Leonard Stringfield
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Leonard Stringfield
| Type | Person |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Stringfield, Leonard H. Stringfield |
| On the Timeline | 40 events, 1948–1991 |
Leonard H. Stringfield (1920–1994) was an American UFO researcher from Cincinnati, a former Army Air Forces intelligence officer who later served as a public relations adviser to NICAP. He is best known for bringing crash-retrieval stories into mainstream UFO research.
Status reports
In July 1978, at the MUFON symposium in Dayton, Ohio, he presented "Retrievals of the Third Kind", a paper describing anonymous accounts from military and civilian informants about crashed craft and bodies. He continued with a series of self-published UFO Crash/Retrievals status reports until 1994. He promised his sources anonymity, which encouraged people to come forward but means their stories can't be checked.
Legacy
Stringfield's work made crash retrievals a central topic and inspired the Roswell investigations of the 1980s. Critics noted that some informants embellished or invented stories. Dozens of entries on the UAP Timeline come from his reports.
On the UAP Timeline
- Laredo UFO crash claim (1948) (1948) — An anonymous retired colonel claims a craft crashed near Laredo, Texas, and witnesses were sworn to secrecy.
- White Sands blown-window crash claim (1948) (1948) — An anonymous source claims a disc crashed at White Sands with its occupants dead from a blown-out window.
- Bell Labs source on 1950 crash files (1950) — A Bell Labs source says a former NASA employee had technical files on a 1950 crash retrieval.
- 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.
- 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.
- Warrant officer and the crates of bodies (1953) (1953) — A former Army warrant officer claims he saw crates of small humanoid bodies at Wright-Patterson.
- Fort Monmouth desert-disc film (1953) — A radar technician says he was shown a film of a silver disc embedded in the desert at Fort Monmouth.
- Fort Polk crash claim (1953) (1953) — An Army source says he saw an egg-shaped craft crash-land at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
- Kingman UFO crash (21 May 1953) — An engineer using the pseudonym Fritz Werner swears he investigated a crashed craft near Kingman, Arizona.
- Roswell-area helicopter crash claim (1954) (12 April 1954) — An Air Force helicopter trainee says he was sent to a desert crash near Roswell in 1954.
- Mrs. G and the Wright-Patterson catalogue (1955) — A Wright-Patterson worker reportedly said she catalogued about 1,000 incoming UAP items.
- White Sands landing reports (1956) (September 1956) — Unconfirmed reports describe a domed disc landing in front of personnel at White Sands.
- French scientist Mr. L at Wright-Patterson (1959) — A French scientist claims he was asked to work at Wright-Patterson on recovered material.
- Navy reserve pilot's Wright-Patterson saucer claim (1962) (1962) — A Navy reserve pilot says he saw a saucer at Wright-Patterson in 1962.
- Fort Riley incident (1964) (10 December 1964) — A Fort Riley guard says soldiers were marched toward a large object lit by a helicopter.
- Yuma hangar photograph claim (1967) (1967) — A source says his brother photographed a saucer in a hangar in Yuma and then fled.
- Camp Pendleton Marine's crash-site claim (1967) (3 July 1967) — A Marine says he flew to a crash retrieval site in the desert in 1967.
- Great Lakes shoot-down claim (1973) (June 1973) — A Navy instructor claims a UAP was shot down by a missile and secretly moved by rail to Great Lakes.
- Expected 1974 disclosure rumor (1974) — A sergeant says a retired Army official told him crash and occupant information would soon be released.
- Unmarked helicopter claim (1975) (14 March 1975) — An Air Force officer says unmarked helicopters are sent to UAP-related sites.
- Goldwater letter to Shlomo Arnon (1975) (28 March 1975) — Goldwater writes that UAP information is classified above Top Secret.
- Sgt. M.S. and the Wright-Patterson general (1977) — An Air Force sergeant says a general at Wright-Patterson told him about recovered material.
- Charred body in Colorado claim (1978) (1978) — An Air Force technician says he saw a charred alien body at an underground site in Colorado.
- Ohio crash with survivor claim (1978) (1978) — An Air Force officer reportedly heard of a crash with two dead and one live occupant near Ohio.
- Fort Dix–McGuire incident (18 January 1978) — An alleged Air Force form describes a UAP incident and body recovery at Fort Dix and McGuire AFB.
- Three air bases claim (1978) (August 1978) — A source tells Leonard Stringfield that three air bases held alien craft or bodies.
- Sunnyvale hangar saucer claim (1979) — A Navy radar observer says he saw a large saucer in a hangar at Sunnyvale in 1950.
- Hampton Roads bodies claim (1979) (5 April 1979) — A source says 13 bodies and two saucers were stored at a base in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- Southeastern Oregon crash claim (1979) (27 June 1979) — An informant claims a craft crashed in southeastern Oregon and he helped load crates.
- Del Rio crash claim (13 August 1979) — A retired airman says he learned of a 1950 crash near Del Rio, Texas.
- Larry W. and the 1968 capture claim (14 December 1980) — A source says a former soldier witnessed a UAP capture in 1968.
- GE contractor taken underground claim (1982) — A man's daughter says he was blindfolded and taken underground at Wright-Patterson.
- Air Force colonel harassed over a UFO group (1982) (1982) — An Air Force colonel says he was harassed after founding a UFO group.
- Fort Hood hidden opening claim (1982) — An Air Force captain describes a pilot seeing a hidden opening in the ground at a Texas airfield.
- John Lear's source Mike (1989) (January 1989) — John Lear says a source was flown to an underground site to photograph a saucer and autopsy.
- Project Blue Heaven claim (1990) — A physicist claims he worked on Project Blue Heaven at Edwards AFB.
- Los Alamos nurse claim (16 March 1991) — A retired nurse says bodies were flown into Los Alamos after the war.
- 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.
- White Sands tracking-camera saucer claim (July 1991) — A retired sergeant says tracking cameras recorded a saucer resting on the White Sands range.
- Navy linguist and the Soviet crash report (July 1991) — A Navy linguist says he decoded a Soviet report of a crash split between England and Germany.
Connected articles
References
- Leonard H. Stringfield — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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