Crane, Indiana
Crane, Indiana is a small town in Martin County, Indiana, best known as the home of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane). The site was selected during World War II for munitions stockpiling specifically because of its landlocked, geographically isolated location — considered difficult to target in a strike on the continental United States. It is of significant interest in UAP research due to its alleged association with the Off-World Technologies Division, a name used to describe what a credible military witness claims is an underground reverse engineering program.
UAP Significance
Crane, Indiana itself is historically relevant primarily as the community surrounding NSWC Crane, the Navy federal laboratory that spans 64,000 acres across the surrounding countryside. The choice of this rural, landlocked site during World War II for classified munitions work established an institutional culture of extreme secrecy and geographic separation from population centers that persisted into the modern era.
According to a testimony explored in depth by UAP Gerb, a Green Beret known as "RA" — a verified TS/SCI-cleared 18 Bravo Weapons Sergeant assigned to the First Special Forces Airborne Command — was escorted underground at NSWC Crane between 2013 and 2015 during a classified weapons training course. His guide — believed to be an SAIC contractor — casually referred to the underground section as the "off-world technologies division." What RA reportedly observed there included a seamless levitating metallic sphere with a mother-of-pearl surface effect that appeared to respond selectively to human consciousness, and a gauntlet-style weapon system that projected hieroglyphic symbols matching those described by Daniel Sheehan from classified Project Blue Book photos he reviewed in 1977.
The town's proximity to and dependence on NSWC Crane makes it a key geographic anchor for understanding the alleged program's physical location.
Related Facilities
- Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, Indiana — Primary federal laboratory and alleged site of the Off-World Technologies Division