Government / Military

Curtis LeMay

1947–1990

U.S. Air Force General; involved in the earliest UFO investigations (Project Sign, 1947-48) alongside Nathan Twining; allegedly stored UFO material in a restricted room at Wright-Patterson AFB and refused Sen. Barry Goldwater access to it.

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Connections (11)

confirmedArthur Exon

fellow senior Air Force officer in the same secrecy narrative

confirmedEdward Ruppelt

same Air Force UFO chain of command

Source: USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt (1956)

confirmedThomas Townsend Brown

LeMay personally witnessed his thrust experiments

Source: Paul Schatzkin, The Man Who Mastered Gravity: T.T. Brown (2020)

confirmedRAND Corporation

key Air Force champion of its founding as Project RAND

Source: Official government / corporate service records

confirmedInvasion of Washington (1952)

occurred during his era as a senior Air Force commander

confirmedEdward Condon

corresponded on nuclear aircraft propulsion

confirmedRoger Ramey

Air Force colleagues, both tied to 1947 cases

confirmedProject Blue Book

senior Air Force leadership over its investigations

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

confirmedNathan Twining

fellow senior Air Force official in the same era

disputedHarald Malmgren

claimed to have confronted him in 1962; no evidence found

disputedBarry Goldwater

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

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