“Stansel told of a crash of a large,
disc-shaped object near Kingman, Arizona. He was part of a large team of specialists brought in to examine the
wreck and the body of one alien creature.”
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Two years before Jesse Marcel, Sr. told Stan Friedman and Len Stringfield about the UFO crash in the Roswell region, Ray Fowler published the article, What about Crashed UFOs? in Official UFO magazine. Although he touched on a couple of stories, the thrust of the article was told by “Fritz Weaver,” a pseudonym for a man later identified as Arthur Stansel. Stansel told of a crash of a large, disc-shaped object near |
By Kevin Randle |
he did have the opportunity to glimpse the alien pilot and the interior of the
craft. This was on May 21, 1953, according to his calendar and for more than
twenty years, he kept the secret.
In February 1973, Stansel told two teenagers who were interested in UFOs about
his adventure in Arizona. It wasn’t long before Ray Fowler, a respected UFO
researcher, learned about this sighting and went to interview Stansel, who not
only added a few new details, but produced his calendar from 1953 and signed a
statement attesting to the validity of his tale. Of course, that statement was
not witnessed by a notary, only by Fowler, and had no legal status as an
affidavit.
I had investigated the Kingman crash long ago and was unimpressed with it for
several reasons. Originally, there was only Arthur Stansel as the witness, no
real documentation for the crash, and a suggestion that Stansel, after he had
been drinking, told wild stories. There was a point when a second witness was
discovered, but her credibility was not very good and her daughter said that
her mother was a liar. You can read about some of that here:
Kingman UFO Crash
Kingman Rises from the Dead?
Kingman UFO Crash… Really?
Kingman UFO Crash Revisited
This latest flap began when Christopher Mellon, who had been a Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence released a redacted email
exchange he had with a person Mellon called a senior U.S. government member.
We were not provided with a name. That meant, of course, that we could not
verify that this source existed or if he had any inside knowledge about the
Kingman UFO crash. That email, with the critical information redacted and with
little in the way of useful information is seen here:
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The Mellon email that tells us nothing of value but does mention the recovered UAP from Kingman. |
Over the course of the years, we have been treated to many accounts of the
case, that began with Fowler’s article filled with direct quotes from Stansel.
I do have a copy of the complete report that Fowler filed with NICAP about his
rather comprehensive investigation. That includes a transcript of Jeff Young’s
initial interview with Stansel that ignited Fowler’s interview and report.
I’m not going to recapitulate that story because it has been told several
times. I used it in Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky, though my
assessment of the case was critical of the data. But this latest flap (which,
BTW, I think will impact on David Grusch’s UFO testimony, but that’s something
for another time), inspired me to revisit Kingman. I found information from
Fowler, in which he verified Stansel’s rather impressive credentials and
resume. There were some problems, which centered around his claim that he had
been a consultant for Project Blue Book. He originally suggested a rather
long-term association, but later told Fowler that it was short-lived. Stansel
suggested it lasted only a few days and was based on his examination of the
crashed off-world craft.
There is one important interview that seems to have been left out of this
whole tale. In a section of Fowler’s report entitled
A Man Who Made Contact, we learn some disturbing things about Arthur
Stansel. Fowler wrote, “On the next following pages I will explain the
fascinating tales of Mr. Arthur Stansel’s flying saucer contacts.”
That part of the interview, conducted by Jeff Young and witnessed by Paul
Chetham, began with the question, “Did you say that you had contacted beings
from other planets?”
His astonishing answer was, “Yes, but now we’re getting into things where
you’ll just have to take my word for it because I can’t produce it or prove
it.”
After a short discussion about a group who met regularly met to explore the
contacts with other worlds, and who Stansel said, “We were involved in the
usage of seances, we weren’t out to contact relatives, but we were out to
contact other things,” the questioning continued:
Q: Do you think that it’s possible
for a person to convey himself to any place on or of Earth by just using his
brain power?A: Yes. I’m convinced that’s true. I
know that can happen because I’ve done it…Q: Did you gradually or all of a
sudden receive contact with these extraterrestrials?A: We did this on many, many occasions
after about a year meeting once a week. We would contact beings, but we never
really knew what we were going to contact that particular Sunday night. On
many, many occasions we contacted beings from planets other than Earth.Q: Were these the same beings or
were these different beings each meeting.A: Sometimes they were the same, but
generally they were different.Q: Could you see them or visualize
them?A: Onetime we had an experiment, which
took place for about three weeks, in which we learned astral projection, in
which you project yourself to the point where the contact is…Q: That’s using your mind to
convey yourself?A: Right, using your mind.
Q: You actually conveyed yourself
to some beings?A: Yes, I did. As a matter I was the
only one who was able to go to that particular space craft which was many
light years away.Q: You were on the craft?
A: I was actually on it.
The questioning then turned to what he could see and how he interacted with
the beings on that craft, saying that it was some sort of prison ship. The
beings had been on it for a thousand years and had no control over it.
