Socorro landing, Lonnie Zamora

First page of the Project Blue Book case file on the Socorro sighting
Project Blue Book's case file on Lonnie Zamora's April 1964 report Project Blue Book, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora reported a shiny oval object and a roaring flame in a gully, then found burned brush and ground marks. Blue Book chief Hector Quintanilla called it the best-documented case on record, and it stayed unidentified.

Sources

  1. OfficialThe Investigation of UFO's (Hector Quintanilla Jr., Studies in Intelligence Vol. 10 No. 4) (opens in a new tab)Central Intelligence Agency / 1966
  2. OfficialFBI and Project Blue Book files on the Socorro UFO landing, April 24, 1964 (opens in a new tab)FBI and U.S. Air Force (copies hosted by The Black Vault)

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