Arizona UFO Crash Theorists Get Fresh Ammo After Leaked Document Points Toward Government

A mysterious crash in Arizona has long been on the radar of UFO conspiracy theorists. The incident occurred just east of Kingman, with the aircraft slamming into the desert on May 1953, near Route 66, Irish Star reported. Recently, a leaked conversation between two government officials regarding the crash has rejuvenated UFO experts’ curiosity regarding the event.

The crash story has become a popular lore in the neighborhood, 12News reported. Some claim they had seen the alleged UFO flying above them that day, while others believe the whole thing is a made-up story.

Author Preston Dennett believes there is more to the story than the government has revealed to the public, 12News reported. Dennett has been investigating UFOs since 1986 and has studied the “Paradise Valley Crash” or “Kingman Crash,” in detail. For him, the Kingman incident is among the top five known UFO crashes.

According to Dennet, the crash is such an important occurrence, because it is very rare for an event like this to have so many witnesses, 12News reported. Such incidents are mostly shrouded in a blanket of speculation. “It’s very rare to have multiple witnesses, multiple sources of information, confirming an incident like this,” Dennett explained.

Experts over the years have proposed different theories regarding the reason why the alleged UFO came down, 12News reported. Alleged Nuclear tests, unstable gravitational field lines, or powerful radars around the area have been pointed out as causes for the fall of the aircraft.

Mohave Museum of History and Arts right off Route 66, has dedicated a section to the infamous UFO crash, 12News reported. The section exhibits items like old newspaper clippings, sketches, and even redacted government documents related to the event.

In the documents, a common occurrence is the name, Fritz Werner, 12News reported. “We now know him to be Arthur Stansel,” Dennett said. As per the author, Werner was a pseudonym Stansel, an Air Force engineer at the time was using to talk about the crash.

Allegedly, Stansel was one of the 40 people transferred to the crash site by the government, in buses with blacked-out windows. The purpose was to use their expertise to clear out the rubbles after the collision.

All the 40 members were allegedly told that it was a secret project, 12News reported. After reaching the site, the team reportedly found a corpse beside the aircraft. Considering the clothes on the dead body, experts assumed it was the pilot. The body was about four feet tall and wearing a silver metallic suit.

About 20 years after the crash, Stansel signed an affidavit reportedly confirming what he saw, 12News reported.

Almost 50 years after the crash, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon released a conversation he had regarding the crash with then-senior U.S. government member, 12News reported. In the conversation, it is confirmed that authorities took the remains of the Kingman UFO.

“These craft are scooped up, taken to various Air Force bases, scientific labs, and studied intensely, intently to figure out exactly what we can figure out about how they work,” Dennett said. The author believes that the public will never know the truth behind the crash if the government does not admit to it happening, in the first place.