Yuma hangar photograph claim (1967)
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| Date | 1967 |
|---|---|
| People | Leonard Stringfield |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 69 |
| Year | 1967 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1967 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
Crash-retrieval researcher Leonard Stringfield published an account of a flying saucer said to have been seen in a hangar at Yuma, Arizona, in 1967. In a later review of his reports, engineer Robert Wood classed it as a conclusively proven hoax.[1]
The account
The story appeared in Stringfield's Status Report III (1982), on pages 34 and 35, and described a UFO seen inside a hangar at Yuma. Later summaries say the informant's information came through his brother, who was in the military, and mention photographs; none have been published. Yuma is home to both a Marine Corps air station and the Army's Yuma Proving Ground.[1]
Wood's review
At the 2004 UFO Crash Retrieval Conference, Wood presented a table of 80 crash-retrieval reports drawn from Stringfield's papers. He listed the Yuma hangar case as report 46 and as one of four hoaxes that, in hindsight, Stringfield had been taken in by. He described it as conclusively proven to be a hoax; the others were a 1979 Pocono Mountains body story, a 1989 South African crash story and a 1989 "recovered vessel" story from Carp, Ontario.[1]
Significance
Wood argued that Stringfield's own detailed reporting helped expose some of the hoaxes, and that recognising them made the rest of the collection easier to assess.[1]
Assessment
No photographs from the Yuma account have been published.[1]
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Retrievals of the Third Kind presented at MUFON 1978, Leon Stringfield, p177.
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.
On the Timeline
- Jack Pickett and the MacDill discs (1966-1967) — A retired pilot and a journalist say they saw Air Force-marked disc craft at MacDill AFB.
- Robert Wood's McDonnell Douglas study (1967) — McDonnell Douglas physicist Robert Wood says he was tasked with gravity propulsion research.
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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
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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