Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens passes at 87
Posted by Maureen Elsberry on September 8, 2010 · 3 Comments
Wendelle Stevens (image credit: Maritza Keefe)
UFO research pioneer, Wendelle Stevens passed today at 4:44 pm in Tucson, Arizona of respiratory failure.
Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens was one of the world’s best known UFO researchers. Born in 1923 in Round Prairie, Minn., he enlisted in 1941 in the US Army and was transferred to the Air Corps in1942. He served in the Pacific Theater during World War II and subsequently in a classified project in Alaska to photograph and map the Arctic land and sea area, where the data collecting equipment onboard B-29s detected UFOs. Stevens also served as US Air Attaché in South America. He retired from the USAF in 1963 and worked for Hamilton Aircraft until 1972.
Wendelle Stevens was actively involved in ufology for 54 years, first as Director of Investigations for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in Tucson, Ariz., where he retired. He amassed one of the largest collections of UFO photos and investigated a number of contact cases, published in more than 22 books. His most famous one was the Billy Meier case in Switzerland.
In Dec. 1997 he received an award for lifetime achievement at the First World UFO Forum in Brazilia, capital of Brazil. He was a founder and Director of the International UFO Congress and recently transferred his extensive photo collection, library and archives to Open Minds Production.
Wendelle Stevens as a Major at the Wright Air Development Center in Dayton, Ohio.
We will be posting additional stories, photos, and information about Wendelle’s extraordinary UFO research career over the next few days.
Maureen Elsberry is the Marketing Director, Associate Producer for Open Minds Radio, and Co-organizer of Open Minds Events. She is also a contributing writer for OpenMinds.tv and Open Minds magazine and the host of the Open Minds Update UFO news show. With a degree in Journalism and Media Production, Maureen has spent over 7 years working in Internet Media, Marketing and Radio. She now spends her time investigating, reporting and spreading news related to the UFO phenomenon. Follow Maureen on Twitter: @maureenelsberry
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hello andy from scotland i have always had huge respect for wendelle stevens he will be a huge loss
to his family my deep thoughts are with them also his close friends like bob dean another man i respect
hes also a huge loss to the ufo subject but my god did this man do everything for this subject he also opened
the eyes & minds of many people for that wendelle thank u sir…
we have another bright star in our sky tonight thats wendelle for me he was a star right here on this earth
god bless u wendelle sleep well…. andy
I am Manuel…i visited Tayos cave in 2010..and I am researcher about Crespi Collection ..I maintain wmail-correspondence with Mr. Stevens (sorry, I know only now about his death)…He gave me some photos on Crespì Collection…but the timelife stop us…
Wendelle C. Stevens, I was hurrying up to see you. I looked for you. I did not know how that can be done. I had wanted us to know each other. I am sending you my message. You know many flying apparatuses. In drafts, I made the flying apparatus with vertical take-off and landing. Its shape is a disc. I named it “Flyton”. I made an internal combustion engine without pistons, for it. I named this engine an Internal Combustion Turbine – “ICT”. This apparatus must be very maneuverable and powerful. It can be a good tool in communicating with the UFO. Your friends will continue your work. We know little about life. I think you will always be with your friends. …Danila