Kingman, Arizona crash claim (1953)
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Hills near Kingman, Arizona
Desert hills outside Kingman. The 1953 retrieval story rests on a single pseudonymous witness interviewed in 1973 and names no exact site. Location photograph · context.
Renjishino · 2007 ↗CC BY 3.0Licence terms ↗Jesse Michels · 0:01:16
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 1:19:09
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAn engineer using the pseudonym "Fritz Werner" (Arthur Stancil) said in 1973 that in May 1953 he was bused with blacked-out windows to a site near Kingman, Arizona to assess a crashed metallic disc and saw a small body. The corpus retells the account and a guest calls the case real when asked to rate crash claims.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 35.1900, -114.0500 approximate · United States |
| Official response | No official body is known to have issued a finding on this report. |
Reported by
- arthur stancil witness Wright-Patterson contract engineer (as "Fritz Werner")
Investigated by
- Raymond Fowler researcher
Who spoke about it later
- Richard Dolan 1:19:09 The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) ▶ 2025
- Jesse Michels 0:01:16 Did Henry Kissinger Oversee A UFO Crash Retrieval Program? ▶ 2025
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Did Henry Kissinger Oversee A UFO Crash Retrieval Program? 17 April 2025
- 0:01:16 ▶ Jesse Michels
He was flown to Phoenix and transported on a bus with blacked out windows to a classified location near Kingman, [music] Arizona. They were told a secret test vehicle
- 0:01:16 ▶ interview
- 0:01:16 ▶ Jesse Michels
The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) 28 June 2025
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Kingman, Arizona crash claim (1953), Roswell incident. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:01:16 Did Henry Kissinger Oversee A UFO Crash Retrieval Program? · Jesse Michels ▶
He was flown to Phoenix and transported on a bus with blacked out windows to a classified location near Kingman, [music] Arizona. They were told a secret test vehicle
- 1:19:09 The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) ▶
Roswell. Oh, real. Uh Kingman. Yes, real. Um Kexburg. Yep.
- Kingman UFO crash