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United States Air Force

United States Air Force
  • On the record: SAF/AQ, SAF/AAH and SAF/AAZ run Air Force special programs; an official history confirms 'outside activities' under SAF/AA from Aldridge's day.
  • The claims: Mellon's anonymous contact on a 1950s secretary's memo and an SCES-2 gatekeeper; 'Ed' on a waived test program at Edwards.
  • Gerb's view: a 'hidden wing' across the Western ranges; the gatekeeper names are his inferences.

The service behind AFRL, NASIC and the old UFO projects. Two people in the story wore its uniform: retired Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland, missing since Feb 2026, and intelligence officer Matthew Sullivan, who died in 2024 and whom Grusch calls one of his sources. Its official position, from Blue Book to the 1990s Roswell reports, is that it holds no alien craft.

On the record

  • McCasland retired 1 Oct 2013 after commanding AFRL.
  • Sullivan obituary: USAF intelligence officer, NASIC, NSA, Bronze Star; buried at Quantico.
  • Per ME records reported by the NY Post, Sullivan died of a mix of alcohol and prescription drugs; the headline says accidental.
  • Blue Book closed in Dec 1969 after the Condon report.

Claims (14)

Sullivan 'was on the program and he was one of my sources'.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
The IC IG found the death was 'not being a suicide'.secondhandSourced, unconfirmed
McCasland 'definitely is connected to the UAP topic'.secondhandSourced, unconfirmed
An X account claiming to be a retired 38-year officer, said online to be McCasland's, alleged Rossi was murdered over nuclear material.anonymousSourced, unconfirmed
Sullivan's death was a silencing.speculationSourced, unconfirmed
At Edwards in 2006-10 he headed an electronic-warfare test group, the go-between for engineers and test pilots 'when they had a man craft they were testing'; in 2008 he was part of an Air Force plan to go public, killed in 2009-10 by a two-star general; at the Pentagon in 2010-15 he saw '$34 billion then $40 billion' moved to non-Air Force authority. He would testify to AARO only if Kirkpatrick were removed.UAP Reverse Engineering at Edwards Air Force Base [Redacted List Vol.2]anonymousLeadSteven Greer
A physicist told Stringfield of 'Project Blue Heaven' at Edwards in the late 1960s and early 1970s: a landed 40 ft domed saucer kept in a hangar and its crew of small beings in metallic suits, who lay down and went inert; still active in 1990, with two or three similar Navy projects. He later cut the number of beings from 12 to 4.UAP Reverse Engineering at Edwards Air Force Base [Redacted List Vol.2]anonymousLeadLeonard Stringfield (Status Report VI, 1991)
Ed's group sat in the 412th Test Wing, working with the Nevada range and S4 on ARVs.UAP Reverse Engineering at Edwards Air Force Base [Redacted List Vol.2]speculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
SAF/AQ (about $60bn, 550 programs) has offices for special programs (AQL), acquisition integration (AQX) and science and technology (AQR); SAF/AAH handles sensitive activities and SAF/AAZ security and special program oversight (the Air Force SAPCO); AF/TE oversees test ranges and foreign-materiel exploitation.The Hidden Wing - US Air Force UFO Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordHAF mission directives (cited by UAP Gerb)
An Air Force history of the Administrative Assistant's office (2018 interview with William A. Davidson) says the Air Force had administrative control of 'several activities in other agencies', two started 'in Pete Aldridge's day', not under SAF/AAZ.80 Years of UFO Crash Retrieval and Reverse Engineering: A TimelinefirsthandOn the recordSAF/AA history (2018), cited by UAP Gerb
His Signal partner (2020) knew who recovered crashed or landed UAP and under what authority: 'a still highly classified memo by a secretary of the air force in the 1950s is still in effect', and 'the SCES2 who's the Air Force gatekeeper'.anonymousSourced, unconfirmedChristopher Mellon
A waived test program at Edwards' 412th Test Wing with the Nevada range flies derived airframes, with AF/TE as office of primary responsibility; 30-40% of Air Force acquisition money moved to the black budget before SAF/FM review.UAP Reverse Engineering at Edwards Air Force Base [Redacted List Vol.2]anonymousLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
In 2009-12 a two-star general in the hidden wing conceived, then killed, a plan to show derived exotic airframes without saying where they came from.80 Years of UFO Crash Retrieval and Reverse Engineering: A TimelineanonymousLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
The 'hidden wing' tests recovered and reproduced craft across the Western ranges; Mellon's gatekeeper is SAF/AAH's Russell Weiler (60/40 over SAF/AAZ's William McClure); Lee Russ, Donna Shipton and Dawn Dunlop are other possible gatekeepers; by his count 8 of 14 recent ASAF(A)s came from Lockheed, SAIC, Northrop, TRW, LTV, Aerospace or GD.The Hidden Wing - US Air Force UFO Reverse Engineering ProgramsspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)

Cases (14)

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Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) orgAir Force Materiel Command (AFMC) orgAir Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) orgProject Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly orgChristopher Mellon personFrank W. Maiwald personCol. Howard M. McCoy personJames Clapper personMatthew James Sullivan personMaj. Gen. William "Neil" McCasland personRandall Walden personRobert Jacobs personUAP Gerb (Sam) personRobert Low's 'trick' memo on the Condon study (1966) documentFinal personnel record of Col. Howard M. McCoy, USAF (1954) documentChristopher Mellon's 2020 Signal screenshots (posted 2024) documentSpace Council file on recovering space-vehicle fragments (1962-1964) document

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