John Lear's source Mike (1989)
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Contents 8
| Date | January 1989 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Government programs (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic) |
| People | John Lear, Linda Moulton Howe, Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 102 |
| Year | 1989 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1989 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 7 |
"Mike", a source described as a U.S. Air Force photographer, is credited with an account of being ordered to photograph a flying saucer and the autopsy of three dead aliens. The account has been linked to John Lear and was later republished by Linda Moulton Howe as part of Leonard Stringfield's crash-retrieval reports.[1]
The account
As quoted on Howe's Earthfiles site, Mike described seeing a disc about 30 feet across hanging in a net from a crane, and being told to photograph it and the autopsies. The quotation appears as an epigraph to the final part of Stringfield's Status Report V, which Howe posted in February 2005.[1]
Stringfield
Leonard Stringfield wrote a series of seven "status reports" on alleged UFO crash retrievals between 1978 and 1994, built largely on anonymous testimony. He died on 18 December 1994.[1]
Lear
John Lear (1942–2022), son of Learjet founder Bill Lear, was a record-setting pilot who said he flew for the CIA. On 29 December 1987 he posted a statement to the ParaNet bulletin board claiming a government treaty with alien "Greys", several saucer crashes and a conflict at Dulce. He was probably the most influential source of such stories in the late 1980s, and he later introduced Bob Lazar to journalist George Knapp.[2]
Assessment
Mike was never identified, and no photographs have surfaced. Like Lear's other claims of the period, the account was never corroborated.[1][2]
People and topics
- John Lear — Pilot and son of Bill Lear who spread claims of alien treaties in the late 1980s.
- Alien autopsy film — A 1995 film of an alleged alien autopsy, admitted in 2006 to have been staged.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- Disinformation — False information spread deliberately to mislead.
On the Timeline
- Norton AFB diamond-shaped craft claim (1988) (12 November 1988) — A researcher claims a diamond-shaped craft was tested at Norton AFB.
- Bill English and Grudge/Blue Book Report 13 (January 1989) — Bill English claims he saw a memo saying Blue Book officials knew of crash recoveries.
See every 1989 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Final Part 3: UFO crash/retrievals: Status Report V", Earthfiles (Feb 2005) · earthfiles.com · archived copy
- John Lear — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- John Lear's 1987–88 statement — Sacred Texts · sacred-texts.com · archived copy
- John Lear and the dark side — HowStuffWorks · science.howstuffworks.com · archived copy
- Linda Moulton Howe — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Earthfiles — Linda Moulton Howe's news site · earthfiles.com · archived copy
- bdigital.ufp.pt · bdigital.ufp.pt · archived copy
Further reading
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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