Well apparently I am not up on my science fiction gossip (not a fan) but apparently Wright-Patterson AFB was rumored to have UFO's stored in a facility called "Hangar 18"?

 

Upon doing a search for "Hangar 18" on the internet I came across this map:

 

 

You can see this "L" shaped building here.  I have passed by this building numerous times and never thought of it as being anything special not that I have much interest in UFO's anyway.  Anyway here is the google map of the building:

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=hangar+18&sll=39.790097,-84.098657&sspn=0.005903,0.013561&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=39.788728,-84.096276&spn=0.002951,0.005021&t=h&om=1

 

So with many Ohioans on this board, I was interested in hearing any stories you had on this topic.

I first learned about this rumor from Robert Stack on Unsolved Mystries (1-800-876-5353) back in the day.  However, not being a native Daytonian, I guess I guess I was behind the times, because this common knowledge for Daytonians.  I wouldn't be surprised if more Daytonians know about Hangar 18 than know of the Wright Brothers.

When I was much younger, about twenty years ago, my father took us to the Air Force Museum maybe twice a year. A lot of the photo's and being able to touch the planes physically, and sometimes sit in them left quite an impression on me. But there was something else they had at the time that little paid attention to. They had two glass cases at the top of the steps above the old in the welcome area above the plastic model section. In these cases was their UFO stuff. I'm not sure whatever happened to them, if anything, cause I have not been there for almost twenty years.

 

But I'm a sceptical about all this Hangar 18 stuff.

 

Calvin said something to the effect of "I think the best sign that there is intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us."

I was offered a tour of Wright-Patt by someone who has worked most of his career there, he says there's virtually nothing in Hangar 18 and joked that he'd take me there first.  Most of the Air Force's activity moved to Edwards Air Force Base in the 1950's and of course Area 51 in Nevada is where the real action takes place.  Has anyone seen the documentary on the Discovery Channel where they filmed the plane that ferries Area 51's workers to and from Las Vegas every day and then followed one of the guys back to his mild-mannered suburban house? 

 

Also, Megadeth put out a song called Hangar 18 around 1991:

 

Welcome to our fortress tall

Take some time to show you around

Impossible to break these walls

For you see the steel is much too strong

Computer banks to rule the world

Instruments to sight the stars

 

Possibly Ive seen to much

Hangar 18 I know too much

 

Foreign life forms inventory

Suspended state of cryogenics

Selective amnesias the story

Believed foretold but whod suspect

The military intelligence

Two words combined that cant make sense

 

Possibly Ive seen to much

Hangar 18 I know too much 

 

LOL, sorry Monte, there's nothing in that building. That's building 25B, and the two building adjacent to it are 25A and 25C which are connected to 25B by a small walkway. I have been in that building several times servicing computers and right now, it is currently undergoing a large renovation. It is not a very large building with only 1 floor, no basement and nothing but small offices. It certainly does not house any UFO's and never has.

 

There may or may not be a Hanger 18 at Wright-Pat, but this building is not it.

^ hmmm, plausible denial...the first step in military obfuscation. lol!

 

cool topic, i saw this show, its silly but sort of informative - it's the history channel's

UFO File: Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse

you can get it for free here:

http://www.torrentz.com/f7203e49aab0ae266ad9b23e28dd0b1bf6936feb

 

or you could buy it here:

http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=194101&action=detail

 

or just wait and keep checking the history channel, i watched it recently, it might be rerun.

 

As I recall, there is no UFO. They just have the bodies of the aliens who died when their spaceship crashed. I am pretty sure they are in a refrigerated vault underground.

That is why the rooms on the surface look so benign.

Occasionally, scientists take dna samples from the corpses & use them to create super soldier test serums that they distribute to the populace as "flu vaccine".

It's no biggie.

At last, a plausible explanation for the existence of neocons; they're a failed experiment with alien DNA.

I grew up in Dayton so I've heard this story for nearly 40 years. The story is this: After the alien spacecraft(s) crashed at Roswell, NM in the late 1940s, the government transfered the dead alien bodies to Wright-Patterson AFB (then known as Wright Field). Supposedly they have been in Hangar 18 since. The History Channel show claimed that there is a secret network of underground tunnels on the base to move things around in case someone starts snooping. The old 70s show "In Search Of" did a program on it as well.

 

No one has ever produced any real evidence that they exist but it's always been an urban legend in Dayton. In the early 1990s I was working as a traffic engineer in Dayton and my company had a job to do a traffic study on the base. When we met with the Base Engineer to discuss the scope, he had a map of the base and was pointing our different buildings and at one point said "..and here's where the alien bodies are!" He was joking...

 

or was he?!?

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>Area 51: "Deadly Force Authorized."

 

These signs are posted around the perimeter fence of the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, TN and are quite intimidating, as are the unmanned but still menacing cinder block guard towers dating from the place's Manhattan Project days.  Quite a bit of top secret work still goes on at Oak Ridge, according to my source, who is a professor at UT Knoxville who has lived in Oak Ridge for 20 years, and most of his neighbors cannot say what they do at the place.  There is similarly a theory that a lot of secret government work is going on in Knoxville, which accounts for the city's steady growth despite a lack of conspicuous employers. 

 

There is a strange underground storage facility about ten miles from Chattanooga in the spectacular gorge that the Tennessee River winds through just downriver from the city.  I have seen this thing from a boat on the river, it looks just like the entrance to a tunnel like those in Pittsburgh but a fairly steady stream of unmarked semi trucks were heading in and out of it on the day I was there.  Everyone claims it's a government site of some kind, as can be seen from the image at one time shipments were made by boat and so this place was more or less entirely secret.  There is hardly anything there even now, so 40 years ago this place really would have been a secret.   

 

Here is the image on google maps:

 

http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=Chattanooga,+TN&om=1&z=18&ll=35.061903,-85.410188&spn=0.00353,0.006416&t=k&iwloc=addr

I used to be assigned at the National Air Intelligence Center (they added '& Space' after I left) and our office's mascot used to be a small green plush alien.

 

There was a quasi-fictional mini-series on the Sci-Fi Channel a few years back called 'Taken' (I think Spielberg had a hand in it) and it featured the 'hanger' you mentioned.

 

 

http://www.scifi.com/taken/dvd/taken-miniseries.html

 

I personally believe that's it is a hoax but over the years it has blended into the overall personality of the Dayton area...at least these 'aliens' weren't named Wilbur and Orville...or were they???  :wink:

 

hmm, I noticed that "Jeffrey" has been silenced above.  Did they get to him? ;)

We will neither confirm nor deny the existence of Jeffrey.