NARRATOR: Is the government
hiding crashed UFOs beneath Wright Patterson Air
Force Base in Dayton, Ohio? STANTON FRIEDMAN: I would say
we've probably retrieved dozens of crash saucers. NARRATOR: Are there declassified
government documents that prove that UFO wreckage
was secretly flown to the base? SCOTT RAMSEY: Reports claim
anywhere from 14 to 16 bodies were recovered from there. NARRATOR: For the first time on
television, exclusive stories from deep behind the secrecy. CAPT. ROBERT M. COLLINS: I had
a top secret SEI clearance. I've never told this
story on TV before. NARRATOR: Is there a
conspiracy to hide UFO evidence at the highest levels
of the US government? Or is it all just a myth? If DENNIS BALTHASER: If you want
to know the truth about UFOs, Wright Patterson Air Force
Base would be the place to go. NARRATOR: Join us
as the UFO Files uncovers the facts behind
the legend of Hangar 18. [tense music playing] July 1947, Roswell, New Mexico. Wreckage of an unknown craft
litters a field measuring almost a mile long and
hundreds of yards wide. The US Army sends trucks filled
with soldiers to the location. Their mission, to secure
and retrieve everything from the crash site. The military initially calls the
craft a flying disk in a press release. The army quickly
recants the UFO story. And a press conference is
scheduled in which the media is told that the wreckage is
nothing more than a weather balloon. But according to
many UFO researchers, at the same time that the press
is distracted with supposedly fake debris, the actual Roswell
wreckage and possibly other retrieved items are taken
under military control. They are surreptitiously
flown almost 1,500 miles away to a military base in Dayton,
Ohio named Wright Field. According to UFO legend,
its precise destination is a hangar on the
base, Hangar 18. STANTON FRIEDMAN: We know that
stuff got shipped to Wright because of the
testimony of the people who were involved in the
shipments on both ends. [suspenseful music playing] NARRATOR: A declassified FBI
document dated July 8, 1947, the same week as
the Roswell crash, also provides ties
to Wright Field. UNNAMED MALE SPEAKER
1: The object found resembles a high altitude
weather balloon with a radar reflector but that
telephonic conversation between their office
and Wright Field had not borne out this belief. Disc and balloon being
transported to Wright Field by special plane
for examination. NARRATOR: Soon after the
Roswell debris arrives, the class of 1947
from the military's elite airmen training facility,
the prestigious Air War College, is flown to Wright
Field to investigate. One of the officers
on scene is a battle tested hero of World War II, a
fighter pilot whose reputation earned him the
nickname Black Mac. But nothing would prepare Marion
Magruder and his classmates for what they would
witness at Wright field. It would change
their lives forever. MARK MAGRUDER: He saw metal that
was very pliable that you could wrinkle up in your
hands, and then it would go right back into shape. And it was very light, and yet
you couldn't tear it apart. He saw parts of wreckage of what
were extraterrestrial craft. He saw bodies. And he also saw a living being. He said that it was
child-like, very thin, with an oversized head and
long arms with four digits. [suspenseful music playing] My father referred to the
fact that we killed it. I'm sure we did not
do it on purpose, but they were experimenting. And obviously, we did not know
how to make this entity live. But this being did die. And the way he referred
to it is we killed him. [somber piano music playing] NARRATOR: According to his
son Mark, Lieutenant Colonel Magruder and his classmates
are sworn to secrecy under threat of court martial. Because of this, he keeps
a secret for 50 years, even from his family. But in 1997, his health
fading, Black Mac begins to open up to
those closest to him. MARK MAGRUDER: I said,
"dad, are you finally going to tell us what you know
so that we will know?" And at that time, he said
it was an awesome secret to carry all of his life to know
that there were more than us on this earth and to not
be able to tell anybody. [mournful music playing] I've never told this
story on TV before. And it's difficult to do it
now because I want my father's legacy to be as honorable
as his life was. And it's very important
to me that you know that I'm
telling you the truth as he absolutely knew it to be. He just needed to let us
know, his children know, that we weren't alone. [chilling piano music playing] NARRATOR: Black Mac Magruder's
story is not an isolated tale. In fact, for more
than half a century, similar stories have
surfaced about UFO wreckage, alien bodies, secret
underground cryogenic chambers, and a mysterious
hangar at the base. Wright Field would grow and be
renamed Wright Patterson Air Force Base. But questions about the base
and its legendary Hangar 18 would remain. DENNIS BALTHASER:
Hangar 18 has always been a mystery at the
Patterson Air Force Base. If you want to know
