Edwards Air Force Base
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Sep 12, 2026
Lynn SmythHOST
We're hoping it just swam away.
Lynn SmythHOST
It was a routine night at the Edwards Air Force Base air security police desk until the frantic call came in from the patrol on duty at the restricted site known as Project Logic.
Lynn SmythHOST
The man's voice was urgent and high-pitched with fear.
Lynn SmythHOST
Send a patrol quick.
Lynn SmythHOST
While no official report of this incident can be found in the archives of the base's historical department, the rumor circulated throughout the Air Force Police that the man at Project Logic was deeply affected by his encounter of that night.
Lynn SmythHOST
They said he was placed in a military hospital and eventually sent to an overseas base.
Lynn SmythHOST
In the spring of 1974, Edwards Air Force Base Security Policeman Sergeant Michael House was on night duty on the outskirts of the powerful communication site known as Mars Station, which maintains radio contact with other military installations around the globe.
Lynn SmythHOST
A nearby microwave tower, looming like a lonely sentinel in the darkness, stood surrounded by a wooden fence posted with signs advising that explosive devices, electronically operated or magnetically charged, would detonate within a certain radius.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
This is the only one I have.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
But you'll find the same answer for most of the important cases, the sightings at Muroc Air Base, the airline pilots' reports, the discs Kenneth Arnold saw.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
They're all unidentified.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
I remember the Arnold case.
5 HRS 5 MINS LATER
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Authentic reports have described sightings over the following Air Force bases, Chanute, Newark, Andrews, Hickam, Robbins, Godman, Clark, Fairfield-Suisun, Davis-Monthan, Harmon, Wright-Patterson, Holloman, Clinton County Air Force Base, and air bases in Alaska, Germany, and the Azores.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Saucers have also been sighted over naval air stations at Dallas, Alameda, and Key West, and from the station at Seattle.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
They have been reported maneuvering over the White Sands Proving Ground, over areas containing atomic developments, above the Muroc Air Base testing area, and over the super-secret research base near Albuquerque.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Several times saucers have paced both military and civil aircraft.
Darren MarlarHOST
The main problem here is attempting to tell the difference between covert military aircraft overflying the base and alleged scrutiny by extraterrestrials.
Darren MarlarHOST
The grandfather of all military bases is, of course, the notorious Area 51, a part of the gargantuan Edwards Air Force Base, which incorporates the Groom Lake test range and covers an area about the size of Wales in the UK.
Darren MarlarHOST
Unsurprisingly, the US government still robustly denies the existence of the facility, although accounts of what has regularly been seen in the skies above the air base are legion.
Darren MarlarHOST
Again, we must remember what this base is all about, i.e., the testing of highly secret prototype military aircraft and as such, a magnet for snoops and spies, both human and allegedly alien.
Tail DraggerHOST
In one afternoon, the program lost its second and last flying prototype, and two of the most accomplished test pilots in American aviation, AV-1, continued flying research missions for the Air Force and NASA for another two and a half years.
Tail DraggerHOST
Then in February of 1969, it made its final flight from Edwards Air Force Base to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton.
Tail DraggerHOST
It has not flown since.
Tail DraggerHOST
For years, it was parked outdoors, which is the kind of thing that makes any aviator wince.
Samuel WhiteGUEST
And so when I finished pilot training, I got my wings and a lot of us, there was no cockpits available.
Samuel WhiteGUEST
So I went to be a flight test engineer at Edwards Air Force Base for two years.
Samuel WhiteGUEST
Actually, I was a pretty low point in execution at that time in my career because I really wanted to fly and I did not think that I was going to ever have the opportunity to fly again with this drawdown.
Samuel WhiteGUEST
Turned out to be a blessing in disguise while I was out there.
Alex DaviesGUEST
And so the way he tested that was he built a rocket sled that ran on rails.
Alex DaviesGUEST
He did this in the, um, in the desert at what's now Edwards Air Force Base, and this was a guy who really put himself on the line by actually sitting himself on this rocket sled.
Alex DaviesGUEST
He put on goggles.
Alex DaviesGUEST
His test engineers, his fellow test engineers tied his wrists together and put a bite block in his mouth and put a helmet on his head and rocketed him to more than 600 miles an hour, and it wasn't just hitting that speed.
AndrewHOST
So he flies one of these.
AndrewHOST
He steals one at Edwards Air Force Base.
AndrewHOST
flies it all the way up as high as he could go, stalls the plane out.
AndrewHOST
He could not recover the F-104.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
"This is the only one I have.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
But you'll find the same answer for most of the important cases, the sightings at Muroc Air Base, the airline pilots' reports, the disks Kenneth Arnold saw.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
They're all unidentified." "I remember the Arnold case.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
That was the first sighting." "You've got contacts in Washington," Purdy went on.
4 HRS 49 MINS LATER
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Authentic reports have described sightings over the following Air Force bases, Chanute, Newark, Andrews, Hickam, Robbins, Godman, Clark, Fairfield-Souzanne, Davis-Monthan, Harmon, Wright-Patterson, Holloman, Clinton County Air Force Base, and air bases in Alaska, Germany, and the Azores.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Saucers have also been sighted over naval air stations at Dallas, Alameda, and Key West, and from the station at Seattle.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
They have been reported maneuvering over the White Sands Proving Ground, over areas containing atomic developments, above the Muroc Air Base testing area, and over the super-secret research base near Albuquerque.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Several times, saucers have paced both military and civil aircraft.
Tail DraggerHOST
December 14, 1986, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Tail DraggerHOST
The sun is barely up, and the crowd along the ramp fence is already three deep.
Tail DraggerHOST
Out on the runway sits something that looks less like an airplane and more like a dragonfly that someone stretched on a rack.
8 MINS LATER
Tail DraggerHOST
The ground team was running the same numbers independently.
Tail DraggerHOST
The question was direct.
Tail DraggerHOST
Could they make Edwards? The answer was yes, but only barely on December 23, 1986, nine days, three minutes and 44 seconds after departing Edwards Air Force Base, Voyager crossed the California coast and descended toward the desert.
Tail DraggerHOST
They landed with approximately 18 gallons of fuel remaining, 18 gallons out of the more than 7,000 pounds of fuel they had loaded nine days earlier.
Tail DraggerHOST
They had burned something like 98% of everything they carried to circle the planet.
Tail DraggerHOST
He briefed her on what the airplane would do as she approached Mach 1 and what she needed to do in response.
Tail DraggerHOST
On May 18, 1953, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, Jacqueline Cochran.
Tail DraggerHOST
climbed into a North American F-86 Sabre.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Mojave was clear that morning.
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