Lockborne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio
Lockborne Air Force Base (a variant spelling of Lockbourne AFB) near Columbus, Ohio, is cited in the testimony of multiple Kecksburg crash retrieval witnesses as the first military destination for the recovered bell-shaped object after it was removed from the woods in Western Pennsylvania on the night of December 9–10, 1965. The base operated as a Strategic Air Command installation and was strategically positioned as an intermediate transit point between the Kecksburg crash site and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the alleged final destination for high-value UAP retrieval cases.
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Role in the Kecksburg Case
An Air Force security guard stationed at Lockborne contacted researcher Stan Gordon prior to the 1990 Unsolved Mysteries broadcast on the Kecksburg incident. The guard stated that he was assigned overnight duty on the early morning of December 10, 1965 — within hours of the object's removal from Kecksburg — when a truck arrived from Pennsylvania and backed an unidentified object into a hangar. Security protocols at the base were dramatically heightened around the hangar. The guard stated the object remained at Lockborne only briefly before being transported onward to Wright-Patterson.
Trucker witness "Myron" corroborated this transit route. Myron claimed that two to three days after the crash, he and his cousin "JS" delivered a specialized shipment of double-glazed, lead-lined protective bricks to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which they were told were needed to construct a radiation-shielding enclosure around the recovered object. The routing of the object through Lockborne before transfer to Wright-Patterson is consistent with standard military logistics for sensitive material transport — using an intermediate secure facility for initial containment and evaluation before final delivery to a specialized analysis hub.