Sandia National Laboratories
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| Type | Place |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Sandia |
| On the Timeline | 6 events, 1951–2018 |
Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory headquartered at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, responsible mainly for the non-nuclear parts of American nuclear weapons. Government files released in 2026 included reports of "green orbs", discs and fireballs seen around the secret Sandia site between 1948 and 1950.[1][2]
History
Sandia's forerunner, "Z" Division of the Manhattan Project, was set up in July 1945 at Oxnard Field in Albuquerque to handle weapons development, testing and bomb assembly. It became a separate laboratory in 1949, named after the nearby Sandia Mountains, to continue weapons development, especially its non-nuclear aspects.[1]
Management
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After the University of California's early management, the telephone company AT&T's subsidiary Western Electric ran the laboratory from 1 November 1949 through the Sandia Corporation. Congress designated it a national laboratory in 1979. Lockheed Martin took over in 1993, and since 1 May 2017 it has been run by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, a Honeywell subsidiary.[1]
Today
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Sandia employs more than 17,000 people at its main site in Albuquerque, with a major laboratory in Livermore, California, and test sites in Nevada and Hawaii. Its Z Pulsed Power Facility houses the "Z machine", described as the largest X-ray generator in the world.[1]
UFO reports
In the late 1940s the Sandia site at Albuquerque, a centre of nuclear weapons work, was among the places where "green fireballs" and other unusual lights were reported. A 116-page set of reports from 1948 to 1950 on sightings of green orbs, discs and fireballs near the facility was released in May 2026 as part of the U.S. government's UFO files.[2][3]
On the UAP Timeline
- Anthony Mirarchi's challenge to the balloon explanation (27 February 1951) — The head of Project Twinkle tells reporters the Navy is misleading the public and real UAP show controlled motion.
- Project Twinkle kept classified (1952) (19 February 1952) — The Air Force's science advisers recommend keeping Project Twinkle, a UAP study at atomic sites, classified.
- Sandia uncle crashed saucer story (1982) (29 September 1982) — Puthoff relays a story of a scientist who studied a crashed saucer and copied an antigravity device.
- Los Alamos nurse claim (16 March 1991) — A retired nurse says bodies were flown into Los Alamos after the war.
- Las Vegas data-gathering meeting (1996) (28 January 1996) — Military, scientific and corporate figures meet in Las Vegas about gathering UAP data.
- XViS claim (2 May 2018) — An anonymous website claims a system called 'XViS' is used for UAP tracking.
References
- Sandia National Laboratories — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Trump releases second tranche of UFO files", LBC (22 May 2026) · lbc.co.uk · archived copy
- Green fireballs — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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