Raymond Fowler
Raymond E. Fowler was an American UFO researcher and author best known for documenting the account of Arthur Stansel Jr. and bringing the 1953 Kingman, Arizona Crash Retrieval to public attention in 1973 — five years before Jesse Marcel publicly disclosed his role in the Roswell UFO Crash cover-up. Fowler served as the witness who signed Stansel's sworn affidavit on June 7, 1973, giving the testimony a level of formal documentation rare in UAP disclosure cases. He published the account in his book Casebook of a UFO Investigator, which remains a primary source for the Kingman case.
| Role | UFO researcher; author; witness to sworn affidavit |
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Role in the Kingman Case
Stansel, who had previously disclosed only under the pseudonym "Fritz Werner," allowed Fowler to witness and record a sworn affidavit detailing his May 21, 1953, investigation of a crashed unknown craft near Kingman, Arizona. Fowler published the affidavit text and background details in 1973, bringing the case to the attention of the wider research community. He also attempted, without success, to obtain a statement from Ed Doll, the physicist Stansel identified as the project director who recruited him for the Kingman assignment — Doll had died by the time follow-up was possible.
Fowler later confirmed Stansel's true identity after Stansel permitted his real name to be published, and documented the pseudonym's origin: it was borrowed from a German rocket engineer.
Broader Work
Beyond the Kingman case, Fowler was a prolific investigator who documented numerous alleged UFO encounters. He is associated with investigations into the UFO abduction phenomenon and produced multiple books on unexplained aerial encounters, establishing himself as a methodical researcher within the American UAP research community of the 1970s through 1990s.