Noah Torres
Noah Torres is an American author and UAP researcher specializing in crash retrieval cases, particularly those occurring in Mexico and the US-Mexico border region. He is best known for his investigative work on the 1974 Coyame, Mexico UFO Crash Retrieval, documented in his book Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, co-authored with Ruben Uriarte.
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Coyame Investigation
Torres and Uriarte conducted extensive field investigations in the Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico region, interviewing witnesses and searching for physical evidence. In 2012, at a festival in Presidio, Texas, Torres was approached by school teacher Johnny Chambers and her son, who reported seeing a strange fireball—a "big explosion in the sky"—on the Mexican side of the border near Coyame in summer 1974, followed within a day by military helicopters returning to the US from Mexico, including a large twin-rotor helicopter.
Torres and Uriarte also reported finding alleged aircraft debris near the supposed crash site. The authors hypothesized that the civilian aircraft involved in the mid-air collision with the UAP was likely a Cessna 180 light aircraft, which has a service ceiling of 17,700 feet, consistent with the object's last radar detection at 20,000 feet. They speculated the aircraft may have been engaged in covert low-altitude drug smuggling operations, given the prevalence of such operations along the US-Mexico border in 1974.
In their follow-up work, Torres and Uriarte referenced a Mexican newspaper article from El Heraldo de Chihuahua, dated October 27, 1974, detailing the death of a group of Mexican soldiers in the crash of a "military transport," as located by Mexican UFO researcher Alfonso Salazar.
Wikipedia Investigation
Torres attempted to reach out to Wikipedia user "Mercy 11," who in September 2012 radically altered the Wikipedia article on the Coyame incident, adding specific names of alleged US recovery team members and Mexican soldiers. Torres and Uriarte sought to verify the source of this information. Mercy 11 initially linked to a UFO Hunters episode titled "Unexplained Mexico's Roswell: The Coyame Crash," which did not contain the information. When pressed, Mercy 11 claimed to have seen the information on another site in a different browser window but failed to attribute it properly. Shortly after these 2013 correspondences, the entire Wikipedia page was deleted in 2014.
Other Work
Torres co-authored The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas Border (2008) with Ruben Uriarte, a comprehensive investigation into two distinct 1950s UAP crash cases near Del Rio, Texas — specifically Colonel Robert Willingham's 1955 account of a crash near Langtry, Texas and the separate 1950 El Indio, Texas incident from the alleged Majestic 12 Eisenhower Briefing Document. The book is drawn primarily from extensive personal interviews Torres conducted with Willingham near the end of his life. In a 2023 presentation on UAP crash retrieval cases, Torres reiterated claims about non-human bodies at the Willingham crash site — claims that contradict Willingham's own written testimony in the book, a contradiction UAP Gerb flags as a major credibility issue.