Everyone knows about Area 51, supposedly the center of secret American UFO research and the most secret military installation in the world. While in reality the base has been used for the development of superbombers and stealth aircraft, conspiracy lore has it that it has also been used for a variety of more esoteric research and development projects, including reverse-engineering alien technology, time travel, weather control, teleportation, and energy weapons. Although Area 51 is the most notorious military installation beloved by conspiracy theorists, there are other bases and facilities around the world with their own stories and legends as well.
10 Roosevelt Roads Naval Facility
Once the largest naval facility in the Caribbean, the Roosevelt Roads Naval Facility near Ceiba, Puerto Rico, has been linked to the bloodsucking chupacabra. Rumors abound of animals found drained of blood near US military assets in Puerto Rico. Eyewitnesses have claimed that the Forestry Service was colluding with the creature or its handlers to allow it to escape into nearby woods, while agents of the Department of Agriculture actively kept people away. People believed that the chupacabras were fleeing into the Yunque and Toro Negro rain forests to escape deforestation and pollution.
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Many of these reports also coincided with UFO sightings, particularly near a controversial US Navy radar installation at Lajas, the National Guard’s Camp Santiago in Salinas, and Roosevelt Roads. A janitor employed at Fort Buchanan in San Juan reported seeing a dead chupacabra kept on ice and said that military officers threatened him to remain silent. Supposedly, vicious living chupacabras were kept at Roosevelt Roads in the 1990s before being shipped to the mainland US. Some claim that the Navy was engaged in genetic manipulation, possibly linked with the nearby Caribbean Primate Research Center. Rumors persist of a network of caverns beneath Roosevelt Roads, said to be inhabited by a tribe of chupacabras which were left for the people of Ceiba to deal with when the Navy abandoned the base in 2004.
According to Puerto Rican ufologist Jorge Martin, in 1997, a young man was killed on the streets of La Colectora in the city of Santurce. The man was shot at close range as he sat in the driver’s seat of a Honda Prelude. In the backseat, police found a vial inside a manila envelope in the pocket of a military-style jacket. The crystal vial contained some kind of embryo in a translucent liquid, and the manila envelope had the handwritten words “Base de Ceiba,” which could only refer to Roosevelt Roads. A television news investigation ensued, which received phone calls saying that the embryo was nothing more than a souvenir toy.
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However, an anonymous source from the Puerto Rico Forensics Sciences Institute reported that a medical examination was underway when an American pathologist burst in, and federal agents came to declare the area off-limits. He also said,
We saw the small body that was in the jar, and it was different from the ones shown on TV. It was not a keychain. It was not a toy. [. . .] What I saw was made out of flesh, tissue and what seemed like blood. It had very pale skin. It looked like a small fetus or embryo . . . but it was really weird. It was an ugly little thing.
9 Rudloe Manor
Situated beneath Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, RAF Rudloe Manor was a highly sensitive military installation that some conspiracy theorists believe to be far more extensive than the British government is willing to admit. They claim that beneath Wiltshire, there is a virtual underground city controlled by the government, with secret NATO command posts, nuclear bunkers, and computer complexes. It was indeed a highly sensitive facility, the center for nuclear missile deployment, as well as for military and intelligence communications relays and the government’s contingency seat in the event of a crisis. They also claim that Rudloe Manor is the center of the secret British UFO research program, a claim that is strenuously denied by the Ministry of Defense.
In 1996, MP Martin Redmond asked a number of questions in Parliament about the government’s UFO investigations. He was given some classified material, including documents related to a group called the Provost and Security Services (P&SS), which is based at Rudloe Manor. Several years earlier, ufologist Timothy Good had reported speaking to a P&SS agent who had detailed information about UFOs.
One of the responsibilities of the P&SS is the “Flying Complaints Flight” department, where citizens can complain about low-flying planes over Britain. Some believe that this is merely a cover for the Rudloe Manor UFO research program. In the early 21st century, many British UFO research documents were released, which admitted that Rudloe Manor collected information on UFOs until 1992 and also detailed several attempts by UFO enthusiasts to break into the base.
8 Diego Garcia
A plethora of wild and wacky conspiracy theories were touted in the wake of the tragic loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Many focused on the military base on the Diego Garcia atoll, which is a British-controlled territory leased to the US military. Ex–Proteus Airlines head Marc Dugain has claimed that the US Air Force shot the plane down when they learned that hackers had taken control of it and were possibly about
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to stage a 9/11-style terrorist attack. He claims that Maldives residents spotted an aircraft with “red and blue stripes with a white background” heading toward Diego Garcia and that he has seen photographs of an empty Boeing fire extinguisher washed up on a beach at nearby Baarah island. He says that Boeing planes have a remote control system, which is vulnerable to attack.
Others have also cited anecdotal evidence for the conspiracy theory. British woman Katherine Tee says that she was aboard a sloop traveling between Cochin, India, and Phuket, Thailand, when she saw “the outline of a plane. It looked longer than planes usually do. There was what appeared to be black smoke streaming from behind it.”
Freelance journalist Jim Stone, meanwhile, claimed that a passenger named Philip Wood sent out an image and a voice-activated text claiming to be held hostage by unknown military personnel, along with GPS coordinates corresponding to a location a few kilometers from Diego Garcia. While it is true that the atoll is cleared as an emergency landing site for commercial aircraft crossing the Indian Ocean, the US military has denied that the plane came anywhere near the base. When possible wreckage from the ill-fated flight washed up on Reunion Island in 2015, interest in the Diego conspiracy theory peaked again.
Author John Chuckman agrees with the theorists:
There would be nothing unprecedented in such an act: on at least three occasions, regrettably, America’s military has shot down civilian airliners. [. . .] I have no idea what event (a rogue pilot, a hijacker?) led to Flight MH370 turning off its communications, changing course, and flying low, but I do know that the event could not have gone unnoticed by America’s military-intelligence eyes and ears.
