Bases & Area 51 (topic)

Bases & Area 51 (topic)

Type	Topic overview
Events	39
Years	1949–2022
Timeline	Show on the Timeline

Bases & Area 51 is one of the twelve topics on the UAP Timeline. It covers military bases, test ranges and secret facilities, including Area 51. The Timeline lists 39 events on this topic, from 1949 to 2022.

Key people

• Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
• Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
• J. Allen Hynek — Astronomer and Air Force UFO consultant from 1948 to 1969 who later founded the Center for UFO Studies.
• Paul Bennewitz — Albuquerque physicist targeted by Air Force disinformation in the Bennewitz affair.
• Barry Goldwater — U.S. senator and Air Force Reserve general who said he was denied access to UFO material at Wright-Patterson.
• Curtis LeMay — Air Force chief of staff who reportedly refused Barry Goldwater access to UFO material.
• John Lear — Pilot and son of Bill Lear who spread claims of alien treaties in the late 1980s.
• George Knapp — Las Vegas journalist who broke the Bob Lazar story and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
• Tom DeLonge — Musician who founded To The Stars Academy.
• William Tompkins — Douglas Aircraft draftsman who claimed late in life that he worked on a secret space program.
• Bruce Maccabee — Navy optical physicist and leading analyst of UFO photographs.
• Joshua Goldberg — Physicist who managed Air Force funding for general relativity research from 1956 to 1963.
• Leslie Kean — Journalist who co-wrote the 2017 New York Times story on AATIP.
• Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
• Howell McConnell — NSA official who told Jacques Vallée of continued UFO analysis at Wright-Patterson.
• Shlomo Arnon — Researcher who received Barry Goldwater's 1975 letter about classified UFO information.

Programs, places and terms

• Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
• U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
• Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
• Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
• U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
• Area 51 — The secret Nevada test site where spy planes and stealth aircraft were developed.
• Disinformation — False information spread deliberately to mislead.
• NORAD — The U.S.–Canadian air defence command.
• Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
• Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
• Dulce — A New Mexico town linked to legends of an underground alien base.
• Air Force Office of Special Investigations — The Air Force's criminal investigation and counterintelligence agency.
• McDonnell Douglas — The aerospace company that ran several quiet studies of UFOs and propulsion.
• Cheyenne Mountain — The NORAD command complex in Colorado.
• Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
• Anti-gravity — The idea of cancelling or controlling gravity for propulsion.

Events

• Hebgen Lake disc report (1949) (17 August 1949) — An Air Force base reports an informant's account of seven discs and two crashed ones; a lake search finds nothing.
• Tompkins's secret space program claims (1 March 1955) — Tompkins also describes alleged secret underground bases tied to a hidden space program.
• Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (5 May 1955) — Blue Book Special Report No. 14 analyzes 3,200 sightings and finds no proof of advanced craft.
• Joshua Goldberg and Air Force gravity research (Late 1956) — Wright-Patterson's labs hire physicist Joshua Goldberg to manage relativity and gravity contracts.
• French scientist Mr. L at Wright-Patterson (1959) — A French scientist claims he was asked to work at Wright-Patterson on recovered material.
• Navy reserve pilot's Wright-Patterson saucer claim (1962) (1962) — A Navy reserve pilot says he saw a saucer at Wright-Patterson in 1962.
• Lockbourne AFB object and Kecksburg (10 December 1965) — An Air Force guard says he watched over an object brought from Pennsylvania before it went to Wright-Patterson.
• Cedar Breaks radar site crash claim (1966) — A radar technician reportedly saw a disc crash at a Utah radar site linked to Area 51.
• Howell McConnell and post-Blue Book analysis (28 October 1972) — An NSA official tells Vallée a Wright-Patterson office kept secretly analyzing UAP after Blue Book.
• 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.
• Goldwater letter to Shlomo Arnon (1975) (28 March 1975) — Goldwater writes that UAP information is classified above Top Secret.
• Charred body in Colorado claim (1978) (1978) — An Air Force technician says he saw a charred alien body at an underground site in Colorado.
• GE contractor taken underground claim (1982) — A man's daughter says he was blindfolded and taken underground at Wright-Patterson.
• Fort Hood hidden opening claim (1982) — An Air Force captain describes a pilot seeing a hidden opening in the ground at a Texas airfield.
• Montauk Phoenix and Rainbow claims (1983) — Alleged Montauk projects reportedly used radio and microwaves in mind experiments.
• Edmund Gomez and Dulce (23 October 1988) — A New Mexico rancher claims he saw troops and an aircraft crash near Dulce.
• John Lear's source Mike (1989) (January 1989) — John Lear says a source was flown to an underground site to photograph a saucer and autopsy.
• Bob Lazar goes public (15 May 1989) — Bob Lazar goes public, claiming he worked on alien craft at S-4 near Area 51.
• Osedacz thesis on fastwalkers (1989) (June 1989) — An Air Force captain writes that a database of UAP in near-Earth orbit has long existed.
• Jim Goodall and Groom Lake black programs (1990) — Writer James Goodall says at least eight secret programs fly from Groom Lake.
• Naval Research Laboratory parapsychology claim (21 February 1990) — A journalist claims the Naval Research Laboratory had a parapsychology unit.
• Radio caller's underground base claim (1991) (1991) — A radio caller claims he wired a deep underground site holding military personnel and creatures.
• Navy linguist and the Soviet crash report (July 1991) — A Navy linguist says he decoded a Soviet report of a crash split between England and Germany.
• Area 2 encounters at Nellis (October 1998) — A security airman at a Nevada nuclear depot describes a UAP encounter.
• Jehovah teletype (Cooper documents) (November 1998) — An allegedly leaked CIA teletype is given to a researcher.
• David Adair's Area 51 engine claim (1999) — Engineer David Adair says he saw a strange craft at Groom Lake.
• Paul Czysz and the zero-point energy claim (November 2000) — A former McDonnell Douglas employee says a friend found a way to tap zero-point energy.
• NIDS black triangle study (3 November 2001) — Over 150 black triangle sightings are tallied at a NIDS meeting.
• Charles Hall and the Tall Whites (7 May 2003) — Former airman Charles Hall writes he was watched by 'tall whites' at Nellis AFB in the 1960s.
• Kit Green's injury database (2005) — Kit Green begins a database of people injured in close encounters.
• Navy officer on the Montauk claims (4 August 2008) — An anonymous forum poster says a Navy officer dismissed some Montauk claims as nonsense.
• Hill AFB glowing disc (2010) (15 December 2010) — Two alleged Hill AFB workers report a glowing disc above the flight line.
• Alexander's no-secret-program conclusion (15 February 2011) — Alexander says there was no secret UAP project at the Pentagon or the energy labs.
• John Herrington briefing story (2012) — An author relays a story told by a neighbor of a former Energy Secretary.
• Antarctic Navy flight engineer's account (30 January 2015) — A Navy flight engineer says he saw an entrance to an underground site near the South Pole.
• Fort Sill sightings (2015) (20 February 2015) — An Oklahoma witness reports diamond- and donut-shaped objects near Fort Sill.
• Podesta–McCasland emails (24 January 2016) — Two Air Force generals and a Skunk Works executive appear in emails with Podesta's team.
• Alaska pyramid claim (28 September 2021) — DeLonge says he was told of a large pyramid beneath Alaska.
• Doty's five Area 51 projects claim (13 June 2022) — Richard Doty claims five UAP-related projects at Area 51.