Person · Registry ID 093
Lt. Sam Lopez (reported as Lieutenant)
Not independently verified
Rank Lieutenant, USN (reported; service record unverified) Reported1 position on the chart1 evidence record
Positions on the chart (1)
- Navy Aviator (reported as Lieutenant) Unverified
Registry record
- Past roles
- US Navy aviator (service record and assignment unverified)
- Credentials
- Reported as Lieutenant in user account of Stratton memoir
- UAP involvement
- Named by Stratton as alleged pilot in Dec 13 2014 Roosevelt-era close-pass incident
- Principal disclosures
- Reported unidentified object passed between aircraft flown by Lopez and John Hartley
- Evidence contributed
- Secondhand published account; no original flight record or direct statement verified
- Knowledge type
- Attributed firsthand participant; source is secondhand
- Corroboration
- No independent confirmation yet of identity, rank at time, flight assignment or event
- Assessment
- Research lead; do not classify as independently verified eyewitness
- Rank source
- People Registry (reported)
- Last reviewed
- 2026-11-02
Evidence (1)
- Reported close-pass encounter between two Navy aircraft (Lopez/Hartley) UnverifiedSecondhand