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---
created: 2025-07-23
updated: 2026-09-22
title: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
tags:
- location
- military
- USA
description: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Ohio, and a key center for aerospace research and development.
aliases:
- Wright-Patterson
- Wright-Patterson AFB
- Wright Patterson Air Force Base
- WPAFB
category: "Military Installation"
summary: "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is a major U.S. aerospace research and development center historically linked to classified UAP investigations and psychic phenomena research programs."
tags:
- Location
- Military
- USA
- Ohio
- AirForce
- WrightPatterson
- ScientificAndTechnicalIntelligence
- ProjectBlueBook
- PsiResearch
- UFO
- ForeignMaterielExploitation
- Contractors
title: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
description: "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base near Dayton, Ohio, formed on January 13, 1948 and the site of the Foreign Technology Division and Project Blue Book."
summary: "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, formed in 1948 from Wright Field and Patterson Field, housed Project Blue Book and the scientific intelligence centers that became NASIC."
location: "Dayton, Ohio"
created: 2025-07-23
updated: 2026-10-09
relations:
- type: participant_in
with: "[[Project Blue Book]]"
start: 1952
end: 1969-12-17
role: "investigations headquartered at the base, per a January 1985 Air Force fact sheet"
fn: 10
- type: participant_in
with: "[[Grill Flame]]"
start: 1978-11-28
role: "Foreign Technology Division representation on the DoD Grill Flame committee"
fn: 34
- type: funded
with: "[[SRI International]]"
start: 1980-09-29
role: "contract F33657-80-C-0207 administered by the Aeronautical Systems Division; $50,000 sent by MIPR to the Foreign Technology Division"
fn: 35
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Dale Graff]]"
reverse: true
start: 1976-04-13
role: "civilian scientist at the Foreign Technology Division, named as its office of primary responsibility for the SRI remote sensing inquiry"
fn: 32
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Robert M. Collins]]"
reverse: true
start: 1985
role: "analyst in theoretical and applied physics at the Foreign Technology Division"
fn: 16
- type: employed_by
with: "[[J. Allen Hynek]]"
reverse: true
start: 1970-04
end: 1974
role: "consultant to the Foreign Technology Division"
fn: 13
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Anthony J. Cacioppo]]"
reverse: true
start: 1966
role: "chief scientist at the Foreign Technology Division"
fn: 12
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Richard Arnold]]"
reverse: true
start: 2010
role: "scientific director of NAMRL, which moved to the base"
fn: 44
- type: contractor_to
with: "[[Battelle Memorial Institute]]"
reverse: true
start: 1951-12
role: "scientific support contract for ATIC UFO reporting (Project Bear, Project Stork)"
fn: 5
- type: contractor_to
with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]"
reverse: true
start: 2014-10-03
role: "ATEP II and NOVASTAR task orders for NASIC"
fn: 41
- type: contractor_to
with: "[[Modern Technology Solutions]]"
reverse: true
start: 2022-08-19
role: "NOVASTAR task orders for NASIC"
fn: 41
- type: contractor_to
with: "[[Apogee Engineering]]"
reverse: true
start: 2026-05-06
role: "advisory and assistance services for NASIC under a multiple-award contract"
fn: 42
---
[[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] is a [[U.S. Air Force]] base located in Ohio. It is a key center for aerospace research and development, and has been involved in various classified projects, including those related to psychic phenomena.[^1]
[[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] is a [[U.S. Air Force]] base near [[Dayton]], [[Ohio]], and a key center for aerospace research and development. The base was formed on January 13, 1948 from [[Wright Field]] and [[Patterson Field]]. It has been involved in various classified projects, including those related to psychic phenomena.[^1]
[[Dale Graff]], a civilian scientist who played a significant role in the [[Stargate Project|Stargate Project]], worked in the [[Foreign Technology Division]] at Wright-Patterson. The base served as a hub for his efforts to integrate psychic abilities into military applications, and it was from here that he managed the program's various phases and taskings.[^1]
[[Dale Graff]], a civilian scientist who played a significant role in the [[Stargate Project]], worked in the [[Foreign Technology Division]] at Wright-Patterson. The base served as a hub for his efforts to integrate psychic abilities into military applications, and it was from here that he managed the program's various phases and taskings.[^1]
