In February 2026, Dr. Steven Greer appeared on Newsmax alongside Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri. Greer is a former emergency room physician, the founder of the Disclosure Project, and one of the most polarizing figures in the UFO space. During the interview, he claimed that a recovered craft of non-human origin is buried near Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The craft, he said, is too large to move. A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, a SCIF, has been constructed directly over it. The source for this claim is an unnamed informant Greer described as connected to a classified Pentagon program.
Burlison, who sits on the House Oversight Committee and has been one of the most aggressive congressional voices on UAP transparency, did not confirm the Fort Sill location. He did confirm, on camera, that he had heard reports of a crashed craft “so large it cannot be moved,” but declined to name the country, stating the information came from a classified setting. He expressed frustration at being unable to access facilities “just within a few miles from my office in Washington, D.C.”
Greer also claimed a second craft exists in mountains outside Seoul, South Korea, similarly too large to transport, with an entire facility built around it. He stated that some recovered craft are “bigger than a football field.”
This is, on its face, an extraordinary claim from an unverifiable source, delivered on cable news by a man who has made extraordinary claims before. Some have preceded later disclosures. Many remain unsupported. In any other context, it would be simple to note the allegation and move on. The problem is the geography. When you look at what is actually, documentably sitting near Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in the public record, in press releases from U.S. senators, in the charter of a city trust authority, the ground gets less stable than you expect.
The Old Sears
Central Mall sits on SW C Avenue in Lawton, Oklahoma, a city of 90,000 people whose economy runs on Fort Sill and the service industry that feeds it. The mall is the kind of retail space that has been dying across small-town America for twenty years. Anchor stores closing, foot traffic declining, parking lots emptier than they used to be. In 2023, the old Sears department store at Central Mall was gutted and converted into something else.
The signage on the building says FISTA. The doors are closed to the general public. In October 2023, a KSWO television crew interviewed shoppers still walking the rest of the mall. Several said they had no idea what FISTA was or what happened inside. The reporter asked the FISTA Trust Authority chairman and CEO to explain. What they described was a defense technology accelerator, a facility built to attract contractors, engineers, and innovators working on weapons systems for the Army installation down the road.
What the facility actually contains, according to the Lawton Economic Development Corporation and the FISTA Trust Authority’s own charter: secured spaces, a classified conference center and office suite, a dedicated engineering maker space, multiple fiber network connections, and nearly 200,000 square feet of reconfigurable space for defense technology companies. The charter, published on the City of Lawton’s official website, states the facility exists to attract defense contractors with capabilities to support Long-Range Precision Fires, Air and Missile Defense, and Fort Sill’s Fires Center of Excellence.
Among the amenities: a SCIF.
What Moved In
FISTA launched in April 2023. Governor Kevin Stitt attended the ribbon-cutting. So did both Oklahoma senators, the chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and the local congressman. Senator Markwayne Mullin called it “a game-changing investment.” Congressman Frank Lucas described it as “an acceleration hub for our nation’s top defense contractors” housed in “a high-security facility.” The governor said it would make Oklahoma “the premier landing spot for defense companies.”
Within twelve months, three of the ten largest defense contractors in the world, Raytheon, Leidos, and Northrop Grumman, had taken space inside the renovated mall. Epirus, which builds high-power microwave systems for counter-drone warfare, opened an office in 2024. The facility doubled its footprint with 30,000 square feet of new construction. Senator Mullin’s one-year statement estimated $50 million in local economic impact and projected 225 new high-tech jobs.
By 2025, Firehawk Aerospace had secured 320 acres of land adjacent to the park and $22 million in state and federal funding for a rocket motor manufacturing facility. The Lawton-Fort Sill corridor was being described by state officials as the center of Oklahoma’s defense industrial expansion.
Meanwhile, a mile west on Gore Boulevard, Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor on Earth, continued to operate from a small commercial office in a strip of storefronts. No fence. No guard post. The phone number listed with the Chamber of Commerce. The office had been there for years before FISTA existed, doing classified support work for Fort Sill’s fire control and missile defense programs out of a building that could just as easily house a dental practice.
Fort Sill
Fort Sill is the U.S. Army’s Fires Center of Excellence. It is the primary training installation for field artillery and air defense artillery. It is home to two of the Army’s six top modernization priorities, both of which involve weapons systems that the contractors inside FISTA and on Gore Boulevard are paid to build: long-range precision fires and integrated air and missile defense. The systems tested on its ranges include Patriot, THAAD components, HIMARS fire control architecture, and counter-small-UAS technology. Lawton exists, economically, because Fort Sill exists.
