Nice. Yeah, I was also told a story from my father that sounds a bit similar...
My father (who was also high up military) as a kid had a neighbor that was being shipped off to work classified on Antarctica. The guy said he wished he could tell my father what he was working on as it was so remarkable. The guy shortly after was missing, never to return.
I'm thinking this stuff might be at the point where the disclosure must come out, or there would be consequences we can't imagine. We'll see. It's all very interesting.