Los Alamos nurse claim
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| Source | An unnamed retired nurse, via Leonard Stringfield's crash-retrieval reports |
|---|---|
| Claim | After the Second World War, bodies of non-human beings were flown into Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| Cited as | Stringfield, "Retrievals of the Third Kind" (MUFON 1978), p. 314, per the earlier summary |
| Verification | Nurse unnamed; no records; passage not available in the readable sources |
| Date | 16 March 1991 |
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Nuclear & missile sites (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 109 |
| Year | 1991 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1991 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
According to the earlier summary of Leonard Stringfield's later crash-retrieval reports, a retired nurse said that after the Second World War the bodies of non-human beings were flown into Los Alamos, the New Mexico laboratory where the atomic bomb was developed. She reportedly described the bodies or their handling. The story is unverified. The nurse is not named, no records support it, and the passage is not quoted in any readable source, so its details could not be checked.
The citation
The earlier version cited page 314 of Stringfield's "Retrievals of the Third Kind", his paper to the 1978 MUFON Symposium in Dayton.[1][2] A page number that high suggests a compiled collection of his work rather than the 1978 paper alone. Stringfield published seven status reports between 1978 and 1994, and the nurse's account may come from one of the later ones.[1][5]
Another nurse
Stringfield's 1978 paper contains a different nurse story. In it, the retired professor Robert Carr reopened the 1948 Aztec, New Mexico, crash story in 1975.[3] Carr's account, as Stringfield relayed it:[3]
- The bodies. There were twelve alien bodies, not the sixteen of Frank Scully's 1950 version. They wore tight-fitting clothing and had large heads and slanted eyes.
- The nurse. One of Carr's sources was a "now deceased" nurse "who assisted in the autopsy".
- Eisenhower. President Eisenhower supposedly viewed the wreckage and bodies at Wright-Patterson in 1952 under cover of a golf trip.
Stringfield wrote that after speaking with Carr he felt the Aztec affair "can now be viewed with new confidence".[3] Whether the Los Alamos nurse is connected with Carr's source is not stated in the summary.
Los Alamos
Los Alamos was set up in 1943 as Project Y, the top-secret Manhattan Project site where the first atomic bombs were designed and assembled. Its existence was made public only after the war.[6] Its secrecy and its place in New Mexico, the home of the Roswell and Aztec stories, make it a natural setting for crash-retrieval lore.[3][6]
Stringfield's collection
Stringfield (1920–1994) built up a large body of anonymous testimony.[1] His approach:
- Hearsay. He acknowledged that cases "without names to back up the informant's testimony can be construed as hearsay". He said he must stand "on the merits of my credibility".[3]
- Recurring themes. Many of his stories involve bodies packed in crates or dry ice, delivered to military bases.[3]
- His standing. He was regarded as a systematic and sober investigator, and left 60 volumes of papers to MUFON.[4]
Assessment
The Los Alamos nurse account is a single anonymous recollection, passed on through Stringfield, of events decades earlier. No record, second witness or document supports it. Like much of Stringfield's material, it remains unverified hearsay.[3]
People and topics
- Los Alamos National Laboratory — The New Mexico laboratory where the atomic bomb was designed.
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
- Roswell incident — The July 1947 recovery of debris near Roswell, New Mexico, announced as a "flying disc" and then explained as a weather balloon.
- Sandia National Laboratories — A U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory in Albuquerque.
On the Timeline
- Jesse Marcel Jr.'s account of the Roswell debris (6 March 1991) — Jesse Marcel Jr. says his father showed him strange Roswell debris in 1947.
- Uncle's 1946–47 project claim (12 April 1991) — A woman says her uncle worked on a 1946–47 government project linked to a crash.
See every 1991 event on the UAP Timeline →
Further reading
- Los Alamos National Laboratory — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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
- Los Alamos National Laboratory — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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