Person evidence · E-V99-088
Zamora reports breaking off a speeding-car pursuit after a roar and flame; sees a white/aluminum oval object with two landing supports, a red insignia and two figures in white; object lifts off with roar and blue/orange flame toward the hills
CorroboratedFirsthandDocumented, and an independent record is named; from direct involvement (claimed or documented). 1964-04-24 · Contemporaneous witness account (official case file)
Why this grade
CorroboratedFirsthand From the Evidence Log's Assessment ("Reported in case records; object not independently identified"), with an independent record named under Independent corroboration, and Firsthand? ("Yes"). Grade rules.
Record
- Date
- 1964-04-24
- Evidence category
- Contemporaneous witness account (official case file)
- Firsthand?
- Yes
- Publicly accessible?
- Yes (Blue Book scans)
- Independent corroboration
- Physical traces reported at site; Chavez arrived shortly afterwards (sequence unverified)
- Assessment
- Reported in case records; object not independently identified
- Notes
- Distinguish Zamora's observation from later artistic reconstructions. Signed original statement still to be transcribed
- Linked case IDs
- CASE-025
From the workbook: the Evidence Log sheet.