Place · Near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Pine Gap, Australia
The joint satellite ground station in central Australia that serves NRO Program B, run today by the Australian Defence Force, the CIA, the NSA and the NRO. Its first Program B chief was R. Evan Hineman, whom Admiral Inman named as the man to ask about crash retrievals. UAP Gerb notes it has long featured in legacy program talk and wonders whether Hineman worked such programs from there.

On the record
- Ground element of NRO Program B.
- Run jointly by the Australian Defence Force, CIA, NSA and NRO.
Claims (5)
Pine Gap is the ground station of NRO Program B, the joint NRO and CIA signals-intelligence satellite program.NRO Program BfirsthandOn the recordNRO history (cited by UAP Gerb)
Today Pine Gap is run jointly by the Australian Defence Force, the CIA, the NSA and the NRO.Central Intelligence AgencyNational Reconnaissance Office (NRO)firsthandOn the recordpublic record (cited by UAP Gerb)
R. Evan Hineman was the first chief of the Program B facility at Pine Gap.R. Evan HinemanfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedNRO history (cited by UAP Gerb)
Pine Gap has been the subject of numerous UFO legacy program discussions because of its remote location and spook-run elements; some call it Australia's Area 51.Area 51 and S-4analysisLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
Hineman could have been working on UFO legacy programs in the 1980s out of Pine Gap.R. Evan HinemanspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
Connected
Area 51 and S-4 orgCentral Intelligence Agency orgNational Reconnaissance Office (NRO) orgNRO Program B orgR. Evan Hineman personUAP Gerb (Sam) person
Sources
- UAP Gerb: National Reconnaissance Office - UFO Crash Retrievals, Surveillance, and Legacy Program Gatekeepers
- UAP Gerb: US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering Programs
- UAP Gerb: Northrop Grumman & TRW - UFO Reverse Engineering, Material Exploitation, & Legacy Programs [Vol.2]