Mrs. G and the Wright-Patterson catalogue
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Contents 5
| Date | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 53 |
| Year | 1955 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1955 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Mrs. G and the Wright-Patterson catalogue — A Wright-Patterson worker reportedly said she catalogued about 1,000 incoming UAP items.
"Mrs. G" is one of Leonard Stringfield's anonymous informants. She was a woman who, according to a friend who passed the story to Stringfield, worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the 1950s, apparently in a division handling foreign materials. Before her death she reportedly said she had catalogued about 1,000 items related to UFOs that came into the base, and had seen bodies being moved.
The account was published in Stringfield's crash-retrieval papers beginning in 1978. It's second-hand, as the information came from the friend rather than from Mrs. G herself, and neither is named.
Wright-Patterson really was home to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which analysed foreign aircraft and equipment, and to Project Blue Book, so it's plausible that staff there handled UFO-related files and samples sent in by the public. But no records support the claim of 1,000 exotic items, and the Air Force has always denied storing alien material at the base.
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield, p19.
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.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- 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.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Air Technical Intelligence Center — The Air Force intelligence center at Wright-Patterson that housed Project Blue Book.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
On the Timeline
- Douglas Aircraft unconventional propulsion study (1955) — An aerospace executive claims he worked in a UAP group at Douglas Aircraft from 1955.
- William Tompkins and the Douglas documents (1 March 1955) — Documents from engineer William Tompkins suggest Douglas studied unconventional propulsion.
See every 1955 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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