the truth about UFOs, about the craft, the debris,
probably the records, Wright Patterson Air Force
Base, in my estimation, would be the place to go. NARRATOR: If these
claims are true, Wright Patterson Air Force Base,
one of the largest and most important in America's
military, could be ground zero for recovered UFO material. All the information I
have from all my sources says it was shipped here. And the people who actually
worked at Wright Patterson, who actually wore a uniform
here, said it was here. Wreckage, entire
pieces of the craft, and whole sections of the craft. Bodies were brought in. In fact, bodies were brought
in on a regular basis from a number of different
crashes from Roswell. [suspenseful music playing] NARRATOR: Not only was debris
from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base,
but from the late 1940s until the end of the 1960s,
all the reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright
Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation,
Project Blue Book. Wright Patterson evolved
into one of the most talked about bases and UFO Lore. However, the Air Force's
description of the base is much different. [jets soaring] COL. ANDREW WEAVER: Really
what makes Wright Patterson unique is we are, by and
large, focused on tomorrow. What is tomorrow's Air
Force going to look like? What kind of airplanes
will be flying? What kind of weapons will
be on those aircraft? What kind of technology
will be in the cockpit? We have the Air force
Research Laboratory here. We buy all of the aircraft in
the United States Air force through the offices
that are here. We are responsible for all
of the flight test, all of the science and technology. We're also responsible for
all of the major intelligence that's done for air and space. Some of the research that
goes on in technology may be classified because
we're trying to protect the technology that we developed
to make sure that we provide our soldiers and our
airmen the best advantage. [suspenseful music playing] NARRATOR: Until the
early 1990s, much of the scientifically
advanced work was done by the Foreign
Technology Division or FTD, which many researchers believe
is the key to understanding Wright Patterson's
role in UFO history. [suspenseful music playing] The Foreign
Technology Division was the Air Force unit that was
responsible for scientific and technical intelligence as it
applied to the air and space and missile capability of
mainly the Soviet Union. They were there to prevent
technological surprise. They were the experts in
the bad guy's equipment. Wright Patterson has
a history of duplicating Russian equipment,
German equipment, and reverse engineering it. Why would they not
do the same thing with extraterrestrial
technology? And so there's no
question in my mind. That's exactly what we're doing. [chilling music playing] NARRATOR: March 25,
1948 Aztec, New Mexico. What starts as a normal
day for local oil workers turns into an encounter
with the unknown. As they approach the
Western edge of the mesa, a large, silver object
grabs their attention. [suspenseful music playing] When the oil workers
got to the mesa, there was a disk approximately
100 feet in diameter. NARRATOR: Because the
ship is found intact, it appears to be a landing
as opposed to a crash. [suspenseful music playing] SCOTT RAMSEY: The
witnesses I talked to, both Ken Farley and Doug
Nolan, young men at the time, would not enter the craft. Bill Ferguson, the foreman,
a more senior gentleman, was yelling at the workers
to get away from it. NARRATOR: Except for
a shattered porthole, there isn't any
immediate sign of damage. Doug Nolan reported
to me he saw two bodies through the porthole
slumped over. [suspenseful music playing] NARRATOR: Within hours
trucks arrive supposedly from Camp Hale Colorado. [truck engines revving] [suspenseful music playing] It appears the US government
has another UFO incident to contend with. Having learned from their
mistakes at Roswell, the army quickly takes
control of the situation. Roswell, nine months earlier,
had been sort of botched by putting it on the front
page of many newspapers around the country. I think the military has
really fine tuned their skills on going in and retrieving
a downed flying disk or UFO. [suspenseful music playing] The secrecy started immediately
upon the military's arrival at the crash site. They separated the
locals and reminded them of their patriotic duty
for the United States and sworn them to secrecy. DENNIS BALTHASER: 58
years ago, if you're told to shut up for
national security, you did it because you respected
and trusted the government. SCOTT RAMSEY: The military
wanted that craft immediately. And they would do whatever it
took to get it out of there. [chilling music playing] NARRATOR: According
to the eyewitnesses, the army recovers
between 14 and 16 badly burned alien
bodies from the craft. The recovery team reportedly
brings both the ship and the alien corpses to a local
safe house away from the media. STANTON FRIEDMAN: Take it to the
