Edwards Air Force Base
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| Type | Place |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Edwards AFB |
| On the Timeline | 6 events, 1972–1996 |
Edwards Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force base in the Mojave Desert of California, home of the Air Force Test Center and the Air Force Test Pilot School. It is the place where the sound barrier was first broken in 1947 and where many of the most advanced American aircraft have been tested, making it a frequent setting in stories of secret aircraft and UFOs.[1]
Origins
The base sits beside Rogers Dry Lake, a vast flat lake bed that serves as a natural landing area. Land for a bombing and gunnery range was acquired from 1932 under Lieutenant Colonel Henry "Hap" Arnold, and the site was known as Muroc Field, Muroc Army Airfield and Muroc Air Force Base. In 1942 it was chosen for secret jet testing. In December 1949 it was renamed after Captain Glen Edwards, a test pilot killed in the crash of a YB-49 flying wing in June 1948.[1]
Test flights
On 14 October 1947 Captain Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first person to do so. In the 1960s the North American X-15 rocket plane set records: Major Robert White passed Mach 4 in 1961 and flew to space altitude in 1962, and Major William "Pete" Knight reached Mach 6.72 in 1967, the fastest speed ever reached by an aircraft.[1]
Space Shuttle and NASA
After Columbia's first orbital flight in 1981, Edwards was the main landing site for the Space Shuttle until 1991, and remained a backup afterwards. NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, which grew from a team of engineers who arrived in 1946 to support the X-1, is on the base.[1]
Secret aircraft
Edwards and the surrounding Antelope Valley have long been associated with the testing of classified aircraft, and some reports of black triangular UFOs cluster in the region, which researchers have linked to secret Air Force aircraft.[2]
On the UAP Timeline
- Project Outgrowth (June 1972) — An Air Force propulsion lab report, Project Outgrowth, examines advanced propulsion ideas.
- Veritay propulsion report (1988) (April 1988) — A contractor submits a propulsion report to the Air Force led by Franklin Mead.
- SAIC electric propulsion study (1988) (April 1988) — SAIC studies electric propulsion for Edwards AFB.
- Project Blue Heaven claim (1990) — A physicist claims he worked on Project Blue Heaven at Edwards AFB.
- SAIC electromagnetic-gravity coupling study (1990) (August 1990) — An SAIC study tests whether electromagnetism and gravity can be coupled for space propulsion.
- CSETI site list for Congress (1996) (30 August 1996) — Greer's CSETI allegedly briefs Congress with a list of sites tied to UAP.
References
- Edwards Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Black triangle (UFO) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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