Megalithic Marvels - The UFO Crash they don’t want you to know about

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

Most people have heard about the Roswell incident, but very few people seem to have ever heard about the 1953 Kingman UFO crash retrieval... Pulling from leaked emails, eye-witness accounts and the sworn testimony of mechanical engineer Arthur G. Stancil who worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, I piece together the details of this incredible event. A crashed UFO, deceased entities and a government cover-up that supposedly took place in the remote desert region near Kingman, Arizona - this is the story of the Kingman crash...JOIN ME ON A 2026 TOUR

So in this episode, we will go to Arizona, where I'm going to break down for you the 1953, what's known as the Kingman, Arizona UFO crash retrieval. This, I know it sounds crazy, UFO crash retrieval. This is something I've been more into of late. This is a crazy story. There's some pretty credible witnesses, and the details of this event are mind-blowing. You do not want to miss this. So make sure to subscribe and on.

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crash retrievals is something that I've gotten more into. I've always been open-minded concerning UFOs and UAPs, having had several sightings in my life going back to about 10 years old. And so being that I'm a nerd of history, when it comes to UFO crash retrievals, these stories really get me. And this one known as the Kingman UFO crash retrieval is one of the best that I've come across. Now let me set this up by saying that during the spring of 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense conducted a series of nuclear weapons tests

at a Nevada test site known as Operation Upshot Not Whole. And at 505 a.m. local time on May 19th, 1953, what they call, what they refer to as shot Harry was detonated atop a 300-foot tower at the Area 3 Nevada test site. And the explosion had a yield of 32 kilotons. The hairy shot came to be known as Dirty Harry because it resulted in the heaviest radioactive fallout contamination of downwinders, which is the civilians living downwind of the Nevada test site.

This was the worst fallout of any year. US Continental Test. Now, four separate trajectories were plotted for the radioactive debris cloud from the Harry Shot. And it's interesting to note when you look at the maps, the 30,000 foot trajectory known as C-track and the 40,000 foot trajectory known as D-Track both moved southward from Nevada over central Arizona during May. 19th and 20th, 1953, which is when about this supposed UFO crash took place.

Now, the public knew nothing about the Kingman crash at the event of the time, which basically seems to have remained a cover up for decades after. The earliest reference of a crash near Kingman, Arizona had been made to Mufon researcher Richard Hall in April 1964. The case of the Kingman UFO retrieval was then brought to the public attention by a guy named Raymond Fowler, who was known as a respected UFO researcher in June of 1973. That's when he started to write about it. Fowler stated that his information came from engineer named Arthur G. Stansel.

Dantzl signed a legal affidavit vouching to the honesty of his testimony, which was released by Ray Fowler in the UFO magazine April 1976. Now this engineer, Arthur G. Stansel, was employed by Air Material Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Stanzel was a mechanical engineer testing Air Force aircraft engines. Stanzel was also working for the Atomic Energy Commission and was designated as a project engineer on some of the atomic bomb tests referred to as Operation Upshot, Not Hole, which I had just told you about previously. So the location of these tests was at Frenchmen's flats at the southern end of the Nevada test site. Now, when you look into the Kingman UFO crash, the dating is always somewhere between May 18th and May 21st of 1953.

You'll see some different dates. but according to this source that I found the most trustworthy, it says on May 21st, 1953 Stanzel was called away by his boss and told to report for a special assignment at the Indian Springs Air Force Base where he joined about 15 other specialists. I've also read that there was upwards of 40 other engineers or specialists that were called in to observe this crash site. They were flown by military plane to Phoenix where they boarded a bus with blacked out windows and rode for an estimated four hours.

When they arrived at their destination somewhere southeast of Kingman, Arizona, they were met and briefed by an Air Force colonel who told them they were to investigate the crash of a super secret test vehicle. Stanzel and others on the bus were told not to speak to a. each other under any circumstances. Stanzel's job was to determine the forward and vertical velocities of the vehicle when it impacted in the sand. Stanzel was then escorted to the site by military police. Stanzel states that as he approached the site, there were these two military arc lights illuminating the saucer that was embedded into the sand and the earth. He said it was a

approximately 30 feet in diameter and about 14 feet tall. The saucer, again, was embedded in the sand about 20 inches. And after making measurements and later studying the crash site, Stanzel concluded that the craft had struck the ground at approximately 1,200 miles per hour, but it was strangely undamaged and definitely not human made. Stansell said, quote, the object was not built by anything, obviously, that we know about on Earth, end quote. Stanzel describes how the craft was constructed of this dull, silver-like metal, brushed aluminum. It had a series of slots going around the outer circumference of the disc,

and the scientists were told that the material the craft was made out of was classified. Apparently the craft featured a curved entry hatch, but it had no hinges whatsoever. When they opened the hatch, they saw inside an oval interior cabin with two swivel seats and many instruments. Now here's where it gets even stranger. Stanzel and others corroborate this, that they saw at least one body that had been recovered from the crash. And they never really used the word alien, but they say like humanoid. It was a humanoid that was about four feet tall with brownish skin wearing a silver metallic-like flight suit. And Stanzel also claimed to see the body.

There's some different variations of the story, whether Stanzel saw it in the craft. Others say he actually saw it in a tent on a medical. tent near the craft and the creature was supposedly wearing some kind of skull cap and again in a silver one-piece suit and I actually found this written testimony by Arthur Stanzel which he wrote for UFO researcher Raymond Fowler and it states quote this I Arthur Stanzel do solemnly swear that during a special assignment with the US Air Force on May 21st 1953 I assisted in the investigation of a crashed unknown object in the vicinity of Kingman, Arizona. The object was constructed of an unfamiliar metal, which resembled brush aluminum. It had impacted 20 inches into the sand without any sign of structural damage. It was oval and about 30 meters in diameter. An entrance way hatch had been vertically lowered and opened.

