Earl Zimmerman affidavit
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Contents 7
| Date | 2 November 1993 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic) |
| People | Earl Zimmerman, Roger Ramey, John Petersen |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 117 |
| Year | 1993 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1993 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Earl L. Zimmerman, a radio operator at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947, signed an affidavit on 2 November 1993 describing rumours of a flying saucer on the base that summer and later conversations with meteor expert Lincoln LaPaz.[1]
Roswell
Zimmerman said he arrived at Roswell around March 1947 as a high-speed code radio operator and moonlighted as a bartender in the officers' club. That summer he heard many rumours about flying saucers, including one about investigating the discovery of a saucer under the cover of a plane crash investigation. He said he saw Eighth Air Force commander Gen. Roger Ramey in the club several times, on a couple of occasions with Charles Lindbergh, and heard they were there because of the "flying saucer business". He also recalled pointing out a visiting Counter Intelligence Corps agent to base commander Col. William Blanchard.[1]
Lincoln LaPaz
In early 1949 Zimmerman transferred to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in Albuquerque and worked with Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico on a months-long sky-watching project on Sandia Peak, taking long exposures because the Air Force was concerned about something in the night sky over Los Alamos. He said LaPaz told him he had been involved in investigating the thing found near Roswell, and mentioned an area where the ground had turned light blue.[1]
Assessment
Zimmerman did not claim to have seen debris or bodies. Lindbergh's presence at Roswell in 1947 is not confirmed in other records. The affidavit was published by researcher Karl Pflock in Roswell in Perspective (1994).[1][2]
People and topics
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Earl Zimmerman — Roswell radio operator who signed a 1993 affidavit.
- Roswell Army Air Field — The bomber base at Roswell, home of the 509th Bomb Group in 1947.
- Roger Ramey — Eighth Air Force commander who presented the Roswell balloon in 1947.
- Roswell — The New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
- John Petersen — Futurist who founded the Arlington Institute.
On the Timeline
- Richard Weaver on MJ-12 (1993) (12 October 1993) — An Air Force colonel calls MJ-12 and its documents bogus but can't say how that was decided.
- Dan Sherman's transfer papers (December 1993) — Dan Sherman provides transfer papers he says relate to Project Preserve Destiny.
See every 1993 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Affidavit of Earl L. Zimmerman (2 Nov 1993), RoswellProof · roswellproof.com · archived copy
- Roswell incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Roswell witness file: Earl Zimmerman — Patrick Gross · ufology.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- roswellproof.com · roswellproof.com · archived copy
- aviationpros.com · aviationpros.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Kirtland Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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