Editing Roswell incident (section)

===Hangar 18===
"[[Hangar 18 (conspiracy theory)|Hangar 18]]" is a non-existent location that many later conspiracy theories allege housed extraterrestrial craft or bodies recovered from Roswell.<ref>{{harvnb|Nickell|McGaha|2012|p=33}}</ref> The idea of alien corpses from a crashed ship being stored in an Air Force morgue at the [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] was mentioned in Scully's ''Behind the Flying Saucers'',<ref name="Baker-2024">{{harvnb|Baker|2024}}</ref> expanded in the  1966 book ''[[Incident at Exeter]]'', and became the basis for a 1968 science-fiction novel ''[[The Fortec Conspiracy]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Fuller|1966|pp=87–88}}: "There have been, I learned after I started this research, frequent and continual rumors (and they are only rumors) that in a morgue at Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, lie the bodies of a half-dozen or so small humanoid corpses, measuring not more than four-and-a-half feet in height, evidence of one of the few times an extraterrestrial spaceship has allowed itself either to fail or otherwise fall into the clutches of the semicivilized Earth People."</ref><ref name="Smith-2000-p82">{{harvnb|Smith|2000|p=82}}</ref> ''Fortec'' was about a fictional cover-up by the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center#Foreign Technology Division|Air Force unit charged with reverse-engineering]] other nations' technical advancements.<ref name="Smith-2000-p82"/>

In 1974, science-fiction author and conspiracy theorist [[Robert Spencer Carr]] alleged that alien bodies recovered from the Aztec crash were stored in "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson.<ref>{{harvnb|Peebles|1994|p=242}}</ref> Carr claimed that his sources had witnessed the alien autopsy,<ref>{{harvnb|Peebles|1994|p=244}}: "[[Leonard H. Stringfield|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."</ref> another idea later incorporated into the Roswell narrative.<ref>{{harvnb|Disch|2000|pp=53–34}}: "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. Carr."</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://aadl.org/node/198259 |title=Air Force Freezes Ufo Story |via=Ann Arbor District Library |newspaper=Ann Arbor Sun |date=November 1, 1974 |agency=Zodiac News Service}}</ref> The Air Force explained that no "Hangar 18" existed at the base, noting a similarity between Carr's story and the fictional ''Fortec Conspiracy''.<ref>{{harvnb|Jones|1974}}</ref>  The 1980 film ''[[Hangar 18 (film)|Hangar 18]]'', which dramatized Carr's claims, was described as "a modern-day dramatization" of Roswell by the film's director [[James L. Conway]],<ref name="Erdmann-p287" /> and as "nascent Roswell mythology" by folklorist Thomas Bullard.<ref>{{harvnb|Bullard|2016|p=331}}</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>{{harvnb|Carr|1997|p=32}}</ref>