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42 many years and was best known for his book Saucer Post 3-0 Blue, which recounted his experiences as a civilian volunteer ina U.S. Air Force UFO-tracking network. He was regarded as a methodical, reliable investigator who measured his words and protected his sources. He was about to feel the glare of a not- entirely-welcome spotlight. What distinguished Stringfield from the others who had en- countered stories of UFO crashes was his eventual willingness to gather up these orphans who had been rejected by the family of otherwise courageous UFO investigators. Convinced that something of value lay within the hard-to-believe and harder- to-verify crash reports, he went at it with a vengeance. While writing his second book, Situation Red, the UFO Siege, he had begun to focus on rumors of crashes, which he first referred to as Retrievals of the Third Kind and later as simply Crash/Retrievals or just C/R. Publication of the book in 1977 brought additional leads to C/R events, and by 1978 he was ready to go public in a big way. Stringfield spoke at the Dayton MUFON meeting for two hours, detailing one C/R after another, to the amazement of the hundreds of veteran UFO investigators who had shunned this subcategory of reports prior to the unexpected outpouring of information. Much of the between-lectures chatter centered around Stringfield's revelations, and whether he was unusually perceptive or unusually gullible. Following his talk, the material was published in amended form in the monthly MUFON journal as a series of abstracts, the purpose being to encourage others to come forth with their own C/R experiences and to feed Len additional information. The abstracts, discussed: 1. 1948 crash in Mexico, from military sources. 2. 1952 crash in the California desert, which included reports of a damaged UFO being trucked in to Wright- Patterson AFB. 3. 1952 arrival of wreckage at Wright-Patterson AFB, from an ex-guard. CRASH AT CORONA