As home to 

Project Blue
Book, ground zero for government
investigation of UFOs  from 1951 to
1969, Wright Field (now Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base) outside
Dayton, Ohio, ranks up there
alongside Area 51  as a subject of
enduring speculation. 
Many of the rumors surrounding
Wright-Patt, as it’s known for short,
involve what might have gone on
inside a particular building, known as
Hangar 18. UFO enthusiasts believe
the government hid physical
evidence from their investigations—
including flying saucer debris,
extraterrestrial remains and even
captured aliens—in this mysterious
warehouse, specifically inside a
sealed, highly guarded location
dubbed “the Blue Room.”
The legend of Hangar 18 goes back
to the supposed crash of a UFO in
the desert near Roswell, New
Mexico, in July 1947. According to
a press release  issued by the
Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) at the
time, their personnel inspected the
“flying disc” and sent it on to “higher
headquarters.” A subsequent press
release from an Air Force base in
Fort Worth, Texas (assumed to be
the aforementioned headquarters)
claimed the disc was a weather
balloon—a claim the Air
Force acknowledged was untrue in
1994, admitting it had been testing a
surveillance device designed to fly
over nuclear research sites in the
Soviet Union. 
Jesse Marcel, head intelligence officer,
who initially investigated and recovered
some of the debris from the Roswell UFO
site, pictured in an article run by the
Corsicana Dialy Sun on July 9, 1947.