nearest military base where you can control access to it. And then you arrange to ship
it to an appropriate place depending on what you want done. But again, Wright
Patterson would be the eventual repository. NARRATOR: Because of the number
of alien bodies at Aztec, it is considered one of the
most significant UFO retrievals to date. But UFO researchers say there
are many other cases tied to Wright Field. October 1947, Paradise Valley,
Arizona, May 1953, Kingman, Arizona, June 1953, Laredo,
Texas, and December 5, 1965, Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
are only a few of the alleged flying saucer
recoveries in the US alone. No matter where a UFO lands,
it seems all roads lead back to Wright Patterson
and Hangar 18. Wright Pat was kind
of a graveyard for some of these things, and probably
put them in a holding pattern until technology got to where
they could look at them better. [chilling music playing] NARRATOR: But despite countless
books and the public interest in UFOs, there was no
official confirmation about alien aircraft
at Hangar 18. Eventually, attention shifted
away from Wright Patterson. [suspenseful music playing] Interest was revived, however,
in 1978 when UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield gave a
speech at the annual Mutual UFO Network or MUFON symposium,
coincidentally held in Dayton, Ohio, Wright Patterson's home. JOHN SCHUESSLER: Len was
doing things in this field that nobody else had done. He actually had developed a
number of people that were leaking information to him. They were giving
testimony on things that they had seen and done. Not just one person, but a whole
entourage of people that he developed a trust or people
who they could trust him and he wouldn't expose them. And they could give
him the information. And he could correlate it
with others and determine what's real and what isn't. [keyboard keys clacking] NARRATOR: Stringfield
wrote several books on the subject of UFO
crashes and their retrievals. Because of the secrecy
involved, many of his sources didn't want their
full names published for fear of losing their
top secret government jobs. [tense music playing] Among the stories of wreckage
being stored at Hangar 18 at Wright Patterson was the tale
about a Navy pilot identified only as PJ who, along
with several others, accidentally entered
a restricted hangar. UNNAMED MALE SPEAKER 2:
For a brief 30 seconds, a disc-shaped object
of metallic color, 15 feet wide and eight
feet deep, was seen. I cannot confirm anything
other than it was there. NARRATOR: According to
Stringfield's research, they were confronted
by the guards and quickly escorted
out of the hangar. UNNAMED MALE SPEAKER
2: Once outside, we had to reassure each other
that the good old US had developed or had all along
flying saucers in service. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: As these
stories started surfacing, other witnesses came forward. UFO researcher and Aberdeen,
Washington police Detective James Clarkson located June
Crain, a former employee of Wright Patterson
from the Roswell era. She agreed to sit down with him
for an audio interview in 1997. Crain's story dates
back to the early 1950s. According to the documents
she supplied to Clarkson, she was a clerk
typist with access to top secret information. One afternoon, a
lieutenant surprised her with a piece of unusual metal. [suspenseful music playing] It is the early 1950s. Wright Patterson Air force Base
is at the center of America's high tech war effort and the
Air Force's most sophisticated technology. It is also home to the
government's crash retrieval program, which these
declassified documents describe as designed to capture for study
non-US space objects or objects of unknown origin. It was code-named
Project Moon Dust. Items retrieved by
Moon Dust were then shipped to the foreign
technology division at Wright Patterson. Project Moon Dust
had to do really with us collecting space junk. [rocket ship launching] Things that would be
falling out of the sky. When a Soviet
satellite fell, when a piece of a Soviet missile
or a space launch vehicle landed in an area
that we could get to, it was important to glean
as much of this equipment as possible so that we could
study its technical makeup, its structure, and the
components and so forth. It was not uncommon for
examples of foreign air, space, and missile technology to be
brought back here to Wright Patterson, even
fragments of them, if that's all that
could be located. [suspenseful music playing] STANTON FRIEDMAN: The
situation is the same. Here's an unknown aerial
vehicle coming down. Let's keep people away from it. Let's grab the
wreckage ourselves. And let's lie about it so
nobody knows what we've done. [tense music playing] Standard practice. It doesn't matter whether
you're talking about airplanes or saucers. [ominous music playing] NARRATOR: One Wright
Patterson employee who may have had
access to information about these recoveries was
