Cristina Gomez: Robert Martinez's White Sands client and the missing pilots (from Reality Check)

Cristina Gomez's recap, uploaded 10 November 2026, of Ross Coulthart's Reality Check interview with retired lawyer Robert Martinez, which aired on 27 October 2026. She retells his late client's account of Holloman interceptors lost chasing craft over White Sands, the empty ejection seat and a false return-to-base order heard by three pilots, and Martinez's own account of the Espionage Act fax, Rep. Steve Schiff's FOIA requests, the client's death, the stolen file, the crash and the Schiff file. Every claim is already on file in episode/reality-check-2026-10-martinez; she adds no new primary.

Leads to follow

• Alan Diehl's Time piece: Gomez dates it 1995 [3:28], the Reality Check record says 1996. Check the Time Vault.

Notes

• She calls it 'a new interview'; it aired on 27 Oct 2026.
• Caption fixes: 'Hullman' is Holloman; 'Kirkland' is Kirtland; 'Alan Dell' is Alan Diehl.
• Checked and correct: Schiff died on 25 Mar 1998 aged 51 (born 18 Mar 1947); the GAO Roswell report came in July 1995 (document/gao-roswell-report-1995).
• Her 'drunk driver hit his car from the side' matches the T-bone account on file.