A US military installation near Albuquerque, New Mexico, that sat at the centre of the early American nuclear weapons enterprise, where weapons were engineered, assembled and stored. With Los Alamos and the adjacent Kirtland Air Field, it formed the most sensitive airspace in the 1948 United States.
Sandia Base was the focus of the Green Fireballs wave of 1948 to 1950, a sustained run of unexplained aerial sightings over the nation’s bomb factory, investigated across two years by the AFSWP and the US Air Force.