clerk typist June Crain. According to Crain, her
top secret clearance allowed her to witness high
level based information including, she claims,
classified files on UFO crash retrievals. In 1997, Crain told UFO
researcher James Clarkson her story of downed
alien aircraft. [tense music playing] According to Clarkson, Crain had
kept her silence for 45 years. At the time, she had been
forced to sign a confidentiality agreement and was liable
for a $10,000 fine. But by 1997, Crain
changed her mind. In an email from
Clarkson to UFO Files, he explains June had told
him "I'm 72 years old. What are they going to do,
shoot me or put me in prison? I think I can
handle either one." June passed away in 1998. But her testimony would
appear to provide witness to alien bodies at
Wright Patterson. According to many in the
UFO field, she is not alone. I have talked to
a number of people and interviewed a smaller number
at some depth who have said that there were bodies at
Wright Patterson Air Force Base and bodies recovered
from Roswell. And remember, Wright Patterson
did have the capability of providing low
temperature storage for biological specimens. They had an anthropoid
laboratory there, apes and monkeys
and stuff like that. That's a great cover
for aliens as well. NARRATOR: Additional stories
of aliens at Wright Patterson can be found in the papers
of Leonard Stringfield, the ufologist who specialized
in crash retrieval. Most of Stringfield's
eyewitnesses preferred to remain anonymous
or simply go by their initials. One of them, an unnamed former
naval intelligence officer, claims to have been present when
alien bodies arrived in 1953. UNNAMED MALE SPEAKER 3: I saw
the bodies at Wright Patterson. I was in the right
place at the right time when the crates arrived
that night by DC seven. NARRATOR: Stringfield also
interviewed an anonymous army officer who claimed to have
witnessed another group of four alien bodies being brought
to Wright Patterson in 1957. [tense music playing] UNNAMED MALE SPEAKER 4:
According to the general, the four bodies, approximately
five feet in height, were sent to Wright Patterson
Air Force Base, where he had seen them in a deep freeze
morgue, kept at approximately 120 degrees below
zero for preservation. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: Despite Stringfield's
passion for the subject, many ufologists were
frustrated by his unwillingness to reveal his
source's identities for additional confirmation. The UFO community was
very interested, of course. And any hint of a
crash that always gets everybody's attention. But the fact that he
wouldn't give his sources was really upsetting
to a lot of the people because they wanted
to run off and check for themselves, and rightly so. Why not? [tense music playing] STANTON FRIEDMAN: I've
tried to tell people he should be given credit for
speaking out for collecting. But let's not take anything he
said as gospel because we need verification and validation. And very rarely
did Len have that. NARRATOR: But not
all of the witnesses requested to remain anonymous. Respected UFO
investigator Ted Phillips told Stringfield he'd
been given access to several top secret photos
that show details of some of the alien bodies supposedly
stored at Wright Patterson. TED PHILLIPS: The hand
had long, thin appendages. Fingers, I suppose. And there was a sort of
membrane between the fingers. I'd not seen anything
like that before. And for some reason,
I mentioned it to Len. He became excited because
he had seen the same thing. I don't know what the origin
of the photos might be. But I do trust the source. [chilling music playing] NARRATOR: Regardless of the
various witnesses Stringfield interviewed, the descriptions
of the actual aliens that were maintained in the
Hangar 18 were all similar. The general testimony about
the bodies is quite consistent. Little guys, big heads,
relatively long arms, upper arm longer
than the lower arm, which is the reverse for us. Four long, skinny fingers-- would have made a good
violinist, one witness said. Slit for a mouth,
no visible teeth. Not really a nose,
but two little holes. Holes for the ears,
big eyes for body size. Short guys, little guys. Little gray men, if you want. Not green, gray. [suspenseful music playing] I have heard that there
were live aliens kept alive for a certain period
of time, maybe years after Roswell, let's say. Now they would
certainly have done all kinds of testing on them. ANDREW KISSNER:
If you had a body, you have an occupant of
a crashed flying disc, you would definitely autopsy
it and try to figure out how its physiology was
different than that of humans, how its DNA was different
than that of humans. They had some pretty advanced
investigations, I'm sure. STANTON FRIEDMAN: Now if this
was coupled with analysis of test results
from live aliens, then you'd really have a very
exciting biological study project. [suspenseful music playing] NARRATOR: Is there evidence of
a secret underground vault that holds these alien bodies? CAPT. ROBERT M.
