Located in in Otero County, .
Originally founded as Alamogordo Army Air Field in 1942, it was renamed Holloman Air Force Base on January 13, 1948, in honor of the late Col. George V. Holloman, a pioneer in guided missile research.
saw a UFO near here on May 12, 1949 — a sighting which did not become public until the 1970s.
Majestic 12 — namely human abductions in exchange for high technology. (Revelations, 58)
The first US animal in space was ENOS, a chimpanzee trained at Holloman’s HAM facility (Holloman Aero-Medical laboratory).
In 1992, the base of the F-117A Nighthawk stealth”fighter was moved to Holloman.