Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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Originally known as Wright Field, this major US Air Force installation in Dayton, Ohio, served as the headquarters for the USAF's official UFO investigation programs: Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book. The base housed the Foreign Technology Division (now NASIC), which analyzed foreign and anomalous aerospace threats. In UFO lore, it is heavily rumored to be the storage site for crashed extraterrestrial materials and biological entities, particularly in the fabled 'Hangar 18.'
The historical epicenter of official US military UFO investigations and the focal point of crash retrieval conspiracy theories.