The Fort Dix Shooting

A four-foot grey being lay dead on the runway at McGuire Air Force Base, according to the account, after a military policeman from neighbouring Fort Dix shot it. The tellings say UFOs were tracked over McGuire through the night. The MP was chasing a low bluish-green oval object that hovered over his car when the being appeared. He fired and it fled across the boundary to die on the runway. Security police guarded the body until a C-141 from Wright-Patterson came to take it away. A planned briefing was cancelled and key personnel were transferred and told not to talk. The record adds that he fired five rounds into the being and one at the craft, which shot up to join eleven others. The body is said to have given off a smell of ammonia.

What is on the record

This is one teller's story. Its source is Stringfield's Status Report IV of 1985, which rests on an anonymous security-police informant. One of the archive's tellings names a former serviceman, Jeff Morse, as the man who told Stringfield. The record we checked does not name him.

An alleged Air Force incident form addressed to the Office of Special Investigations circulates with the story. Its authenticity has never been shown. Another telling has Lear citing an incident report. Major George A. Filer III later said he was on the base at the time, and he did not see the being. The case is also carried in Hall's UFO Evidence II. No official body has confirmed any part of it and no official explanation is on file.

Why it sits where it does

This case grades L3 on six resolved claimants from four videos on two channels. That count overstates the case. Four of the six are unnamed and two unnamed security policemen may well be one man. None of the tellings carries a first-hand witness to the shooting who can be identified and checked. The tier measures how often and how widely the story has been told. It is not a finding that it is true. Whether anyone was shot at Fort Dix is not resolved here.