Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss is a major United States Army installation located in El Paso, Texas, adjacent to the US-Mexico border and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The base is one of the largest military complexes in the United States and has historically served as a training and staging ground for air defense and missile units.
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UAP Connections
1974 Coyame Recovery Operation
Fort Bliss is identified as the staging area for the CIA rapid recovery team dispatched to the 1974 Coyame, Mexico UFO Crash Retrieval. According to the allegedly leaked Denb Report, by 2100 hours on August 26, 1974, the CIA had assembled a recovery team with helicopters at Fort Bliss. Several helicopters were flown in from an unknown source and assembled in a secured area—painted a neutral sand color and bearing no markings. Personnel from the team remained with their craft and had no contact with other Fort Bliss personnel, suggesting strict compartmentalization.
At 1438 hours on August 26, four helicopters (identified as three UH-1 Hueys and one CH-53 Super Stallion) departed Fort Bliss, followed the border down to Presidio, Texas, then turned and entered Mexican airspace north of Candelaria. The team arrived at the crash site at 1653 hours, recovered a 16-foot silver disc from a stopped Mexican convoy (all personnel dead), destroyed the site with high explosives, and returned to US territory with the object.
This incident—in which a hazmat-equipped team arrived via unmarked military helicopters—shares notable parallels with the 1997 Peru UFO Crash Retrieval, where similar hazmat-equipped teams arrived at a UAP crash site via military helicopters, as testified by Jonathan Weygandt.
Roswell Debris Connection
Fort Bliss is mentioned by Colonel Philip J. Corso in his book The Day After Roswell. According to Corso, debris and bodies from the 1947 Roswell Crash were shipped to Fort Bliss, Texas, establishing the base as a historical transfer point for recovered non-human materials.
El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC)
Fort Bliss is also the home of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), established in 1974—the same year as the Coyame incident. EPIC coordinates intelligence gathering along the US-Mexico border and may have been involved in reconnaissance and intelligence on cross-border UAP incidents.
Operational Significance
Fort Bliss's proximity to the US-Mexico border (approximately 40 miles from Coyame, Chihuahua), its role as a major military installation with airlift capability, and the presence of EPIC position it as an ideal forward operating base for covert cross-border UAP recovery operations. The rapid assembly of unmarked helicopters, specialized personnel, and decontamination equipment within 24 hours of the Coyame crash suggests Fort Bliss may have maintained standing or rehearsed protocols for UAP crash retrieval in the border region.