Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) sits on 98 square miles of remote southern Indiana — the third largest naval installation in the world. It has 3,000 buildings, 3,800 staff, and an alleged underground division housing technology that a former Green Beret describes as “beyond human capability.”
NSWC Crane’s official mission covers Electronic Warfare, Strategic Missions, and Expeditionary Warfare — serving the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, US Special Operations Command, NASA, and foreign military partners. Located 25 miles southwest of Bloomington, Indiana, the facility originally opened in 1941 as the Naval Ammunition Depot. Its remote location, massive footprint, and focus on special warfare systems make it, in the words of one researcher, “the quiet hub where much of this activity converges.”
Randy Anderson — The Green Beret Testimony
Between 2013 and 2015, US Army Green Beret Randy Anderson was sent to a special weapons centre near Crane, Indiana to test foreign and domestic weaponry. Due to his TS/SCI clearance, a private contractor employee took him and another soldier deep underground to what Anderson described as an “anomalous division.” In testimony documented by UAP researcher UAP Gerb, Anderson stated: “I was shown technologies that seemed beyond human capability, including a basketball-sized sphere and a device projecting unique symbols.”
The underground facility Anderson described was distinctly more modern than the surface installations — a self-contained environment well below the Indiana landscape, accessible only to those with the right clearance and the right escort.
The “Off-World Technologies Division”
Researchers have identified what they call an “Off-World Technologies Division” within Crane — not an official designation, but shorthand for efforts within the facility connected to unconventional systems: propulsion concepts, exotic materials science, and potentially recovered hardware. The logical institutional home is Crane’s Special Warfare and Expeditionary Systems (JX) Division, particularly the JXW (Maneuver, Surveillance and Engagement) and JXN (Weapons Systems) branches.
Prometheus Energetics — April 2026
On April 17, 2026, NSWC Crane broke ground on the Prometheus Energetics and ACMI Group facility — combining Crane’s existing energetics expertise with a private industrial partner to “accelerate the delivery of critical capabilities.” Prometheus Energetics is not a household name. The program framing — energetics, acceleration, critical capabilities — is consistent with exotic propulsion research rather than conventional munitions development.
Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations
NSWC Crane’s public research includes active electromagnetic spectrum operations. Dr. Husted’s April 2026 research uses Software Defined Radio and open-source FPGA boards to develop what the facility describes as “non-kinetic lethality” capabilities. This is directed energy — weapons that kill without physical projectiles — exactly the category of technology Amy Eskridge (Case 1 of the 11 scientists) reported being used against her before her death in 2022.
Hypersonics and Thor’s Hammer
Crane hosts the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) Systems Engineering Field Activity and runs the biennial “Thor’s Hammer” NATO electronic warfare test event. A Missile Technology Evaluation Facility for hypersonics broke ground in 2024. Strategic weapons and exotic technologies now share the same 98 square miles of Indiana countryside.
UAP Gerb documented NSWC Crane in his “Off-World Technologies Division — UAP Technology Reverse Engineering” video. Randy Anderson’s testimony remains one of the most specific first-hand accounts of underground UAP-adjacent technology in the public record.
Sources: NSWC Crane public website (navsea.navy.mil), UAP Gerb documented testimony, MysteryLores.com, The Contact Report (August 2025).