Editing Hangar 18 (section)

=== Robert Spencer Carr ===
On October 11, 1974, science-fiction author and UFO conspiracy theorist [[Robert Spencer Carr]] conducted a live radio interview where he publicly claimed that alien bodies recovered from the Aztec, NM crash were being kept at "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson.<ref name="CarrRadio">{{cite book |last1=Disch |first1=Thomas M. |title=The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World |date=Jul 5, 2000 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9780684859781 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0meRTMfDOt4C&pg=PA53}}, "Even the Roswell case [...]  has its component of science-fictional fraud. Robert Spencer Carr became famous, briefly, in the '70s when, in a radio interview, he concocted the still-current story of aliens' autopsied and kept in cold storage at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio."</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYKKiU9cvZEC | title=Shockingly Close to the Truth!: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist | isbn=978-1-61592-541-4 | last1=Moseley | first1=James W. | date=2 November 2010 | publisher=Prometheus Books }}</ref>  The claim garnered substantial press attention, and led to official denials.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 12, 1974|title=UFO-oria's Back Again|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|location=Cincinnati, OH|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/101291218}}</ref>  The Air Force replied that no "Hangar 18" existed at the base (perhaps somewhat disingenuously, given the existence of Building 18), and noted Carr's claims bore a close similarity to the fictional ''Fortec Conspiracy''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/411746017|title=Dayton Daily News |date=Oct 12, 1974|page=1|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

During the interview, Carr also relayed a tale of Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] requesting and being denied access to a restricted area.  Reached for comment, Goldwater admitted to having requested a tour and been denied, but Goldwater said he'd never heard any rumors of alien bodies.<ref>"Goldwater, contacted at his home in Phoenix, told The Enquirer he had indeed made such a request, 'But that was at least 12 or 15 years ago.  Good God.  That's so long ago I can't remember.  The answer was negative, but I was an officer so I followed orders.  What's this business about 12 little men? That's a new one on me.'" [https://www-newspapers-com/image/101291218 source]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

By September 1979, Carr claimed to have interviewed five eyewitnesses to the recovery, including a surgical nurse who witnessed an alien's autopsy.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aadl.org/node/198259|title=Air Force Freezes Ufo Story &#124; Ann Arbor District Library|website=aadl.org}}</ref><ref name="Peebles">{{Cite book |last=Peebles |first=Curtis |title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth |date=March 21, 1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjI4X7ZOvOIC |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=9780425151174}}  "Stringfield described the evidence Carr had collected on the Aztec "crash."  Carr said he had found five eyewitnesses to the recovery. One (now dead) was a surgical nurse at the alien's autopsy. Another was a high-ranking Air Force officer. Two others were aeronautical engineers who described the UFO's structure and systems. The final witness was an Air Force enlisted man who had been a guard." citing Stringfield (Sept 1979) ''Retrievals of the Third Kind, part 2''</ref>

The 1980 film ''[[Hangar 18 (film)|Hangar 18]]'', which dramatized Carr's claims, was described as "a modern-day dramatization" of the [[Roswell incident]] by the film's director [[James L. Conway]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erdmann |first1=Terry J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDe3VS07YSMC&pg=PA287 |title=Deep Space Nine Companion |last2=Block |first2=Paula M. |date=2000 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0671501068 |location=New York}}</ref> and as "nascent Roswell mythology" by folklorist Thomas Bullard.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bullard |first=Thomas E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8h-jEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA331 |title=The Myth and Mystery of UFOs |date=2016 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-2338-9 |location=Lawrence}}</ref> Decades later, Carr's son recalled that he had often "mortified my mother and me by spinning preposterous stories in front of strangers... [tales of] befriending a giant alligator in the Florida swamps, and sharing complex philosophical ideas with porpoises in the Gulf of Mexico."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Carr |first=Timothy |date=July 1997 |title=Son of Originator of 'Alien Autopsy' Story Casts Doubt on Father's Credibility |url=https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1997/07/22165005/p31.pdf |magazine=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=21 |issue=4}}</ref>