Sleuth Report: Greg Conners seeks an auditable record of Zorro Ranch travel inquiries
Snapshot
| Originating sleuth | Greg Conners, A Zorro Ranch Trick or Treat |
|---|---|
| Published | October 31, 2026, at 12:22 p.m. America/Denver |
| What is new | A county records update and a published letter asking the Survivors’ Truth Commission to document its requests and responses |
| Primary evidence checked | Two FAA email productions and selected pages of the commission’s official interim report |
| Review status | Provisional. Full accessible article read; complete county response packages and spreadsheet contents not reviewed. |
| Central distinction | A records request, a subpoena, a response and a completed journey are different events. |
| Unresolved | Current FAA compliance, complete attachment availability, county file contents and who traveled from airports to the ranch |
Important points and key takeaways
Greg Conners’s Halloween update moves his Zorro Ranch transport research toward a public accounting of records requests. The new contribution is a reported county release and the text of a letter seeking a current subpoena and compliance register. It does not present newly obtained helicopter passenger manifests.
Conners reports releases under Santa Fe County requests 26-1305 and 26-1318 on October 29 and 30. He also publishes his request that the commission identify what it sought, when it sought it and whether recipients complied.
That distinction matters. Land and tax records can document property history without identifying travelers. A flight plan can provide a route lead without establishing who boarded, whether a planned flight occurred or whether someone reached the ranch.
What the new county update establishes
The county records section describes more than 40 files, including land use projects and assessor material associated with parcel 960002643 and related parcels. It also reports searches under Cypress and Bradbury. These remain Conners’s descriptions of the response packages.
The complete county files, closure notices and request correspondence were not independently obtained for this report. Their count, date range, contents and completeness therefore remain provisional. A search result or filename is a route to a record, not a substitute for reading it.
The article’s annotated aerial images were inspected. Their route estimates and proposed feature identifications are the author’s interpretation of imagery, not authenticated evidence of a particular journey. No visitor identity is inferred from a road, building or landing surface.
Evidence appearances and exact verified references
EFTA00010702, page 1 preserves an October 4, 2021 forwarding header followed by the January 28, 2020 FAA message to FBI New York. Its attachment list names five spreadsheets covering N331JE, N491GM and N722JE. The two dates describe different steps in the email chain.
EFTA00027585, page 1 preserves the January 28 message under a separate production stamp. Both versions contain the five attachment names. This corroborates the existence of the email’s attachment list; it does not independently establish that every spreadsheet remains withheld from the entire public release.
One caution is explicit in both records. Although the filenames contain broader year ranges, the sender says the earliest information in the supplied batch dates from 2007. Researchers should not infer that a filename proves continuous coverage of every year it names.
EFTA00010702, page 2, stamped EFTA00010703 defines message types including arrival, departure, amendment and cancellation. The first page explains UTC time fields. Any recovered spreadsheets would need to be read by message type and context. A canceled plan is not a completed flight, and route data alone is not a passenger manifest.
The database text for both email productions was retrieved and checked. A previously retained five page PDF of EFTA00010702 was also read as text. Direct official PDF retrieval did not succeed during this review. The checked material is the correspondence, not the spreadsheet contents.
What the official commission record confirms
The commission’s official interim report, page 27 lists a June 12, 2026 Federal Aviation Administration subpoena with the response status recorded as no response. This verifies a historical entry in that report. It does not establish the FAA’s position on October 31.
Page 62 of the same report gives a total of 227 flights involving Albuquerque or Santa Fe and says 80 lack passenger information. Those are the commission’s reported counts, not a newly reproduced flight audit. Missing passenger entries do not establish empty aircraft or identify unknown passengers.
Page 14 states a December 31, 2026 final report deadline, subject to extension by the commission. Conners’s requested November 30 reply date is his proposed response timetable, not an independently verified agency commitment.
The official subpoena page links to a public document folder. Its extracted page text did not supply a comprehensive current compliance register. A document posting and a verified response status should be tracked separately.
The letter’s practical significance
Conners’s published letter seeks the helicopter spreadsheets, pilot logbooks, landing area filings, airport service records and estate transport records. It also asks for an account of the earlier FAA subpoena and the followup to a 1997 ranch flight lead. Delivery, receipt and any response to the letter were not independently authenticated.
Its strongest procedural idea is a register showing recipient, request date, records sought and compliance status. Such a register would make it possible to distinguish a record never requested from one requested but not produced, and a partial response from a complete one.
That register would still require qualifications. A recipient may report no responsive records, invoke a withholding basis or produce only part of a request. Each outcome needs its own documentation. Delay alone does not prove concealment.
EpsteinWiki’s Zorro Ranch construction records article provides related physical site context. Plans and property records help reconstruct the setting. They do not establish who used a particular route or what happened during a visit.
Uncertainties, open questions and survivor protections
Where are the five spreadsheet files, and what do their actual rows contain? Has the FAA answered the commission since the interim report? Do the new county files resolve a permit question, or only document the scope of a particular search? What independent records connect an airport arrival with onward travel?
The reported FOIA number 2027-00489, state request histories, county release details, pilot log totals and complete absence claims were not all independently authenticated here. The current lack of a retrieved attachment is not proof that nobody outside government has seen it.
Survivor codes and redactions must remain intact. A call for visitor information does not justify exposing survivors, private contact details or unrelated personal histories. Being named in correspondence, working at a property or appearing in a travel record does not establish wrongdoing.
Scope: the full accessible source article and its three supporting images were reviewed. Selected FAA correspondence and commission report pages were checked. The complete county packages, spreadsheet data, flight logs and present agency compliance were not audited. The report remains provisional.
Sources
- Greg Conners, A Zorro Ranch Trick or Treat: Original October 31 article, county update, published letter and annotated images.
- EFTA00010702: Pages 1 and 2, stamped EFTA00010702 and EFTA00010703; attachment list and message type explanations.
- EFTA00027585: Page 1; January 28, 2020 FAA message and attachment list.
- Official DOJ EFTA00010702 location: Direct retrieval unsuccessful during this review.
- New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission, official interim report: Version linked from the commission archive; pages 14, 27 and 62.
- Commission Meetings and Archives: Official route to the report version reviewed.
- Commission Subpoenas: Official public document folder link; current compliance not established.
- Epstein Files Research Database documentation: Text retrieval methods and metadata coverage limits.
- EpsteinWiki, Zorro Ranch Blueprints, Floor Plans, and Construction Records: Verified internal physical site context.