Evidence Log · E-V99-092
Maj. Hector Quintanilla allegedly called Socorro his most puzzling case
UnverifiedUndated (retrospective) · Attributed remark
Record
- Date
- Undated (retrospective)
- Claim or item
- Maj. Hector Quintanilla allegedly called Socorro his most puzzling case
- 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
Why this grade
Unverified From the Evidence Log's Assessment ("Original audience, date and wording unverified"). Grade rules.