Editing Hangar 18 — Key Persons Directory (section)

=== UFO Researchers ===

==== Leonard Stringfield ====
UFO researcher; compiled multiple volumes of crash-retrieval testimony including extensive accounts pointing to Wright-Patterson as primary storage facility; ''UFO Crash Retrievals'' Status Reports I–VII (1978–1994).

==== Thomas J. Carey ====
UFO researcher; co-author (with Schmitt) of ''UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson: Eyewitness Accounts from the Real Area 51'' (2019); conducted extensive witness interviews regarding WPAFB's alleged UFO holdings.

==== Donald R. Schmitt ====
UFO researcher; co-author (with Carey) of multiple Roswell and WPAFB books; conducted extensive witness interviews; longtime collaborator with Stanton Friedman.

==== Stanton Friedman (1928–2019) ====
Nuclear physicist; initiated the civilian investigation of Roswell in the 1970s; wrote extensively on MJ-12, Roswell, and Wright-Patterson connections; author of ''Flying Saucers and Science'', ''TOP SECRET/MAJIC'', ''Crash at Corona''.