RETRIEVALS OF THE THIRD KIND - A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody © by Leonard H. String eld April 5, 1978 Revised July 20, 1978 fi Presented at the MUFON Symposium July 29, 1978 "Since the advent of the UFO, dating back to World War II when there was official recognition of the 'foo fighter,' one hard fact stands out: the world public at large still disbelievers in its existence. Another fact: most of our world's scientific community does not believe in UFOs either, although a small number of its Fellowship today will admit their puzzlement and sometimes curiosity over the persistence of UFO reports. For those of us dedicated to serious UFO research, working in all professional levels, there is no doubt that a real interloper from somewhere exists! Knowing this is frustrating. In 31 years of prodigious effort, our research has failed to discover, or uncover, the real UFO's nature, its origin or intent - and I hasten to add, to force open the door of alleged official secrecy behind which might be concealed the hard evidence; or if you will, the extraordinary and sobering proof we have all sought. Today, considering the long, evasive history of the UFO and an equally evasive official posture, our research stands at a critical crossroad. Here we find a two-way split off, a growing and sharpening divergence of opinion about the nature and origin of the UFO. One view entertains the notion that the UFO is a paraphysical or psychical visitant from another realm or of another dimension and that all the paranormal evidence reportedly associated with the UFO precludes a simple 'nuts and bolts' physical explanation. This hypothesis, in the view of some researchers, rules out the interplanetary 'nuts and bolts' spaceship. The other major hypothesis, and now considered a conservative view, postulates that the UFO is a structured machine and comes from across the vast reaches of space and time from another solar system. This belief maintains that the extraterrestrial race has, by virtue of its advanced technology, overcome the problem of spatial distance and has developed great psychical powers by which it can manipulate man's mind when it sees fit to do so. Thus, in this postulation, the reported paranormal events can also be explained. Of course, there are many other provocative splinter theories, some interlacing the two major hypotheses and some radically disregarding the known facts. Theories are free, and are a dime a dozen. In its honest endeavor to proceed down either hypothetical path, research today continues to investigate UFO reports, correlate and compute the reported data, computerize photographs, conduct conferences and symposia, and drudge over 13,000 UFO reports released by the U. S. Air Force's former Project Bluebook which have been made available for public study at the National Archives in Washington, D. C. Therefore, it's not by accident that UFO researchers have provided for its brethren a convenient language by which to describe events and, more specifically, a terminology so that UFO reports can be classified. Speaking of terminology, we borrow a page from the eminent Dr. J. Allen Hynek's book, The UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry. From this major work, we now have Close Encounters of the First, Second and Third Kind, which are labels covering a hypothetical set of conditions wherein the human witness observes or experiences a UFO at close range. These include physical or electromagnetic effects to a witness or his surroundings or an encounter with a strange alien being. Popularized by the movie of the same name, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has become a household term. Now anybody and everybody can share in an awareness of these rare and bizarre events. But there is another event of the Alien Third Kind. This is an event known mainly through rumor. Even knowledgeable researchers admit they know of it only from shadowy sources, and when pursued, found sudden dead ends. Through patience, perseverance and careful, courteous diplomacy, I have wended my way through the many shadowy mazes and found, to my surprise, sources of light at many of the so-called dead ends. What I have learned from these sources describes an event which I shall call Retrievals of the Third Kind. Retrievals of the Third Kind relate primarily to the alien being. To be more precise, I refer to incidents where a UFO had allegedly crashed and both it and the occupants were retrieved by military personnel who were dispatched to the scene. According to my sources, these immobilized craft and deceased occupants, described as humanoid, have been placed in custody at certain military installations where they were studied under the highest security measures. Now, for the first time, sufficient data have been amassed to lend support to some of the old retrieval claims. But, looking back to the 1950s, there was little or no desire then to pursue the reported claims. At that time, active researchers - including myself - did little more than scoff. We thought we had good reason. Our collective 'scoffing' was the result of an alleged grand hoax. Here, I refer to a book, Behind the Flying Saucer, by the late Frank Scully, published in 1950. Briefly, it told about a reported saucer crash in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948. Scully went on to relate that a scientist he had met had possession of metal artifacts taken from inside the craft which was proof that the saucer was from outer space. Investigation, however, revealed Scully's scientist was a fraud. With the book's subsequent exposure as a hoax, which got a lot of publicity, it became unfashionable for any objective researcher to write or talk about crashed UFOs and their alleged 'little men.' Adding fuel to the fire of a condemned book were strong Air Force denials in 1954 that a retrieved UFO was in hiding at Wright-Patterson AFB. I remember calling Lt. Colonel John O'Mara, Chief of Intelligence at the air base, inquiring about the alleged retrievals. His reply in part was, 'Ridiculous!' So completely was Scully's retrievals story put down that some researchers today wonder, in retrospect, if the book and/or its exposure were contrived (as misinformation to keep the public and media away from the facts). But despite denials and the suspicions of research, the crash and retrievals stories persisted. Then, like a bolt from the blue, while preparing the manuscript for my book, Situation Red, The UFO Siege (published by Doubleday), some new reliable sources opened up. Then once again, to my surprise, after the release of my book in 1977, still more sources surfaced to talk about what they knew. Then one by one, the jigsaw pieces began to fit together and a picture emerged. Now I believe this is the time and place - Dayton, Ohio, close to Wright-Patterson AFB - that we must face this greatest of issues head-on. We must now take a new and honest look at the old rumors. And we must also take a new look at the possibility of a grand official cover-up, and why. If anyone of the retrieval incidents is true, or if only one of my informants is telling the truth, then humankind is in for a shock. The impact of its sudden revelation - or forced admission through official pronouncement - would probably shake up humankind's lifestyle, philosophies and even economy. And if it is true that alien humanoids have been retrieved and are held in a preserved state at one or more military installations, then our government and all consorting governments responsible for this concealment, will have to explain their policy of prolonged secrecy. We might then rightly ask what else is hidden about the UFO of a more frightening nature? Probably following any official pronouncement of this magnitude, there would be strong public reaction. There would be demands for more hidden facts. As always, some one or some agency would have to be pinned with the blame. Certainly at the top of the list would be the military establishment and covert intelligence agencies. Also to blame would be the media. Where was their prowess to probe for the truth? It seems strange that some of its audacious members who helped bring down a president failed to reach the right people with the right UFO facts - or were they, too, in certain key areas a part of the big cover-up? And UFO researchers, too, can share in some of the blame. Too much disunity among the major research groups is one factor. Perhaps a more concerted action would have carried more weight at critical moments when pressures were put to bear in areas of known cover-up. Also, perhaps too much time has been spent by influential researchers looking for a paranormal answer for the UFO. One fact has stood out for years. The average reported UFO appears to be a metallic, structured craft with windows and when in a landing position, sometimes uses tripods. While this general description might apply to a vehicle from any other mysterious realm, it does suggest that the design is more a feat of engineering than of psychical or spiritual manifestation. Now for an academic thought. Is it right or wise for research - or myself - to try and pry open the lid of a possible Pandora's Box? Is it not morally right to know about the crashed UFO and its alien occupants? Is there something sinister about the continuing surveillance of Earth? And what, you might ask, is my own opinion of my informants endowed with such powerful testimony? Frankly, I cannot refute the credibility of any of my informants. They are from scattered areas, many of whom I have pursued with great effort. Knowing something about the character of each suggests that none is hoaxing and it is difficult to believe that anyone of them was a 'plant.' Even if one or two were, what about the others? I might ask, why plant the kind of information that could work against the official position which is to play down the notion of secrecy about UFOs? It is with equal candor that I must state that I am not in a providential position to pass a positive or final judgment on the retrieval stories or on my informants. On this tenuous ground, I must allow for some marginal error in observation or tiny flaw in human judgment for each reported account. However, let me quote an old adage, 'Wherever there is smoke, there is fire.' From my position, I certainly can see a helluva lot of smoke! Now, let me switch from my beliefs to yours and consider what you might think about me relative to my expose. To help guide your appraisal, allow me to state that I personally have not seen a retrieved UFO, parts of one, or its occupants. Also, for the record, I do not possess a single affidavit to prove that any one of my informants has seen a retrieved craft or its occupants. I