Wright-Patterson guard and the tarp-covered craft (1952)
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| Date | 1952 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 44 |
| Year | 1952 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1952 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Wright-Patterson guard and the tarp-covered craft (1952) — A former guard is said to have seen a tarp-covered craft taken into a secure area at Wright-Patterson.
According to this account, a former guard at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio said that in 1952 he saw a tarpaulin-covered craft brought into a high-security area of the base. Wright-Patterson, home of the Air Force's foreign technology intelligence center and of Project Blue Book, has long been at the centre of "Hangar 18" legends about stored alien hardware.
The story is one of many anonymous informant reports gathered by Leonard Stringfield, a former Air Force intelligence officer turned UFO researcher, and first published in his "Retrievals of the Third Kind" paper at the July 1978 MUFON symposium. Stringfield kept his sources' names confidential, so the guard can't be identified and his account can't be checked. Air Force spokesmen have long said no alien craft or bodies have ever been held at Wright-Patterson.
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield, p8.
People and topics
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- Hangar 18 — The legendary hangar at Wright-Patterson said to hold alien craft and bodies.
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- MUFON — The largest civilian UFO organization in the United States.
On the Timeline
- MJ-12 Fifth Annual Report (1952) — A disputed, possibly hoaxed 'Majic' report describes the 1947 recovery of craft and five bodies.
- Air Force officer's crash-retrieval remark (1952) (1952) — A source says an Air Force officer told an aerospace meeting he had been at a crash retrieval scene.
See every 1952 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
Further reading
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Hangar 18 (the legend and 1980 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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