US · Combatant command
SOUTHCOM
US Southern Command
Ran Operation Laser Strike counter-narcotics from Howard AFB, Panama — the 1997 Peru deployment in which Marine Jonathan Weygandt says he encountered a crashed craft.
Files
Names
Jonathan Weygandt
USMC Stinger/Avenger gunner
Disclosure Project witness. Hume interviewed him for the 2023 Medium reconstruction of a March/April 1997 crash near Pucallpa, Peru: teardrop/egg object, DOE-jacketed recovery team, 15-hour interrogation. Weygandt still stands by the account.
MSgt Chris Diggons
USMC, MACG-28 command, Laser Strike
Named in Weygandt's chain of command at Pucallpa during the 1997 deployment Hume reconstructed.
Maj Bob Cole
USMC, MACG-28, Laser Strike
Named with Diggons as command at Pucallpa in Hume's Peru reconstruction.
Lt Col Gayla Briles
USAF, Iquitos / 'deep in the bush'
Hume identifies the USAF lieutenant colonel who received Weygandt after the CH-47 lift as Gayla Briles, likely at Iquitos.
SSgt Montealegre
USMC E6, Laser Strike
Weygandt named Montealegre, Sgt Allen and Sgt Adkins as the NCOs who took a team to a downed aircraft. Hume reached Montealegre; no reply on the UFO account.
Sgt Adkins
USMC E5, Laser Strike
Replied to Hume: confirmed Peru / Laser Strike and securing a crash — but of a friendly mapping aircraft in Oct/Nov 1996, not a 1997 UFO. Said he was not in-country in 1997.
Sgt Allen
USMC E5, Laser Strike
Contacted by Hume on three platforms; read the message, did not reply.
Gen. Wesley Clark
USSOUTHCOM, Operation Laser Strike
Command context for the 1997 Peru counter-narcotics deployment in Hume's reconstruction.
1stSgt Powell
USMC, Cherry Point (named by Weygandt)
Named in Weygandt's account as the first sergeant at Cherry Point whom Jonathan told after returning from Peru. Listed because Hume's Medium reconstruction treats him as a named Marine in the chain, not as a confirmed interview.