Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, Indiana
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) is a large United States Navy federal laboratory located outside Crane, Indiana, spanning approximately 64,000 acres with over 3,000 buildings — many in deliberately deteriorated surface condition — and documented underground bunker facilities. It is the alleged site of what a credible military whistleblower described as an "off-world technologies division," making it one of the most significant alleged UAP reverse engineering locations documented in the UAP Gerb knowledge base.
UAP Significance
Between 2013 and 2015, a Green Beret referred to 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 during a classified weapons training course. His guide, believed to be an SAIC contractor, referred to the area casually as the "off-world technologies division." RA reportedly observed two anomalous objects:
- A seamless levitating metallic sphere — approximately basketball-sized, with no welds, joints, or seams, exhibiting a mother-of-pearl surface effect. The sphere appeared to respond selectively to human consciousness, an observation corroborated by a second independent witness named "Martin" (from remote viewing programs) who described an identical conscious-interactive sphere without knowledge of RA's account.
- A gauntlet weapon system — a wearable weapon that projected hieroglyphic symbols upon activation. The symbols matched precisely those described by attorney Daniel Sheehan from classified Project Blue Book photographs he reviewed at the Library of Congress in 1977, suggesting the same symbols had appeared across recovered craft and were present in official government files for decades.
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) is NSWC Crane's largest contractor, with over 2,489 employees at the facility. UAP Gerb identified multiple SAIC contracts tied to Crane — including a $351M award in 2010, $133M in 2020, and a $240M IDIQ contract in 2023 and $63M hypersonic contract in 2024, both of which were removed from SAIC's website around the time of the Off-World Technologies Division investigation. SAIC's historical involvement includes running the Stargate Program evaluation in 1995 and conducting research into consciousness and anomalous cognition — directly relevant to the consciousness-interactive sphere described by RA.
NSWC Crane also has a documented institutional history of receiving foreign weapons systems through CIA logistics channels and reverse engineering unknown technologies — including the AN/SLQ-32 (Slick 32) electronic warfare system, which contains a component of disputed origin whose reverse engineering cannot be fully accounted for through known domestic development. This documented history of exploiting foreign and unknown technology provides institutional cover for a far more advanced program operating within the facility.
Underground Facilities
The 64,000-acre site's sheer size, combined with its network of underground bunkers and buildings in deliberately maintained states of apparent disrepair, is consistent with the operational security posture described across multiple UAP legacy program testimonies. The surface condition of structures housing sensitive programs is frequently allowed to degrade intentionally to reduce external scrutiny.