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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Also: Wright Field; Hangar 18 (folklore)

base storage documented 1947–2026 status · verified entity United States, Dayton, Ohio

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from the air
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from the air

Wright-Patterson AFB from a light aircraft, August 2008. Location context — not a photograph of any reported object.

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Jesse Michels · 0:25:11

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UAPGerb · 1:30:38

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The Ohio base that housed the Foreign Technology Division and Project Blue Book. Speakers say recovered Roswell material was taken there for reverse engineering; a 1994 Larry King clip of Senator Goldwater is shown saying he was refused entry. UAPGerb links special-projects engineer Eric Henry Wang to the base.

Where the pin is

39.8261, -84.0483 exact

Public gazetteer: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio.

Dayton, Ohio, United States

What is claimed

  • Michels relays a witness account that recovered materials were taken to Wright-Patterson to be reverse engineered.

    SPECULATION thin Jesse Michels journalist 2023

    • 0:25:11 If You Still Think UFOs Are Fake, Watch This (David Grusch Interview) · Jesse Michels
      According to him, the materials were eventually taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. This actually makes sense. Wright Pat was the place that the military would take enemy equipment in order to reverse engineer it.
  • Michels shows a 1994 Larry King clip in which Senator Barry Goldwater discusses his inquiries into secret technology held at Wright-Patterson.

    FACT documented Jesse Michels journalist 2024

    • 0:17:06 Did Oppenheimer Work on UFOs? · Jesse Michels
      an interview with Barry Goldwater who was then a sitting Senator he then went on to actually be a presidential candidate and here's a good video of him discussing his inquiries into what secret Tech was being held at rright Patterson Air Force Base I think
  • Goldwater (archival, 1994) says he thinks the government does know about UFOs and that he could not back that up.

    SPECULATION contested barry goldwater government 2024

    • 0:17:06 Did Oppenheimer Work on UFOs? · Barry Goldwater
      I think the government does know I can't back that up but I think that uh at right Patterson field if you could get into certain places you'd find out what
  • UAPGerb, citing William Steinman, says Eric Henry Wang ran special projects at Wright Field and was taken to Kirtland to work on exotic flight.

    SPECULATION thin UAPGerb researcher 2025

    • 1:30:38 UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” · UAPGerb
      this guy Eric Henry Wang, who ran special projects at Wright Patterson, right airfield at the time, was taken to Kirtland Air Force Base to work probably on some of this exotic flight stuff.
  • Michels narrates a claim that Operation Paperclip scientists went to Wright-Patterson to work on the 1933 Magenta craft.

    SPECULATION thin Jesse Michels journalist 2025

    • 1:38:32 Presidential Advisor: “I Directly Handled UFO Material” (Ft. Harald Malmgren) · Jesse Michels
      Many of the top Nazi scientists as a part of Operation Paperclip that the Allies had exfiltrated also made their way to Wright Patterson to work on the magenta craft.
  • Alberino says the Kandahar pilot heard second-hand that the body he transported ended up at Wright-Patterson, and that the pilot himself did not know if it was true.

    SPECULATION thin Timothy Alberino researcher 2026

    • 3:20:25 “The Air Force Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino |… · Tim Alberino
      I heard through the grapevine the giant ended up at Wright-Patterson. He said, "I don't know if it's true, but that's what I heard.
  • Wright-Patterson AFB is a real USAF base; claims that it housed Roswell debris or a Special Studies flying-saucer department under Kissinger's oversight remain unverified lore layered on a real place.

    FACT contested Jesse Michels journalist 2025

    • 0:02:49 Did Henry Kissinger Oversee A UFO Crash Retrieval Program? · Jesse Michels
      Stansel's the head of the special studies department at Wright Patterson who is much more of a mystery. Dr. [music] Eric Wang. Unlike Stansel, Wang
  • Philip J. Corso claimed in The Day After Roswell that as chief of the Army's Foreign Technology Desk he seeded Roswell debris into US industry; his Army career is real, the seeding claim is memoir testimony without primary documents.

    FACT thin Jesse Michels journalist 2025

    • 0:19:04 Did Henry Kissinger Oversee A UFO Crash Retrieval Program? · Jesse Michels
      Philip J. Corso was a member, another CIC agent who went into government. He was on the staff of Eisenhower's National Security Council and eventually became the chief of the Pentagon's foreign technology desk in Army Research and Development.

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Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.

  • If You Still Think UFOs Are Fake, Watch This (David Grusch Interview) 11 September 2023

    • 0:25:11 Jesse Michels
      According to him, the materials were eventually taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. This actually makes sense. Wright Pat was the place that the military would take enemy equipment in order to reverse engineer it.
  • Did Oppenheimer Work on UFOs? 19 October 2024

    • 0:17:06 Jesse Michels
      an interview with Barry Goldwater who was then a sitting Senator he then went on to actually be a presidential candidate and here's a good video of him discussing his inquiries into what secret Tech was being held at rright Patterson Air Force Base I think
    • 0:17:06 Barry Goldwater Goldwater (archival, 1994) says he thinks the government does know about UFOs and that…
      I think the government does know I can't back that up but I think that uh at right Patterson field if you could get into certain places you'd find out what
  • UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” 21 February 2025

    • 1:30:38 UAPGerb UAPGerb, citing William Steinman, says Eric Henry Wang ran special projects at Wright…
      this guy Eric Henry Wang, who ran special projects at Wright Patterson, right airfield at the time, was taken to Kirtland Air Force Base to work probably on some of this exotic flight stuff.
  • Presidential Advisor: “I Directly Handled UFO Material” (Ft. Harald Malmgren) 22 April 2025

    • 1:38:32 Jesse Michels Michels narrates a claim that Operation Paperclip scientists went to Wright-Patterson to…
      Many of the top Nazi scientists as a part of Operation Paperclip that the Allies had exfiltrated also made their way to Wright Patterson to work on the magenta craft.
  • “The Air Force Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino | MEMBERS RELEASE 3 April 2026

    • 3:20:25 Tim Alberino Alberino says the Kandahar pilot heard second-hand that the body he transported ended up…
      I heard through the grapevine the giant ended up at Wright-Patterson. He said, "I don't know if it's true, but that's what I heard.
  • Did Henry Kissinger Oversee A UFO Crash Retrieval Program? 17 April 2025

    • 0:02:49 Jesse Michels Wright-Patterson AFB is a real USAF base; claims that it housed Roswell debris or a…
      Stansel's the head of the special studies department at Wright Patterson who is much more of a mystery. Dr. [music] Eric Wang. Unlike Stansel, Wang
    • 0:19:04 Jesse Michels Philip J. Corso claimed in The Day After Roswell that as chief of the Army's Foreign…
      Philip J. Corso was a member, another CIC agent who went into government. He was on the staff of Eisenhower's National Security Council and eventually became the chief of the Pentagon's foreign technology desk in Army Research and Development.

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Roswell incident. Open the full map filtered to this record.

Sources on this record

  • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia Wikipedia
  • 0:25:11 If You Still Think UFOs Are Fake, Watch This (David Grusch Interview) · Jesse Michels
    According to him, the materials were eventually taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. This actually makes sense. Wright Pat was the place that the military would take enemy equipment in order to reverse engineer it.
  • 0:17:06 Did Oppenheimer Work on UFOs? · Jesse Michels
    an interview with Barry Goldwater who was then a sitting Senator he then went on to actually be a presidential candidate and here's a good video of him discussing his inquiries into what secret Tech was being held at rright Patterson Air Force Base I think

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