Leonard Stringfield’s Status Report at the 1978 MUFON Symposium
In this groundbreaking presentation from the 1978 MUFON Symposium, respected UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield unveiled his first Status Report—a chilling and controversial collection of eyewitness testimonies and military insider accounts detailing secret UFO crash retrievals and the recovery of non-human bodies. Drawing from confidential sources and firsthand interviews, Stringfield exposed what he believed to be one of the most tightly guarded secrets in U.S. history—sparking a wave of intrigue, backlash, and an enduring legacy in UFO research.
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free, when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. Leonard Stringfield's Status Report at the 1978 MUFON Symposium by Charles Lear.
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Just before Stanton Friedman got Roswell fever, one of the earliest saucer researchers, Leonard Stringfield, was hard at work researching and investigating reports that involved military recovery of crashed flying saucers and alien bodies.
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He presented the results of his work in the form of a paper titled Retrievals of the Third Kind at the July 28, 1978 MUFON Symposium.
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A three-part series by Stringfield based on that paper was published under the same title in Volume 25, Numbers 4, 5, and 6 of the British magazine Flying Saucer Review, starting with the July-August 1979 issue.
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Stringfield begins his paper by presenting the facts that the world Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting MysteriousRadio.com.
