The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure (20 page)

     The 1116th squadron was headquartered at Yokota and contained the following detachments: Det 1, Kunsun; Det 2, Saigon; Det 3, Korat Thailand; Det 4, Misawa Japan and Det 4, Laos).

     The “oddball unit” description was apt indeed, for con artist they were and still are. Safe crackers, cat burglars, locksmiths, fast talkers, disguise artists, impersonators, assorted masters of deception, eccentric geniuses and useful flakes of all types were recruited from all over the country–even from prison when necessary–in order to staff the unit. Military organizations, discipline and paper work were of secondary importance. The emphasis was always first and foremost the obtaining of information, and those involved were experts at it. They had to be, for they were often assigned to the most dangerous of America’s covert intelligence operations.

     Since deception was an integral part of their operational strategy, ruses like the Men-in-Black were right up their alley. While it seems unlikely that we shall ever know whose idea it was to adopt the Men-in-Black game for the purpose of obtaining UFO information, it was almost certainly Gray Barker’s early ‘50s hype that inspired it. All the 1127th had to do was adopting the concept and use it for their purposes.

     The sensationalistic paranoia of the UFO community and the accompanying incredulity of more responsible individuals would provide all the cover they needed. No one but the lunatic fringe would ever believe such stories were true and the 1127th knew that the fringe groups had little credibility outside their own small circles. It was the perfect cover. Again, this fitted the operational mandate to control the evidence.

     During late 1979-1983, the 1127th successor unit, the 7602nd Air Intelligence Group, was heavily involved in the Paul Bennewitz affair as mentioned previously, but so were AFOSI and several other agencies, most notably the National Security Agency (NSA).

     Also, Charles Doty (deceased) and Ed Doty, father and uncle of Rick Doty both retired AF Colonels worked for the 7602nd and were heavily involved in the covert collection of UFO reports.

     AFSAC was merged under the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIAs) Defense Humint Services (DHS, subdivided into three regional areas within the US) in 1999. Can we assume that part of its job is to collect UFO reports covertly. For further reading please see references.

     Mythology or otherwise, the MIB have played a significant role in the world of Flying Saucer folklore wearing many different faces, human and otherwise, and representing a part of the so often talked about, “Shadow Government" (1, 2).

     What better a shadow than things that lie beneath, a macabre mystery which is all its own? We will see how true this might be in Section 3.

(1) Enemies: A History of the FBI, Tim Weiner, February 14, 2012.

(2) Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Tim Weiner, May 20, 2008.

Chapter 1

In the first 6 months of 2008 3 OSI and 2 FBI agents had visited the WP Civil Engineering (CE) contact asking questions about the Vaults.

T
he military presence began there in 1917 when Wilbur Wright Field was opened on the site of today’s flight line to train pilots, armories, and gunners during World War I. A depot also began operating there. Aviation research and development continued to flourish there as well. First, McCook Field was built at what is now the intersection of State Route 4 and Interstate 75. Then Wilbur Wright Field was established where the present runway is in 1924, on land donated by the local community. Wilbur Wright Field and the depot area became Patterson Field on July 6, 1931, in honor of Lt. Frank Patterson. He was killed in 1918 in the flight line crash of a DH-4 while flight-testing the synchronization of machine gun and propeller. In 1948, Wright and Patterson fields were merged and created to form Wright-Patterson AFB.

     Today, as in the early 1900s, Wright-Patterson is where weapon systems of the future are conceived, tested and modified by the base’s 10,000 researchers, scientists, and engineers. Wright-Patterson has evolved into the largest, most diverse and organizationally complex base in the Air Force. The Air Force missions range from logistics management, research and development, education, flight operations, and many other defense related activities.

     Wright-Patterson AFB is the home of the headquarters of a vast worldwide logistics system supporting the entire Air Force. It also has the foremost aeronautical research and development center in the Air Force. The Wright-Patterson work force numbering approximately 24,000 people, making it the fifth largest employer in the state of Ohio and the largest employer at a single location. It is home for more than 70 units representing seven (7) different Air Force commands and a host of DOD organizations.

     The base pays out nearly $3 million in salaries every day of the year totaling an annual payroll of approximately $1.2 billion (1). This brief history alone tells the reader that not only is Wright-Patterson of central importance today, but it had equal, if not greater importance in July 1947. In 1947, most of the Air Force research and development (R & D) took place “in-house” meaning only those in military uniform performed the basic R and D for aircraft and rocket-missile development. This method guaranteed the utmost secrecy for any programs deemed sensitive.

On July 8, 1947, Col. Blanchard announced a flying saucer had been captured near Roswell, NM, on that late afternoon; J. Bond Johnson took General Ramey’s photograph in Fort Worth with a copy of the message apparently just sent to Hoyt Vandenberg in his hand. While Ramey told the world that a weather balloon went down in Roswell, the Army general had in his hand a memo telling Pentagon brass of a “disc” crash with “victims.”