have only their names and their testimony. Unfortunately, I cannot use these names. Anonymity has been requested and will be respected. The reasons should be obvious to all. In essence, therefore, the cases I present in this paper without names to back up the informant's testimony can be construed as hearsay. If perchance, hearsay is to be my undoing, then I must make my stand on the merits of my own credibility which I trust has already been established in my 29 years of UFO research. You are the judge and the jury. I will now proceed with the testimony of my informants concerning Retrievals of the Third Kind in the following abstracts. ABSTRACT 1 In 1948, according to reports from hazy sources, a UFO with occupants numbering anywhere from one to sixteen, had crashed in a desert region of southwestern United States or Mexico and was retrieved by U. S. military authorities. But the reports never got beyond rumor because 1948 was the year when Frank Scully's book unloaded an alleged hoax on the public about a crashed UFO in Aztec, New Mexico. In the Fall of 1977, new word of a 1948 crash came to me from a well-informed military source. His information, however, was scanty. He had heard from other 'inside' military sources that a metallic disc had crashed somewhere in a desert region. His only details indicated that the craft had suffered severe damage on impact and was retrieved by military units. By coincidence, months later in 1977, I was to learn more about a crashed disc occurring in 1948. This came from researcher Todd Zechel, whom I had known since 1975 when he became Research Director of Ground Saucer Watch. Formerly with the National Security Agency, Zechel stated that a U. S. Air Force technician told him that his uncle, then a Provost Marshall at Carswell Air Force Base near Ft. Worth, Texas, had taken part in the 1948 recovery of a crashed (New Mexico) UFO which was described as a metallic disc, 90 feet in diameter. The crash occurred about 30 miles inside the Mexican border across from Laredo, Texas, and was recovered by U. S. troops after it was tracked on radar screens. The job assigned the Provost Marshall, now a retired Colonel, was to cordon off the crash site. The retired Colonel, now living in Florida, was tracked by Zechel. Among other facts revealed by the Colonel was that one dead alien was found aboard the craft which was described as about 4 feet, 6 inches tall, completely hairless, with hands that had no thumbs. Zechel learned from his source that the troops involved in the retrieval were warned that if they said a word about the incident they would be the 'sorriest people around.' Continuing his investigation, Zechel pieced together other eyewitnesses to the 1948 crash event. In his statement, Zechel relates the following: 'I tracked another Air Force Colonel, now retired in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had seen the UFO in flight. He was flying an F-94 fighter out of Dias Air Force Base in Texas and was over Albuquerque, New Mexico, when reports came of a UFO on the West Coast, flying over Washington state. Radars clocked its speed at 2,000 miles per hour. 'It made a 90-degree turn and flew east over Texas.' The Colonel, then a Captain pilot, actually saw it as it passed. Then suddenly, it disappeared from radar screens. At Dias Base, the radar operators plotted its course and decided it had crashed some 30 miles across the Mexican border from Laredo. When the Captain got back to base, he and a fellow pilot got into a small plane and took off over the border after the UFO. When they landed in the desert at the crash site, U. S. troops were there before them. 'The craft was covered with a canopy and the two pilots were not allowed to see it. They were then called to Washington, D. C., for debriefing and sworn to secrecy about the whole event.' Zechel also traced a U. S. Naval Intelligence officer who was in Mexico City at the time of the crash. He was rushed to the spot, but got there just as the craft was being loaded onto military trucks. COMMENT: Todd Zechel related to me by phone on March 15, 1978, that additional details pertinent to this 1948 incident will be made known in his forthcoming 1978 book, Under Intelligent Control. Zechel also related that he has a signed affidavit by the retired Air Force Colonel who was involved in the cordoning-off operations. ABSTRACT 2 In 1952, the year of the great wave of UFO sightings throughout the U. S., can also share in the history of retrieval data. My information for one known UFO crash incident in 1952 comes from a reliable person in a technical position at a large General Electric plant. His brother, who wishes to be unnamed, was on duty as a radar specialist at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in 1952, when he saw a UFO descending toward Earth at great speed across his radar screen. When the UFO had been confirmed to have crashed, the Captain on duty gave him instructions, 'You did not see anything!' The specialist a short time later learned from base officials that an unidentified craft did crash in a nearby remote desert area. The retrieved craft was more than 50 feet in diameter with a row of windows around its equator. Its metallic surface was in a burned-blackened condition. He also had heard that the craft was occupied by dead humanoid bodies approximately 4.5 feet tall. Also, the specialist recalls that he heard reports that the damaged craft was held temporarily in a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base before it was shipped by truck to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. COMMENT: I had asked my informant if I could discuss this incident with his brother. But when he checked by phone, he was reminded that the incident was classified as secret and he would not be in a position to disclose further details. In possible conjunction with this 1952 event, I have talked with two sources who had witnessed a large military vehicle or lo-boy drag a suspicious cargo under tarpaulin destined for Wright-Patterson AFB. One observer was Quartermaster at Godman Field, Kentucky, when the lo-boy, under heavy guard at night, made a transient stop there. Word on the base was that its hidden cargo was a crashed UFO. Other witnesses, who had observed a strange cargo being transported on a lo-boy into Wright-Patterson AFB in 1952, were a man and wife then residing in Circleville, Ohio. By telephone in 1952, they claimed while driving their car near the base that traffic was stalled. Escorting the vehicle, they said, was a motorcade of military police. ABSTRACT 3 Additional testimony in support of a crashed UFO incident in 1952 comes from an unquestionable source: John Schuessler, Deputy Director of MUFON, and engineer for McDonnell Douglas at NASA. His data came from his father and stepmother, who secured their data in 1968 from a firsthand source, who was their neighbor in a small town in Pennsylvania. According to John Schuessler, his family's close friend was formerly a civilian guard serving at a Receiving Gate for Internal Security at Wright-Patterson AFB. While on duty, sometime in 1952, he witnessed a tractor with lo-boy hauling a tarpaulin-covered craft into a tight security area at the base. The guard also had told Schuessler that he witnessed at the Receiving Gate the deceased bodies recovered from the crashed UFO at a site vaguely referred to as somewhere in the U. S. Southwest. Packed in crates, the guard described the bodies as being 'little people' or humanoid. It is not known whether or not the bodies arrived at the same time at the base as the craft on the lo-boy or at another time by other means. One point he did make clear about the area in which he worked to his Schuessler friends, 'Everything delivered had to pass by me.' John Schuessler said he tried to follow up to get more information by arranging a meeting with the former guard through the influence of his parents, but his efforts were futile. Said John, 'He refused to talk about it, even to me.' COMMENT: The brief testimony of the Security Guard at Wright-Patterson AFB and that of the Radar Specialist at Edwards AFB (cited in Abstract # 2) suggests that the official cover-up of vital UFO data is so great that some of it which concerns the captive craft and occupants is under a special system of files - and has always been independent of those maintained by Project Blue Book, and perhaps are without classification so that even the Freedom of Information Act cannot reach them. Probably the area in which the security guard had served his tenure of duty from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s was the same as that referred to by U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his letter to me dated December 3, 1974, in which the Senator stated, 'I made an effort to get in the room at Wright-Patterson where the information was stored, and I was denied that request.' ABSTRACT 4 Mr. T., who holds a high technical position in civilian life today, was in the Spring of 1953, at the age of 20, a radar specialist with secret security clearance. While stationed in Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, in 1953, he and a small, select number of radar specialists were summoned to view a special film at the base theater. Without any briefing, the 16mm movie projector was flicked on and the film began to roll on the screen, showing the usual flaws and scratches found in combat photograph film. Suddenly, without any titles or credits or music, there appeared a desert scene dominated by a silver disc-shaped object embedded in the sand with a domed section at the top. At the bottom was a hatch or door that was open. In the next scene, Mr. T. recalls seeing ten to fifteen military personnel all dressed in fatigues, and without identification patches, standing around what appeared to be the disabled craft. By judging their height against the UFO, Mr. T. determined that its width was approximately fifteen to twenty feet in diameter and that an open hatch or door at the bottom was about 1.5 feet wide and perhaps 3 feet high. At this point, Mr. T had no idea of the movie's purpose. I asked about the activity of the personnel. He said, 'They were just looking at the object.' Then the movie switched to what appeared to be the interior of the craft. A panel with a few simple levers was shown. He remembers being impressed by the muted pastel colors and sudden glares of white - the sign of poor photography. Again there was a change of scenes. Now in view were two tables, probably taken inside a tent. To his surprise, there were dead bodies on the tables. Two were on one table and one on another. Mr. T said the bodies appeared little by human standards and most notable were the heads, all