GE contractor taken underground claim

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GE contractor taken underground claim
USGS digital orthophoto of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
USGS digital orthophoto of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio Photo: United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Date1982
TopicsBeings & bodies (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic)
PeopleLeonard Stringfield, Linda Moulton Howe
TestimonyShellenberger testimony, p. 93
Year1982 in UFO history
Timeline1982 on the UAP Timeline
Sources5

GE contractor taken underground claim — A man's daughter says he was blindfolded and taken underground at Wright-Patterson.

According to a story in Leonard Stringfield's files, the daughter of a General Electric contractor said that her father had once been blindfolded and taken to an underground area at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he saw or worked on something related to UFOs. He supposedly told her this late in life.

The account was published in Stringfield's Status Report III (1982) and republished by Linda Moulton Howe in 2005. It's second-hand, neither the contractor nor the daughter is named publicly, and there's no record to support it. Wright-Patterson has long been the subject of rumours about underground facilities, which the Air Force has denied.

People and topics

The 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio received its first C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 21,2010. The aircraft is on loan from…
The 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio received its first C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 21,2010. The aircraft is on loan from… Photo: United States Air Force · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
  • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
  • 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.
  • Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
  • U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.

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