The base hosts the [[NAMRU-D|Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton]], whose directorates include the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory ([[NAMRL]]).[^2]
---
### McCook Field and Wright Field
On October 18, 1917 the [[U.S. Army]] established [[McCook Field]] outside Dayton as its military aviation research and development site. The Army dedicated the new Wright Field on October 12, 1927. On July 1, 1931 the portion of Wright Field east of Huffman Dam was redesignated Patterson Field, in honor of Lieutenant Frank Stuart Patterson, a pilot killed in a test flight crash in 1918. Patterson Field was the home of Air Force logistics and Wright Field the home of research and development.[^3]
The Foreign Data Section of the [[Army Signal Corps]]' Airplane Engineering Department was established at McCook Field in 1917. The [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]] traces its heritage to that section. The Section evaluated foreign scientific and technical information related to aircraft, and in the interwar years its successors disseminated aviation technical information to business and military organizations and operated the Army's Aeronautical Museum.[^4] The [[Technical Data Laboratory]] carried out the [[United States Army Air Forces]]' scientific and technical intelligence mission at Wright Field from December 3, 1942. Captured German and Japanese aircraft began arriving there in 1943, and by the end of 1947 Wright Field personnel had processed over 1,500 tons of captured documents.[^4]
### Merger, the Air Materiel Command and T-2
On January 13, 1948 Wright Field and Patterson Field were joined as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Most development activity continued on the Wright Field part of the base, and most contemporary literature and official correspondence called it Wright Field until the late 1950s.[^3]
The [[Air Materiel Command]] was headquartered on the base. Its [[T-2 Intelligence]] department was established at Wright Field on July 1, 1945, and an AMC Intelligence Department followed on October 10, 1947. T-2 was responsible for creating air intelligence, identifying foreign aircraft and related equipment needed for study, and receiving, translating and distributing foreign language documents.[^4] Colonel [[Harold E. Watson]] and a group of handpicked pilots gathered German aircraft from the battlefield and sent or flew them to T-2 at Wright Field and to [[Freeman Field]], Indiana. Under [[Operation Paperclip]] more than 200 German scientists and technicians were brought to Wright Field, and the Army delivered large quantities of captured documents there under Colonel [[Howard McCoy]]. By the end of the 1940s the command's intelligence mission focused increasingly on the Russian technological threat.[^4]
[[Edward J. Ruppelt]] wrote that T-2 had developed highly effective means of extracting every possible item of information about the technical aspects of enemy aircraft, and that at the end of 1947 the question at the Air Force's UFO project was how to apply those methods to the collection of "interplanetary intelligence." He wrote that aerodynamicists at the intelligence center and at Wright Field's Aircraft Laboratory computed the maximum performance expected from the late German designs, and that the Aeromedical Laboratory and aircraft-structures specialists were consulted on whether the reported maneuvers were survivable and structurally possible.[^5]
### Project Sign and the Twining letter
On September 23, 1947 Lieutenant General [[Nathan F. Twining]], commanding the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, sent a letter to the commanding general of the Army Air Forces, addressed to the attention of Brigadier General [[George Schulgen]] of the [[Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence]] (AC/AS-2). The letter gives the command's "considered opinion" on the "Flying Discs." It was based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and on preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and the Aircraft Laboratory of Engineering Division T-3, and it was arrived at in a conference of personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, the Office of the Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.[^6] Its first finding reads: "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious."[^6]
The letter describes objects "probably approximating the shape of a disc" and finds that the reported operating characteristics "lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely." It states that a piloted aircraft with that description and a range of about 7000 miles at subsonic speeds could be built within domestic knowledge, and that developments along those lines "would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects." Among the possibilities it lists is that the objects were "the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command." It cites "the lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits," and it raises the possibility that a foreign nation had a form of propulsion "possibly nuclear."[^6]