looking alike, and all being large compared to their body sizes. They looked mongoloid, he thought, with small noses, mouths and eyes that were shut. He did not recall seeing ears or hair. The skin, he said, was leathery and ashen in color. Each wore a tight-fitting suit in a pastel color. The sight of the dead bodies was the end of the movie. As most military movies credit the Signal Corps or some other source, this one 'stopped cold,' said Mr. T. When the lights came on in the theater, the officer in charge stood up and instructed the viewers to 'think about the movie,' and added firmly, 'Don't relate its contents to anyone.' Mr. T said, in good faith, he did not even tell his wife who lived near the base. To Mr. T's surprise, two weeks later, he was approached by an intelligence officer on the base and told, 'Forget the movie you saw. It was a hoax.' Shortly after seeing the movie, he heard from a couple of top security officers on the base that a UFO had crashed in New Mexico, and had been recovered with its occupants. The date of the crash was 1952, said Mr. T. Commented my informant: 'The 5-minute-long movie certainly was not a Walt Disney production. It was probably shot by an inexperienced cameraman because it was full of scratches and had poor coloring and texture.' Mr. T., when asked about his interest in UFOs, claimed that he was not interested - then or now , but he has always been curious about the purpose of the film in relation to his work in radar. Years later, he met an old Army acquaintance who also was a radar specialist. To T's surprise, he learned from this man that he, too, had seen the same film at another base under similar hush-hush conditions. COMMENT: Considering the credibility status of my informant, I believe he saw the movie and describes the subject matter to the best of his recollection. Regarding the subject matter, he believes that the crashed craft and the dead bodies, were bona fide. It would have been difficult, even by a major Hollywood studio, to have made dummy bodies look so real for use in an otherwise make-shift film. And for what morbid purpose?" Leonard H. Stringfield: "ABSTRACT 5 - Kingman, Arizona Crash Research Director for MUFON, Raymond E. Fowler of Wenham, Massachusetts, watched incredulously as Fritz Werner signed the following affidavit, dated June 7, 1973: June 7, 1973, Signed Affidavit by Fritz Werner: 'I, Fritz Werner, do solemnly swear that during a special assignment with the U. S. Air Force on May 21, 1953, I assisted in the investigation of a crashed unknown object in the vicinity of Kingman, Arizona. The object was constructed of an unfamiliar metal which resembled aluminum. It had impacted 20 inches into the sand without any sign of structural damage. It was oval and about 30 feet in diameter. An entrance way hatch had been vertically lowered and opened. It was about 3.5 feet high and 1.5 feet wide. I was able to talk briefly with someone on the team who did look inside, only briefly. He saw two swivel seats, an oval cabin, and a lot of instruments and displays. A tent pitched near the object sheltered the dead remains of the only occupant of the craft. It was about 4 feet tall, dark brown complexion, and had two eyes, two nostrils, two ears and a small, round mouth. It was clothed in silvery, metallic suit and wore a skull cap of the same type of material. It wore no face covering or helmet. I certify that the above statement is true by affixing my signature to this document this 7th day of June, 1973.' According to Ray Fowler, a researcher of highest credentials, here is Werner's story: 'I was project engineer on a U. S. Air Force contract with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for 'Operation Upshot-Knothole' at the Atomic Proving Ground, Nevada. My job involved the measuring of blast effects on various types of buildings, especially erected for the tests. On May 20, 1953, I worked most of the day at Frenchman Flat. In the evening, I received a phone call from the test director, Dr. Ed Doll, informing me that I was to go on a special job the next day. On the following day, I reported for special duty and was driven to Indian Springs Air Force Base, near the Proving Ground, where I joined about fifteen other specialists. We were told to leave all valuables in the custody of the military police. We were then put on a military plane and flown to Phoenix, Arizona. We were not allowed to fraternize. There, we were put on a bus with other personnel who were already there. The bus windows were blacked out so that we could not see where we were going. We rode for an estimated four hours. I think we were in the area of Kingman, Arizona, which is northwest of Phoenix and not too far from the Atomic Proving Ground in Nevada. During the bus trip, we were told by an Air Force Full Colonel that a super secret Air Force vehicle had crashed and that since we were all specialists in certain fields, we were to investigate the crash in terms of our own specialty and nothing more. Finally, the bus stopped and we disembarked one at a time as our names were called and were escorted by military police to the area that we were to inspect. Two spotlights were centered on the crashed object, which was ringed with guards. The lights were so bright that it was impossible to see the surrounding area. The object was oval and looked like two deep saucers, one inverted upon the other. It was about 30 feet in diameter, with convex surfaces, top and bottom. These surfaces were about twenty feet in diameter. It was constructed of a dull silver metal, like brushed aluminum. The metal was darker where the saucer 'lips' formed a rim, around which were what looked like 'slots.' A curved open hatch door was located on the leading end and was vertically lowered. There was a light coming from the inside, but it could have been installed by the Air Force. My particular job was to determine, from the angle and depth of impact into the sand, how fast the vehicle's forward and vertical velocities were at the time of impact. The impact had forced the vehicle approximately twenty inches into the sand. There were no landing gear. There were also no marks or dents, that I can remember, on the surface - not even scratches. Questions having nothing to do with our own special areas were not answered. An armed military policeman guarded a tent pitched nearby. I managed to glance inside at one point and saw the dead body of a four-foot, human-like creature in a silver metallic-looking suit. The skin on its face was dark brown. This might have been caused by exposure to our atmosphere. The face was not covered, but it had a metallic skullcap device on its head. As soon as each person finished his task, he was interviewed over a tape recorder and escorted back to the bus. On the way back to the bus, I managed to talk briefly with someone else going back to it at the same time. He told me that he had glanced inside the object and saw two swivel-like seats, as well as instruments and displays. An airman, who noticed we were talking, separated us and warned us not to talk with each other. After we all returned to the bus, the Air Force Colonel who was in charge had us raise our right hands and take an oath not to reveal what we had experienced. I was instructed to write my report in longhand and not to type or reproduce it. A telephone number was given me to call when the report was complete. I called the number and an airman picked up the report.' Ray Fowler states that Werner held several engineering and management positions at Wright-Patterson AFB between June 1949, and January 1960. During that period, he worked in the Office of Special Studies of what was then the Air Materiel Command Installations Division. Later, he designed aircraft landing gear and became Chief of Alighting Devices within the Aircraft Laboratory at Wright Air Development Center. At the time of the alleged incident, he was on assignment to the Atomic Energy Commission at the Atomic Proving Ground in Nevada. Fowler also states that Werner told him that he sympathized with the Air Force's secret handling of the UFO problem and added that the Air Force did not know where UFOs originated. Werner also said that the Air Force believed that the UFOs were interplanetary vehicles, but that they did not know how to handle the situation. They did not want to create panic. Comments Fowler: 'There were inconsistencies in Werner's story, but most appeared to be in the realm of memory lapses and exaggerations by the witness. Former employers that were checked held him in high esteem and all described him as a highly competent and moral individual. Having published a number of technical papers, Werner also holds membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.' In Fowler's continuing evaluation, he cites one piece of evidence which seems to give a strong element of truth to Werner's account. In an attempt to pin down the exact date of the alleged incident, Werner agreed to show his diary he kept in those days. On its aging papers on May 20, 1953, it read in part: 'Well, pen's out of ink. Spent most of day on Frenchman's Flat surveying cubicles and supervising welding of a plate girder bridge sensor which cracked after last shot. ...Got funny call from Dr. Doll at 10:00. I am going on a special job tomorrow.' On May 21, 1953, the diary read: 'Up at 7:00. Worked most of the day on Frenchman with cubicles. Letter from Bet. She's feeling better now - thank goodness. Got picked up at Indian Springs AFB at 4:30 p.m. for a job I can't write or talk about.' COMMENT: In my book, Situation Red, I cover the Werner story in full based on my conversations with Ray Fowler. Said Fowler, 'With more substantiation, it could blow the lid off secrecy.' I agree. One final note: the name Fritz Werner is fictitious, but I feel that his story - although embellished - is basically true. One Intelligence source commented, 'A lot of it is just story.' ABSTRACT 6 Finally a name of a witness surfaces - an Air Force Major named Daly - who was a metallurgist stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1953. He relates his adventures with a crashed UFO. The source for this information comes from fellow Cincinnati-based researcher, Charles Wilhelm. A friend of Charles' father, he related in 1968, that in April 1953 he was flown to a destination unknown, where it was hot and sandy, to examine the crashed UFO. He was blindfolded and driven to a point about 30 minutes away from the base of operations. There, inside a tent, standing in soft sand, his blindfold was removed. From there he was taken to a location where he saw a silvery metallic craft about 25 to 30 feet in diameter. The exterior of the craft, he said, was not damaged. However, his