A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files. His name is on the report about July 2, 1954, when an F-94C Starfire from Griffiss Air Force Base crashed into the Walesville intersection and killed four people on the ground. He also catalogued the America West Flight 564 sighting of 1995. In 2007 he turned to the Falkville Metal Man case of 1973. His verdict was blunt. He called it assuredly a hoax, probably not by Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw himself, but a prank aimed at any passerby.
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Walesville F-94C Crash During an Unknown-Aircraft Intercept
43Partially documented
NICAP researcher who compiled the case report
The Falkville Metal Man: Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw's Polaroids of a Silver Figure
29Thinly documented
NICAP researcher, author of the 2007 FI-4 report calling the case a hoax
America West Airlines Flight 564 (Cactus 564) sighting
26Thinly documented
NICAP, catalogued the case