Betty Cash.
documentedsource_actorLandmark High-Strangeness Cases
[DOCUMENTED] Primary injured witness of the 1980 Cash-Landrum incident (age 51). Suffered the most severe symptoms - nausea, vomiting, blistering, hair loss - that her physician called 'classic radiation injury.' Lead plaintiff in the $20M FTCA suit; required hospitalization; died 1998.
Her documented medical condition is the evidentiary core of the case (distinct from the disputed identity/origin of the craft). Her injuries were acknowledged as genuine by the 1986 dismissing court, which nonetheless found no proof of government liability.