The letter recommends that the Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and code name to a detailed study, with a preliminary report within 15 days of receipt of the data. Until such a directive issued, the command would continue the investigation "within its current resources."[^6]
On December 30, 1947 Major General L. C. Craigie, Director of Research and Development in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel, directed the commanding general of the Air Material Command at Wright Field to set up a project to "collect, collate, evaluate and distribute to interested government agencies and contractors all information concerning sightings and phenomena in the atmosphere which can be construed to be of concern to the national security." The directive, which enclosed the command's memoranda of September 23 and 24, 1947, assigned the project priority 2A, a security classification of "restricted" and the code name "SIGN."[^7] [[Project Sign]] ran from 1947 to 1949.[^8]
The Department of Defense's historical report records that the dates and names of the first effort are unclear: according to one source Twining established [[Project Saucer]] on December 30, 1947, Ruppelt wrote that Saucer was the informal name of Sign, and an employee of Project Sign said the project began in 1946 under that name. The same report states that the [[Air Technical Intelligence Center]] assumed control of Project Sign on January 23, 1948.[^9] Ruppelt wrote that the Sign staff produced a Top Secret "Estimate of the Situation" concluding that UFOs were real, and that it was "kicked back."[^5] The Department of Defense report describes that account as derived from one source and states that the report was allegedly rejected by Chief of Staff General [[Hoyt S. Vandenberg]] as lacking proof.[^9]
### Grudge and Project Blue Book
The project was renamed [[Project Grudge]] on February 11, 1949.[^5][^8] Its report, Technical Report No. 102-AC-49/15-100 of August 1949, was classified Secret until August 1, 1952 and analyzed 244 reports received through January 1949, with comments from an astronomical viewpoint by [[J. Allen Hynek]] predominating. The closing of the project was announced on December 27, 1949, and the work was folded into ordinary intelligence activity.[^5][^8]
On September 10, 1951 a radar sighting at the Army Signal Corps center at [[Fort Monmouth]], New Jersey drew the attention of Major General [[Charles P. Cabell]], director of Air Force Intelligence, who ordered Project Grudge reactivated as a new and expanded project under Ruppelt. Ruppelt headed it from October 27, 1951, and under the name [[Project Blue Book]] from March 1952, until he left the Air Force in September 1953.[^8] The organization had become a separate unit, the Aerial Phenomena Group, by March 1952.[^5] The Department of Defense report names Cabell as the founder of Project Blue Book and lists its successive heads as Ruppelt, Captain Charles Hardin, Captain George T. Gregory, Lieutenant Colonel Roger J. Friend and Lieutenant Colonel [[Hector Quintanilla]].[^9]
Project Blue Book ran until December 17, 1969, when the Secretary of the Air Force announced its termination. A January 1985 Air Force fact sheet distributed by the base's public affairs division, reproduced by the National Archives, states that of 12,618 sightings reported from 1947 to 1969, 701 remained unidentified, and that the project "was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base." The fact sheet gives as the basis for its conclusions the "experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948." The textual records fill 94 rolls of 35mm microfilm, designated T-1206.[^10]
In May 1966 the [[Office of Naval Research]] project monitor [[Jim Hughes (Office of Naval Research)|Jim Hughes]] told [[James E. McDonald]] that the ONR would pay his expenses to read the Blue Book files at the base. McDonald made his first visit on June 6, 1966. [[Paul E. McCarthy]] wrote that McDonald there read the 1953 [[Robertson Panel]] report, which Quintanilla had given routine declassification after twelve years, and that on June 30 [[Louis DeGoes]] told him a photocopy needed authorization. On McDonald's third visit, July 20 to 22, DeGoes told him the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] had decided to reclassify the document, and McCarthy wrote that neither DeGoes nor Dr. [[Anthony J. Cacioppo]], chief scientist of the Foreign Technology Division, showed any interest in the CIA involvement.[^11][^12]