on-the-spot two day analysis of the ship's metal, using the equipment he carried with him, showed that it was not native to Earth. Major Daly, although he was not permitted to enter the craft, observed that the craft's entrance measured four to five feet high and two to three feet wide. COMMENT: Major Daly's blindfolded trip to the crash site, similar to that of Fritz Werner's, indicates that it was common procedure for the military to use extreme security measures relative to UFO retrievals. It is to be noted that Major Daly's experience takes place in April 1953, a month shy of Fritz Werner's which was in May 1953. Also, to be noted is that Daly did not see any dead alien bodies. Maybe they had already been removed? Or, if the craft was found undamaged, as he attested, it is possible the occupants managed to evade capture? Or, perhaps, there were two crashes in a desert area in the Spring of 1953. If, however, both the reports of Werner and Daly are describing the same crashed UFO event, it is possible that Daly used the wrong month. ABSTRACT 7 'I'm almost positive it happened in 1953,' said my informant, a man with a long career as a pilot in the military who held the rank of Warrant Officer in the Army during the early 1950s. Now serving in the Air National Guard, he stood by me, facing a large wall map of the U. S. in a backroom of the Administration Building at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati. Earlier, in a large front room before about 25 pilots, I had just spoken on the subject of UFOs. It was now the late Summer of 1977 as he tried to recall the exact time when he stood as a witness, at a distance of about 12 feet, peering at five crates on a forklift inside a hangar at Wright- Patterson AFB. In each of three crates, he said, were the recovered dead bodies of small humanoids; the contents of the other two crates were not discernible. As he related this astonishing information in a matter-of-fact manner, he pointed vaguely to an area in Arizona on the map. 'Here's where it approximately happened,' he said. 'It was a desert area, but I don't have the name of the location.' There was no one else in the map room when he told me about the incident. He made certain of that. 'It's still a secret and at the time I had to swear to it,' he said. 'I was in the right place at the right time when the crates arrived at night by DC-7.' As we stood at the map, my informant described what appeared to be hastily prepared wooden crates. In these, little humanoids, appearing to be four feet tall were lying unshrouded on a fabric, which he explained prevented freeze burn from the dry ice packed beneath. As a number of Air Police stood silent guard nearby the crates, he managed to get a reasonably good but brief glimpse of the humanoid features. He recalls that their heads were disproportionately larger than the bodies, with skin that looked brown under the hangar light above. The head appeared to be hairless and narrow. The eyes seemed to be open, the mouth small, and nose, if any, was indistinct. When asked about their attire, he said they appeared to be wearing tight- fitting dark suits. Because of the tight-fitting suit, there was one revealing feature - a surprising feature. One of the humanoids appeared to him to be female. He said, 'Either one of the aliens had an exceedingly muscular chest, or the bumps were a female's breasts.' Later, he learned from one of the crew members, with whom he bunked at the barracks, that the body of one of the aliens was, indeed, that of a female. My informant also heard from the crew member that one of the little humanoids was still alive aboard the craft when the U. S. military team arrived. Attempts were made to save its life with oxygen, but were unsuccessful. Another question, an important one, was promptly answered by my informant. How did the military know about the crash and where to go? He said he heard from a crew member that the UFO was picked up by special tracking equipment at Mt. Palomar in California. They provided the coordinates to the military to determine the crash area. The retrieved craft found intact, he later heard, was sent to Wright-Patterson. He had no more details when or by what means. COMMENT: There were other details furnished by my informant concerning his encounter at Wright-Patterson and on other sensitive UFO issues, that might be identifiable or traceable to him. On his request, I have avoided using these data. For certain, there are a lot of things connected with the UFO that the public does not know about." Part 3: Retrievals of the Third Kind - A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody © July 1978 by Leonard H. Stringfield "S ome of the general information known to my informant concerns Wright- Patterson's storage of an intact UFO and parts of damaged UFOs and the preservation of dead alien bodies under glass in special refrigerated conditions. The Major also reportedly said, 'We have the proof that UFOs are extraterrestrial.'" - S ource: Son of USAF Major, Wright-Patterson AFB Leonard H. Stringfield: "ABSTRACT 8 With the help of Lou Farish of MUFON, I got the phone number of Cecil Tenney, age 78, in Delta, Colorado, and called him March 7, 1978. I wanted to hear for myself his testimony relative to his alleged observation in 1953 near Dutton, Montana, of a low-level UFO in distress, or a malfunctioning condition. I also wanted to know what he experienced during U. S. Air Force interrogation and what he saw at the Great Falls AFB, which he believed were the recovered dead alien bodies (from the crash). In the fall of 1953 near dusk, Tenney was driving alone from Great Falls to his home in Conrad in his pick-up. Near Dutton, he watched the troubled performance of a large, cigar-shaped object. Appearing to be about one-third the size of a football field and about 200 feet away, the silvery object pulsated and belched out fire and smoke for about seven or eight minutes. 'It seemed to be trying to pull itself up, but it couldn't,' said Tenney. Then he described an explosion and a swooshing sound that was followed by balls of fire hitting the road and as far as he could see. Two or three cars from the opposite direction on the road, he said, had their exhausts shooting out flames. Tenney admitted that he was stunned and frightened by the spectacle. 'I got out of there in a hurry,' he said,' and stopped at the nearest place with a toilet, a beer hall, which is about 5 miles beyond Dutton.' There, Tenney was told by the bartender that he 'smelled like lightening.' Later, he learned that a state highway patrolman, who also saw the UFO in distress, stopped in the saloon and was given Tenney's name as a witness. That same evening, according to Tenney, he got a phone call from a Colonel at the Great Falls AFB about 30 miles away. In a gruff voice, Tenney was told, not asked, 'I want to see yuh!' He was instructed to report to the Air Base at a certain time the next morning. When Tenney arrived at the base, he was escorted by two men into a jail-like cinder block building and was led to the Colonel's office. He was grilled with questions for 30 minutes, then he signed a 5 copy statement which was also signed by a notary public. Following interrogation, Tenney was escorted downstairs. Near the entrance door, he encountered two military men arriving, each carrying a large blue bag over his shoulder. He guessed they were laundry bags, but the bulges in the bag did not, according to Tenney, appear to be laundry. As Tenney moved toward the door, one of the men dropped his bag to the floor and it was then that Tenney could recognize the bulges to be shaped more like the protruding limbs of bodies. At this point, he was rudely pushed out of the door and told, 'Get the hell out of here!' Tenney told me he returned to his flower shop in Conrad wondering about the harsh treatment he got at the base and wondering about the contents of the laundry bags. Said Tenney, 'I can't swear they were bodies, but the bags contained something they didn't want me to see.' Later, Tenney heard of another witness, a brakeman on a passing train, who as knocked to the ground by the UFO's explosion. COMMENT: Tenney is the only known witness to the event with no other names to check for backup. However, by phone, he sounded convincing and made no hard claims to know the answers to the UFO's erratic or troubled behavior, its noisy disgorging of flame and smoke, why tongues of fire shot out of automobile exhaust pipes, what the highway patrolman reported to the Air Force, or why the Colonel was so demanding and the escorts so rude, and what was inside the laundry bags that was so secret. Tenney's guess was that the UFO he had seen in distress had crashed and the bags contained its dead occupants. ABSTRACT 9 Mrs. G. worked in the Foreign Materials Division with a top security clearance rating at Wright-Patterson AFB in the 1940s and 1950s, before her retirement in 1959 for health reasons. Charles Wilhelm, who has provided me with some firsthand reports from people with information about UFO retrieval or related incidents, got this one from Mrs. G. in 1959. She had known Charles very well as a teenager on two counts: he was a good, honest worked in performing yard work for her, and for his intense interest in UFOs. When she developed cancer and knew of her impending death, she decided to relate to him some startling information about her secret duties at Wright-Patterson and what she saw in the performance of these duties. In 1955, according to Wilhelm, she was assigned to a post to catalog all incoming UFO material, during which time approximately 1,000 items were processed. These included items from the interior of a recovered UFO brought to the Air Base. All items were photographed and tagged. In her cataloging duties, Mrs. G. also was witness to the conveyance by cart of two dead humanoid bodies from one room to another. The bodies, preserved in chemicals, were four to five feet tall, had generally human features except that the heads were large relative to the bodies, and their eyes were slanted. There was no word as to whether or not the bodies were brought in from a recent crash or had been at the base morgue from an incident occurring in previous years. After telling Charles Wilhelm some of the barest facts she knew, she commented, 'Uncle Sam can't do anything to me once I'm in my grave.' Six months later, Mrs. G. passed away. COMMENT: The brief, but vital facts bared in the testimony of Mrs. G is not to be underestimated. I firmly believe Charles Wilhelm, and prior to Mrs. G's death, he said he saw Mrs. G.'s Wright-Patterson AFB ID badge. ABSTRACT 10 The late James Mitchell was formerly a Navy specialist who served at an Air Station in Dallas, Texas, where