National Military Command Center

The National Military Command Center (NMCC) is the Pentagon's principal command-and-control facility, providing 24-hour global coordination for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, and the President of the United States in defence matters. Activated in 1962 in response to Cuban Missile Crisis lessons, it operates from the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

UAP-Related Role

Because the NMCC aggregates operational reports from all US combatant commands, UAP incidents involving significant US military installations are routinely entered into NMCC logs. Documented events include the three-day Cannon AFB / Clovis New Mexico UFO flap that triggered a military response, and the Eglin AFB Florida incident where security police spotted UFO lights near a radar site. NMCC memoranda referenced in Leslie Kean's research confirm that NMCC received cross-base UAP incident summaries over decades.

Modern Coordination

Since 2022, the NMCC has been a recipient of reporting from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Historically, NMCC-routed UAP memos are among the most reliable primary-source records when correlating multiple base-level observations across a single incident window.