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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 08:34:19 -0700 (MST)
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From: jharding (JOHN E. HARDING)
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov
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Date: 95-10-18 14:13:49 EDT
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By Charles Aldinger
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Sprawling Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Ohio, where critical Bosnia peace talks will begin October 31, is more
noted for its alleged dealings with space-tripping aliens than for
international diplomacy.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced Wednesday that the
base, site of early flights by aircraft pioneers Orville and Wilbur
Wright, had been picked for talks involving the presidents of Bosnia,
Croatia and Serbia.
Christopher and other officials said Wright-Patterson was picked for
three reasons: well-guarded gates to keep reporters away, good housing
facilities for heads of state and location of only an hour's flying
time from Washington.
With 23,000 personnel, the base is near Dayton in southwestern Ohio
about 60 miles northeast of Cincinnati. It is both the largest
employer in the area and the largest Air Force base in the United
States.
Although named for earlier aviators -- Frank Patterson was a military
flier killed in a crash in 1918 -- the base has been associated in
myth and fact with Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force investigation
into Unidentified Flying Objects.
Despite denials and an official report issued by the government in
1994, reports circulated by UFO fans continue to hold that the Air
Force has bodies of extraterrestrial visitors stored in tunnels or
frozen in lockers at the base.
The reports circulate on the Internet and have been fodder for books,
Hollywood films and television.
Much of the speculation involves a 1947 incident at Roswell, New
Mexico, in which a supposed ``flying saucer'' crash was investigated.
The Air Force issued a 25-page report in 1994 saying an analysis of
photos showed it was nothing more than wreckage from a balloon used to
check the atmosphere for possible soviet nuclear tests.
But rumors have persisted that bodies of aliens were retrieved at the
site and brought back to Wright-Patterson, and that the base has been
the site of other secret research on alien visitors.
Beyond rumor, the base has played a major role in U.S. military
history. In recent years the B-2 Stealth bomber program was handled
from there under wraps of secrecy.
Guards are posted at all gates to the 8,145-acre facility and only
military personnel and those with passes or business on the base are
allowed to enter.
``It's a well-secured facility by virtue of limited access,'' said Air
Force Major Clemens Gaines at the Pentagon. ''There are also other
security means. If someone goes over the fence, I don't think it would
go unnoticed.''
The peace talks will not be the base's first brush with the Balkan
conflict. It announced earlier this month that its Medical Center will
set up an interactive television link with Camp Pleso in Croatia for
analysis of X-ray and other medical reports on wounded U.N.
peacekeepers treated at the camp.
The three key participants n the so-called ``proximity talks'' will
be Presidents Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Franjo Tudjman of Croatia
and Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia. They will be joined by senior
officials from the Contact Group, comprising the United States,
Britain, France, Germany and Russia, which has been pursuing a peace
deal.
State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns told Reuters the Ohio air
base had three identical generals' quarters to house the presidents
and excellent recreational facilities.
``It can house all 200-plus people (involved in the peace talks), it
has a nice conference center where they can meet and it also has
someplace where they can walk. There's a golf course behind the part
of base where they will be,'' he said.
Burns said a ``partial news blackout'' would be in effect. Journalists
will be allowed to record the opening of the talks on October 31 but
news briefings will be held in Washington.
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