An eyewitness is a person who sees or observes an event happening with their own eyes. They directly witness or experience something and can provide firsthand information about what they saw. Full definition
It is worse, so we expect that the system will treat it with the seriousness that it requires, but as it turns out, all we are left with is feeling high and dry,» he said on Eyewitness News on Thursday. (ghanapoliticsonline.com)
Everything indicates that Paul himself interpreted the lightning - struck encounter with the resurrected Lord on the way to Damascus as an appearance which links his experience to the chain of eyewitness testimonies of the life of Jesus and of the resurrection (Acts 22:14, 15; 26:15 - 20). (religion-online.org)