COLLINS: The biggest kept secret was the huge
cryogenic networks that were required to support
and preserve these bodies. [suspenseful music playing] [techno music playing] NARRATOR: Wright
Patterson Air Force Base is a vast military complex. Officially, it employs
22,000 men and women and is the home of the
88th Air Base Wing, the National Air and
Space Intelligence Center, and the Air Force
Materiel Command. But since the alleged UFO crash
in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, there have been rumors
linking the base to the storage and study
of UFO crash remnants and even alien bodies. The military says
none of this is true. But those who've studied
it say Wright Patterson is large enough
and secure enough to hold a multitude of secrets. [chilling music playing] I spent 22 years in the
military and about six years in the Wright Patterson
Air Force Base. [chilling music playing] NARRATOR: Author and
retired Air Force captain Robert Collins says
he was a research analyst for the Foreign
Technology Division, the FTD, the unit most commonly linked
UFO studies on the base. [chilling music playing] His official job was to
analyze Soviet technology. But Collins has also
spent years researching the link between UFOs
and Wright Patterson. [chilling music playing] In his book, "Exempt
From Disclosure," Collins determines the
mystery of Hangar 18 may lie in a vast underground
infrastructure hidden from the thousands of eyes
that frequent the base. CAPT. ROBERT M.
COLLINS: The reason you don't want to use hangars,
the reason you want to use underground vaults is because
you want to keep things under cryogenic temperatures. And you want to keep it cold. And you want to keep it secure. And the underground vaults would
be the ideal place to keep it. Now we do have a lot of
evidence that supports the idea that these vaults were there. [chilling music playing] This underground structure was
enormous, and huge, long tunnel areas that connected
these vaults. There are about four vaults
that are about 100 by 100 feet. We found out that
these things exist. The question is,
what was in them? I'm convinced that the stuff
that was recovered from Roswell and other crashes was
put in these vaults. [suspenseful music playing] NARRATOR: UFO
researchers have long heard reports of such a
network underneath the base. But Collins' work may
provide a more specific view of those tunnels, one that helps
construct a diagram of what may exist at the base. According to his research,
there is a Building 18 complex instead of a Hangar 18. The structure he found
that fit the description is the neighboring
building, number 23. Collins claims it was
previously known as Hangar 23. [suspenseful music playing] CAPT. ROBERT M. COLLINS: Now
the way I understand it back in the early '50s, sometime
perhaps between '51 and '53, a craft was brought in here. The floor of the
Hangar 23 was removed. And this craft was put in
the basement of the hangar. And then the floor was
covered over the craft. And then there was a
vault area in building 18F with a tunnel that was
constructed and built over to Hangar 23. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: While it is
possible that Building 23 was the legendary Hangar
18, most researchers have continued to
focus on the importance of the underground tunnels. Wright Patterson
Air force Base is honeycombed with below
ground level facilities. These pits were dug in
various configurations and were deep enough to
where, if covered over, would have made an
ideal remote examination laboratory for somebody trying
to examine alien artifacts that had been recovered elsewhere. NARRATOR: By interviewing
various Air Force personnel who were supposedly granted access
to the top secret underground vault, Collins felt he was able
to confirm many of the rumors. CAPT. ROBERT M.
