Edgar Fouche

Military Career

During the Vietnam conflict, while attending college, Fouché worked as a machinist manufacturing ordnance. In 1968 he was drafted into the USAF for pararescue basic training. After fracturing his ankle at Fort Benning, he completed training in electronics, communication intelligence, and cryptological methods. From 1964 to 1974, Fouché was stationed at multiple Tactical Air Command and Air Training Command bases, including 3.5 years in Vietnam and surrounding Asian installations. He earned degrees in electronics and avionics engineering as well as a bachelor's in business, accumulating roughly 4,000 hours of technical training from USG and DOD — half of which was classified.

Fouché was considered an Air Force expert in classified electronic countermeasure test equipment, cryptological test equipment, and automatic test equipment. He served as a handpicked key member on programs involving the F-15 Eagle, A-10 Warthog, B-1 Lancer, and F-117A stealth fighter. A FOIA-obtained promotional recommendation confirms Fouché was assigned to Detachment 3, Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) — the Edwards AFB detachment that runs operations at Area 51 Groom Lake. Late in his career he spent eight years as a defense contractor and engineering manager dealing with classified black programs.

Groom Lake and the Defense Advanced Research Center

In 1979, after working at Nellis Air Force Base with top secret crypto access clearance, Fouché received a request for temporary reassignment to an unnamed facility. He boarded a dark blue USAF bus with blacked-out windows at 4:30 a.m.; upon arrival at Area 51, he was given heavy goggles restricting vision to 30 feet. For ten consecutive days and on follow-up visits, his routine was to leave Nellis before sunrise and return after dark.

Fouché claimed Area 51 housed a super-secret underground laboratory he called the Defense Advanced Research Center (DARC) — not to be confused with DARPA. DARC allegedly consisted of 10 underground stories next to a mountain near Papoose Lake, south of Groom Lake, and was nestled next to a hangar built into a mountainside that stored TR-3B craft. The hangar entrance was concealed by a holographic generator projecting the appearance of the mountain surface. A declassified 1973 ARPA historical study references a proposed "Defense Advanced Research Center" linked to the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory — the same JPL at Edwards from which Fouché was recruited to Groom Lake.

DARC's objectives were allegedly fully realized in the mid-1980s when it was bolstered with Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) funding under the Reagan administration. Fouché claimed his sources estimated up to 35% of SDI funding was siphoned to support USAF black programs beginning in 1982.

TR-3B Disclosures

Fouché claimed TR-3B prototype flights began in the early 1970s, with the first operational model flying in the early 1990s. By 1994, at least three billion-dollar-plus operational models were flying — triangles approximately 200 feet (test models) and 600 feet (operational models) across. Fouché himself observed prototypes three times prior to 1994: in 1975 over Edwards Air Force Base, in 1976 over the southern Nellis range, and in 1979 at Groom Lake. The prototype had different engines on the tips and no rotatable crew compartment.

According to Fouché, the craft's key technology was the Magnetic Field Disruptor (MFD), a circular plasma field accelerator ring surrounding a rotatable crew compartment. The TR-3B was code-named Astra (Advanced Stealth Technology Reconnaissance Aircraft) and operated as the most exotic model under the Aurora Program. Engineering was performed by Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Teledyne Ryan, and others, while the program was managed by the NRO, NSA, and CIA. The MFD propulsion was reverse engineered from a nonhuman crash recovery at Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, both Department of Energy FFRDCs.

Fouché stated TR-3B was crewed by four and served as logistics support and transport for a secret space command. Pilots were top graduates of Navy and USAF test pilot schools, mainly out of the Edwards 412th Test School. The craft employed two nuclear reactors, was composed of advanced composite metal materials and titanium, and featured variable vectored intake and advanced multi-mode propulsion engines on each tip. Its outer casing was electrochromatic — reactive to electrical radar stimulation and capable of changing reflectiveness and radar absorption for daytime stealth operations.

The Five Disclosure Sources

Fouché's TR-3B testimony was built on information from five close friends within DOD and classified programs:

1. Gerald — A former NSA investigator and TREAT team member. Gerald worked for the Department of Energy and NSA as cover, but the NSA controlled all his movements. His job was to monitor employees with Top Secret and Q clearances at the Nevada Test Site, Nellis range, Los Alamos, Sandia, and Area 51. He was found dead of a heart attack a year after his last meeting with Fouché.
2. S — Worked directly with the NSA on electronics intelligence; became a defense contractor and worked for the company that created the TR-3B's MFD gravity disruption device.
3. Doc — An SR-71 spy pilot and USAF test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base.
4. Dell — Served with Fouché during Vietnam; Dell's father worked for the NSA for over 25 years and sent Fouché Majestic 12 documents.
5. Ran Bud — A DOD contractor electronics engineer who worked on top secret R&D programs with electronic countermeasures.

Credibility Controversies

Fouché's disclosures attracted both significant attention and controversy. Jeremy Rys (Alien Scientist), who met Fouché in 2009 and initially considered him a legitimate whistleblower, later accused him of fabricating the TR-3B testimony by combining stories about the Nazi Bell device with the Belgian UFO Wave. Rys also alleged Fouché used a stolen F-117A photograph and faked military documents. YouTuber David Hilton posted a 2013 video titled "Edgar Fouche Fake Documents" making similar accusations. Both Rys and Hilton later removed or unlisted their critical videos.

In contrast, researcher Andrew Johnson, who conducted numerous interviews with Fouché, spoke highly of him. Researcher Dan Benkert, who co-authored work with Michael Schratt, offered counterarguments to the criticism. In a June 2012 Skype conversation, Hilton made concerning remarks to Dan Benkert, claiming he worked for a monitoring agency and asserting control over Fouché.

Significance

The craft described by Rodrik Castle during the 1997 Hunter Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment — a 200–300 foot silent black triangle — closely parallels Fouché's TR-3B descriptions. Fouché's FOIA-obtained military documents, including his assignment to Detachment 3 AFFTC at Groom Lake, substantiate key elements of his service history.

Sources

• Video - Alien Reproduction Vehicle - TR-3B and the Flying Triangles
• Video - 1997 ALIEN REPRODUCTION VEHICLE ENCOUNTER AT 29 PALMS, CA - THE TESTIMONY OF SGT RODERICK CASTLE
• Video - UFOs in the Private Sector - Lockheed Martin