Sunnyvale hangar saucer claim
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Contents 4
| Date | 1979 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Military encounters (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 87 |
| Year | 1979 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1979 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Sunnyvale hangar saucer claim — A Navy radar observer says he saw a large saucer in a hangar at Sunnyvale in 1950.
According to Leonard Stringfield, the family of a former Navy radar observer told him that in 1950 the man had seen a large saucer-shaped craft inside a hangar at Sunnyvale, California. Sunnyvale was home to Moffett Field, a major Navy air station and the site of NACA's Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, which later became NASA Ames.
The story was second-hand by the time it reached Stringfield in the late 1970s, passed on by relatives rather than the witness himself. It appears in his crash-retrieval papers, which collected such accounts without being able to verify them. No records support it, and Moffett's huge airship hangars have long attracted rumours of hidden craft.
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield, p86.
People and topics
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
On the Timeline
- Dale Graff and Wright-Patterson remote viewing (1979) — Dale Graff is said to have run a remote viewing program at Wright-Patterson, then moved to the DIA.
- Mississippi UFO resolution (1979) (February 1979) — A Mississippi resolution calling for a Senate UAP investigation dies in committee.
See every 1979 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Leonard H. Stringfield — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Stringfield's 1978 report — Patrick Gross · ufology.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- Leonard Stringfield's status report at the 1978 MUFON symposium — Podcast UFO · podcastufo.com · archived copy
- Retrobituaries: Leonard Stringfield — Mental Floss · mentalfloss.com · archived copy
- UFO Crash Retrievals: Status Report I — Goodreads · goodreads.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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