It was almost three and a half feet high and one and a half feet wide. I believe he's describing the hatch only there. He continues, quote, I was able to speak to someone on the team who did look inside only briefly. He saw two swivel seats, an oval cabin, and a lot of instruments and displays. A tent pitched near the object sheltered the dead remains of the only occupant of the craft. It was about four feet tall, dark brown complexion, had two eyes, two nostrils, two ears, and a small round mouth. It was clothed in a silvery metallic suit and wore a skull cap of the same type of material. It wore no face covering or helmet.

I certify the above statement is true by affixing my signature to this document this day of June 7, 1973, end quote. Now, in 1977, UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield received a supporting account from a National Guard member at Wright Patterson. The witness described a 1953 delivery from an Arizona crash site involving three bodies, each about four feet tall with large heads and brownish skin packed in dry ice. So researcher Stringfield believes that that came from this Kingman crash, so maybe there was not one entity but three. Now the scientists were only allowed to stay on the site for about one hour as a group, and then they were then quickly loaded back onto the bus and left.

Back on the bus, all the members apparently were made to sign what was called the Official Secrets Act and were warned not to ever discuss what they had seen with anyone. Now, a few years ago I saw a video by Richard Dolan, who's another UFO researcher whom I respect. He does things the right way. He was discussing the Kingman crash with a fellow researcher, and I gleaned this information from that video. Again, his YouTube channel is called Intelligent Disclosure.

And they were describing how, from their research, in a hurry to clear the crash site, the Army Corps of Engineers brought in an M-25 tank transporter with a long 18-wheeler tractor trailer behind it. They built this large wooden cradle and then propped up the craft onto it. They quickly headed toward the Hoover Dam where they then strung a huge cable across the Colorado River. They then brought a barge down the river and attempted to drive the tank transporter onto the barge. But get this.

As the transport started to cross the river, the cable snapped. And at one point, the outer wall of the disc literally hits the Hoover Dam. And eventually they somehow found another way to cross the river. Okay, this is so fascinating. Who wouldn't love to go with me to the Hoover Dam and look for a huge scrape on it where this craft might have scratched it? Now, according to researcher Harry Drew, they eventually bring the craft to a remote operating facility at Groom Lake. And again, this is in 1953.

This is before the U-2 spy planes first took flight in 1955. Now, this other researcher, Harry Drew, he interviewed somebody named Colonel Wendell Stevens, who was apparently also part of this crash retrieval operation for the Kingman crash. And this Wendell Stevens described to Harry Drew as seeing at the crash site a pyramidal-looking rock outcropping. I think he was describing a natural rock outcropping that kind of just went up in a pyramidal shape. And he says he saw this in the 1953. Well, according to Harry Drew, he later went to the site and claims that he literally found this pyramidal looking rock outcropping,

which was proof to him that this Colonel Wendell Stevens was telling the truth that he was at the operation, at the crash retrieval, which to him means there's a lot of teeth to this story, which I, of course, find very interesting, because now I want to go to Kingman, Arizona, I want to try to find this crash site and I want to take pictures of the pyramid looking rock outcropping because if it's truly there then again it seems like there's more credibility to this story in closing it's important to point out as many of you have heard with the latest age of disclosure just in July of 23 right 70 years after the alleged Kingman UFO incident

we have this guy named David Grush testifying before Congress about the reality of illegal special access programs being operated without official congressional oversight. And David Grush asserted that what he described as non-human biologics and recovered craft were in the possession of these black budget programs. that were operating from within the defense contractors to the United States. Many suspect Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and others. So again, very interesting. This whistleblower David Grush, who's worked all over in the Intel community and military, literally undersworn testimony, says there are black budget government programs that for decades have been reduced.

retrieving, recovered craft, you know what he called biologics, basically meaning, if you want to call them humanoid, entities, or aliens. They've been retrieving these and obviously taking them and disappearing them and studying. In my research, I came across what appears to be legitimate 2020 declassified emails between a senior government official name Christopher Mellon and some other official. And I'm literally going to read from you from these screenshots of these emails. Again, declassified. Some of them still have redactions. But they are talking about, it appears they're talking about the Kingman, Arizona, crash,

which if these emails are true of this, again, just brings even more validity to the story. Check this out. But at the top it's redacted and then it says, blank and I are making huge progress getting into the CR program. He plans to meet with you at some point. Then the next statement says the blank would be slack-jawed if they found out what we now know. Okay, those statements were made by the senior U.S. official. And then this guy named Christopher Millen replies and it's all redacted. and then the senior U.S. official replies to him and says this, quote,

right now we haven't gone that far back. We're dealing with the recovered UAP that landed in Kingman, Arizona in the 50s. We're vacuuming up info as blank gets read in. We now know the management structure and security control systems and ownership of the CR. We also know who recovers landed or crashed UAPs under and under what authorities. Oh, and by the way, when they say CR, I believe that means crash retrievals. We also know that a still highly classified memo by a secretary of the United States Air Force in the 1950s

is still in effect to maintain the cover on UAPs. So again, this exchange was released between a guy named Christopher Mellon and an unknown government employee working to access the UAP or crash retrieval program. This conversation occurred in 2020. So that is the 1953 Kingman, Arizona UFO crash retrieval story. What do you think? Do you think it really happened? Do you think it's all made up?

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