his duties included the handling of confidential film. After retirement from the Navy in 1966, he became a civil service electrician at Wright-Patterson AFB, holding top secret clearance allowing him to work in high security areas on the base. In 1977, in association with my regular employment, I met one of the sons of James Mitchell. Knowing of my research, he came to my office to relate an incident involving his father with base security for having possession of a photograph which showed a small alien humanoid allegedly killed following a skirmish with U. S. military forces in Arizona. According to my informant, he was away from home at college at the time his father brought the photo home from Wright-Patterson in 1966. However, his brother, Mike, who now lives in California, was at home at that time and was shown the photo by his father. In due course, my business associate reached his brother, Mike, by phone and asked him to describe the photo and also to comment on his father's actions at that time. Mike obligingly described the photo as an 8 x 10, black and white glossy, showing two men, one wearing khaki; the other in a lab coat, holding up a dead body about 3.5 feet tall. The photo was taken at a fair distance on a clear day in a panorama of desert showing patchy scrub vegetation. Most of the details were by now hazy to Mike, but he recalls that the alien's head was pear-shaped and over-sized for its body, with slits for eyes and mouth. He also remembers that the humanoid was wearing a dull, wrinkled, metallic suit. Mike, in recalling the actions of his father, said that he had come home from work and seemed excited as he flashed the photo at him, made a sly glance, and then put it away under some papers in his dresser drawer. He also recalls that he said, 'I can't keep it. I must take it back.' Later in the evening, according to Mike, his father confided that he knew the story connected with the photo. he said that during early morning military exercises in a desert area of Arizona, a unit encountered a group of aliens near a landed craft. There was probably a skirmish and one alien put up quite a fight. Subdued, the small creature was given a sedative, by injection, which caused its death. The story goes that the other members of the Third Kind escaped into their craft and flew away. The one dead body was supposedly shipped to Wright-Patterson, preserved in dry ice. The next day, Mike said, his father seemed greatly disturbed. Something had happened at the base concerning the photo. He remembers that he had to return it and from that day on, James Mitchell refused to discuss the photo again with anyone. COMMENT: From my sources, I have been unable to establish the vintage of the photo or the story of the skirmish. On the other hand, the photo might be genuine, but the story not. Nonetheless, the borrowed photo, according to Mike's recollection, had caused some concern at Wright-Patterson and might have resulted in some form of reprimand for his father. Such actions would not have occurred had the misappropriated photo been a fake. Now, we might ask what about the skirmish? ABSTRACT 11 Robert D. Barry, fellow researcher and lecturer, was contacted early in March 1978, on the basis of his interest in and knowledge of crashed UFOs and the retrievals of craft and their occupants. Barry, a dedicated researcher since 1957, is Director of the 20th Century UFO Bureau. When I informed him that I could use his help in supplying some data for a paper I was preparing for the MUFON Symposium, he asked that I submit a letter to further identify myself and my objectives in this sensitive area. I did so promptly and it produced positive results. Barry's first letter, dated March 14, 1978, concerns a UFO crash with occupants which occurred in 1962. I quote from his letter in part, as follows: March 14, 1978, letter from Robert D. Barry, Director, 20th Century UFO Bureau: '...My sources of information on the crashed UFO subject involve quite a few, but my major sources number four, including one within intelligence circles as well as a scientist. 'As it relates to the crashed UFO of 1962, it occurred in the state of New Mexico. The craft experienced flight difficulty at a time it was being tracked on military radar. It was tracked across two southwestern states before coming in over New Mexico. Military jets were sent up for intercept. 'As the craft moved in over the state of New Mexico, it lost altitude and continued to experience flight difficulty. It impacted on desert sands at an estimated 90 mph. Its underside hit the sand as a plane coming in for a landing. 'Its landing gear was not down and its flight pattern at impact gave the indication that the two occupants in the craft were evidently dead at the time of the crash. ...hence the flight difficulty experienced by the craft. 'The craft was 68 feet in diameter and 13 feet in height ... typically circular. The two beings discovered inside the craft were 42 inches each in height. Each being was donned in a one-piece suit that contained no buttons or zippers. 'The occupants were removed the following day after impact to a major medical university hospital in the U. S. where skin tests and other scientific analyses were performed. Skin color was gray-pink. Head slightly larger for the size of the body; eyes somewhat larger than normal, but the nose was small with little protrusions. ...no ear lobes, but a hole at each side of the head where we have ears. ...then, of course, inside the hole area was the inner ear portion. Mouth very small and thin lips. 'The circular-shaped space craft was described as exploratory and was removed to a major military base in the southwest where scientists and engineers were assigned to work on the craft in an attempt to discover its power of propulsion. 'On this particular case, a total of twenty individuals were involved in the investigation and research. Since that time, three of them have died ... of natural causes ... leaving a total of 17 familiar with the incident and follow- up research.' COMMENT: There are more and stronger data concerning the 1962 New Mexico crash which are not publishable at this writing. Barry also had data relative to other UFO crashes in the continental United States from a reliable intelligence source that I have been asked not to divulge. The 1962 crash site was near Holloman AFB in New Mexico. The incident is known by an astronaut who prefers anonymity. ABSTRACT 12 My information comes secondhand from a person who requests that his name not be used in any way concerning his knowledge of retrieved UFOs and the preserved alien bodies maintained in secret storage at Wright-Patterson AFB. This person read my book, Situation Red, and is aware of my position in research, but refuses to discuss what he knows with me by phone or in person. My firsthand informant is his son with whom he has shared some general information about UFOs a couple years earlier. To elaborate further, the young man's father got his UFO input from his cousin, an Air Force Major, who was specifically assigned to a UFO project for about 5 years at Wright-Patterson. The Major was formerly a pilot and had also served at a missile site overseas and presently is assigned to a new technical duty. I do have these latter details, but was asked not to be specific. So significant was the information received by the father from the Major that he felt compelled to write down some specific details about the retrieved UFOs and the humanoids which he sealed in an envelope and placed in his safety deposit box. His instructions were that the envelope was not to be opened until after his death. Some of the general information known to my informant concerns Wright- Patterson's storage of an intact UFO and parts of damaged UFOs and the preservation of dead alien bodies under glass in special refrigerated conditions. The Major also reportedly said, 'We have the proof that UFOs are extraterrestrial.' COMMENT: My informant is not kidding about his father's UFO notes being stored in a safety deposit box. He also is not kidding about his father's staunch reluctance to discuss with me the contents of his notes. Personally, I must agree with the father's position of keeping a trust when it concerns the status and welfare of a close relative." Part 4: Retrievals of the Third Kind - A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody © July 1978 by Leonard H. Stringfield "W hile waiting for a sign of intent, a humanoid was observed to disembark from the UFO craft, which was described as 'short and stocky.' Then a beam of light was directed at the Colonel. The Colonel was instantly paralyzed." - Source: General "T", Wright-Patterson AFB Leonard H. Stringfield: "ABSTRACT 13 Mrs. SI called me August 3, 1977, to relate her growing interest in the UFO. She had read my book, Situation Red, and expressed a desire to attend the future meetings of the local OUFOIL research group. To its director, Charles Wilhelm, she confided that her husband, Carl, while in the U. S. Air Force as a member of the Air Police at Wright-Patterson, was called to duty one night to stand guard in a secret area where he witnessed three dead alien bodies that had just arrived. I was tipped off about this information by Wilhelm. So, on August 3, 1977, I was prepared to ask some careful questions. During our first chat, I was able to extract some strong data. She explained that she believed that it was the year 1973 when Carl was called to duty during the night. he was driven to a certain location, then was blindfolded. She said he recalled that he was led across a field of wet grass, then was helped down a flight of stairs and escorted through a long corridor. At a certain point, he was halted and his blindfold removed. There, he was issued instructions about his mission and where to stand guard. To his shock, he was in a room with other ranking officers and a few scientists who were viewing three small humanoid bodies. The aliens were dead and were stretched out on a refrigerated table. She remembers Carl telling her that the bodies were about three feet tall, their heads were abnormally large, and they seemed to have a short fuzz on the top of their heads. The skin, she said, was an off-white or cream. She could recall no other facial features described by Carl, admitting that the only time Carl had talked about his experience was while they were courting. That was in 1975. At that time, she said, he seemed shaken by it. 