Leonard Stringfield (1920–1994) was an American

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who took particular interest in crashed

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stories. He died in 1994. Stringfield was director of Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO), and published a monthly newsletter, ''ORBIT''. In 1957 he became public relations adviser for the civilian UFO group,

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(NICAP), under the direction of

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, a friend since 1953. From 1967 to 1969, Stringfield served as an "Early Warning Coordinator" for the

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. During the 1970s, he wrote a number of books about alleged recoveries of alien spaceships and alien bodies. In 1978, Stringfield served as UFO research adviser to

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. Privately, Stringfield worked as Director of Public Relations and Marketing Services for DuBois Chemicals, a division of Chemed Corporation, Cincinnati. He self-published "Status Reports" on alleged UFO "crash-retrievals" until his death. He died December 18, 1994 after a long battle with lung cancer.

Publications

* Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue: CRIFO Views the Status Quo: A Summary Report (1957) * ''Situation Red'', Fawcett Crest Books 1977 (PB), * Retrievals of the Third Kind: A case study of alleged UFOs and occupants in military custody (1978), presented as a speaker at the Ninth Annual MUFON Symposium in Dayton, Ohio, July, 1978. (Unofficially: Status Report I)Stringfield, Leonard H. UFO Crash/Retrievals: Amassing the Evidence: Status Report III. 1982: Self-published. * The UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome: Status report II: New Sources, New Data (1980) * UFO Crash/Retrievals: Amassing the Evidence: Status Report III (1982) * The fatal encounter at Ft. Dix-McGuire: A case study: Status Report IV (1985) * UFO Crash/Retrievals: Is the coverup lid lifting?: Status Report V (1989) * UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner sanctum : Status Report VI (1991) * UFO Crash/Retrievals: Search for Proof in a Hall of Mirrors: Status Report VII (1994)

References

External links

Who's Who in Ufology – Leonard Stringfield
nbsp;– archived NICAP page
1978 lecture by Stringfield
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stringfield, Leonard 1920 births 1994 deaths American UFO writers Ufologists Deaths from lung cancer 20th-century American non-fiction writers