Three air bases claim (1978)
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| Date | August 1978 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Nuclear & missile sites (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 84 |
| Year | 1978 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1978 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Three air bases claim (1978) — A source tells Leonard Stringfield that three air bases held alien craft or bodies.
In August 1978, Leonard Stringfield published more details from his crash-retrieval research in the MUFON UFO Journal, following his July presentation at the MUFON symposium. His sources included an anonymous "Mr. J.J.", who said he had served with an intelligence unit at a Nike missile site and described crash retrievals.
The testimony says one of Stringfield's sources told him that three air bases had held alien craft or bodies. Other accounts in the same period include a Navy photo specialist who said he had seen a photo of a small body, and Charles Wilhelm's account of "Mrs. G", a woman who reportedly catalogued UFO material at Wright-Patterson.
Stringfield never identified his sources publicly, so these claims can't be checked. His work nonetheless drew many more people to contact him, and he continued publishing "status reports" until his death in 1994.
In the testimony
The testimony cites: AFOSI interrogated Cecil Tenney after seeing a low level UAP “in distress” at Great Falls AFB; Charles Wilhelm claims he did yardwork for a “Mrs. G.,” who allegedly worked in the Foreign Materials Division with a TS clearance at WPAFB in 1940s/1950s; he claimed Ms G. told him her division catal; Navy specialist James Mitchell claims he had a role to handle confidential film and saw a photo of a small humanoid allegedly killed in a skirmish with USG in Arizona.; “Mrs. S.I.” claims her husband Carl was Air Force Police at WPAFB and around 1973 was called to duty in a secret area where he was driven to and blindfolded; he was allegedly ordered to stand guard as.
People and topics
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- MUFON — The largest civilian UFO organization in the United States.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
On the Timeline
- McDonnell Douglas caller to Vallée (1978) (8 June 1978) — A McDonnell Douglas caller tells Vallée a secret UAP project is monitored by the CIA.
- 1978 House SETI hearing (19 September 1978) — A NASA official testifies to the House about searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
See every 1978 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
- en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- documents.pub · documents.pub · archived copy
- files.afu.se · files.afu.se · archived copy
Further reading
- Condon Committee — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Hangar 18 (the legend and 1980 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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