The presence of defense contractors near a major Army installation is not unusual. Huntsville, Alabama has Redstone Arsenal and a constellation of aerospace offices. Colorado Springs has Schriever Space Force Base and a corridor of space defense contractors. San Diego has multiple Navy installations and the companies that service them. The defense industrial base clusters around the installations it supports. This is ordinary.
What is less ordinary is the speed and density of what materialized in Lawton between 2023 and 2025. A classified-capable facility with a SCIF, built inside a shopping mall, attracting three top-ten defense primes within a year, catalyzing a rocket motor plant, and generating $50 million in economic activity in a city that, as FISTA’s own chairman acknowledged on local television, was “not on anyone’s radar” for high-tech innovation. The public explanation is that Fort Sill’s modernization priorities created demand and Lawton offered incentives. The explanation is plausible. It is also the only explanation the public record provides.
The Claim and Its Weight
Greer’s claim, that a recovered non-human craft is buried beneath a SCIF near Fort Sill, carries no corroborating evidence in the public domain. His source is unnamed. His track record is contested even within the UAP research community. He has assembled credible military witnesses for National Press Club events and congressional briefings. He has also made claims about zero-point energy suppression, personal contact with non-human intelligence, and shadowy cabals controlling recovered technology that have not been independently verified. Researchers who agree with Greer’s broad position on government secrecy have publicly distanced themselves from his more expansive assertions.
Burlison’s statements are more constrained and, for that reason, harder to dismiss. He is a sitting member of Congress with access to classified briefings. He confirmed hearing about an immovable craft. He declined to specify the location. He did not confirm Fort Sill. He did not deny it. His frustration at being unable to access relevant facilities was palpable and consistent with the testimony of other members of Congress, including Representatives Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna, who have described being stonewalled when attempting to inspect sites related to UAP claims.
The responsible position is straightforward: Greer made an unverified claim. Burlison made a more limited one. Neither constitutes evidence. The Fort Sill claim remains in the domain of testimony from a single source with no named corroboration.
What the Geography Does
And yet the geography is uncomfortable. Not because it proves anything. It does not. But because the documented facts, arranged on a map, produce a picture that rhymes with the claim in ways that a debunker has to account for and a believer has to be honest about.
A SCIF exists near Fort Sill. It is inside a renovated department store at a shopping mall. Three of the world’s largest defense contractors moved into it within a year of its opening. Lockheed Martin has maintained a separate, nondescript commercial office nearby for years, doing classified work behind a storefront facade. The facility’s charter explicitly ties it to weapons modernization programs. Its doors are closed to the public. Shoppers walk past it without knowing what it is.
Greer says there is a craft underneath. The public record says there is a defense technology accelerator on top. Both statements describe a classified facility in the same location. One is documented. The other is alleged. The distance between them is exactly the width of whatever is or is not beneath the floor of the old Sears building, a distance that no one without the appropriate clearance has been able to measure.
Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has described facilities like these, nondescript contractor offices near military installations doing classified work behind unremarkable facades, as characteristic of how the most compartmented programs operate. Former federal agent Ben Hansen told NewsNation in 2023 that these programs use dispersed, anonymous-looking offices to fragment knowledge: “One person will be working on one part of a team and they have no idea of the larger picture.”
Whether the larger picture in Lawton includes recovered non-human technology or exclusively conventional weapons development is a question that the public record cannot answer. The public record can only tell you what is visible from the parking lot: a mall, a sign, a closed door, and a classified conference center where a Sears used to be.
“In this world of high-tech innovation, our city is not on the forefront of that. It’s not on anyone’s radar. So you’ve got to create an environment where people want to come here.” — Mark Brace, Chairman, FISTA Trust Authority, October 2023
Sources & Further Reading
- Lawton Economic Development Corporation: FISTA Innovation Park
- Congressman Frank Lucas: FISTA Innovation Park Launch (April 2023)
- Senator Markwayne Mullin: FISTA One-Year Anniversary (April 2024)
- KSWO: “A Deep Dive Into FISTA: What Exactly Is It?” (October 2023)
- City of Lawton: FISTA Development Trust Authority Charter
- IBTimes: Greer Claims Craft Hidden Near Fort Sill (February 2026)
- Cybernews: Burlison Claims Giant UFO Hidden Overseas (February 2026)
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