Q: Did you [Stansel] have a
physical feeling of being on the ship?A: Yes, very much so. It’s just like I
was sitting here.Q: Would you describe the inside
of the ship?A: Well, the furniture was different
than ours in the fact that it had no legs. It was as if it were suspended in
the air, but I remember checking for wires holding them up…Q: What were the colors in the
room?A: It was basically red and it seemed
to be generated by everything in the room. I saw no light bulbs, but the room
was dimly illuminated….Q: Were they short beings?
A: They were various heights. They
were short and tall, but I don’t remember seeing any fat beings.Q: Were they uniformed or did they
wear different types of clothes?A: They were uniformed in a way, but
they were in different colors.Q: Do you think that could have
signified a rank?A: That could be and another
interesting thing is that the dress of the people was no different between a
man and a woman and there were males and females.Q: Were the males in short hair
and the females in long hair?A: No, you couldn’t tell by that. You
could just tell by a woman’s bodily characteristics and facial features.
They discuss some emblems that were attached where we would have put shirt
pockets. Stansel said that one was in the shape of a leaf and was red against
a sort of blue glistening jerkin. There was another which was just a round
shape, probably three inches in diameter and it too was glistening.
With that line of questioning finished, the discussion went in another
direction. Young wondered if the prisoners had met people from other planets:
A: Yes, they had talked with many, but I was the first one actually projected.
They got pretty excited over my arrival, for they felt I was the savoir who
could get them back to their home planet or make communication with home
base.Q: Could you have projected
yourself back to their home world”A: I tried but I couldn’t. I think
they were beyond range.
They moved the discussion to the nature of the ship, meaning that it was some
sort of prison. Stansel mentioned these alien beings were complaining about
their incarceration. He then said:
They were complaining about being prisoners because they had so much to offer
their own civilization, but they had no way to get back to their civilization
except through some intermediary and they thought I could be that
intermediary. They had been conducting experiments, but they had been about a
thousand years on the ship, so that there had been many generations of these
people…
Other things that came out of this interview. He was told that there were
thousands of worlds “of intelligent occupation.” That line of questioning
ended at that point.
There was more of this sort of thing but then Stansel mentioned that of all
these alien worlds, there were none that were interested in Earth. Earth is
too overcrowded. Stansel said that they had contact many ships but the beings
weren’t interested in Earth.
Then, falling into what would become the David Jacobs theory or hybrid humans,
Stansel said, “In fact, there’s more than one extraterrestrial planet that
have implanted people here, but generally people don’t know it… they just
become part of our civilization.”
There was more of this sort of thing that reads like poor science fiction. At
one-point Stansel talked of switches and buttons on the ship but I think of
our touch screens that eliminate buttons and switches.
There were other disturbing things in the interview. Stansel, at one point
seemed to suggest that he had been a consultant to Project Blue Book for a
long time, but there is no record of it. He claimed to have seen a UFO during
one of the Atomic Tests, but later claimed he had only heard about it from
others.
Stansel did say that when he was interviewed by Young and Chetham, he had been
drinking. He’d had four martinis but when Fowler asked the boys about that,
they said Stansel had not been drinking. So, was Stansel drinking too much and
offered it as an excuse for the discrepancies between the interviews conducted
by Young and Fowler. Was the alleged drinking an excuse for telling
conflicting tales? Was the drinking the motivation in creating a tale of
extraterrestrial contact?
Here’s where we are on this. Stansel is the only man who was involved with the
crash in Kingman that had forty or more expert consultants to speak about
this. He suggested those on the bus were not allowed to talk during the
four-hour trip from Phoenix to the Kingman area, but when they arrived, they
were called by name as they were assigned specific jobs. Everything was
carefully orchestrated but Stansel managed to see the dead alien pilot and
caught a glimpse into the ship. Again, poor security.
There are many reasons that I simply don’t buy this tale and the later
interview with astral projection, visits to alien spaceships in flight and all
that other nonsense argues that Stansel was adept at spinning tales even he
had only had a beer or two and not several martinis.
What this means today, is that the leaked email from Christopher Mellon is
irrelevant. There may well have been an email exchange but it is, essentially
worthless. Mellon and his unidentified correspondent may well have exchanged
the emails about Kingman but that doesn’t prove there is any substance to the
report.
There is another element to this and that’s David Grush’s claim of twelve
craft in government hands. He may well have talked with Mellon, or someone
else who believes the Kingman tale, but without evidence, it is just, dare I
say it, a conspiracy theory. And that also suggests that some of Grush’s
claims are false, if this is one of the stories. Doesn’t mean that Grusch
invented any of the tales, but he has heard them from people he believes are
telling him the truth.
Finally, Len Stringfield added some commentary to the Kingman case in his 1978
MUFON Symposium paper on crash/retrievals, and later in his status reports. He
suggests the possibility of additional witnesses, but he failed to supply
names of any of those witnesses. I am following up on this and will report on
it later.
For those interested, I have reached out to a couple of other people who might
be able to shed some light on this, including some in the Kingman area. To
this point I have not heard back, but will update my analysis as it is
warranted by additional information.
Source: www.theufochronicles.com