Holloman Air Force Base

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Holloman Air Force Base Template:Airport codes is a United States Air Force base located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, a city in Otero County, New Mexico, United States.<ref name=FAA /> It is the home of the 49th Fighter Wing (49 FW) of the Air Combat Command (ACC). The base is also a census-designated place.

[edit] History

Holloman Air Force Base was established in 1942 as Alamogordo Air Field six miles west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, it was renamed in 1948 after Col. George Holloman, a native of Rich Square, North Carolina and pioneer of early rocket and pilot-less aircraft research.

On 16 March 1947, a new era began when Air Materiel Command announced the airfield would be its primary site for the testing and development of pilotless aircraft, guided missiles, and other research programs.

For the next 25 years the site, which became known as the Holloman Air Development Center, and later the Air Force Missile Development Center, launched many missiles including Tiny Tim (the first Army rocket), Rascal, V-2 rocket, Ryan XQ-2 Drone, Falcon, MGM-13 Mace, MGM-1 Matador, and AGM-45 Shrike.

On 13 January 1948 the Alamogordo installation was renamed Holloman Air Force Base, in honor of the late Col. George V. Holloman, a pioneer in guided missile research.

[edit] Holloman Air Force Base and UFO lore

It has long been rumored that President Eisenhower made a secret visit to Holloman to discuss the UFO situation in February of 1955. During the secret talks, a saucer hovered over the air base.


According to UFO investigator and writer, Richard Dolan, Jim and Coral Lorenzen, founders of the civilian UFO research group, APRO always maintained they received reports from three people, unconnected to one another, all who were members of the Air Force at Holloman, about a strange addendum to the April 24, 1964 Socorro, New Mexico UFO incident. Jim and Coral said they were reliably told that on the night of April 30, 1964, seven days after Socorro, the pilot of a B-57 bomber, flying near Holloman Air Force Base reported seeing in the air a white, egg-shaped object with markings on the side. The pilot reportedly said that he saw this object, which matched the description of the UFO seen on the ground in Socorro by Lonnie Zamora, descend and land on the grounds of Holloman Air Force Base. As Dolan says, Jim and Coral "never wavered" in maintaining the truth of these three reports.

Jerome Clark cites a 1973 supposed encounter at Hollomanas as perhaps the earliest suggestion that the U.S. government was involved with ETs. That year, Robert Emenegger and Allan Sandler of Los Angeles, California, were in contact with officials at Norton Air Force Base in order to make a documentary film. Emenegger and Sandler report that Air Force Officials (including Paul Shartle) suggested incorporating UFO information in the documentary, including as its centerpiece genuine footage of a 1971 UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Furthermore, says Emenegger, he was given a tour of Holloman AFB and was shown where officials conferred with EBEs. This was supposedly not the first time the U.S. had met these aliens, as Emenegger reported that his U.S. military sources had "been monitoring signals from an alien group with which they were unfamiliar, and did their ET guests know anything about them? The ETs said no." (Clark 1998, 144) No film was ever presented, however, and the documentary was released in 1974 as UFO's: Past, Present and Future (narrated by Rod Serling). The alleged Holloman UFO landing was discussed in the documentary and was depicted with illustrations.

In 1988, Shartle said that the film in question was genuine, and that he had seen it several times.

"UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941-1973", Dolan, Hampton Roads Press, 2002.

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