Air Force officer's crash-retrieval remark (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 |
Air Force officer's crash-retrieval remark (1952) — A source says an Air Force officer told an aerospace meeting he had been at a crash retrieval scene.
This account says that an Air Force officer told a meeting of aerospace professionals that he had personally been at the scene of a crashed-craft retrieval. The original informant, who passed the story to Leonard Stringfield, was not named, and neither the officer, the meeting nor the crash site is identified.
The account appears among the many anonymous reports in Stringfield's crash-retrieval papers, first presented at the 1978 MUFON symposium in Dayton, Ohio. Like most of them it is second-hand: someone recalls hearing someone else describe an event. Stringfield acknowledged that he couldn't verify most of what he was told, and published it in the hope that more witnesses would come forward. No documents or named witnesses have since confirmed this story.
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield, p181.
People and topics
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- MUFON — The largest civilian UFO organization in the United States.
On the Timeline
- Wright-Patterson guard and the tarp-covered craft (1952) (1952) — A former guard is said to have seen a tarp-covered craft taken into a secure area at Wright-Patterson.
- Project Twinkle kept classified (1952) (19 February 1952) — The Air Force's science advisers recommend keeping Project Twinkle, a UAP study at atomic sites, classified.
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
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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