Hangar 1: The UFO Files

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1963, near Santa Rosa, New Mexico.

First responder,

Nurse Beana Anne Bean, known to everyone as Beanie,

arrives at what she believes is a plane crash.

Beanie and the ambulance driver pull up

to the side of the road where two state police officers

are waiting for them. Beanie thinks she's responding

to a plane crash. One of the officers informs

her that the crash site is not far off the road.

They found three bodies badly injured,

but there's something unusual about them.

Not sure

what to expect, Nurse Bean follows

the police officer into the field.

At the scene, Beanie sees the wreckage

strewn about the field. Lying nearby

are three small bodies badly burnt.

Thinking she's looking at children,

Beanie immediately asks, "Where are the parents ?"

Beanie approaches the bodies to check

for vital signs. As she's examining the bodies,

she realizes that these are not children

as she initially assumed. They're small

and similar to human bodies, but there's something

different about them.

According to Beanie, it's actually

the senior officer on the scene

that finally voices what they were all

starting to wonder. These bodies and this craft

might be from another world. Nurse Bean is shaken

but makes a quick decision about what to do next.

Instead of taking them to the morgue,

she decides they need to get these bodies

back to the hospital for more tests.

The bodies are wheeled

into the emergency entrance right into the X-ray room.

The doctor is immediately called.

Meanwhile, Beanie starts taking

X-rays of the victims. Beanie and the doctor

start examining the X-rays trying to discover more

about these beings. Suddenly, the military shows up.

An Air Force detail comes in and starts confiscating

everything. They packed up the bodies,

the sheets, the X-rays, all of Beanie's

and the doctor's notes. They take all

the police reports and the crash scene photos.

Every last scrap of evidence related to this crash site

and these three bodies is removed in a flash.

The last thing the Air Force representatives

tell her is, "This day never happened.

This is a matter of national security,

and you are never to speak of this."

What kind of wreckage did Nurse Bean

come into contact with ? And what became

of the small, strange beings she recovered ?

MUFON files reveal numerous cases

involving the government seizing alien bodies

from UFO crash sites. Hangar 1 opens its files

to investigate the truth behind aliens in captivity,

both dead and alive. The Mutual UFO Network,

known as MUFON, is an independent organization

not bound to any government. They investigate reports

of UFO sightings from around the world.

Over the past five decades, they have collected

more than 70.000 files stored at a secure location

known as Hangar 1. Now MUFON is granting access

to their vast archive.

These are the files of Hangar 1.

Hangar 1 files reveal what Nurse Bean witnessed

on the day of the crash but remained silent about it

for years.

When you see

these events,

they shake everything you've ever been taught.

You know, everything that is a foundation

of what you believe is suddenly challenged.

To unravel the mystery of where

the bodies have been hidden, investigators turn to the files

of one of the best known UFO researchers,

Leonard Stringfield. Leonard Stringfield

is one of the most important UFO researchers

we've ever had. He was a long-time researcher

going back to the 1950s who had interviewed

many, many individuals over the years.

His work is considered groundbreaking

for shedding light on both the number

of UFO crashes that have occurred,

as well as the government's involvement with them.

One incredible story from Stringfield's files

comes from a firsthand witness who inventoried

UFO crash debris at one of America's

most prominent military bases.

Wright-Patterson

Air Force Base, Foreign Material Division,

1955.

During the 1940s and '50s, a woman named

Norma Gardner works in the Foreign Materials

Division at Wright-Patterson. She has a very high-security

clearance, and in 1955 she is tasked with cataloging

all of the incoming UFO material.

Over the course of the year,

Norma Gardner catalogs approximately 1.000

different items from UFO crashes.

She photographs and tags each one.

And one day, while on duty,

she witnesses a cart being moved from one room

to another.

And on that cart were dead alien bodies.

She notes that the aliens were suspended in some

sort of chemicals to keep them preserved.

They appear to be between four and five feet tall

and had generally human features,

but their heads are large compared to a human,

and their eyes are narrow and slanted.

Although sworn to secrecy,

Norma Gardner eventually breaks

her silence.

In 1959, she retires from her job

at Wright-Pat for health reasons.

She learns that she has cancer and that it's terminal.

It's on her deathbed that she confesses her story.

She claims, "Uncle Sam can't do anything to me

once I'm in my grave."

About six months later, she passed away.

Is Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

the final resting place for aliens recovered

from crash sites ? Or is it merely

a receiving station ? Rumors suggest

the answers reside in a special section

of the base.

It was always believed that all the UFOs,

the bodies, even aliens, they were all brought

to Hangar 18 for analysis.

In fact, the late Senator Barry Goldwater,

who had a secret clearance, he tried to get into

the UFO material at Wright-Patterson

Air Force Base.

So Barry Goldwater was a United States Senator.

He once ran for president back in 1964,

and he was a very good, personal friend

of Air Force legend General Curtis LeMay.

One time he asked General LeMay about it.

And as Goldwater said several times,

it was the only time in their friendship

that LeMay cussed him out and said,

"Don't ever ask me about that again."

Hangar 18 has never really been confirmed.

Most people now, I would say, think

that it's probably a symbolic location.

What seems likely, is that UFO evidence

is being first brought into a receiving area,

but some witnesses may see the crates

being unloaded.

Then the bodies are taken and stored in underground

chambers below the base.

There's a system of underground tunnels

at Wright-Patterson that connect between

vast vaults. These vaults are

an excellent location to hide sensitive material.

Is Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

really housing alien bodies ? Coming up,

the Stringfield files reveal shocking testimony

about what else may exist deep beneath the secure base.

The colonel tells Martin that there are two live aliens

at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

New revelations about aliens in captivity

when "Hangar 1" returns.

MUFON investigators are working to determine

if the government really is concealing extraterrestrials.

Case files reveal eyewitness testimony

that alien remains have been retrieved

from UFO crash sites. Further information

suggests these entities may have been taken

to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

But what happens to these bodies

once they arrive ? The files of MUFON investigatr

Leonard Stringfield a secrethey're taken

underground facility.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1966,

deep inside a secure top secret bunker.

Stringfield speaks

with a man J.K.

J.K. is a computer missile specialist

with top security clearance.

In 1966, he's working with the Nike missile program

and stationed out of Wilmington, Ohio,

a 45-minute drive from Wright-Patterson

Air Force Base.

J.K. finds himself on many occasions

at Wright-Patt. Once of these times,

he's escorted to an underground facility on the base

that is inaccessible without top level security.

Inside this facility, he sees nine glass cases.

The glass appears to be about an inch thick,

and each case is illuminated. And he can see

that inside the cases are nine bodies.

As documented in Stringfield's files,

this story is not an isolated one.

Lenny has report after report of eyewitnesses