University Of Dade City, Florida
The University of Dade City, Florida is documented in UAP research as the location where Leonard Stringfield — the pioneering UFO crash retrieval researcher — met a former member of the alleged Blue Berets rapid-reaction unit during a public lecture. The encounter produced one of Stringfield's most detailed firsthand accounts of the Blue Berets' structure and operational history.
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Stringfield's Encounter with "Cam"
During the Dade City lecture, Stringfield was approached by an individual referred to by the pseudonym "Cam," who identified himself as a former Blue Beret. Cam provided Stringfield with the following details about the unit:
- The Blue Berets were housed at select military bases in a state of constant readiness, capable of rapid deployment to UFO crash or retrieval sites
- Members received specialized training for covert operations and diversionary tactics designed to secure crash sites and remove evidence without attracting public attention
- Cam had personally served with the unit in Vietnam, participating in covert behind-enemy-lines missions
- While Cam stated he had never personally participated in a UFO crash retrieval, he knew a fellow Blue Beret who had been directly involved in the recovery of a "big head" from an alien craft — an account consistent with reports of non-human biological entities recovered at crash sites
Significance
Stringfield documented Cam's testimony alongside accounts from other Blue Beret-connected sources, including Jeff Morse (who contacted Stringfield between 1985 and 1987) and multiple witnesses at the 1965 Kecksburg UFO Crash who described blue-bereted Air Force personnel arriving within minutes of the crash. Cam's account from Dade City is one of the earliest documented cases in Stringfield's research where a self-identified former member of the alleged unit discussed its UAP-specific mission profile. Stringfield published this account in his Crash Retrievals of the Third Kind: A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody.