Government / Military

Curtis LeMay

1947-01-01year known, day not recorded

U.S. Air Force General; involved in the earliest UFO investigations (Project Sign, 1947-48) alongside Nathan Twining; allegedly stored UFO material in a restricted room at Wright-Patterson AFB and refused Sen. Barry Goldwater access to it.

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", "project sign". 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.

None of this entity's 10 connections has a source you can open. 6 carry no citation at all.

10 connections

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→ Project Blue Book names a source we do not hold

senior Air Force leadership over its investigations

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

same Air Force UFO chain of command

USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt (1956)
← Thomas Townsend Brown names a source we do not hold

LeMay personally witnessed his thrust experiments

Paul Schatzkin, The Man Who Mastered Gravity: T.T. Brown (2020)
→ RAND Corporation names a source we do not hold

key Air Force champion of its founding as Project RAND

Official government / corporate service records
← Arthur Exon nothing behind it

fellow senior Air Force officer in the same secrecy narrative
→ Edward Condon nothing behind it

corresponded on nuclear aircraft propulsion
→ Roger Ramey nothing behind it

Air Force colleagues, both tied to 1947 cases
→ Barry Goldwater nothing behind it

refused him access to Wright-Patterson files; recounted in a 1994 Larry King interview
← Invasion of Washington (1952) nothing behind it

occurred during his era as a senior Air Force commander
← Nathan Twining nothing behind it

fellow senior Air Force official in the same era