Larry W. and the 1968 capture claim
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| Date | 14 December 1980 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 90 |
| Year | 1980 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1980 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Larry W. and the 1968 capture claim — A source says a former soldier witnessed a UAP capture in 1968.
In a letter to Leonard Stringfield dated 14 December 1980, a correspondent identified as "Larry W." said that a former classmate had told him he witnessed the "capture" of a UFO in 1968 while serving in the Army.
The account was published in Stringfield's later reports. It's at least third-hand: the witness told Larry W., who told Stringfield. No details such as the location or unit were given that would allow it to be checked, and no other source supports it.
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield, p151.
People and topics
- 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.
On the Timeline
- NSA Yeates affidavits (1980) (18 November 1980) — In a lawsuit, the NSA files a public and a secret affidavit about its UAP records.
- Spread of the Bennewitz disinformation (1980s Undefined) — Doty's fake document spreads to the public and into books and media.
See every 1980 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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