Hangar 18
From the UAP Encyclopedia, the open encyclopedia of UFO and UAP history · 📍 Place
Contents 6
| Type | Place |
|---|---|
| On the Timeline | 4 events, 1952–1980 |
Hangar 18 is a legendary building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, where, according to UFO lore, the U.S. Air Force stored crashed flying saucers and alien bodies. The Air Force says there has never been a Hangar 18 at the base.[1][2]
Origins
Wright Field, later Wright-Patterson, was the home of the Air Force's UFO investigations, including Project Blue Book, and the 1947 Roswell debris was reported at the time to be on its way there. In 1966 John G. Fuller's book Incident at Exeter included a one-sentence mention of rumours that small humanoid bodies lay in a morgue at Wright-Patterson. The passage inspired a 1968 science-fiction novel, The Fortec Conspiracy by Richard M. Garvin and Edmund Addeo, about an Air Force cover-up.[1][2]
Robert Spencer Carr
The name "Hangar 18" was popularised by Robert Spencer Carr, a science-fiction writer in Florida. In a radio interview on 11 October 1974 he claimed that the bodies of aliens from a 1948 crash at Aztec, New Mexico, were held in Hangar 18, and that a high-ranking source had seen them autopsied. The claims were widely reported and officially denied; the Air Force said there was no Hangar 18 and pointed to the similarity with The Fortec Conspiracy. In 1997 Carr's son described his father as a habitual teller of tall tales.[1][2]
Barry Goldwater
Carr said that Senator Barry Goldwater had been refused entry to a restricted area at the base. Goldwater confirmed that he had once asked to see a guarded room, sometimes called the "Blue Room", and had been turned down, and some accounts say the refusal came from General Curtis LeMay; but Goldwater said he had never heard rumours of alien bodies there.[1][2]
Film and popular culture
The 1980 film Hangar 18 dramatised the claims, and its director described it as a modern version of the Roswell incident. In 1980 the TV series In Search of... filmed at building 18A at Wright-Patterson, whose manager explained that its refrigerated cells were used to test aircraft parts in the cold. In January 1985 the Air Force stated that there had never been extraterrestrial visitors or equipment at the base. The legend inspired a 1990 Megadeth song and appears in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and The Simpsons.[1][2]
On the UAP Timeline
- Wright-Patterson guard and the tarp-covered craft (1952) (1952) — A former guard is said to have seen a tarp-covered craft taken into a secure area at Wright-Patterson.
- Navy reserve pilot's Wright-Patterson saucer claim (1962) (1962) — A Navy reserve pilot says he saw a saucer at Wright-Patterson in 1962.
- Barry Goldwater and the Wright-Patterson room (28 December 1973) — Sen. Barry Goldwater says he was refused access to a UAP 'room' at Wright-Patterson.
- Hangar 18 (film) (July 1980) — The film Hangar 18 depicts a government cover-up of a crashed UAP.
References
- Hangar 18 (conspiracy theory) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Sarah Pruitt, "Hangar 18" (on Wright-Patterson UFO legends), History.com · history.com · 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.
No discussion yet.