Who ya gonna call when your employees say they hear spooky noises, see weird lights and you want to recruit brainy young people for your super-secret Air Force research?
At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, the commander called cable TV's ''Ghost Hunters.''
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It sounds like a science fiction story, but it really happened, and rather amazingly the visit had Pentagon approval, according to The Associated Press.
The crew of the SCI FI Channel's ''Ghost Hunters'' show was called to snoop around not-so-secret parts of the base recently with cameras and recording devices. Usually credible workers at the base had been telling incredible anecdotes about hearing strange footsteps, childrens' voices and odd banging noises. Weird lights too.
Whatever the ''Ghost Hunters'' found, or didn't find, will be the subject of a television episode which also will tell about Wright-Patterson's history and its mission of developing warplanes and analyzing spy satellite photos, among other things.
We don't believe in ghosts any more than we believe pigs can fly, but we do think the base commander, Col. Colleen Ryan, has P.T. Barnum's gift for drawing a crowd. She said she doesn't know if there are ghosts on base, but she knows the young ''Ghost Hunters'' audience is just the kind of ''technically savvy'' crowd the Air Force recruiters want to reach. There's no mystery about this slick public relations mission.
Conspiracy buffs around the world will no doubt scoff and snort that all this ghostly publicity is an obvious smoke screen designed to further obscure Wright-Patterson's ''real'' deep secret: ''Hangar 18.''
They will tell you Wright-Patterson's ''Hangar 18'' is where the government hid the UFO wreckage and the alien bodies after the alleged and legendary 1947 Roswell crash in the New Mexico desert. That and more in ''Hangar 18.'' If you can't find the hangar, just ask a ghost for directions.
But if you do want some real-life, fascinating exploration, Wright-Patterson also is home to the National Museum of the United State Air Force. Its mammoth collection of military aircraft and missiles is the real deal. It's one of Ohio's most amazing family attractions, and admission is free.
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