Arthur G. Stansel was a real engineer whose background broadly matched the technical role he claimed to have performed at an alleged May 1953 recovery near Kingman, Arizona. In 1973, under the pseudonym “Fritz Werner,” he signed an affidavit describing an apparently undamaged metallic object and one dead occupant. That affidavit is not proof. It was written twenty years after the alleged event; Stansel’s earlier account contained serious contradictions; and no travel orders, recovery records,...

RT @AmericanALCHMY: Sunday Read from the Substack Archives: In May 1953, an engineer named Arthur Stansel was blindfolded, driven for hour…

RT @AmericanALCHMY: Sunday Read from the Substack Archives: In May 1953, an engineer named Arthur Stansel was blindfolded, driven for hour…

RT @AmericanALCHMY: Sunday Read from the Substack Archives: In May 1953, an engineer named Arthur Stansel was blindfolded, driven for hour…

Sunday Read from the Substack Archives: In May 1953, an engineer named Arthur Stansel was blindfolded, driven for hours, and brought to a guarded site near Kingman, Arizona. What he described seeing there, a thirty-foot oval craft and the body of a four-foot humanoid in a silver suit, became part of #UFO folklore. Our investigation confirms Stansel was exactly who he said he was: a decorated WWII veteran with three Purple Hearts, a real Wright-Patterson engineer from 1949 to 1959, later an Ap...

Found this short movie on YouTube yesterday. It looks like a decent dramatization of the 1953 Kingman Arizona crash as reported by first-hand witness Arthur Stansel. Time: 1953 Location: Kingman, Arizona