Black Mack Magruder (according to his son Mark) saw self-repairing flex metal crafts and one alien body at Wright after the 1947 Roswell crash (when the Ohio base was called Wright Field). Magruder kept the secret from his family for 50 years because of classification, but indirectly told his son at his death in 1997. He needed to let his children know that we aren't alone.
Retired General Robert Collins says that alien crafts and bodies from a number of crashes were brought to the base.
The Foreign Technology Division (FTD) performed scientific intelligence on air and space matters at the base, reverse engineering Soviet equipment and perhaps alien craft. The Base now houses the National Air and Space Intelligence Center.
Another landing occurred in Aztec NM in March 1948, and this time the military supposedly retrieved the craft and bodies quietly. The military still ordered the locals to be sworn to secrecy. There may have been over 14 burned alien bodies.
There supposedly were also other crafts, including one in Kecksburg, PA in 1965, shipped to Wright-Patterson.
A James Clarkson interviewed (on radio) a Wright-Patterson clerk-typist named June Crain in 1997. She said that she had once handled the self-recovering UFO metallic skin. She heard about three alien crashes, including Roswell. Crain had kept a secret for 45 years until age 72.
In the early 1950s, Project Moon Dust examined wrecks of crashes submitted to the FTD.
Investigator Len Stringfield claimed that bodies were kept in a frozen morgue, but would not reveal his sources.
The alien bodies apparently had four fingers on each hand, webbed. Stanton Friedman talked about the rumors that live aliens (looking like the "Grays") were kept at the base.
The program documents in animation the supposed underground vaults leading to cryogenic chambers.
J. Edgar Hoover supposedly was not able to get access to the contents of "Hangar 18" and neither could Senator Barry Goldwater.
Wright Patterson supposedly had a "Project Silver Bug" in the 1950s to make a flying saucer.
Dayton would have UFO sightings in the summer of 1980, possibly military testing of "Silver Bug" craft.
The stories about alien craft and bodies stop after about 1980, but some of the activity might go on at Area 51 north of Las Vegas, NV.
Could the alien myths be a cover-up for some other classified project?
I visited the base with a rental car in 1984, but saw only the biology building, not Hangar 18.
Picture: Kecksburg PA, NE of Pittsburgh, in the Laurel Hills.
