Southaven Park crash claim
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Contents 8
| Date | 24 November 1992 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Nuclear & missile sites (topic) |
| People | John Ford |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 115 |
| Year | 1992 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1992 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 9 |
The Southaven Park crash is an alleged UFO crash in Southaven County Park, Shirley, on Long Island, New York, on the night of 24 November 1992. It was promoted by John Ford and his Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON) and remains part of Long Island folklore.[1][2]
The claims
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According to LIUFON, residents near the park that night reported phones ringing with no one on the line, erased videotapes, malfunctioning digital clocks and a fire in the woods, which LIUFON said was handled by the fire department of nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ford's group claimed a craft had come down in the park. A local MUFON director who visited the site with them said he saw nothing except some trees bent at odd angles.[1]
John Ford
Ford, a former court officer, founded LIUFON in 1988. On 12 June 1996 he was arrested and accused of plotting to kill Suffolk County Republican chairman John Powell, a county legislator, the district attorney and the public safety director by putting radium in their cars and food. Ford claimed local officials had helped cover up the crash. Two other men were also charged, one of whom was said to have supplied the radium.[3]
Outcome
A judge ruled Ford unfit to stand trial, and he was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility.[1][3]
Assessment
No physical evidence of a crash has been presented, and the story rests on LIUFON's claims. Newsday listed it among Long Island's myths and legends in 2022.[1][2]
People and topics
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Department of Energy — The U.S. department that runs the nuclear weapons laboratories.
- John Ford — Founder of the Long Island UFO Network.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Vallée meets D'Amato on secret programs (1992) (22 May 1992) — Vallée writes he met Senate counsel Dick D'Amato about secret programs.
- British embassy report on triangles (1992) (22 December 1992) — The British embassy reports on the U.S. reaction to triangular UAP sightings.
See every 1992 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "They believe: Long Islanders allege UFO sightings, alien abductions", Long Island Press (Oct 2007) · archive.longislandpress.com · archived copy
- Southaven County Park — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Radioactive toothpaste and conspiranoia: the strange saga of ufologist John Ford, pt. 1", Tanner F. Boyle's Substack (Feb 2025) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- Southaven Park case — Patrick Gross · ufologie.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- The 1989 Moriches Bay crash claim — Sacred Texts · sacred-texts.com · archived copy
- The strange saga of ufologist John Ford · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- UFO investigator: Long Island sightings soar — Long Island Press · longislandpress.com · archived copy
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
- bera.bnl.gov · bera.bnl.gov · archived copy
Further reading
- Los Alamos National Laboratory — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · 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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