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Hangar 18 never existed
A story built from fiction
The idea of alien corpses from a crashed ship stored in an Air Force morgue at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base appeared in Frank Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers, expanded in the 1966 book Incident at Exeter, and became the basis for a 1968 science-fiction novel, The Fortec Conspiracy, about a fictional Air Force cover-up.
Carr and Hangar 18
In 1974, science-fiction author and conspiracy theorist Robert Spencer Carr alleged that alien bodies from the Aztec crash were stored in "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson. He claimed that his sources had witnessed an alien autopsy. The Air Force explained that no Hangar 18 existed at the base and noted a similarity between Carr's story and The Fortec Conspiracy.
Carr's tall tales
Decades later, Carr's son recalled that his father had often mortified him and his mother by spinning preposterous stories in front of strangers, such as befriending a giant alligator in the Florida swamps and sharing complex philosophical ideas with porpoises in the Gulf of Mexico. The 1980 film Hangar 18 dramatized Carr's claims, and its director called it a modern-day dramatization of Roswell.
Why do UFO tales center on Wright-Patterson?
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, housed Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official UFO investigation from 1952 to 1969. By the time it closed, the project had logged 12,618 reports, and 701 remained unidentified in the Air Force's accounting. The base also hosts major Air Force research and technology offices. Its mix of public UFO files and technical work made it a natural location for rumors.
What was the Exeter incident?
In September 1965, a young man named Norman Muscarello reported a glowing object near Exeter, New Hampshire. Two police officers who went to the field with him also reported seeing lights. Journalist John G. Fuller wrote about the case in his 1966 book Incident at Exeter. The book became a bestseller and brought the sightings to national attention.
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