Chester Lytle

This document details the claims of Chester 'Chet' Lytle, an engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project and held top-secret clearances with the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense, and the CIA. According to the text, Lytle was interviewed by researcher Robert Hastings in 1998. During this interview, Lytle recounted his personal experiences with UFOs, including a sighting at Kirtland AFB in the 1950s involving a disc-shaped object with a dome, which he observed alongside Major General Kenner F. Hertford. Lytle also reported observing high-speed, maneuverable objects on radar at the White Sands Missile Range.

The most significant portion of Lytle's testimony concerns his friendship with General William H. Blanchard, the former Roswell base commander. Lytle claimed that in 1953, while traveling with Blanchard, the General confirmed that an alien spacecraft and four dead humanoid bodies had been recovered near Roswell in July 1947. Lytle further alleged that he learned from other high-level insiders that these bodies were initially sent to Muroc Army Airfield (now Edwards AFB) and eventually to Hangar 5 at Wright-Patterson AFB. The document notes that Lytle refused to name the general in charge of the secret storage area at Wright-Patterson. The text also highlights that Major General Hertford, who witnessed the Kirtland AFB event with Lytle, expressed his own conviction in a forward to a book by Don Schmitt that the object that crashed near Roswell was composed of non-terrestrial materials.