🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Brookley Air Force Base
US Air Force base in Alabama
🇺🇸 United States · 30.6267, -88.0681
Brookley Air Force Base is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia article of 1 production — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.
“In the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the entire landing strip complex behind Devils Tower was actually constructed and filmed in an abandoned aircraft hangar at the former Brookley AFB.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Brookley Air Force Base as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
Mobile
🇺🇸 United States
county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Fairhope
🇺🇸 United States
city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Barton Academy
🇺🇸 United States
building in Alabama, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Bay Minette
🇺🇸 United States
county seat of Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
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🛣 Streets & squares
Interstate 85
🇺🇸 United States
Interstate Highway in the Southeastern United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Irvington
🇺🇸 United States
unincorporated community in Alabama
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Brookley Air Force Base?
1 production is recorded as filmed at Brookley Air Force Base, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Where is Brookley Air Force Base?
Brookley Air Force Base is in the United States, at 30.6267, -88.0681.
What other filming locations are near Brookley Air Force Base?
Mobile, Fairhope, Barton Academy, Bay Minette and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by USGS, Public domain.