Congress / Policymakers

Barry Goldwater

1965–1998

U.S. Senator (R-AZ) and Air Force Reserve Major General; repeatedly asked his friend Curtis LeMay for access to alleged UFO evidence at Wright-Patterson AFB and was angrily refused.

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Connections (3)

confirmedWright-Patterson AFB

sought access to the rumored Blue Room UFO storage there; was refused

Source: Goldwater interviews; Larry King 1994 / CNN

confirmedProject Blue Book

sought access to its files

Source: USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)

disputedCurtis LeMay

refused him access to Wright-Patterson files; recounted in a 1994 Larry King interview

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