Congress / policymaker

Barry Goldwater

1965-01-01year known, day not recorded

U.S. Senator (R-AZ) and Air Force Reserve Major General; repeatedly asked his friend Curtis LeMay for access to alleged UFO evidence at Wright-Patterson AFB and was angrily refused.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufo". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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3 connections

→ Project Blue Book names a source we do not hold

sought access to its files

USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)
→ Wright-Patterson AFB names a source we do not hold

sought access to the rumored Blue Room UFO storage there; was refused

Goldwater interviews; Larry King 1994 / CNN
← Curtis LeMay nothing behind it

refused him access to Wright-Patterson files; recounted in a 1994 Larry King interview