'I believe he was dramatically effected,' she said, adding, 'One time he told his sister about it and she just laughed. Since then, he refuses to discuss the matter with anyone, even me.' On several later occasions when I called Mrs. SI, I asked to speak to Carl. One night he was present, sitting at a table drinking coffee, when I called. I remember she asked him if he would be willing to talk with me about his experience, but he declined. Said SI when she returned to the phone, 'He said he's not allowed to talk about it, and that he will tell everything he knows after President Carter makes an announcement.' In the Fall of 1977, Mrs. SI became so obsessed in her UFO pursuits that she became ill, followed by a long period when she did not communicate. Then one evening, she called and politely announced that she had abandoned her interest in UFOs. She thanked me for my offers to help during her period of stress and again reminded me that Carl would not talk about his affair at Wright-Patterson. COMMENT: No one can blame Carl for upholding his sworn oath to secrecy. i believe that the information recounted by his wife is accurate. The year, 1973, when the incident occurred, was confirmed by an Intelligence source, but no details were given. ABSTRACT 14 On April 7, 1978, Steve Tom, NBC radio newsman in Chicago, and I were linked up by phone for an interview with a former Air Force Intelligence Officer, Major J. M. residing in Houma, Louisiana. Major J. M., I learned, shared some common grounds with me. He had also served in the 5th Air Force in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and had been in several combat areas such as Leyte, Philippine Island, where I had been assigned. The purpose of our call was to obtain firsthand, the Major's role in the retrieval of an alleged crashed UFO northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, in the Summer of 1947. The debris of an apparent metallic aerial device, or craft, that had exploded in the air, or crashed, was first made known by a sheep rancher who found fragments of metal and other material on his 8000 acre property. When he informed the Air Force base in Roswell of his discovery, Major J. M. and aides were dispatched to the area for investigation. There, he found many metal fragments and what appeared to be 'parchment' strewn in a one mile square area. 'The metal fragments,' said the Major, 'varied in size up to six inches in length, but were of the thickness of tinfoil. The fragments were unusual,' he continued, 'because they were of great strength. They could not be bent or broken, no matter what pressure was applied by hand.' The area was thoroughly checked, he said, but no fresh impact depressions in the sand were found. The area was not radioactive. The fragments, he added, were transported by military carry-all to the Air Base in Roswell and from that point he was instructed by General Ramey to deliver the 'hardware' to Ft. Worth, to be forwarded to Wright-Patterson Field for analysis. When the press learned of this retrieval operation and wanted a story, Major J. M. stated, 'To get them off my back, I told them we were recovering a downed weather balloon.' When the Major was asked for his opinion as to the identification of the fragments, he was certain they were not from a balloon, aircraft or rocket. He said that because of his technical background, he was certain that the metal and 'parchment' were not a part of any military aerial device known at that time. COMMENT: The retrieval of 'unusual' fragments in secrecy suggests they were a part of an unknown aerial device or craft. Manned, or not, the Major did not know. If there were entities aboard, no evidence was found. Had there been any bodies aboard, they would have been destroyed in what appeared to be an aerial explosion. It is significant to note in this instance the year 1947 - the year of the first great wave of UFO reports. Also, the area of this retrieval was in the path of some of the green fireball phenomena observed from 1947 to 1948. ABSTRACT 15 Following my lecture on April 6, 1978, before the Cincinnati Chapter of World Wings Association, a gathering of 50 or more pilots, I was approached by a highly reputable member of the association who knew of a 'person at work' who, in turn, knew about crashed UFOs and occupants. I promptly got in touch. On April 18, 1978, I talked with former Air Force Sergeant M. S. of the 97th Bomber Wing. He was prepared to relate the data from a high Intelligence source relative to the retrieval of an alien craft and humanoid occupants maintained at Wright-Patterson AFB. He also related a sobering story about a landing on an Air Force base, also from the same high source. M. S., while serving at Wright-Patterson in 1977, made close acquaintance with a Major General whose last name begins with the letter 'T,' who was assigned at Wright-Patterson for top security work in the Logistics Command. His rank and the nature of his work entitled him to a plane at his disposal at all times. The General's daughter, (name known to me) and M. S. were seriously lovelorn, and on that basis were frequently together. This allowed M. S. to be the guest at the General's home where he and the General had private chats. Both being endowed with the highest security ratings, they discussed UFOs. From General 'T,' my informant related details that were disclosed concerning a UFO that had crashed in the southwest region of the United States in 1957. At that time, General 'T,' was Lt. Colonel 'T.' According to the General, radar had confirmed that an alien craft had crossed the skies over the United States at great speed. It was tracked to the point of its crash. The area, as in most cases, was 'roped off,' and the National Guard summoned (with canines) for maximum security. From the damaged craft, four humanoid bodies were recovered with great difficulty because of the inability to penetrate the craft's metal structure. The deceased bodies were found badly burned, some parts so severely that certain features were indistinguishable. However, the suits they wore - appearing silver - were not damaged by the obvious intense heat endured inside the craft. Said the General, 'The suits were fused to the flesh.' M. S. said, according to the General, the four bodies were approximately 5 feet in height and were sent to Wright-Patterson AFB where General 'T' had seen them in a deep freeze morgue, kept at approximately 120 degrees below zero for preservation. The only other anatomical feature described by General 'T' was that the heads of the aliens were, by human standards, larger proportionately than the bodies. Facial features were erased by the heat factor. The craft? The General related that scientists assigned to the task of dismantling it ran into difficulty. To get inside, they concentrated in an area where a fissure or crack had resulted, probably from impact. Shipment (of the UFO) to Wright- Patterson, said the General, 'was by rail, using two military conveyance rocket cars, properly camouflaged and classified as 'rockets.' On another occasion, M. S. was a guest of General 'T' at his home. While alone, M. S. was shown a top Secret document concerning a landed UFO. The incident occurred at Nellis AFB, Nevada, in 1968, and M. S. expressed disbelief when he read the report. Stamped TOP SECRET, it read in part: 'Large UFO hovered over Nellis AFB for three days. Three small alien craft were observed separating (or being ejected) from parent craft. One landed on the Air Base grounds. Sent to greet the landed craft was a Colonel with security detachment properly armed. There was no mention of an attempt to assault the craft. While waiting for a sign of intent, a humanoid was observed to disembark from the UFO craft, which was described as 'short and stocky.' Then a beam of light was directed at the Colonel. The Colonel was instantly paralyzed, according to the report. Orders then came from the officer next in command for his troops of the security detachment to fire, but their weapons were mysteriously jammed. The Colonel was recovered and hospitalized. The only recall by the Colonel, as M. S. remembers from the report, was that he could rationalize the event only in terms of mathematics as though an attempt at communications was conducted in this manner. The UFO was observed to retreat to its parent craft and then departed. COMMENT: I made a check on General 'T' at Wright-Patterson. They had no entry on his secret assignment there. However, a check at another Air Base through the Accounting and Finance Section confirmed his existence. No address was released on grounds of Privacy Act. However, M. S. knows where the General was to make his residence after retirement. Making a further check on the authenticity of the General and his knowledge of secret UFO reports, I checked with another Intelligence source and obtained additional corroborative information concerning the Nellis AFB incident. ABSTRACT 16 'Your book, Situation Red, The UFO Siege, really did it,' said AK, calling me from California on June 19, 1978. 'It convinced me that I should tell my story to you about a UFO that landed, or had maybe crashed, at Ft. Riley, Kansas.' Needless to say, i was receptive to hear AK's story. He, of course, asked to keep his name confidential because he recalled a General's warning, who was on the scene of the landing, that he would have his 'expletives' shot off if he talked. The incident occurred on a crisp, cold night on December 10, 1964. At 2:00 a.m., AK, a PFC on guard duty at the Motor Pool, and three other Army personnel of the 1st Division on regular guard duty, were summoned by the Officer of the Day, Lt. H., to join him by vehicle to a remote area on the base described as a training area in Camp Forsyte, which is part of the Ft. Riley complex. On departure to this area, he was issued an extra clip for his M14 rifle. 'I was scared,' admitted AK. 'In fact, I'm trembling right now as I'm telling you this.' I told AK that I was aware of a number of UFO landings and crashes on or near military installations and that he could trust me regarding the confidentiality of his name. After driving a good distance, Lt. H. parked his vehicle alongside the road. He, AK and the other guards, were ordered to hike about a half mile across an open flat field. Before him, AK watched the searchlight beam from an overhead Huey helicopter playing down on the field. It was focused on a large round object resting on the ground. PFC AK and his comrades stood in shock. He remembers that he shouted, 'GOD DAMN, a Flying Saucer!' Already on the scene were about 10 Army personnel of various ranks, including a Major General. Promptly, AK was asked for his ID and given a direct order by the General to patrol the grounded craft by circling around it and to 'shoot anyone if they tried to force their way to the craft.' At this time, PFC AK was sharply admonished about keeping the incident secret. Comments AK, 'When I was in the Army, when a General told you something, you obey!' The lone Huey chopper continuously flew overhead while certain personnel on hand checked the object with instruments and maintained communication by field radio with head phones. Nearby, a 5-ton truck was parked with lights off. On two occasions, the Huey chopper flew over parts of the field, said AK, as though looking for other evidence. When the Huey was away, a 'deathly quiet' prevailed, he said. 