Part 4: UFO Crash/Retrievals: Status Report III – Amassing The Evidence

This document, published by Linda Moulton Howe on March 13, 2005, serves as a digital reprint of Part 4 of Leonard H. Stringfield's 'Status Report III,' originally written in June 1982. The report is part of a series of seven status reports authored by Stringfield between 1978 and 1994 concerning UFO crash and retrieval incidents. The document highlights two specific accounts. The first is a brief testimony from a USAF Captain stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, who describes a forced landing at Gray Army Airfield. The pilot reported seeing armed military police and a section of land separating like 'giant sliding doors,' revealing a large corridor inside. The second account, identified as Case #230, details a June 1973 incident involving a Great Lakes Naval Base instructor identified as RK. According to RK, the US Navy shot down a UAP with a surface-to-air missile between Hawaii and the mainland. The object was reportedly tracked by a destroyer's radar, retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, shipped to Hawaii, and eventually transported by rail to the Great Lakes Naval Base. RK describes the object as a 30-foot-long, 10-foot-high, light silvery blue, tear-drop-shaped craft with a flange along its topside and no windows. He claims to have guarded the object while it was stored in a quonset hut in Chicago.