Wright-Patterson and Hangar 18
The Air Force base outside Dayton where Project Blue Book ran from 1947 to 1969 — the official American programme for working through reports of unidentified objects. In twenty-two years it handled 12,618 cases, of which 701 were left unexplained. That is the factual half. The legendary half is Hangar 18, where by persistent rumour the Roswell wreckage and the bodies are kept. No building of that number exists on the base, and the rumour traces to the late 1940s, when anything unusual — captured German equipment included — really was brought here to be studied. The Blue Book files were declassified in full and sit in the US National Archives.
Gulf Breeze and Ed Walters's Photographs
From November 1987 a contractor named Ed Walters brought a series of photographs of a glowing object with a row of ports along its underside to the local paper in this Florida town — anonymously at first, then under his own name. Within two years there were some forty pictures, and Gulf Breeze had become a place of pilgrimage. In 1990 the new occupants of the Walters house found a model made of foam and film in the attic, matching the object in the photographs. Walters said it had been planted. Meanwhile other residents, police officers among them, were reporting lights over the sound in those same years, and some of those reports have nothing to do with Walters. The case remains a classic of how one disputed witness drowns out everything else.
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