Cherry Point, North Carolina
Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, located in Craven County, North Carolina, is the home station of Marine Aircraft Group 28 (MAG-28) — the unit that deployed personnel to Operation Laser Strike in Peru in 1997, during which USMC Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt encountered an alleged non-human craft. Cherry Point is also relevant as the departure point for a whistleblower witness (known as "RB") who was flown from the station to an undisclosed location to guard a disc-shaped craft in 1963.
Operation Laser Strike and MAG-28
In February 1997, personnel from MAG-28 at Cherry Point were transferred to Pucalpa Airbase in Peru to participate in Operation Laser Strike, a US SOUTHCOM counter-narcotics mission involving up to 20 agencies, including the USMC, CIA, and USAF. Among those deployed was Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt, who in March–April 1997 discovered a non-human craft embedded in a cliff face near the crash site. Weygandt's unit was under the command of Master Sergeant Chris Diggins and Major Bob Cole during the deployment.
The "RB" Incident, 1963
In a separate event documented by researcher Leonard Stringfield and later investigated by Michael Schratt, a Marine Corporal known only as "RB" who served from 1960 to 1966 was flown from Cherry Point on a windowless aircraft to an undisclosed military installation — theorized to be within a three-hour flight radius, potentially including Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. At that location, RB was assigned as a security guard for a 40-foot disc-shaped craft for two weeks in December 1963. The craft featured no landing gear, fins, or visible propulsion and was described as nearly seamless.