists could have unlocked even some of the technological advancements of the ship's inner workings and navigational systems, could it not have been the creative impetus behind the Stealth series of aircraft, and the seemingly rapid advancement of our weaponology and technology in the last 50+ years? It would only make good sense to assume that the answer to this question is a resounding, "Yes!"
Much of the eyewitness testimony concerning the secrets of Wright-Patterson comes to us from military personnel, children of eyewitnesses, close friends, and coworkers of those intimately involved with crash debris wreckage and/or alien bodies. Some of these stories have only emerged in the last few years.
A Canadian Ufologist related the following account to me. He received it first hand from a gentleman whose father served at Roswell. The man's story begins in 1957. He and his father went to see the sci-fi classic, "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers." After the movie had ended, they began their journey home. As they drove along, he noticed that his father was uncharacteristically quiet. Finally, the silence was broken when his father said, "They were too big." This was obviously a reference to the aliens depicted in the film.
The man's father then told his long kept secret. In 1947, he had been stationed at Wright Field. He was a member of a film unit there. One day, he and a fellow worker were summoned by an officer to get their 16mm movie cameras and follow him. The two workers were led by the officer to a heavily guarded airplane hanger, more than likely Hangar-18, although the man's father did not say. Inside the hanger, they were shocked to see a badly damaged, circular space craft. There was debris from the UFO wreckage scattered over a large area, on a canvas tarp. The officer instructed the two cameramen to take film of anything and everything in sight. The two men discharged their duties in due fashion.
Upon finishing this first assignment, they were then summoned to the very rear of the hanger. They were taken inside of a refrigeration unit there. The man's father told his son that he was stunned to see two storage bins which held the bodies of two, small alien creatures! The beings were very thin, gray in color, with large eyes, but no eyelids. One of these beings had obviously suffered bodily damage, while the other showed no apparent signs of injury.
The two cameramen were again to use their 16mm units to film the beings. As the cases was opened, both men were taken back by a terrible odor like that of dead fish. After they discharged their second assignment of the day, both of their cameras were confiscated. The normal routine was for the cameramen to take the cameras to the photographic lab to have the film processed themselves.
The man's father concluded his story by relating how he and his fellow cameraman were sworn to secrecy, with the threat of the loss of pensions and a fast discharge from the Army. There was no doubt that they had seen things that only a small group of individuals had seen, and they knew to not take the officer's admonishment lightly. The man's father told him that he was the only person he had ever told his story to, and he asked him to never tell a soul what he knew. Only in the last few years has the old cameraman passed away, and his son felt that he was finally free to tell his father's story.
It is a well know fact that in 1947, a plane left Roswell heading to Wright Field with several packages aboard. A couple of these obviously contained crash debris, and one larger crate, which more than likely held alien bodies. This particular crate was about 7 x 7 feet, plenty big enough to carry two of the aliens, which were approximately 3 1/2 foot tall. A fork lift operator who loaded the crate into the plane stated that for its size, it was extremely light, further substantiating the theory of alien bodies being on board. There was also a delivery of bodies and crash debris to Ft. Worth, Texas.
Another very compelling account of alien bodies being held at Wright-Patterson is attributed to researcher/investigator Donald L. Worley. Worley relates the following account:
A young man, who shall be called Dave, had just finished high school, and secured a job at the AVCO Manufacturing Company located in Richmond, Indiana. The year was 1962. Part of the AVCO building was leased by the US government, and at that time the Indiana Ordinance Company, which dealt with top secret chemical and weapons testing during the Vietnam War, occupied the building. Dave was assigned to the ordinance division in experimentation. One of the areas that he worked in had a section behind a wall that was off-limits to Dave, though he had some security clearance. Being young and fearless, he was tantalized by the secrecy of the room behind the wall, and one day he ventured into the secret area, when a rare opportunity to do so came about.
He saw three tables in the secret room, each covered with a tarp, obviously hiding something beneath. The short lived venture into the forbidden room allowed him just enough time to uncover the secrets covered by the tarps. He was totally shocked by what he saw. Suddenly, three men in black suits rushed into the room. Two of them grabbed Dave, and the third took a device from his pocket and pressed it up against the back of Dave's head. He was immediately rendered unconscious.
When he awoke, he had no idea where he was. He wondered how long he had been out. He could quickly deduce from the uniforms of his captors that he was indeed in a military facility, however. Later, it would be determined that he had been transported to Wright-Patterson AFB, which lies less than an hour's drive by automobile from Richmond, Indiana.
Dave was beginning an experience he would never forget. He would be the subject of physically abusive questioning, long and tedious. He was shot up with drugs which affected him physically and mentally. Finally, he was left alone to heal, and eventually flown by helicopter back to his job in Richmond. He was continually warned not to mention to anyone what he had seen that day at AVCO. If he ever divulged any information about what he had seen, not only he, but his entire family would become missing.
What Dave had seen was one of our government's most highly kept secrets, three alien beings, obviously badly injured, with one showing signs of being burned. The beings fit the description of the Roswell aliens to a tee. They were about 3 1/2 foot tall, of thin build, and had grayish skin. They had large, black eyes, only a slit for a mouth, small, flat noses, and small ears.
