Part 12 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Operation LUSTY brought captured aviation technology to Wright and Freeman Fields, giving later recovered-craft stories a convincing setting. The Magenta sources supply no transport record placing the alleged craft in “Hangar 18.” Building 18’s documented work was engine testing. At Freeman, buried parts helped inspire stories of buried airplanes. Rumors, fiction and Carr’s 1974 claims shaped the l...

After the war in Europe ended, Colonel Harold E. Watson and a handpicked group of pilots gathered captured German aircraft from the battlefield and sent or flew them back to Air Materiel Command’s T-2 Intelligence Department at Wright Field and Freeman Field, Indiana, for study. https://t.co/3Wk5g73BBP [Quoted] Following the Second World War, Operation Paperclip brought more than 200 German scientists and technicians to Wright-Patterson, then known as Wright Field, where they worked alongside...