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Fort Dix-McGuire AFB Incident

DATE18 Jan 1978
LOCAL TIME11:30 PM
LOCATIONMcGuire AFB, New Jersey, USA, United States
COORDINATES39.66°N, 74.52°W

Military police at Fort Dix pursued an unidentified being; an MP reportedly shot it. The entity was found dead on a McGuire AFB runway. FOIA documents confirm unusual security activity at both bases that night.

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