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Kirtland AFB / Manzano / Sandia

Also: Kirtland Air Force Base; Manzano Base; Sandia National Laboratories

base storage, facility documented 1980–2026 status · verified entity United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque

Part of Kirtland near Albuquerque Sunport, February 2015. Not Manzano interiors. Location context.

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UAPGerb · 0:10:30

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UAPGerb · 1:30:38

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John Brandenburg · 0:03:41

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The Albuquerque base with the Manzano weapons storage complex and Sandia National Laboratories. Speakers connect it to the Paul Bennewitz affair, to Eric Henry Wang's transfer, and to claims of recovered craft and material handled at Sandia. UAPGerb lists Sandia among the FFRDCs he believes house programme work.

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35.0400, -106.6090 exact

Public gazetteer: Kirtland AFB main base; Manzano storage complex and Sandia labs lie on the same reservation.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

What is claimed

  • UAPGerb names Sandia, Livermore, Oak Ridge and Battelle-run institutions among the FFRDCs where he believes programme work is housed.

    INFERENCE thin UAPGerb researcher 2026

    • 0:10:30 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb
      FFRDC's examples here would be the MITER Corporation, uh numerous institutions run by Battel Memorial Institute, uh Sandia, Lawrence Liverour, Oak Ridge, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, National Labs.
  • UAPGerb says Eric Henry Wang was taken from Wright Field to Kirtland Air Force Base, probably to work on exotic flight.

    SPECULATION thin UAPGerb researcher 2025

    • 1:30:38 UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” · UAPGerb
      was taken to Kirtland Air Force Base to work probably on some of this exotic flight stuff. Yeah. And Wang was also talked about by primary Kingman witness um Arthur Stansel Jr. Yep.
  • Brandenburg holds a PhD in theoretical plasma physics and worked at Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories and Mission Research Corporation.

    FACT documented John Brandenburg scientist 2025

    • 0:03:41 Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) · John Brandenburg
      So, then I finished there, and I went on to another government lab called Sandia National Lab, and worked on directed energy weapons. I wanted to work on fusion, but all the money had suddenly dried up for fusion research.
  • Brandenburg attributes his lifelong Mars focus to the hope, formed at Sandia during the 1983 nuclear scare, that a dead civilisation on Mars would end the Cold War.

    FACT contested John Brandenburg scientist 2025

    • 0:04:44 Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) · John Brandenburg
      I thought suddenly I had hope for the future for the human race. I thought, "Well, if we discover a dead civilization on Mars, then the Cold War will be over." The Russians and Americans will go to Mars together and investigate.
  • Sandia National Laboratories is a real DOE/NNSA lab; UAPGerb's claim that Sandia-managed Tonopah/TTR sites house legacy UFO materials is testimony/inference.

    FACT contested UAPGerb researcher 2026

    • 1:08:16 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb
      one such place would be the ton of test range TTR which is managed by Sand Sandia which is the department of energy's experimental weapons testing >> and what does he say he does specifically in the context of crash >> we we'll we'll talk about that that's interesting there's
  • Bishop locates the Bennewitz monitoring story around Kirtland AFB and notes Bennewitz's prior Skunk Works employment interest — details that are checkable against Project Beta sourcing.

    FACT contested Greg Bishop researcher 2025

    • 0:06:24 “Aliens” Drove This Man Insane! (Ft. Greg Bishop) · Greg Bishop
      Kirtland Air Force Base. Kitland Air Force Base has an interesting history in just UFO lore. I believe it was managed back in the day by the Sandia offshoot of the Atomic Energy Commission. Oh, okay. Okay.
  • UAPGerb infers that FFRDCs and DOE national labs (Sandia, Livermore, Oak Ridge, Battelle-run sites) sit above defense primes in an alleged UFO materials-custody hierarchy.

    INFERENCE thin UAPGerb researcher 2026

    • 0:10:30 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb
      FFRDC's examples here would be the MITER Corporation, uh numerous institutions run by Battel Memorial Institute, uh Sandia, Lawrence Liverour, Oak Ridge, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, National Labs.

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  • The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb 11 January 2026

    • 0:10:30 UAPGerb
      FFRDC's examples here would be the MITER Corporation, uh numerous institutions run by Battel Memorial Institute, uh Sandia, Lawrence Liverour, Oak Ridge, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, National Labs.
    • 1:08:16 UAPGerb Sandia National Laboratories is a real DOE/NNSA lab; UAPGerb's claim that Sandia-managed…
      one such place would be the ton of test range TTR which is managed by Sand Sandia which is the department of energy's experimental weapons testing >> and what does he say he does specifically in the context of crash >> we we'll we'll talk about that that's interesting there's
  • UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” 21 February 2025

    • 1:30:38 UAPGerb
      was taken to Kirtland Air Force Base to work probably on some of this exotic flight stuff. Yeah. And Wang was also talked about by primary Kingman witness um Arthur Stansel Jr. Yep.
  • Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) 13 March 2025

    • 0:03:41 John Brandenburg Brandenburg holds a PhD in theoretical plasma physics and worked at Lawrence Livermore…
      So, then I finished there, and I went on to another government lab called Sandia National Lab, and worked on directed energy weapons. I wanted to work on fusion, but all the money had suddenly dried up for fusion research.
    • 0:04:44 John Brandenburg Brandenburg attributes his lifelong Mars focus to the hope, formed at Sandia during the…
      I thought suddenly I had hope for the future for the human race. I thought, "Well, if we discover a dead civilization on Mars, then the Cold War will be over." The Russians and Americans will go to Mars together and investigate.
  • “Aliens” Drove This Man Insane! (Ft. Greg Bishop) 5 July 2025

    • 0:06:24 Greg Bishop Bishop locates the Bennewitz monitoring story around Kirtland AFB and notes Bennewitz's…
      Kirtland Air Force Base. Kitland Air Force Base has an interesting history in just UFO lore. I believe it was managed back in the day by the Sandia offshoot of the Atomic Energy Commission. Oh, okay. Okay.

Named in 17 uploads (automatic name matching, 29 mentions)

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Kirtland AFB / Manzano / Sandia. Open the full map filtered to this record.

Sources on this record

  • Kirtland AFB / Manzano / Sandia — Wikipedia Wikipedia
  • 0:10:30 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb
    FFRDC's examples here would be the MITER Corporation, uh numerous institutions run by Battel Memorial Institute, uh Sandia, Lawrence Liverour, Oak Ridge, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, National Labs.
  • 1:30:38 UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” · UAPGerb
    was taken to Kirtland Air Force Base to work probably on some of this exotic flight stuff. Yeah. And Wang was also talked about by primary Kingman witness um Arthur Stansel Jr. Yep.

Built from graph nodes N-SWEEP_A-0034, N-MARS-0052, N-PEOPLE-0065.