National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)
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OrgMilitary UnitThe National Air and Space Intelligence Center is the Air Force's foreign air and space intelligence center at Wright-Patterson, heir to the office that oversaw Project Blue Book.
The National Air and Space Intelligence Center is the Air Force's foreign air and space intelligence center at Wright-Patterson, heir to the office that oversaw Project Blue Book.
The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) is the U.S. Air Force's unit for analyzing intelligence on foreign air forces, aerospace weapons and space systems. Based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, it is a field operating agency that has reported to the Air Staff's intelligence directorate since October 2014, and it supplies the Defense Intelligence Agency with specialized intelligence on foreign air threats. It has about 4,100 civilian, military, reserve, guard and contractor personnel, organized into four intelligence groups, four support directorates and 18 squadrons.
The center traces its roots to World War II, when the Army Air Forces' T-2 Intelligence department evaluated foreign aircraft at Wright Field and at Freeman Field, Indiana. The Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) was established on May 21, 1951, as a field activity of the Air Force's intelligence chief; it analyzed a crashed MiG-15 and other Soviet-built aircraft and contracted Battelle Memorial Institute to translate and analyze Korean War materiel and documents. ATIC became the Foreign Technology Division on July 1, 1961, and after a series of redesignations in the early 1990s, including the National Air Intelligence Center in 1993, took its present name in February 2003.
That lineage makes NASIC the institutional descendant of the Air Force's official UFO investigation. Project Blue Book, headquartered at Wright-Patterson, worked under ATIC's oversight; Captain Edward J. Ruppelt reorganized it in 1952 and brought in Battelle to build a statistical study of thousands of reports. The project stayed at Wright-Patterson after ATIC became the Foreign Technology Division, which by 1968 had an Aerial Phenomenon Office, until the Secretary of the Air Force announced its termination on December 17, 1969. Of 12,618 sightings reported to Blue Book, 701 remained unidentified.
NASIC entered the 2026 UAP debate through a former officer. Matthew Sullivan, an Air Force intelligence officer whose family obituary lists service at NASIC, the National Security Agency and the Air Force Intelligence Agency, passed away in May 2024. In April 2026, Representative Eric Burlison said congressional investigators had reached out to Sullivan and scheduled him for an interview about alleged legacy UAP programs, and that he "was read in at the highest classification levels." Some online accounts described Sullivan as a former deputy director of NASIC, a title his obituary does not list.
NASIC also appears in lists of places where UAP advocates say crash-retrieval records could be held. In May 2026, for example, the journalist Christopher Sharp posted a "Where to look" list that named NASIC alongside the DIA, the National Reconnaissance Office and several defense contractors. NASIC's public mission remains the assessment of foreign aircraft, missiles and space systems, and its documented UFO history is the Blue Book era of its predecessors at Wright-Patterson.
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[Retweeted] NASIC - Air Force UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering https://t.co/C5wo9J7kbS An exploration of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), the Air Force's primary intelligence center for scientific and technical analysis (S&TI) of foreign air, space, and missile threats, and vanguard of the National Foreign Materiel Program (FMP). NASIC's inception can be traced back all the way to World War One with the "Foreign Data Section", an intelligence operation at McCoo...
[Retweeted] NASIC - Air Force UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering https://t.co/C5wo9J7kbS An exploration of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), the Air Force's primary intelligence center for scientific and technical analysis (S&TI) of foreign air, space, and missile threats, and vanguard of the National Foreign Materiel Program (FMP). NASIC's inception can be traced back all the way to World War One with the "Foreign Data Section", an intelligence operation at McCoo...
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NASIC - Air Force UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering https://t.co/C5wo9J7kbS An exploration of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), the Air Force's primary intelligence center for scientific and technical analysis (S&TI) of foreign air, space, and missile threats, and vanguard of the National Foreign Materiel Program (FMP). NASIC's inception can be traced back all the way to World War One with the "Foreign Data Section", an intelligence operation at McCook Field task...