COLLINS: The biggest kept secret was the huge
cryogenic networks that were required to support
and preserve these bodies. And I understand it
was quite extensive. There were huge cryogenic
storage tubes that these so-called 3'4 or 3'6 aliens were
kept in these canisters under cryogenic temperatures. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: What actually lies
beneath Wright Patterson may be impossible to confirm. The Air Force Base operates
under the highest security, keeping access to the base
and these vaults secret from almost everyone,
even their own. ANDREW KISSNER: The secrecy
goes all the way to the top. It's a question of
absolutely the highest level classification that exists in
the United States government as far as I know. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: A formerly
classified memo from mid-July 1947 points to FBI
director J Edgar Hoover showing immense interest
in a retrieved craft and his frustration about
being kept out of the loop. [tense music playing] UNNAMED MALE SPEAKER 5: We
must insist on full access to disc recovered. The army grabbed
it and would not let us have it for
cursory examination. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: The memo was written
just days after the Roswell, New Mexico wreckage was
taken to Wright Field. If J Edgar Hoover
couldn't get access to the contents of Hangar 18,
how high did the secrecy go? In a 1994 interview
with Larry King on TNT, Senator Barry Goldwater detailed
his attempt to visit Hangar 18. [tense music playing] STANTON FRIEDMAN:
How much was there? We don't know. Whether it was just documents
or specimens or pieces, nobody knows. But the story dates
back to Goldwater. And I think there's
almost no question that it's a very true story. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: They are
schematics once classified as secret, designs of a craft
that appears to be a flying saucer. Various unconfirmed stories have
emerged of disc-shaped vehicles being developed at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base. But these declassified
government documents from 1955 reveal that the Air Technical
Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson had in fact begun work
on a disc-shaped craft named Project Silver Bug. It was a circular aircraft
about 35 feet in diameter. It had a crew of one pilot and
was capable of vertical takeoff at about 2,000 miles an hour. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: There are witnesses
who swear it eventually flew. But most accounts state
that Silver Bug probably remained on the drawing board. But Project Silver Bug
wasn't the only example of the military's interest
in disc-shaped vehicles. [tense music playing] 11 years later, a
former pilot who was walking through the
hangars of Wright Patterson during a reunion of his
squadron, the Flying Tigers, says he accidentally saw a
similarly designed aircraft. MICHAEL SCHRATT:
Mr. Warren Botts, who had an inquisitive
mind at the time, was going through these
different hangar bays. When he got to Hangar
number 4, Bay E, he went through
the doorway there. There was an armed guard at the
facility who did not see him in the beginning. He started approaching
the port main landing gear to investigate it. And that's where the
guard stopped him, questioning his authority, and
told him he was not supposed to be in there. But he did see a very
large monster, his words, of an aircraft that was
116 feet in diameter, at least 12 feet off
the hangar floor. NARRATOR: Although the name
of that specific project has never been disclosed,
the US military was apparently interested
in the craft that could have looked like this. With Wright Patterson's
history of reverse engineering foreign technology,
is it possible that some of the
military's advances were gained from retrieved UFOs? I think we've made
a great deal of effort to learn bits and pieces based
on both the recovered wreckage and the instrument data
from tracking UFOs. I don't think we've yet
learned how to duplicate that technology overall. That is, to build something
that could fly the way saucers or mother ships do. If you've given Christopher
Columbus an unlimited budget in 1493 and a nuclear
submarine, and say Chris, this is your reward, here's
this great nuclear submarine and an unlimited budget. I need two more of these. Could he have built one? Not a chance. NARRATOR: Summer 1980,
mysterious lights fill the night skies above
Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Newspapers and
countless eyewitnesses report the aircraft was unlike
anything they'd ever seen. The main reports we saw
was the object was moving up and down, was brightly lit. It hovered for long
periods of time. And some people said it seemed
to disappeared over Wright Patterson Air Force Base. But the biggest
