Elizondo writes that Hal Puthoff told him, inside a SCIF, that Roswell was a real UAP crash

Record

Date

2024 (publication); conversation date not given

Evidence category

Attributed secondhand allegation (memoir)

Firsthand?

No - Elizondo reporting Puthoff's statement

Publicly accessible?

Yes (book)

Independent corroboration

None located; Puthoff's own statement and its basis not found

Assessment

Attributed; not independently verified

Notes

Attributed claim by Luis Elizondo in Imminent (2024); chapter/page not yet supplied (Jason worked from a user-supplied paraphrase). Date, facility and basis of Puthoff's knowledge unknown. Jason also flags that the book does not separate what came from Puthoff from what Elizondo learned later. Chunk M search (2026-11-12): Elizondo's sworn November 2024 House testimony does not mention it, and no file hosted on this site does either. No public statement by Puthoff confirming or denying the conversation was found. The Air Force's 1994 Roswell report on this site concerns the Mogul balloon project, not two crash sites, a test-range EMP, a secrecy playbook or the Rosenberg executions. Nothing independent of Imminent. Flag stays.

Linked case IDs

CASE-003