Raymond E. Fowler and the 1953 Kingman crash-retrieval account (Geldreich tweet + source, 2024)
Source: X post by Richard Geldreich (@richgel999), 2024-08-09 (~3k views). It cites a scanned excerpt (a book/article page, shown in the post) and links a 1986 Pursuit (SITU / Ivan Sanderson) magazine PDF via the afu.se archive. URL: https://x.com/i/status/1821794036782338107 ; cited PDF: https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Pursuit%20-%20SITU%20(Sanderson)/Pursuit%20-%20No%2076%20-%20Vol%2019%20No%204%20-%201986.pdf Captured: 2026-07-01. No relation to James Fowler: this is Raymond E. Fowler (1933-2022) — ex-US Air Force Security Service, past NICAP chairman, MUFON investigator and author — not James Fowler the Skywatcher technologist. Same surname, different people. See the companion clip raymond-fowler-mclaughlin-egg-ufo-1987. What this is: a sourced historical claim that Raymond Fowler was the investigator who brought the 1953 Kingman, Arizona crash-retrieval account to wider awareness. Per the excerpt, Fowler (former USAF Security Service; past NICAP chairman) obtained and published the affidavit of “Fritz Werner” — the pseudonym of engineer Arthur G. Stansel — describing a recovered disc near Kingman around 21 May 1953; the account appears in Fowler’s book “Casebook of a UFO Investigator.” Geldreich’s framing: “The ex-military/intel people kept nudging forward crash retrieval awareness each time it stalled out, over the decades.” Tweet, verbatim: “It was an ex-US Air Force Security Service member, Raymond Fowler, who made the world aware of the 1953 Kingman, AZ crash retrieval. The ex-military/intel people kept nudging forward crash retrieval awareness each time it stalled out, over the decades.” Primary in base: the full documentary testimony of Fowler and the eyewitness (Stancil / “Fritz Werner”) is captured at fowler-stancil-kingman-1953-crash-testimony. Base connection: the 1953 Kingman crash is part of the crash-retrieval lineage the base already tracks — it appears in Mellon’s 2024 Signal screenshot (“the 1953 Kingman crash as real and recovered”) relayed by Gerb, and in Gerb’s own long-form work. Raymond Fowler is the mid-century origin point of that awareness. Weight: a historical attribution, well-grounded in UFO-research history (Fowler did investigate and publish the Stansel/Werner Kingman affidavit); the underlying crash claim itself rests on a single pseudonymous engineer’s affidavit and is not independently established.