James Moseley - The Wright Field Story: Crashed UFOs and Dead Aliens in Hangar 18

Copyright 2014 by: New Saucerian Books
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
ISBN: 1499105347
ISBN-13: 978-1499105346

When a UFO crashed outside the town of Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947, rumor spread that the wreckageas well as the remains of several alien beings who had been onboard the ill-fated craftwas quickly gathered up by the military, put on the back of a flatbed truck and hauled away. Within hoursat the most several daysthe ship and the badly-burned alienswere flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for scientific analysis and research purposes.

Speculation that a mysterious building known as "Hangar 18" might contain the remains of these small, gray-colored, extraterrestrials and their vehicle has remained constant over the years. Supposedly, there have been other crash landings in addition to the one at Roswell, and whatever was foundwreckage and bodiesended up stored in this facility near Dayton, Ohio.

Such accounts have been fueled by the fact that the Air Force's various UFO projects (including Project Blue Book, its most famous) have been headquartered at this base. In addition, there have been many bizarre tales told by various retired military personnel who, while stationed at Wright-Patterson insist they "stumbled" upon the "truth" when they saw with their own eyes what they couldn't at first believe, and which they were later told to shut up about by their superior officers.

Furthermore, it remains a curious fact that even the likes of Senator Barry Goldwater has not been allowed inside this highly restricted area even though he is a retired Major in the Air Force and possesses a Top Secret security clearance. Goldwater, over the years, has written several letters to various researchers verifying this. Thus, it remains a puzzle whyif Hangar 18 doesn't contain something very unusualhe would not have been granted the right to inspect the inside of this facility.

Those who have followed UFOs will instantly recognize the name James W. Moseley, for Jim has a reputation in the field for being "older than dirt," in that he has been trying to track down these elusive disks as far back as the early 1950s. A veteran researcher who currendy makes his home in Key West, Florida, Moseley is the former editor and publisher of SAUCER NEWS (a magazine that in its heyday had nearly 10,000 subscribers), and he once put on the largest indoor UFO convention of all time, attracting 15,000 to the three-day event held at New York's Hotel Commodore in 1967. Moseleyas those who know him can testifyis a no nonsense sort of guy when it comes to UFOs. Though he'll give just about anyone the benefit of the doubt, he's always questioning, probing, trying to get to the heart of the matter regardless of the outcome oo what repercussions it may have.

Way back in 1954, Jim tried to get onto Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and was turned away. "I happened to be passing through Dayton," Moseley recalls "and decided to telephone the base. I managed to get through to the officer then in charge of the UFO project. However, I was told that no one except accredited newsmen were allowed on the base, and that was the end of it!"

Over the years, Jim would drop in periodically at the Pentagon in Washington to interview whoever was in charge of releasing UFO information to the public. Several times he tried to get the okay to visit Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Finally, on March 28, 1962 he was admitted to the facilityno cameras were to be permitted and he was asked not to name the exact building where he was taken.

"I had no opportunity to see any rooms other than the one in which my host, Col. Friend, worked. But in the halls were signs reading, approximately, 'This is a Security Area.' For the most part, Moseley's trip to the base was uneventfulcertainly he was not shown the contents of Hangar 18. But he did learn something about the way UFO reports were handled.

"At Wright Field, all cases are accurately filed both according to date and location....Then, after Wright-Patterson's complete analysis has been done, approximately 2% of the cases are re-investigated personally either by Col. Friend or any of four other officers at his disposal, who are sent out from the base to the area, wherever it may be, that the sighting took place....In analyzing and solving UFO reports, Wright Field has at its disposal equipment which could not be duplicated by civilian researchers without the expenditure of many thousands of dollarsor perhaps millions. Col. Friend has, when necessary, the use of photographic, chemical and aeronautical laboratories. By simple phone calls, he can consult with aircraft project chiefs concerning experimental aircraft flights, or with personnel who have complete data about missile, satellite and balloon launchings."

While at the base, Jim says he only saw or heard one thing which seems pretty peculiarif not downright mysterious. "There was a blackboard in Col. Friend's office with peculiar writing on it. This writing was peculiar because it obviously was not in our alphabet. I asked Friend about it, and he said (as nearly as I can recall) that it was a motto or saying, in ancient Syrian, which he had copied out of a book and which he had left up on the blackboard for the past week just to attract questions from visitors to his office. He told me that the motto was, but I unfortunately have forgotten it, as I did not write it down at the time. It was something nearly as commonplace as *Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' But why put mottos in strange languages on the blackboard of an office devoted to serious intelligence work?"

Despite the fact that Jim might not have learned anything particularly earthshaking on his "official" visit to the base, it did not stop him from digging deeper and uncovering some potentially damaging evidence that the Air Force, the U.S. government, and the military, know a hell of a lot more about UFOs and aliens than they are letting any of us know about. This book should provide even further evidence that there is possibly something "not of Earth" inside Hangar 18!

The Publisher

11:45

THE FORBIDDEN PLANET

A ugust, 1959. A hot night. The 24th floor.

Microphones, and wires, and a room high above Times Square.

A blond man in a loud sports coat signaling, his long pointing finger reaching past those dials, into space, into the homes, into the automobiles, into the trucks.

Then a strange electronic beeping that filled the studio.

If there were Martians, this is probably their kind of music, I thought, as I listened to the squealing sounds change pitch and rise to a crescendo.

The cacaphony led into a beautiful melody. To a few peoplebuffs on remembering trivia, this music was, of course, David Rose's recording of Theme From the Forbidden Planet.

To those who twirled their radio dials at that hour, the electronic tonalities and the mystical, yet romantic theme, was now identified, however, with one single human voice.

"Good morning, neighbors. This is Long John." I tensed and squeezed tightly the object I held in my right hand, rolled up into a cylinder and crumpled. It was the latest issue of