Foreign Technology Division (FTD, Wright-Patterson).
documentedmilitary_installationSOF/JSOC UAP Retrieval Claim
Cold-War DoD foreign-aerospace S&T intelligence unit at Wright-Patterson; predecessor of NASIC; central to Hangar-18 reverse-engineering lore.
The Foreign Technology Division was the primary DoD agency for foreign aerospace scientific & technical intelligence — acquiring, analyzing, and reverse-engineering adversary hardware at Wright-Patterson AFB. Redesignated FASTC (1992), it became part of the National Air Intelligence Center (1993) and then NASIC (2003). Its genuine reverse-engineering charter made it the institution UFO lore attached to (the 1968 novel 'The Fortec Conspiracy' cast FTD as the saucer cover-up agency). DOCUMENTED; no evidence it handled non-human craft.