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

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Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque
Part of Kirtland near Albuquerque Sunport, February 2015. Not Manzano interiors. Location context.
Joe Mabel ↗CC BY 3.0Licence terms ↗Resized and WebP-converted for display; content unchanged.UAPGerb · 0:10:30
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedUAPGerb · 1:30:38
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedJohn Brandenburg · 0:03:41
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedThe 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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Kirtland, Manzano and Sandia share one fenced reservation on the south-east edge of Albuquerque, which is why they are treated here as one place. Manzano was the Cold War nuclear weapons storage site; Sandia is a Department of Energy laboratory.
Testimony in the interviews runs from the 1980 Bennewitz episode, in which Richard Doty fed a local physicist false information, to UAPGerb's reading of William Steinman that Eric Henry Wang was moved from Wright Field to Kirtland to work on "exotic flight". Speakers in the Malmgren and Mars episodes describe material handled at Sandia.
Where the pin is
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.
- 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.
- 0:10:30 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb ▶
UAPGerb says Eric Henry Wang was taken from Wright Field to Kirtland Air Force Base, probably to work on exotic flight.
Brandenburg holds a PhD in theoretical plasma physics and worked at Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories and Mission Research Corporation.
- 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.
- 0:03:41 Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) · John Brandenburg ▶
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.
- 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.
- 0:04:44 Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) · John Brandenburg ▶
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.
- 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
- 1:08:16 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb ▶
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.
- 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.
- 0:06:24 “Aliens” Drove This Man Insane! (Ft. Greg Bishop) · Greg Bishop ▶
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.
- 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.
- 0:10:30 The Pentagon’s UFO Program Is Real [Here’s How It Works!] ft. UAPGerb · UAPGerb ▶
Mentioned in the corpus
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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
- 0:10:30 ▶ UAPGerb
UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” 21 February 2025
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.
- 0:03:41 ▶ John Brandenburg Brandenburg holds a PhD in theoretical plasma physics and worked at Lawrence Livermore…
“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.
- 0:06:24 ▶ Greg Bishop Bishop locates the Bennewitz monitoring story around Kirtland AFB and notes Bennewitz's…
Named in 17 uploads (automatic name matching, 29 mentions)
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- The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) ×2
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- CIA Historian: “Aliens Are Controlling Human Timelines!” (ft. Peter Levenda) | EARLY… ×2
- CIA Historian: “Aliens Are Controlling Human Timelines!” (ft. Peter Levenda) ×2
- UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) ×2
- Nuclear Guard Speaks Out About UFO Abduction ×1
- UFOs & JFK: He Knew Too Much! (Ft. Danny Sheehan) ×1
- “Tesla's Technology is Still Classified!" (Ft. Senate Staffer Kirk McConnell) ×1
- The CIA Scientist Who Built UFOs Before Bob Lazar (Townsend Brown Documentary) ×1
- “We Found A UFO At The Bottom Of The Baltic Sea!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg (Early… ×1
- “There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg ×1
- UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” ×1
- Life on Mars Destroyed by Nuclear War! (Ft. Dr. John Brandenburg) ×1
- and 3 more
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Sources on this record
- Kirtland AFB / Manzano / Sandia — 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.