In 1953 Hynek ran [[Project Henry]] from [[Ohio State University]], reviewing teletype reports from Wright-Patterson. His assistant [[Jennie Zeidman]] wrote in 1991 that about once a week a courier she assumed was from the base brought the reports to Hynek's office, that Hynek was paid to investigate only the reports Blue Book assigned to him, and that Hynek often said he knew the best cases were withheld.[^13] Zeidman also wrote that a researcher, [[Brian Parks]], had obtained through the [[Freedom of Information Act]] Hynek's record of employment as a Foreign Technology Division consultant from 1970 to 1974, an executive appointment beginning in April 1970, less than six months after Blue Book's official closure, with only a few days worked each year. She wrote that Hynek, asked about what he did at Wright-Patterson on a trip to Columbus, would not say.[^13]
An Air Force action memorandum of October 20, 1969, with the signature block of Brigadier General [[C. H. Bolender]], recorded that Hynek had served as scientific consultant until July 1, 1969 and recommended not renewing the contract.[^14]
### ATIC, FTD and NASIC
On May 21, 1951 the Air Force established the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson "as a field activity of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence." During the [[Korean War]] ATIC gave the Far East Air Force the performance characteristics of Russian aircraft in theater and charts of the combat radius of the [[MiG-15]], exploited captured Russian Ilyushin and Yakolev aircraft, and studied the MiG-15 that had defected after the war. Its commander, Brigadier General Watson, broke ground on July 18, 1956 for Building 828, which housed the center's first computer, the Readix. After the [[Sputnik]] launches of October 1957 the center was renamed the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center on September 21, 1959, and in 1959 it began studying Chinese trends in offensive missiles and space vehicles.[^4] Ruppelt ran Project Grudge and Blue Book from the center.[^5]
Air Force Regulation 80-17 of September 19, 1966 directed [[Air Force Systems Command]] to support Blue Book with current resources within the Foreign Technology Division at the base, and assigned the division to analyze sightings not identified at base level and to prepare a final case report on each.[^15]
On July 1, 1961 the Air Force established the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) under Air Force Systems Command. The Aug. 1, 1961 Department of Defense directive establishing the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] was issued at the same time as the Air Force's realignment of its scientific and technical intelligence function from the Air Staff to the new command. From 1961 to 1991 FTD was the Air Force's scientific and technical intelligence center for foreign air, space and ballistic missile systems, working under DIA's intelligence production guidance.[^4] The center's lineage runs from the Technical Data Laboratory (December 3, 1942) through T-2 Intelligence (July 1, 1945), the AMC Intelligence Department (October 10, 1947), ATIC (May 21, 1951, under the 1125th Field Activities Group), the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center (September 21, 1959), FTD (July 1, 1961), the Air Force Foreign Technology Center (October 1, 1991), the Foreign Aerospace Science and Technology Center (January 1, 1992), the National Air Intelligence Center (October 1, 1993) and NASIC (February 20, 2003).[^4] The fact sheet describes FTD personnel as "the experts in Soviet aircraft, missiles, space systems and related equipment performance," states that FTD automated its photo analysis by 1961 and added capabilities on foreign aerodynamic, ballistic missile and space vehicle systems in 1963, and states that in the 1970s the division "acquired capabilities in human intelligence targeting and laser signal analysis."[^4] The Air Force considered moving FTD to Patrick Air Force Base in Florida in the early 1970s; a cost study led to the construction of Building 856 at Wright-Patterson, occupied in July 1976 and dedicated on September 16, 1976. The commanders of FTD included Brigadier General Arthur J. Pierce (February 1961 to July 1964), Colonel George R. Weinbrenner (November 1968 to July 1974) and Colonel Howard E. Wright (January 1977 to June 1981).[^4]
[[Robert M. Collins]] wrote that he came to the UFO subject in the summer of 1985 as an analyst in theoretical and applied physics at FTD, and that in the group around [[William L. Moore]] he was given the bird name Condor. Collins wrote that a retired FTD lieutenant colonel he knew in Dayton named Cacioppo and Graff, the latter by then reassigned from FTD to the Defense Intelligence Agency, as persons with in-depth knowledge of the UFO subject.[^16]
A letter dated October 9, 1954 from [[William Moise]], signing as "Oranur Weather Control Operator" for the [[Orgone Institute Press]], listed among its copies the commander of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, in the case that involved [[Wilhelm Reich]].[^17]
