Carswell Air Force Base
Carswell Air Force Base (AFB) is a US Air Force installation located in Fort Worth, Texas. The base served as a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) facility during the Cold War, housing bomber units including B-47 and B-52 wings. It is named after Major Horace S. Carswell Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient from World War II.
UAP Connections
1955 Willingham Mission
In spring 1955, USAF Reserve Colonel Robert Willingham and a group of F-86 Saber pilots launched from Carswell AFB on a Cold War simulation mission escorting B-47 and B-52 bombers on a New York–Texas–Washington State routing. During this mission, Willingham and other pilots observed a high-speed unidentified object that subsequently crashed near Langtry, Texas. The mission call sign was "Willie Eddie" and Willingham's serial was CD1195. Willingham returned to Carswell following the sighting and then submitted his oral and written report before departing privately to the crash site.
1957 RB-47 Incident
The Condon Report's Case 5 documents a September 19, 1957 incident in which a Carswell-based RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft was pursued for over 600 miles by a large bright fireball alternating red and white, detected simultaneously by the aircraft's own ECM equipment (registering a signal at 2,800 megacycles), by the plane's radar, and by Carswell ground radar. The fireball was described by pilot Lewis D. Chase as appearing "as big as a barn" and moving at velocities far exceeding aircraft speeds. Upon landing, intelligence personnel removed all ECM graphic and radar data from the aircraft.
El Indio Debris Connection
UFO researcher Todd Zechel reportedly obtained a declassified USAF document stating that a foreign object recovered on December 6 or 7, 1950 — consistent with the El Indio, Texas crash date in the alleged Majestic 12 Eisenhower Briefing Document — was transported to Carswell AFB. No public proof of this document has been produced.