'It was eerie!' Said AK on several occasions during his 2.5 hours of guard duty, he got close to the metallic craft. 'The air was much warmer when I got close.' he said. The grounded UFO, said AK, which had impacted into the soil and stood at a tilt, was approximately 35 to 48 feet in diameter and 12 to 18 feet in height. It was perfectly round, shaped like a hamburger bun. In the middle, or at the equator, of its smooth aluminum-like surface, was a black band made up of squares, each jutting out about ten inches. AK could not determine if the squares were windows or what purpose they served. The only protruding part on the UFO, said AK, was a fin-like device and beneath it an aperture which might have been an exhaust unit. Said AK, the UFO was not lighted. He sensed no vibrations from its power system and smelled no odors. 'It was dead,' he said. Asked about recovery of occupants from the craft, he replied, 'Sorry to disappoint you, but I was not aware of any life inside the craft, or if any bodies were taken out of it later.' The next morning, said AK, 'I had a headache, but this was probably caused by the excitement and fatigue.' AK said he heard from other sources on the Army base that UFOs were sighted in the area prior to the landing. He recalls no details. AK, on my request, sent me two drawings of the grounded UFO showing rear and front views. The drawings also show the Huey helicopter hovering over the UFO, which are used as Exhibits A and B below in this report. On June 18, 1978, AK drew for Leonard Stringfield the front view above and the rear view below of the Huey helicopter hovering over the "hamburger-shaped" UFO at Ft. Riley's Camp Forsyte, Kansas, in December 1964. COMMENT: PFC AK was unable to determine if the UFO had crashed or landed, but from his observation of the craft for 2.5 hours, he believed that it had probably malfunctioned and was immobilized. He was unable to learn more details about the incident from the local military base and too frightened by the General's threats to bring the matter up. With the presence of a helicopter and a large truck, it is my belief that the craft was hauled away in secrecy and perhaps with it, the occupants. I checked further with an Intelligence source who was 'aware' of this incident. Since my phone conversation with AK, I have received a tape from him recording his experience and a signed letter. The tape, Exhibit C, is available for public hearing during the MUFON Symposium." Part 5: Retrievals of the Third Kind - A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody © July 1978 by Leonard H. Stringfield "He observed nine deceased alien bodies preserved in deep freeze conditions under well-lighted, thick glass enclosures. ...The research area where the bodies were preserved was under heavy guard, inside and out. He was told while viewing the subjects that 30 bodies were held in preservation at that time in the Air Base." - S ource: Agent, Nike Missile Air Intelligence (ADCAP) Leonard H. Stringfield: "ABSTRACT 17 On June 29, 1978, my son-in-law, Jeffrey Sparks, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at St. Leo's College, Dade City, Florida, informed me that he had talked with a person who had witnessed the alien humanoids at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1966. According to my son-in-law, his contact holds a responsible position in a financial capacity with a private firm in Tampa and had formerly served in military Intelligence. He gave me the individual's name and where he could be reached. On July 5, 1978, I talked with Mr. JK at length concerning his functions in military Intelligence; what he had observed at Wright-Patterson, and many other aspects of crashed alien craft. He also made reference to the computer bank, or 'dump file' which contains secret information about UFOs dating back to 1948. JK, who served in Nike Missile Air Intelligence (ADCAP), related to me the following data: 1. He observed nine deceased alien bodies preserved in deep freeze conditions under well-lighted, thick glass enclosures. The bodies were short in stature, about four feet in height. They appeared, under the lighting, to be of grayish color in skin tone. The research area where the bodies were preserved was under heavy guard, inside and out. He was told while viewing the subjects that 30 bodies were held in preservation at that time in the Air Base. 2. He did not see firsthand alien craft stored at Wright-Patterson, but was told that such craft were on the base. He was also told that an alien craft was held at Langley AFB in Virginia and another at McDill AFB in Florida. 3. JK knew of three key areas in the 1960s where certain secret UFO operations were conducted other than at Wright-Patterson AFB. Bases cited were Langley, Avon Bombing Range - a part of the McDill AFB complex near Sebring, Florida; and at Seymour-Johnson, a Navy Training Center in Goldsboro, South Carolina. 4. At certain military bases, highly trained mobilized units were in a constant 'ready' state for dispatch to any area in the U. S. to recover downed or crashed UFOs. 5. During the Vietnam crisis, during JK's tenure of service (1966-1968), five crashes of UFOs occurred in the Tri-State area of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. There was one known incident of a retrieval of three alien bodies. During this latter incident, there occurred an alleged shooting with the alien forces by our military units. This was triggered by the uncertainty of the alien's intent. Hostility was presumed, said JK. The location or time of these incidents were not disclosed. 6. Said JK, 'Since 1948, secret information concerning UFO activity involving the U. S. military has been contained in a Computer Center at Wright-Patterson. At this base, a master file, written in computer language, is maintained with duplicate support backup files secreted at other military installations.' Said JK, 'Get the complete 'file dump,' both the master and the support backup files and you've got all the hidden UFO data.' COMMENT: Obviously, the UFO files available to the public at the National Archives in Washington, D. C., do not reveal the hard facts regarding UFO military cases. Concerning JK's disclosures relative to military units subject to dispatch to UFO retrieval areas, I have been aware from other military sources that special forces have been maintained for emergency situations such as UFO retrievals or other conditions, including riots. These special forces, known as 'Blue Berets' can operate secretly and effectively by using 'diversionary tactics' to prevent public interference. Such diversions include creating power blackouts. ABSTRACT 18 This abstract concerns limited biological data with Exhibits A and B which reliable informants have described concerning the alien humanoids held in institutions in the U. S. where special examinations were conducted. Because this information treats a sensitive area within the framework of secrecy such as the names of the medical centers, the identity of the informants will not be disclosed at this time. Data mentioned in a number of the previous abstracts have been correlated by me to establish only a general anatomical configuration of the alien beings. Needless to say, the general features of the alien are akin to Earth's Homo sapiens. That is to say, the alien has a head, torso, arms, hands and is bipedal. There, the likeness ends. From anonymous medical and military sources, the following composite or general data were obtained: 1. The approximate height of the alien humanoid is 3.5 to 4.5 feet tall. One source approximated 5 feet. 2. The head, by human standards, is large when compared with the size of the torso and limbs. (See drawing of head, Exhibit A.) 3. The facial features show a pair of eyes described variously as large, sunken or deep set, far apart or distended more than human; and slightly slanted, appearing 'Oriental' or 'Mongoloid.' 4. No ear lobes or flesh extending beyond apertures on each side of the head. 5. Nose is vague. Aperture or nares are indicated with slight protuberance. One, and two nares, have been mentioned. 6. Mouth is indicated as a small 'slit.' In some instances, no mouth described. Mouth appears not to function as a means for communication or as orifice for food ingestion. 7. Neck. Described as being thin; and in some instances, not being visible because of garment in that section of body. 8. Hair. Some observers describe the humanoids as hairless. Some say that the pate shows a slight fuzz. Bodies are described as hairless. 9. Torso. Small and thin fits the general description. In many instances, the body was observed wearing a garment. From medical authorities, no comment. No abdominal naval indicated. 10. Arms are described as long and thin and reaching down to the knee section. 11. Hands. Four fingers, no thumb. Two fingers appear longer than others. Some observers had seen fingernails; others without. A webbing effect between fingers was noted by three authoritative observers. (See drawing of hand, Exhibit B, and testimonial letter from Mr. Ted Phillips, Exhibit C. Phillips is specialist for MUFON and CUFOS in investigation of UFO trace evidence.) 12. No description available of legs or feet. 13. Skin description is NOT green. It is of rough texture and gray according to most observers. Some claim beige, tan, brown, or tannish or pinkish-gray and one said it looked almost 'bluish-gray' under deep freeze lights. In one instance, the bodies were charred to a dark brown. 14. Teeth unknown. No data from dental authorities. 15. Reproductive organs. This biological region is 'sensitive' - meaning 'secret.' One observer claims no male or female organs were identified. No genitalia. In my nonprofessional judgment, the absence of sexual organs suggests some of the aliens, and perhaps all, do not reproduce as do the Homo sapiens. Perhaps some of the bodies studied are produced by a system of cloning or other unknown means. 16. In some incidents of retrieval, the humanoids appear to be 'formed out of a mold,' or share identical biological characteristics. 17. Brain capacity. Unknown. 18. Blood. Liquid is prevalent, but not blood as we know it. 19. Sustenance for existence. No food or water intake is known. No food found on craft in one known retrieval. No alimentary canal or rectal area described. 