### Foreign materiel exploitation
The base's foreign materiel mission runs through NASIC. A 2016 Air Force story describes NASIC handing foreign materiel to an 87-member Foreign Materiel Exploitation Squadron.[^18] The [[Department of Defense]] Inspector General's audit report 98-005, dated October 8, 1997, reviewed how the military departments used exploitation results.[^19]
A purchase order awarded on January 9, 2013 by the [[General Services Administration]] to [[HII Mission Technologies]] for foreign materiel exploitation engineering and maintenance support was funded by NASIC and performed in Dayton. It obligated $53,916,532.23, with a period of performance from February 1, 2013 to July 31, 2018.[^20]
Notes attributed to the physicist [[Eric Davis]], dated October 16, 2002, record Vice Admiral [[Thomas R. Wilson]] describing a June 1997 meeting at which program managers said they ran a reverse engineering program. The notes have Wilson first assuming the program concerned recovered Soviet or Chinese hardware, and then saying the managers "said they weren't that either." Wilson told the [[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] in 2020: "It's all fiction."[^21]
In June 2023 [[The Debrief]] reported, in an article by [[Leslie Kean]] and [[Ross Coulthart]], that a NASIC officer identified as Jonathan Grey worked on UAP analysis there. The article quotes Grey: "I have been the recipient of such briefings for almost a decade," and reports Christopher Mellon's account of briefings he arranged for congressional staff on retrieved materials.[^22] [[The War Zone]] reported that a Department of Defense spokesperson, [[Sue Gough]], said that [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office|AARO]] had not discovered verifiable information substantiating claims of reverse engineering of extraterrestrial materials.[^23]
### Hangar 18 and Blue Room claims
The 1997 Air Force report on the Roswell crash, written by [[James McAndrew]] and titled [[Roswell Incident|The Roswell Report: Case Closed]], describes accounts in which bodies recovered at Roswell were moved to "usually Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio," which it calls a point of disagreement among UFO theorists.[^24] The same report reproduces a photograph of the flight test hangars at Wright Field, "Hangars 1 and 9," and describes the Parachute Branch of the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field testing parachute designs with dummies.[^24]
[[Thomas J. Carey]] and [[Donald R. Schmitt]] wrote that the original flight plan for the Roswell wreckage had a second leg from [[Fort Worth Army Air Field]] to Wright Field, that [[Roger Ramey]] publicly cancelled that leg at the July 8, 1947 press conference, and that Major [[Jesse Marcel]] and others understood that the wreckage and bodies were destined for Wright Field. They wrote that there was never a Hangar 18 on the base and that the name "Blue Room" was first used publicly in connection with the repository at Wright-Patterson in *The Roswell Incident* (1980).[^25]
The January 1985 Air Force fact sheet distributed by the base's public affairs division and reproduced on the National Archives' Blue Book page states: "Periodically, it is erroneously stated that the remains of extraterrestrial visitors are or have been stored at Wright-Patterson AFB. There are not now nor ever have been, any extraterrestrial visitors or equipment on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base."[^10]
[[Barry Goldwater]] wrote to [[Shlomo Arnon]] on March 28, 1975: "The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret." The letter is reproduced by [[Timothy Good]], who also quotes Goldwater's letters to [[Lee Graham]]. In the letter of April 11, 1979 Goldwater wrote: "It is true I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson," and "Because I never got in, I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors." In the letter of October 19, 1981 he wrote: "First, let me tell you that I have long ago given up acquiring access to the so-called blue room at Wright-Patterson, as I have had one long string of denials from chief after chief, so I have given up."[^26] Good wrote that Goldwater had gone to Wright-Patterson hoping to get permission from General [[Curtis LeMay]] to examine the evidence stored there, and was refused, and wrote that according to his information the Blue Room contains UFO artifacts but not craft or bodies.[^26] Good also relayed [[Leonard Stringfield]]'s account, from a source identified as J.K., of bodies stored at the base in 1953 in Building 18-F, third floor.[^26]
