Holloman Air Force Base / Alamogordo

32°51′N, 106°06′W — Otero County, New Mexico — Tularosa Basin, adjacent to White Sands

What's documented

Holloman Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico, ~10 miles west of Alamogordo. It opened in 1942 as Alamogordo Army Air Field and was renamed in 1948. The base sits adjacent to White Sands Missile Range and within the same regional restricted-airspace complex as the Trinity Site, where the first nuclear weapon was detonated in July 1945.

Public-record imagery

Alamogordo Army Air Field (renamed Holloman in 1948), photographed 1944.Wikipedia Commons · Public domain · United States Army Air Forces · 1944

A Holloman hangar at twilight. The base lies on the western flank of White Sands Missile Range — the closest active USAF installation to the Trinity test site of July 1945.Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · US Air Force from USA · Take

A C-17 Globemaster landing at Holloman, March 2023. The 1973 'Holloman alien meeting' claim — popularized in the 1988 TV broadcast UFO Cover-Up Live — has never been confirmed by USAF records.Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Airman 1st Class Nicholas Paczkowski · 2023

Enos the chimpanzee with his handler — the Holloman chimp who flew Mercury-Atlas 5 on 29 November 1961 and orbited Earth twice. The Holloman Aerospace Medical Center bred and trained the primate corps that preceded Mercury astronauts into orbit.Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · NASA · 1961