Southeastern Oregon crash claim (1979)
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Contents 7
| Date | 27 June 1979 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 89 |
| Year | 1979 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1979 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
An anonymous informant in the files of crash-retrieval researcher Leonard Stringfield said that in 1979 a craft was recovered in Oregon, and that he helped load crates of material during the operation.[1]
The account
In engineer Robert Wood's 2004 summary of Stringfield's 80 crash-retrieval reports, the Oregon case is report 68. The source was known to another researcher and had been a Marine involved in the recovery. He described deep ruts at the site, the object being placed on a large flatbed semi-trailer under a tarpaulin, and helping to load crates onto a helicopter. Wood used it as one of three example cases with notable details.[1]
Stringfield's collection
Stringfield gathered anonymous crash-retrieval testimony from 1978 until shortly before his death in 1994, publishing it in a series of self-published status reports.[1][2]
Assessment
The informant was not named, and no date, precise site or record has been published that would allow the story to be checked.[1]
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield, p369.
People and topics
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
On the Timeline
- Victor Marchetti's Second Look article (May 1979) — Former CIA official Victor Marchetti writes that the government is hiding alien contact.
- Del Rio crash claim (13 August 1979) — A retired airman says he learned of a 1950 crash near Del Rio, Texas.
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References
- Robert M. Wood, "Correlating Leonard Stringfield's crash-retrieval reports", 2nd Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference Proceedings (Nov 2004), Internet Archive (PDF) · archive.org · archived copy
- 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
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