On CNN's Larry King Live on October 1, 1994 Goldwater said: "I called Curtis LeMay and said, 'General, I know we have a room at Wright-Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Can I go in there?' I've never heard General LeMay get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out, and said, 'Don't ever ask me that question again!'" Carey and Schmitt, who print the passage, wrote that Goldwater made his first public appearance on the subject on Larry King's radio show in 1988 (a statement dated October 13, 1988), that he told the story with different words for LeMay's reply on several occasions, and that he placed his attempt in the 1963 to 1965 period.[^25]
Carey and Schmitt also wrote that William L. Moore's December 1980 Freedom of Information Act request to FTD about a "Project Blue Room" drew a reply that no records could be found; that in 1982 FTD told Lee Graham it could not locate documents on the Blue Room and added that Goldwater had visited FTD earlier that year and received a technology update briefing; and that on October 9, 1991 the Air Force told Brian Parks that a film titled "Blue Room, Wright Patterson AFB OH, 1955" existed in its records and had been destroyed on September 9, 1965.[^25]
In written testimony to the [[House Committee on Oversight and Accountability]] dated September 9, 2025, [[George Knapp]] stated that the former Nevada senator [[Howard Cannon]] told him in a face-to-face meeting that Goldwater had spoken to Cannon several times about what was being hidden at Wright-Patterson, and that the response to Goldwater's request to see it was "hell no, and never ask again." Knapp stated that he corresponded with Goldwater in the early 1990s and that Goldwater confirmed the story, and that Cannon, asked on camera, said yes.[^27]
### Bennewitz and the AFOSI interviews
[[Paul Bennewitz]], the president of an [[Albuquerque]] humidity-equipment maker with contracts at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], reported unidentified aerial lights and electronic signals near the [[Manzano Weapons Storage Area]] in 1980. The [[Air Force Office of Special Investigations]] form for file 8017D93-0/29, transmitted October 28, 1980 and signed by Major [[Thomas A. Cseh]], records that on October 26, 1980 [[Richard Doty]] and [[Jerry Miller]] interviewed him at his home. The form describes Miller as chief scientific advisor of the Air Force Test and Evaluation Center and as a former Project Blue Book investigator assigned to Wright-Patterson with FTD. It records that Miller related that the evidence clearly showed some type of unidentified aerial objects caught on film, that no conclusions could be made whether the objects posed a threat to Manzano and Coyote Canyon, and that the electronic recording tapes were inconclusive and could have been gathered from several conventional sources. It states that Miller had contacted FTD personnel at Wright-Patterson, who expressed an interest and were scheduled to inspect Bennewitz's data.[^28]
Doty said in a 2005 broadcast with [[Greg Bishop]] on [[Coast to Coast AM]] that AFOSI had convinced Bennewitz the signals were alien in order to protect activity at Kirtland.[^29] [[Alejandro Rojas]] wrote that Doty has said he lied to two senators who asked about the case.[^30]
On December 29, 1980 William L. Moore filed a Freedom of Information Act request on [[Project Aquarius]] with Headquarters USAF. The Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson sent a negative reply dated February 12, 1981.[^31]
### Psychic research and the Grill Flame committee
On April 13, 1976 the Foreign Technology Division sent the CIA's [[Office of Technology Services]] a cable from its XRQ office requesting an OTS report. The cable states that in discussion with OTS about [[SRI International]] investigations of remote sensing, FTD had been told of an OTS study, that its office was investigating intelligence estimates of possible USSR applications and was "also considering contractual work with SRI" for a review of USSR literature and the feasibility and research aspects of the technique, and names Dale E. Graff as the office of primary responsibility within FTD.[^32]
The coordination that led to the [[Grill Flame]] committee began at a meeting on August 24, 1978 in [[Jack Vorona]]'s conference room at [[Pomponio Plaza]], attended by Vorona, Colonel Jack Capps, Charlie Carter and Graff, listed as Air Force/FTD, to establish a unified DoD effort in remote viewing technology for intelligence purposes. The minutes record that the DIA, FTD and AMSAA held contractual funds at SRI for preliminary investigations that would cease at the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 1978.[^33] Graff attended the first meeting of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee on November 28, 1978, and the committee's minutes of November 27, 1979 list him at Wright-Patterson.[^34]
