Bolling Air Force Base

  Capital defense role

Established along the Potomac River in 1918, Bolling served as the District of Columbia aviation hub and later housed Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

  UFO record handling

During Project Sign and Grudge, intelligence analysts at Bolling reviewed field reports before forwarding to Wright-Patterson. A 1952 memorandum shows Bolling agents interviewed radar operators after the Washington National sightings.¹ See the 1952 Washington DC UFO incident for those interviews.

  Transition and present status

Realigned in 2010 as Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling, the installation continues to host OSI units and classified communications nodes supporting the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

  References

1. USAF Intelligence Memo AFOSI-BOLL-52-18, declassified 2001-04-12. ↩