He recalled that the beings had extra long arms with less than five digits on the hands, which were like animals claws. The feet had three stubby, webbed toes. He also remembered that there was a ridge on the bottom of their feet. They were clad in jump suits, with zippers up the front. Their suits had an emblem resembling a bird.
Dave's warnings were repeated for a time back at Wright-Patterson, as he was occasionally taken from his job, and flown back for more admonition, and threats. The military was obviously worried that he might ignore the warnings to keep his mouth shut. During the Roswell era, this was a common practice of the military... a vagrant violation of a citizen's constitutional rights. A number of his coworkers were aware of his treatment, and relayed this information to Dave's family.
More than once, his sister would be called upon to fetch him, as he aimlessly wandered in the Earlham Cemetery, in Richmond. His family was under constant surveillance, as was Dave. By the 1970s, he turned down an offer for a job promotion, and left the Indiana facility. His wife, Janet, also related some of the strange events of Dave's life. In 1975, he finally revealed some of the strange happenings at the AVCO work site, and at Wright-Patterson. Getting information from him was like pulling teeth. He finally made drawings of the beings he had seen in the secret room, and revealed a few more details of his experience.
His health continued to deteriorate, and by 1985, he had developed a malignant tumor in the spot in the back of his head where he had been buzzed with a device from one of the three men who had found him in the secret room at AVCO. He died the next year at the young age of 43.
His wife, worn down by the ongoing problems, declined to have an autopsy done. Many of the details of Dave's experience came to light in 1992, when Dave's son, Bob, contacted researcher Worley, and related much of what he knew about his father's troubled life. It was his desire that his father's experience be made known to the public.
Another interesting report concerning alien bodies stored at Wright-Patterson AFB comes from one Lt. Col. Marion "Black Mac" Marion Magruder. His story is attributed to his son Mark. "Black Mac" was an individual who was involved in the investigation and subsequent cleanup of the debris from the Roswell crash. Although he was only one of many involved in the secret mission, he is one of only a few whose story has been made public. The WW ll fighter pilot's story was told from his deathbed.
"It was an awesome secret to carry all your life to know that there were more than us on this earth and not to be able to tell any body,"” Magruder said.
He told of being flown with a team to Wright-Patterson in 1947. The group was summoned for their opinion on a "matter of utmost urgency." They were taken into a room, and briefed on an extraterrestrial spacecraft that had crashed two weeks before near the town of Roswell, NM. While in this room, they were given the opportunity to examine the crash debris from the alien ship. Then, they were taken into another room, where they saw an alien being... still alive at the time.
Magruder told his son, "It was alive, but we killed it." This statement is taken to mean that, although medical doctors and other personnel examined and attempted to gain knowledge about the being, the processes used eventually inadvertently cause its demise. Magruder's description of the alien is very similar to other reports from those who were allowed to see the beings... small, spindly, large eyes, and oversized heads. It is most often reported that the Roswell crash yielded four alien beings, three dead and one alive, who lived only briefly.
Another extremely important report of a Wright-Patterson alien connection that has only surfaced in recent years is that of the late June Crain. In an interview archived to audio, she told of her employment in 1942 at the base, and how she was often privy to top secret information. During the Roswell era, she was told of alien bodies being brought to Wright-Patterson from a crash in the New Mexico city in 1947. She also was privileged to be able to handle some of the debris from the downed saucer. She stated in a 1997 interview with researcher James Clarkson that she knew of three crashes that were brought to the base.
Here is a transcript of a small part of that interview.
1997 Audio Interview of June Crain, by James Clarkson
Crain: "There were three times that I am aware of. I won't vouch for the fourth one 'cause I wouldn't..."
Clarkson: "Three crashes that you heard about while you worked there at Wright-Patterson?"
Crain: "One was the Roswell, and there were two others..."
Clarkson: "So as of 1952, they knew about three crashes?"
Crain: "Right, right."
Clarkson: "Of vehicles that were probably extraterrestrial?"
Crain: "Right, right. And then one where they brought the two men into Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and put them in the ice box. I didn't see it... because nobody was allowed to see it."
Clarkson: "OK, then two little men..."
Crain: "He called them 'little green men.' Then he described them as a 'greenish blue.' And they were four foot tall. And they were dead."
Clarkson: "We're talking about non-humans?"
Crain: "Non-humans, right."
June passed away in 1998. When asked why she decided to come forward after so many years, she said: "I'm 72 years old, and what can they do to me, kill me or put me in prison? I can handle it." Another UFO crash case that some researchers try to connect to Wright-Patterson is the one that allegedly occurred in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948. The information on this particular case is from dubious sources. Originally brought to life in "Behind the Flying Saucers," a 1950 book by author Frank Scully, the case has little merit, and there has never been enough information to consider it as actually occurring. Scully listed a Dr. Gee as the source of the case. It is not known if the so-called doctor was a real person or a character created by Scully just to list a source.
Allegedly, the saucer that crashed was made of extremely strong, light weight material. Nothing on this Earth was able to damage or penetrate this other-worldly material. There is one interesting note about this case, and though I cannot prove this, it has always been my best guess that Agent Scully of the X-files was named after the controversial author, Frank Scully. Some 14-16 dead aliens were pulled from the crash scene, and taken to Wright-Patterson, according to Scully's book.
Billy Booth
UFOs / Aliens Guide
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