Air Force Office of Special Investigations and UFOs

When I joined the United States Air Force in 2000, I completed Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base and Technical School at Keesler Air Force Base and was eventually stationed at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Upon arriving at HIll, I was assigned to attend First Term Airmen’s Center (FTAC), a program designed to help new airmen adjust to life on their permanent duty stations and to help streamline appointments and receive briefings from various base organizations.

I, along with all other new airmen, sat through hours of briefings, most having to do with education, base legal services, and family support. Initially, the FTAC briefings proved to be even more boring than the months of training sessions in tech school.

Then things got interesting. Two agents from the base Office of Special Investigations detachment came to brief us on subjects we should be aware of. At first their instructions were pretty mundane: don’t do drugs, be aware of spies soliciting intelligence, and, of course, keep your eyes open for terrorists.

Their next comments quickly recaptured my attention. The OSI agents were wrapping up their presentation as a recruiting session, open to all first-term airmen. One agent said, “Yeah, we deal with drug busts, sexual-assault cases, and all that, but the real interesting stuff is the X-files type stuff. There are a lot of weird things flying around out there, and we get to investigate it.”

The agents made a quick closing comment, left their number in case we were interested, and exited. We were all taken by surprise. We broke for lunch, and while most airmen had already forgotten what the OSI agents had said, a few of us heard the agent’s words reverberating in our minds: “There are a lot of weird things flying around out there.”

My attention was again turned to the existence of these "weird things" when one airman relayed to me his experience in tech school at Sheppard AFB in Texas. Before switching career fields, he was knee-deep in training materials for a photographic-related career field (research has led me to believe it was Combat Camera training via the 367^th training squadron). He said their instructor stated that they “will no doubt encounter UFOs in their official duties,” as he had. The instructor mentioned it numerous times throughout the class and even showed them a few pictures (these were probably not classified, as it takes months to acquire even a SECRET security clearance).  My conversation with this airman and others trailed off into our personal sightings of UFOs and FTAC wrapped up a day or so later.

The briefing by the OSI agents left me wanting to join the detachment and experience what they did.  I contacted the number a few weeks after FTAC and was called back by an agent who used the codename “Hector”.  Hector informed me that they were looking for people who had technical knowledge, specifically computer skills, but at that point, since I did not have a security clearance yet, I would be limited to being an informant for off base parties.  I wasn’t exactly interested in busting friends for drug use or any other crimes so I told him I would contact him later after I got settled on base and situated in school.  That day never came.

I have no doubt that the OSI agents were serious when they mentioned that there were things flying around out there.  About two years into my service, I was temporarily assigned to be a Security Forces augmentee.  Augmentees are service members that have job duties other than security forces but serve to augment the base security forces as security forces personnel are deployed overseas.  During my time as an augmentee, at least five security forces troops relayed to me their witnessing of strange aerial phenomenon ranging from small fast flying red globes of light to large oval shaped lights, all flying over either the Munitions Storage Area One or Munitions Storage Area Two (MUNS one & MUNS 2).  The sites are also called Munitions and Missile Storage Areas (MAMS) which house explosives, missile components, and perhaps even nuclear material, even if only temporarily.   I made it a point to volunteer to work both sites but never witnessed the phenomenon myself.

Peacekeeper missile stages are loaded onto a commercial hauler in
 the Hill Air Force Base Munitions and Missile Storage area.

I separated from the Air Force after one enlistment term but kept in close contact with many friends I had made.  Many I knew at Hill AFB in Utah, but I also knew some who worked at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, NV where I now live.  Most worked as Air Traffic Controllers, OSI, and of course Area 51 or “up-range”.  After countless conversations with them, the following has been confirmed:

• Bob Lazar did work at Area 51/S4.  He is “on the books” there.  OSI has kept an eye on him.
• Visual sightings by pilots and radar tracking have occurred but are largely suppressed (relayed through ATC sources).  Reporting such things is considered career and social suicide.
• OSI is very interested in the matters and is the investigatory arm of the Air Force for such things.
• Sensitive UFO cases are extremely compartmentalized

UFO over Nellis Test Site

A former member of the Nellis OSI gave me the following challenge coin. 

Challenge coins bear an organizations insignia and are carried by members of a group to prove membership. At the bottom you can clearly see the head of a typical grey alien.  Would they intentionally place something like this knowing it would be seen?   Would it matter if they did?  An alien head is hardly classified.  It may serve as a reminder of a lot of the weird things that are “out there”.

Related links:

Disinformation by AFOSI: http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-discosure-afb/

Interrogations and use of "truth serum" by AFOSI:  http://www.hyper.net/ufo/rendlesham.html

UFOs over Weapons Storage Areas (WSAs):  http://www.ufohastings.com/articles/ufo-spin-in-the-uk

UFO circles Weapons Storage Area at Loring AFB:  http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-loringafb.htm