1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,300 But where are these incredible things today? 2 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:11,040 There is a long and voluminous paper trail of evidence that points in one direction, that 3 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:17,000 points to a top secret location known as Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,160 Ohio. 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:26,680 Many UFO researchers believe that at one time, wreckage from Roswell and other UFO crash sites, 6 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,400 as well as the bodies of alien beings, were brought here for underground storage. 7 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,680 Of course, the Air Force denies these charges, but ufologists counter that their denials 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:44,720 are a prime example of the Fox watching the henhouse door. 9 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:46,880 But why Hangar 18? 10 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,000 When there were desert bases much closer to the original crash sites. 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,880 Why truck the wreckage to a base thousands of miles away? 12 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:00,320 There were several advantages to using Wright-Patterson, according to Professor Michael Swords. 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,360 Wright-Patterson had several elements associated with it. 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:09,680 It had a standard Air Force base at Patterson Field, and it had a high technology testing 15 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,080 facility at Wright Field. 16 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:17,600 In between the two fields, it also had something unique to our government, and that was the 17 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:22,560 technical intelligence organization, so called T2, or what became the Foreign Technology 18 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:23,560 Division. 19 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:28,720 During the Second World War, T2, the Foreign Technology Division, would receive crashed 20 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,040 German rockets and aircraft. 21 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,440 Their job was to reverse engineer the craft. 22 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:39,000 T2's quarters were allegedly far underground in the maze of secret laboratories at Wright-Patterson. 23 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,960 This is the sort of division that would have been appropriate to use for the investigation 24 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:50,240 of UFO research and ultimately became the home for project sign in Blue Book. 25 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:55,640 Researchers of UFO secrets being kept here have become part of Dayton, Ohio folklore. 26 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:00,840 In a series of news reports, local anchor Carl Day set out to determine if any of the rumors 27 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:01,840 were true. 28 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,000 Well, recently we investigated the rumors about Hangar 18, and in particular the Roswell 29 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,280 connection to Wright-Patterson. 30 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:14,280 In July 1947, eyewitnesses at the Roswell crash site saw military personnel load wreckage 31 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,640 onto trucks and carted away. 32 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:18,240 Destination unknown. 33 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:24,240 We found that the wreckage from Roswell probably, at least part of it, did arrive at Wright-Patterson 34 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,600 that time. 35 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:26,600 What happened to it? 36 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,200 We couldn't find any record of that. 37 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,240 We found that was sort of interesting. 38 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,680 If, as the Air Force maintains, the wreckage was a weather balloon, why would it be transported 39 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,880 via secret convoy from Roswell to Dayton? 40 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:44,040 And once there, why would all record of a weather balloon retrieval disappear? 41 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:49,240 The answer may lie here with Alfred Ludin, an engineer who, upon his retirement from 42 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:54,800 T2, received a U.S. patent for this strange flying saucer design. 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:00,840 Al Ludin could have been influenced in his design by an alien type of technology, because 44 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:09,760 when you look at his design, it is a low aspect sort of ellipsoid shaped craft with two tiny 45 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,720 tabs on the back that was taken extremely seriously by the Air Force. 46 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,720 It was during Ludin's tenure at Wright-Patterson that the Air Force conducted Project Bluebook. 47 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,480 It's only publicly acknowledged UFO study. 48 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,720 Uphologists believe Bluebook was simply a cover, designed to divert attention away from the 49 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,400 real work going on deep underground. 50 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,040 According to the nephew of then-Defuty Head of Procurement Jack Donahue, autopsies were 51 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:39,000 being performed on humanoid, but not human, creatures. 52 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,000 My uncle Jack had a top secret security clearance when he worked at Wright-Patterson the complete 53 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 time. 54 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:53,200 The strangest story that he ever accounted to me was the day that he asked me if I had 55 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,240 heard of a UFO crash out in Phoenix, Arizona. 56 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,200 He said, we have the bodies from the crash. 57 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,000 He said, we went down to the cold storage area. 58 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,840 Donahue allegedly told his nephew that he was led down a series of twisting hallways 59 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,360 to a secret room. 60 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:16,720 There was a stainless steel table in this room that was arranged a little bit like a laboratory. 61 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,880 The man said, look at this. 62 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:20,400 Jack looked at the body. 63 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:25,480 Jack told me that at the time they were doing full autopsies on the bodies. 64 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:30,560 The head was shaped basically like a human head, only it was small. 65 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,640 He said, we better not spend very much time here and they left the room. 66 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,000 I tried to bring it up at a later date. 67 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,160 He said, forget him. 68 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,880 Just forget about the whole incident. 69 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,680 And I said, what do you mean, forget it? 70 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,640 He said, just forget it. 71 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,640 It never happened. 72 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:56,360 Well, there are still people that absolutely believe that alien bodies and UFO wreckage 73 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,760 are still here on this base and that the bodies are kept in cryogenic suspension, somewhere 74 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,200 underneath right field. 75 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:10,600 Legendary UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield investigated Hangar 18 for close to 50 years. 76 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:15,480 In a rare interview just prior to his death in 1994, Stringfield told sightings that 77 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,840 he had been able to track the progress of wreckage and alien bodies retrieved in several 78 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:22,880 different parts of the Southwest. 79 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:29,520 In the beginnings, some of them were shipped to areas in Los Alamos and the western sensitive 80 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:34,320 areas from Albuquerque on down to Los Alam and the whole region of New Mexico. 81 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:40,800 And often time for further analyses or study why they were sent to Wright Patterson, I 82 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:49,040 was told by one intelligence source here some years ago that they had 30 alien bodies underground 83 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,680 at Wright Patterson Field alone up to 1966. 84 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,600 And reports persisted well into the next decade that alien bodies were still being stored 85 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,600 at Wright Patterson. 86 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,000 One of the most interesting discoveries I think has to be the alleged alien jaw bone that 87 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,760 we uncovered. 88 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,560 Officials within the Air Force intelligence community have told me that they had determined 89 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,200 back in the 70s, possibly before that, that this was an alien jaw bone. 90 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,880 I can't have anybody go on record, however, now is saying that. 91 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,120 I think the Air Force is hiding a lot of things. 92 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,560 They are developing here on this base a lot of super secret weapon systems for the future. 93 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,120 Those should be kept secret. 94 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:36,960 They did issue a statement though that there are no aliens or UFO pieces on this base now. 95 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,480 At the end of the 1950s, three aeronautic engineers left what was then Wright Field and 96 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,640 returned to civilian life. 97 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,280 Within one year, all three applied for patents with the U.S. Patent Office. 98 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:52,920 All three wanted to patent flying saucer designs. 99 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,880 We'll have more on those patents on an upcoming edition of Sightings.