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Person evidence · E-V99-092

Maj. Hector Quintanilla allegedly called Socorro his most puzzling case

UnverifiedMarked unverified in the registry. Undated (retrospective) · Attributed remark

Why this grade

Unverified From the Evidence Log's Assessment ("Original audience, date and wording unverified"). Grade rules.

Record

Date
Undated (retrospective)
Evidence category
Attributed remark
Firsthand?
Unknown
Publicly accessible?
No original located
Independent corroboration
Retrospective quotations only
Assessment
Original audience, date and wording unverified
Notes
Find a first-person source. Bounded search: not in the Blue Book case file (hosted). Quintanilla's 1974 manuscript 'UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma' (his own copyright, so linked, not hosted) says of Zamora 'He was puzzled by what he saw, and frankly, so am I' and calls Socorro 'the best documented case on record'. The words 'most puzzling' do not appear in it (chunk F, 2026-11-12)
Linked case IDs
CASE-025

From the workbook: the Evidence Log sheet.