Summary

Leonard Stringfield was a pioneering UAP researcher who spent 16 years documenting alleged crash retrieval cases through a series of seven self-published 'Status Reports' (1978-1994), ultimately compiling testimony from over 100 sources including military personnel, medical professionals, and government contractors who claimed firsthand knowledge of recovered craft and bodies. His systematic methodology of protecting source anonymity while cataloging testimony established the template for crash retrieval research and influenced every subsequent researcher in this field.

Roles

• -Director, Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO, 1954-1957)
• -Author - UFO Crash/Retrievals Status Reports I-VII (1978-1994)
• -Board Member, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)
• -U.S. Air Force Consultant on UFO Reports (1950s)
• -Public Relations Director, DuBois Chemicals, Cincinnati

Organizations

Education

• -B.A., Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1942

Early Career

• -Served as a U.S. Army Air Corps enlisted man during World War II (1942-1945)
• -Had a personal UFO sighting in August 1945 while aboard a military transport near Japan - three bright objects caused engine failure before departing
• -Founded CRIFO (Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects) in Cincinnati in 1954, which grew to become one of the largest civilian UFO organizations of the 1950s
• -Published the CRIFO newsletter 'Orbit', which reached a circulation of over 2,000 by 1955
• -Was appointed as a UFO reporting consultant to the U.S. Air Defense Command's Filter Center in Cincinnati in the mid-1950s

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