Sandia National Laboratories
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A major US Department of Energy research and development national laboratory. Historically, the airspace around Sandia and the adjacent Kirtland AFB experienced numerous high-profile UFO sightings in the late 1940s and 1950s, prompting intense military and FBI investigations due to the sensitive nuclear weapons research conducted there.
Nuclear weapons laboratory whose surrounding airspace was a major hotspot for early Cold War UFO sightings.