Whistleblowers1978

Leonard Stringfield presents crash-retrieval claims at MUFON symposium

When: 29 Jul 1978
Where: Dayton, OH
Sources: 2 public sources

At the MUFON symposium in Dayton, researcher Leonard Stringfield presented 'Retrievals of the Third Kind', relaying claims from informants he kept anonymous that the U.S. military had recovered crashed craft and alien bodies. The claims were never verified.

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FirsthandRetrievals of the Third Kind (Stringfield's paper, presented July 29, 1978), in UFO Crash/Retrievals Status Reports I-VII (scan) (opens in a new tab)Leonard H. Stringfield (copy hosted by the Internet Archive) / 1978-07-29
Other1978 MUFON UFO Symposium proceedings, Dayton, Ohio, July 29 & 30, 1978 (catalog record, LCCN 78110056) (opens in a new tab)Library of Congress Catalog (Mutual UFO Network, Seguin, Tex., c1978) / 1978

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