Case file · Retrieval claim
The 1945 San Antonio, New Mexico crash story
Reme Baca and Jose Padilla said that on 16 August 1945, aged seven and nine, they found an avocado-shaped craft and small moving figures in a debris field near San Antonio, New Mexico, a month after the Trinity atomic test nearby.
1945 CE · 33.92, -106.87 · status: claim
The account
The two first published it in 2003 and in a 2011 memoir; Jacques Vallée and Paola Harris made it the subject of 'Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret' (2021).
The sceptical view
There is no contemporary record. Investigators have found contradictions between the men's versions, and both have been accused of embellishing their life stories.