Wright-Patterson AFB

39°49′N, 84°02′W — Greene/Montgomery County, Ohio — United States Air Force base, headquarters of Air Force Materiel Command

What's documented

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in Ohio, formed in 1948 by merging Wright Field and Patterson Field. It is the headquarters of Air Force Materiel Command and one of the largest USAF bases. Foreign Technology Division (later National Air and Space Intelligence Center) and Project Blue Book ran out of Wright-Patterson; the base has been a persistent fixture in U.S. aviation, intelligence, and (in popular lore) UAP/UFO history since the late 1940s.

Public-record imagery

Wright-Patterson AFB from above, looking across the flightline.Wikipedia Commons · Public domain · Nyttend · Take

The base in 2000 — much of the original footprint preserved.Wikipedia Commons · Public domain · United States Geological Survey (USGS) · 2000

Wright-Patterson today — home of Air Force Materiel Command, the Foreign Materials Exploitation hangars, and the alleged 'Hangar 18.' The base has been the center of US aerospace reverse-engineering since Operation Paperclip in 1945.Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Michelle Gigante · 2016

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from above. The persistent Roswell rumor — that wreckage was flown here for analysis on 8 July 1947 — is denied by USAF; multiple Project Blue Book staff who worked the building have likewise denied seeing alien material.Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Nyttend · Take