     With the reported recovery of aliens and their flying saucer in July of 1947, the many stories and rumors suggested that these artifacts were brought to WPAFB in Dayton, OH. Recent information seems to add substantial credence to those reported rumors in the form of a message virtually pulled from General Ramey’s hand by means of digital enhancement (thanks to David Rudiak) (2). The message to Vandenberg reads:

17:13 CST                         ARMY CABLE

A) URGENT
                     

B) HQAAF

C) WASHINGTON 

D)
8 JUL 1947

E) VANDENBERG
                           

F)
 FROM: HQ 8TH AAF 

G)
 SUB: ROSWELL

0) FWAAF ACKNOWLEDGES THAT A “DISK” IS NEXT NEW FIND WEST OF

1)
 THE CORDON. AT LOCATION WAS A WRECK NEAR OPERATION AT THE

2)”RANCH” AND THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK YOU FORWARDED TO THE

3)??TEAM AT FORT WORTH, TEX.

4) AVIATORS IN THE “DISC” THEY WILL SHIP FOR A1/8TH ARMYAMHC

5)
 BY B29-ST OR C47. WRIGHT AF ASSESS AIRFOIL AT ROSWELL. ASSURE

6)
 THAT CIC/TEAM SAID THIS MISSTATE MEANING OF STORY AND THINK

7)
 LATE TODAY NEXT SENT OUT PR OF WEATHER BALLOONS WOULD FARE

8)
 BETTER IF THEY ADD LAND DEMORAWIN CREWS.

9) RAMEY

TOP SECRET

To add credence that something of tremendous importance was occurring in July 1947, we have from Edward Ruppelt’s book
, 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,' Chapter 2, 1956, the following: “By the end of July 1947, the UFO security lid was down tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing got the same treatment that you would get today if you inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stock-piled in the U.S.’s atomic arsenal. No one, outside of a few high-ranking officers in the Pentagon, knew what the people in the barbed wire enclosed Quonset huts that housed the Air Technical Intelligence Center (this should of read T2 Intelligence in Ruppelt’s book, T3 was Engineering) were thinking or doing,“ It was T2 and T3 in July '47, not ATIC. T2 Intelligence was integrated with AMC, Air Materiel Command in October 1947:  

http://www.nasicaa.org/chapter02.pdf

    
Furthermore, four other sources support the fact that wreckage and bodies were brought to WP. They are, the Air Accident Report, 16 JUL ‘47, a MAJIC memo dated 19 SEP ‘47, the June Crain story, 1st link, and General Exon, 2nd link.

http://www.majesticdocuments.com/pdf/crain_clarksoninterview.pdf

http://www.roswellproof.com/exon.html

If the Roswell material were brought to Wright-Patterson AFB, the next logical question would be, stored where? The folklore rumors state that it was “Hangar 18.” Through many years of intensive effort, the only evidence we found to support such stories were a series of buildings called 18 A, B, C, etc., but no Hangar 18. However, other evidence supports the idea that buildings 18 A, B, C, etc. may have had something to do with our “Little Green Men” as the stories go, but it wasn’t Hangar 18. Instead, it was called Hangar 23: Hangar 23 sits between buildings 18F and 18A in the 18 Complex. The story goes that the Roswell or other alien craft(s) (dimensions of ~ 30 x15 ft disc) were brought into Hangar 23. The floor of the hangar was removed and the craft(s) were lowered into this newly dug-out basement. A concrete floor was then placed over this basement area containing the craft(s). At the same time, an entry way was built from a vault in the east basement of building 18A to this new basement in Hangar 23. All the above was said to have been done in record time. According to the drawings, there is a basement in this building, but it is small compared to the size needed for these reported alien craft(s). But, this was expected in an unclassified drawing.

     Hangers normally don’t have basements, but this hangar was converted into an office building (it’s now the AF Research Laboratory, Sensor Directorate, Target Signature Branch), then back in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s it appears that a smaller basement was installed in a much larger basement. Also, the drawings of the east basement of 18F do show a vaulted door in that exact same area. If Hangar 23 is not the only place where “UFO artifacts” might have been brought to, then where else?

     On a 1954 Area B map of WPAFB not shown (note: the WP Civil Engineering person lost his security clearance by supplying official drawings to this author) one can see Hangar 4 or Hangars 4A, B and C (see Figure 2). Hangar 4 was reported to be just a holding area until they could move the recovered “artifacts” to their final destination. Where might that have been?

Figure 2: Hangars 4A, B and C

With the help of some very reliable sources–including Rick Doty and Ernie Kellerstrass and a number of other people, plus technical support in the form of drawings–we believe that we may have found underground vaults in Area B of WPAFB. After thousands of hours and years of extensive investigations, we found this underground vault system to be quite extensive and very well maintained due to substantial “black funds.” This was true up until circa 1982/83 when evidence suggests the remaining artifacts were removed and the vaults permanently sealed. On a historical note, these vaults were already reportedly present at the time of the Roswell incident and were used to store nitrate film. Considering its potentially explosive nature, what better place than 40 feet below ground under limestone rock where it is naturally cool.