In the spring of 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission launched a series of powerful explosions at a Nevada test site, codenamed "Upshot Knothole". During the same time period, across the Arizona border, eyewitnesses reported seeing a fleet of eight flying saucers engaged in some sort of aerial combat.
According to the historian and former curator of the Harry Drew Museum, three unknown ships ended up on the ground near Kingman in May 1953.
Drew spent ten years studying old tapes and newspaper reports, finding the initial witnesses, and eventually compiled a story far more complex than the Roswell UFO crash story.
In his public lectures, Drew explains how Kingman's story first surfaced in 1973, many years before Roswell became widely known. The newspaper ran an article about a retired Nevada Proving Ground Engineer named Arthur Stansel, who revealed that in May 1953 he and the other crew members were moved from Indian Springs - now Creech Air Force Base - to a remote desert location in Arizona to rebuild a secret experimental ship that crashed. Stansel was a real person who believed that the downed ship was far beyond any known technology.
The crash site of the alleged UFO.
The UFO authors theorized that if Kingman's stories were true, then perhaps a nuclear test in Nevada led to an unknown ship being shot down from the sky near Kingman. Drew says the real reason was the three extremely powerful experimental radars installed in and around the city.
To this day, there are many seekers who have heard about this story from local residents; many come with metal detectors. But after the "military training" - according to the same residents, there is probably nothing left, only craters.
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