The Grill Flame program's contract with SRI was Air Force contract F33657-80-C-0207, administered by the Aeronautical Systems Division at Wright-Patterson, with a research completion date of October 31, 1980. In a letter of January 29, 1981 SRI's contract administrator recorded that $50,000 released by Major General E. R. Thompson, the Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, had been sent by MIPR to the Foreign Technology Division, that SRI was informed on September 29, 1980 that the MIPR had been effected, and that Army representatives visited SRI on December 8, 1980.[^35]
The [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]] reported in December 1979. Its visit to SRI on July 24 and 25, 1979 was made by [[Russell Targ]], [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Charles Tart]], among others.[^36]
[[Jack Parsons]]'s FBI file contains a Wright-Patterson records entry for a 1948 denial of access to classified contracts, on the grounds of his membership in a religious cult in Pasadena.[^37]
### Contractors in the vault
In December 1951 Ruppelt arranged a contract with a research organization in the Midwest to provide scientists, a questionnaire and a punch-card statistical study. The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office identifies the organization as Battelle, under the informal name Project BEAR, and says its report was released under ATIC's cover and completed in late 1954.[^5][^9] The report itself is Special Report No. 14, Study No. 102-EL-55/2-79, "Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects," Project No. 10073, dated May 5, 1955.[^38] The Robertson Panel memorandum of February 16, 1953 lists "Progress Reports of Project STORK" among the evidence presented, with the code name identified as Battelle contract work supporting ATIC.[^39] A CIA memorandum of October 11, 1960 describes Battelle's repository, called Project White Stork, as concentrating on subjects of interest to ATIC.[^40]
[[Radiance Technologies]] held 136 ATEP II task orders totaling $276,367,360 under contract FA860415D7976, and 38 NOVASTAR task orders totaling $157,754,299 under contract FA860422DB008, for NASIC, as of October 9, 2026.[^41] [[Modern Technology Solutions]] held 21 NOVASTAR task orders totaling $98,035,229 under contract FA860422DB007 on the same date.[^41]
On May 6, 2026 the Department of Defense announced that [[Apogee Engineering]], [[KBR Wyle Services]], [[Riverside Research Institute]] and [[Systems Planning and Analysis]] shared a $866,000,000 ceiling multiple-award contract for advisory and assistance services to NASIC, with work performed at Dayton and completion by June 30, 2034.[^42]
On June 8, 2026 [[WiSC Enterprises]] posted a junior program management analyst position at the base for NASIC, requiring an active Top Secret clearance with SCI adjudication.[^43]
NAMRU-D houses the [[Environmental Health Effects Laboratory]] and NAMRL.[^2] [[Richard Arnold]] became scientific director of NAMRL in 2010 and directed the laboratory through its move from Pensacola to the base under the Base Realignment and Closure process.[^44]
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
[^2]: [About NAMRU-D](https://www.med.navy.mil/Naval-Medical-Research-Command/R-D-Commands/Naval-Medical-Research-Unit-Dayton/About-NAMRU-Dayton/)
[^3]: Dennis R. Jenkins, *X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight*, NASA SP-2007-562, chapter 1, note 7 (McCook Field established October 18, 1917; Wright Field dedicated October 12, 1927; Patterson Field redesignated July 1, 1931; rejoined January 13, 1948), https://archive.org/details/nasa-ebooks_202111 ; NASA record https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20090010366
[^4]: National Air and Space Intelligence Center, "National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage," fact sheet published July 31, 2015, including the unit designations and assignments table and the list of commanders, read from the Wayback Machine copy of https://www.nasic.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/611728/national-air-and-space-intelligence-center-heritage/ (https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://www.nasic.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/611728/national-air-and-space-intelligence-center-heritage/).
[^5]: Edward J. Ruppelt, *The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects* (Garden City: Doubleday, 1956), chapters two, five, nine and ten (the end-of-1947 passage on T-2; the "Estimate of the Situation"; the February 11, 1949 order; the December 1951 contract with "Project Bear," described as "a large, well-known research organization in the Midwest" and not named; the Aerial Phenomena Group of March 1952), Project Gutenberg ebook 17346, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17346/pg17346.txt
[^6]: Lieutenant General N. F. Twining to Commanding General, Army Air Forces, "AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs,'" 23 September 1947, Condon Report Appendix R, pp. 1379 to 1381, https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-r.htm
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