20. Humanoid types. Unknown. Descriptive variations of anatomy might be no more diverse than those known among Earth Homo sapiens. Other alien types, reportedly varying in range from human to more grotesque configurations, are unknown to me. Speculatively, if these types exist, they might have their origins in other solar systems or have roots on different planets within one solar system. 21. I know of the names of two major medical centers in the eastern United States where continuing specialized intensive research is conducted on deceased alien bodies. Other hospitals where research reportedly has been conducted are in Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Southeastern and Western U.S.A. SUMMARY: It is beyond the scope of this paper to treat all the stories and rumors of stories still emerging to this writer, each alleging the occurrence of a UFO crash, with or without occupants, and its subsequent hush-hush military retrieval. As of July 20, 1978, for the record, I am aware of more than 50 sources who bear information relative to the subject of retrievals or storage of alien craft, and/or the deceased alien humanoids recovered from the craft. From this number, I have selected 18 of these sources whose testimony is reviewed in this paper. Most others lack sufficient data and a few have 'dried up,' so to speak, out of fear of military reprisal or public ridicule. Stories of long ago and as recently as 1977 clearly show that the U.S.A. is not the only territory in the world where UFOs and crews err in their tactical mission and crash to meet their doom. On foreign soil, we have a number of reported crashes. One allegedly occurred on the island of Spitzbergen in 1952, which was secretly recovered by Norwegian military authorities. Another UFO crash and retrieval report was contained in a special dispatch from the late columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, datelined May 23, 1955, London, England, INS, as follows. May 23, 1955 news report from Dorothy Kilgallen, London, England: "British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are convinced that these strange aerial objects are flying saucers from another planet. The source of my information is a British official of Cabinet rank. He told me: 'We believe, on the basis of our inquiries thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men - probably under four feet. It's frightening, but there's no denying that flying saucers are from another planet.' This official quoted scientists as saying a flying ship of this type could not have been constructed on Earth. The British Government, I learned, is withholding an official report on the flying saucer examination at this time, possibly because it does not want to frighten the public." Still other foreign reports in the past and of recent times tell of objects falling to Earth looking like fireballs, of objects exploding on impact. Many crashes have conventional explanations, but others do not, such as the circular craft that allegedly crashed in Nauta, Peru, on November 11, 1975. This object, according to Robert Barry, measured 12 feet, eight inches in diameter, which featured a strange metallic coating. Other reported crashes have occurred in Australia, May 1976; in Mexico, August 1977; and in Bolivia, May 1978. One report of a UFO crash, with recovered humanoid occupants, stands out above the others. Occurring in 1953, a hundred miles outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, the incident prompted investigation by a U. S. Air Force General. Larry Moyers, MUFON State Director of Ohio, uncovered the case and I recently had it confirmed from an Intelligence source. Perhaps the most significant of the reported foreign UFO crashes are those in the Communist world. My informant, Robert Barry, has learned from a reliable Intelligence source that Red China has two 'downed' UFOs, one of which landed in water without occupants; and two, possibly three, crashes and retrievals in Russia. In the U. S., reports of UFO crash and retrievals continue through the 1970s. One recent incident, for example, not yet substantiated, came to light from reliable sources not to be named at this time as our search for data continues. This incident, allegedly occurring in the Spring of 1977 in a rural area of southwestern Ohio, involved a landed craft, perhaps disabled, and a number of its occupants who engaged a military unit dispatched to the scene. Whatever happened during this Encounter of Third Kind, the sketchy data we have thus far, suggests violence. Reportedly, eleven members of the U. S. military detachment were either injured or killed. There was no word of alien casualties. The story is traceable through a handful of qualified researchers, then it stops at a dead end. Unreachable is a medical specialist supposedly called in by the military authorities to perform his expertise. In the Fall of 1977, I was approached by a Cincinnati researcher and told that he had learned from a source who worked at Wright-Patterson that in the Spring of 1977, military personnel had carried into a certain area on the base, several litters with little alien bodies from an undisclosed location. Perhaps in time, new data might appear to give credence to one or both of these possibly connected stories. Indeed, a pitched land battle between U. S. military and alien forces seems more like fantasy. But if true, then it would be reasonable to assume that the secrecy lid would come down hard on it! The effects from such a disclosure would certainly create more than a 'cultural shock.'" Part 6 - Final: Retrievals of the Third Kind - A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody © July 1978 by Leonard H. Stringfield "How would the public react to a sudden of cial disclosure of even the scantest details relevant to the humanoid which I have released in this paper? And the humanoid factor is just a small segment in the overall sobering UFO data." - Leonard H. String eld fi fi Leonard H. Stringfield: Completion of Status Report I, Final Summary and Conclusion. "Still another factor that has raised some questions is about the geographical location of UFO crashes. In the United States, especially in the 1950s, crashes have mainly been reported in the western or southwestern desert regions where military experimental installations abound. Logically, one might ask: Is the flying saucer a super secret U. S. weapon? But the negative answers are overwhelming. As point out earlier, UFO crashes have occurred on foreign soil beyond the range of the U. S. experimental aircraft. And, as known to all research, UFOs have repeatedly reconnoitered U. S. and foreign military installations and other sensitive areas where they sometimes act in a menacing manner. On the premise that humanoid aliens have been preserved in deep freeze conditions at Wright-Patterson AFB and at several medical centers for research, I believe it is safe to postulate that these entities associated with the UFO are physical and are not an apparition from another dimension. My point here is not to derogate the extra-dimensional entity, for there is much evidence to suggest that it, too, plays a part in the UFO mystery. It is beyond the scope of this paper to rationalize each and every kind of alien intruder during a live encounter. This subject belongs to my colleague, Ted Bloecher, who has made a scholarly study of this phase of research. In summary, the information treated in this paper, while it might seem provocative to the media and to the average researcher, does not, admittedly, constitute the final proof that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. But, indeed, if my data from reliable and diverse sources are received with an objective and unbiased mind, then the hypothesis surely is strengthened. It seems no matter how hard we might want to disbelieve the data presented in the foregoing abstracts, it will be difficult to explain away the correlative physical similarities of the recovered humanoids. Despite my long experience in UFO research, I must admit that I feel a sense of human uneasiness as vital data continue to reach me from responsible sources. As the pieces of the puzzle suddenly fall into place for me, each a corroborative clue, I realize - like a smack in the face - that our giant Intelligence community, both military and covert agencies, have been sitting atop a real Pandora's Box with some righteous cause. I am not condoning our Intelligence forces for their harsh and tricky actions or methods in suppressing the hidden facts for so many years, but I can now appreciate the problem they might have had in trying to find a reasonable way out of a dilemma to relate all the sobering data to a benighted world public. How would the public react to a sudden official disclosure of even the scantest details relevant to the humanoid which I have released in this paper? And, the humanoid factor is just a small segment in the overall sobering UFO data. And, there is still another sensitive aspect to consider: The intent of the UFO! It is my belief that our Intelligence community does not know the intent of the UFO. For our government to suddenly release only the known data in a major pronouncement could pose some new social risks. In my opinion, to release part of the UFO story, and be unable to define the UFO's intent could create an even greater concern in the unpredictable public mind. Perhaps the human mind is ready to hear the truth. Our minds have survived in many hot wars and a long cold war with the threat of nuclear destruction, plus all the social upheavals of the late 1960s and 1970s. I believe we are ready for the truth. Who are these mortals whose imperfect craft have crashed into the foreign soil of Earth? From what star system do they come where evolutionary life is not too different than our Earth's? Is there a missing link in our primeval pasts, or lost in our archaeological wonders which might reveal a human kinship? I do not profess to know the locked away secrets, or the final answer to the UFO mystery, nor do I know what other great secrets might be hidden away with the alleged retrieved craft and deceased aliens. Perhaps, President Jimmy Carter knows these secrets, or some of them. Thus, my plea, here and now, is addressed to the President of the United States to seriously review the testimony I have recorded in this paper. With his conscience as his guide, I trust that the President of the United States will tell this great nation and the world the truth about the greatest story of our time." Leonard H. Stringfield Cincinnati, Ohio July 29, 1978 APPENDIX OF DRAWINGS Exhibits A, B and C (designated pages as appeared in original Status Report I ):
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