Great Lakes shoot-down claim (1973)
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| Date | June 1973 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Nuclear & missile sites (topic), Military encounters (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield, Linda Moulton Howe |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 76 |
| Year | 1973 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1973 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Great Lakes shoot-down claim (1973) — A Navy instructor claims a UAP was shot down by a missile and secretly moved by rail to Great Lakes.
"RK" is one of Leonard Stringfield's anonymous informants. He said he was an instructor at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago and claimed that in 1973 the Navy shot down a UFO with a missile, and that the wreckage was secretly moved by rail to the Great Lakes base.
The account was published in Stringfield's Status Report III (1982) and republished by Linda Moulton Howe in 2005. No records, other witnesses or physical evidence support the story, and the location and circumstances of the shoot-down weren't specified. It remains one of many unverified crash-retrieval claims in Stringfield's files.
People and topics
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- 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.
- Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
On the Timeline
- UFOs: Past, Present, and Future documentary (May 1973) — Two Air Force colonels reportedly encourage filmmakers to make a UAP documentary.
- Dyess AFB weapons storage incident (1973) (October 1973) — A security policeman at Dyess AFB says his squadron encountered a UAP near nuclear bombers.
See every 1973 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
- Linda Moulton Howe — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Earthfiles — Linda Moulton Howe's news site · earthfiles.com · archived copy
- earthfiles.com · earthfiles.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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