thing that gave us what we felt was their
conclusive evidence that was something from Wright Field
was when the two Middletown policemen chased it. They chased it for a long
ways towards Dayton, Ohio. And then lost it
in an area where they felt it was heading for
Wright Patterson Air Force Base. NARRATOR: Wilhelm, a retired
army Master Sergeant and UFO investigator, suspected the
military may have been secretly testing a newly developed
Harrier jet on the base. The British designed craft
combines the vertical abilities of a helicopter and the forward
thrust of a conventional jet. After releasing his
findings to the media, Wilhelm was quickly
contacted by the military. CHARLES M. WILHELM: I got
a phone call from a major from Wright Patterson
Air Force Base. And he asked me a
lot of questions. And at the very end, he did say,
"I cannot make any comments Mr. Wilhelm. But all I can say is
you've done your homework." [ominous music playing] So a lot of things that people
think they see that's strange doesn't mean that it's a
craft from another world. Most of the time,
it's our military developing some of our
technology, which we need very badly. And it's the reason why
they don't say a whole lot. And I commend them for it. And I'll back them up 100%. NARRATOR: The Harrier incident
raises another possibility about activities at
Wright Patterson. Perhaps many of the
legends about Hangar 18 are actually a cover up for
top secret military programs. [tense music playing] I think it's important to keep
in mind that the government, in association with Air
Force OSI Counterintelligence Division, would
really like to extend the alien myth as
a cover to hide their own deep black programs. Well, it means that
they want everyone to believe that what
you're seeing out there is extraterrestrial. And we do not have the
technology to duplicate what we're seeing in the skies. [jets soaring] ANDREW KISSNER: I
think to the extent that they can confuse or
disinform folks about flying discs and make it look like a
extraterrestrial innovation, the more they'll do that. It's in the government's
best interest to distribute
disinformation if you want to keep a secret secret. [jets soaring] NARRATOR: The debate over Hangar
18 and Wright Patterson Air force Base may never
be completely resolved. I would say upward over about
80% convinced that it's true. There was wreckage there. There were bodies brought there. Research was done here
up to maybe 81 or 82. And they packed
everything up and moved it because of security leaks. That's when all the little
stories about green men ceased, about that time frame. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: Most researchers
speculate that any work being done involving UFOs
at Wright Patterson may have been relocated to
another top secret base, Area 51, the mysterious airfield
hidden in the Nevada desert. DENNIS BALTHASER:
Area 51 developed because of its location,
away from anything. And Wright Patterson
is in Dayton, Ohio. It's in the middle
of a major town. So I think the Area 51 would
have been the ideal location. [tense music playing] NARRATOR: Officially,
the government won't confirm that any actual
UFO wreckage exists at all. Despite the denials, there
are government documents that indicate that
wreckage from Roswell and other mysterious
crashes were shipped to Wright Patterson for purposes
of examining the debris. [jets soaring] Government programs existed
that show the air base had an interest in gathering any
foreign space vehicles that could locate. And there is testimony
that the government wants to keep all of this under wraps,
even from some of its most prominent officials. But why? What is the truth behind
the legend of Hangar 18? [suspenseful music playing] MICHAEL SCHRATT:
Nobody can conclusively prove without hard evidence
that we do have alien bodies. It's all just rumor
and speculation. [suspenseful music playing] It's so much more romantic
to think that we have it. But again, no concrete
physical evidence has appeared after 60
years of this mystery. [suspenseful music playing] There really was a
Roswell spacecraft. And there really were other UFOs
that were recovered by forces loyal to the United States. It's just that the classic
Hangar 18 was more of something that you would
see in the movies. And it was part of the rumors
that circulated the UFO community for well
over 35 years. [suspenseful music playing] ANDREW KISSNER:
The bottom line is that since we've
collected flying discs, we're not going to
throw them away. [suspenseful music playing] They either exist
at Wright Patterson or they exist in an underground
facility somewhere in the US West. Wherever it is, they exist in
a warehouse under US control. And they haven't
been thrown away. [suspenseful music playing] [end credits playing] [end title sequence]
