Elizondo recounts Socorro, including other motorists, an explosion-like sound and a separate white butane-tank-shaped object, and compares Zamora's oval object to the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac

Record

Date

2024 (publication)

Claim or item

Elizondo recounts Socorro, including other motorists, an explosion-like sound and a separate white butane-tank-shaped object, and compares Zamora's oval object to the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac

Evidence category

Attributed narrative and morphology comparison (memoir)

Firsthand?

No

Publicly accessible?

Yes (book)

Independent corroboration

Other witnesses unnamed; no established link to Nimitz

Assessment

Analogy only; witness leads uncorroborated

Notes

Attributed claim by Luis Elizondo in Imminent (2024); chapter/page not yet supplied (Jason worked from a user-supplied paraphrase). Jason notes the propulsion descriptions of the two objects differ. Chunk M (2026-11-12): the leads are in the 1964 Blue Book file SRC-V99-091: p. 16 (Gallegos's butane-tank object, at La Madera, not Socorro), p. 72 (Kies and Kratzer of Dubuque named as witnesses), pp. 111 and 138 (the tourist who told Opal Grinder it flew over his car); Zamora's 'roar, not a blast' is in SRC-V99-090 pp. 9-10. The Tic Tac comparison remains analogy.

Linked case IDs

CASE-025