One extraordinary false claim about the Kingman UFO is that the military closed highway 40 ( Interstate 40) from Kingman to Barstow, California (206 miles) for several days just to move the Kingman UFO west from Kingman down Arizona highway 68 to the Colorado river and across to connect with Nevada highway 95. From there the UFO was supposedly transported north to Groom Lake (Area 51). This ridiculous story was first made known in a letter written in 1990 by a man stating he was a professional investigator. Everything about this story was made up, it has no basis in fact, and no one did the slightest research to check it out, so the story spread like wildfire until my research uncovered it as a fraud more than 20 years later. Highway 40 (today's Interstate 40) did not exist in 1953 and wouldn't for another 30 years! There was no bridge across the Colorado river off highway 68 in 1953. That instantly meant no one closed highway 40 to move a UFO and the actual route used had to be somewhere else. After much fieldwork I located the route and traveled it. A MUFON man in Pennsylvania claimed my comments about this were wrong, said he knew the story was first discussed in 1973, not when I first talked about it in 2008. But his story isn't true either, because highway 40 still didn't exist and there was no bridge before 1973. As an Historian my research uncovered significant false and misleading stories about the Kingman UFO. My findings reveal what is factually true and that has not set well with hucksters who deliberately created false and misleading stories meant to fool the public.  (Map - Mohave Museum)

Not exactly a freeway. This is what fieldwork is really all about. No sitting on your can playing on the internet and pretending to be an explorer and UFO hunter! This little trail goes out beyond cell phone range, no gas stations, no places to eat, no water, no people and often no road. You ultimately have to get out of your vehicle, gather up equipment and walk 8 or 9 miles through cougar and javelina country! "Finding the UFO Needle in the Hay Stack" is well worth the effort!

View from the Rocky Butte looking south across the Red Lake Desert and UFO flyway. This is the flight-path and direction the Red Lake UFO was headed when it fell from the sky and ricocheted off the Rocky Butte and crashed into the desert floor on May 22, 1953. The Hualapai Valley can be seen in the distant background.

Witness Interviews state a small military convoy stopped at nearby ranches, instructed 12 eye witnesses of UFO crash to return to homes and stay there! Retrieval team recovered UFO, swept site twice for debris.

During fieldwork halfway up the Rocky Butte a vertical solid-black object skimmed along the ground below toward my Jeep parked a mile away. This unknown symbol was marked on Jeep's sun-baked hood.