Lonnie Zamora Socorro UFO Incident

Lonnie Zamora Socorro UFO Incident –

The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico, when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring blue and orange flame. Zamora’s claims were subject to attention from news media and UFO investigators and organizations, and the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book listed the case as “unknown”. Conventional explanations of Zamora’s claims include a lunar lander test by White Sands Missile Range and a hoax by New Mexico Tech students. – wikipedia synopsis

 

THE BEST UFO CASE EVER? A REVIEW AND UPDATE OF THE SOCORRO INCIDENT
BY PATRICK HUYGHE
“Until policeman Lonnie Zamora’s sighting made the news in 1964, all other accounts of meetings with the space people came from witnesses of dubious credibility and reputation. And their stories were laughable. Zamora’s story was different. He was a policeman, a highly credible witness. So with this case, the widespread feeling–even among UFO believers–that there was something absurd, if not ludicrous, about humanoids, simply crumbled.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE GREAT SOCORRO UFO HOAX [Anthony Bragalia ARTICLE ARCHIVE]

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TB: You know Alfred, I communicated with Dr. Stirling Colgate at Los Alamos recently and he made a recent confession about a UFO hoax that he was aware of from many, many years ago.

AO: Oh…

TB: Colgate is in his 90s and he’s still at Los Alamos. He confirmed to me that the famous Socorro, NM case involving a policeman in 1964 was a hoax by some of his students from New Mexico Tech. But it took him over 40 years to really say something! Colgate took to a real long time to tell the truth. And he still is reluctant…but his allegiance was in the wrong place for too long. It was to his kids at the college!…

AO: (Laughs) So how did you find out about him?

TB: Through a letter that I had found in some archives from Stirling Colgate to his friend Linus Pauling, who had an interest in UFOs I found out. In his reply, Colgate told Pauling the truth that it was a hoax.

AO: Who is that he wrote to?

TB:Linus Pauling.

AO: Oh! Yes…

TB: So my point is that we will all pass. And because of this we all have larger obligations as we get older. As a scientist you must understand this, truth is it. It’s really all that we want have in the end.

  • Anomalist.com for January 17, 2017: “Plenty more secrets are awaiting review with the recent release of Project Blue Book’s documents onto the internet. Jose Caravaca recently pinged Rich Reynolds, uncovering documents linking Howard Hughes And The Socorro Craft.“
  • Anomalist.com for October 25, 2014: “Take The Socorro Landing And Its Corroborating Witnesses. Their accounts don’t align with Zamora’s testimony, and Kevin Randle wonders if the tales were twisted by time, lending legitimacy, once again, to the Socorro case.“
  • Anomalist.com for October 19, 2014: “The intersection of mythic figures and modern UFO encounters rubs Rich the wrong way, and for good reason. On the other hand, he remains enamored with saucer heraldry, noting A UFO With A Common Symbol, even if it doesn’t illuminated the odd glyph associated with Socorro.“
  • Anomalist.com for August 9, 2014: “…join our pal Rich Reynolds for A Comparison Of UFO Sightings From Texas 2009 And Socorro 1964. Both reports have synergy, but does that mean both are hoaxes?“
  • Anomalist.com for June 6, 2014: “Socorro & the UFO Symbol – 1964-2014 Oz Files
    Okay, we admit it: some of us are obsessed by the symbol police officer Lonnie Zamora reported seeing on the egg-shaped object that had landed in Socorro, New Mexico in 1964. Ray Stanford, who was one of the first investigators on the scene, clears the air about what exactly Zamora said the symbol looked like versus the substitute symbol he decided to describe after talking with Air Force Captain Holder. Ray Stanford also challenges to a debate the primary proponent of the claim that the Socorro event was the result of a student hoax. Will he step up to the plate?“
  • Anomalist.com for December 22, 2013: “From political theater to a literal theater, there are interesting parallels in a new production of The Twilight Bar featuring Arthur Koester’s Coverall-Garbed UFO Aliens. The simple depiction of the protagonists, wearing white coveralls, resonates with the Socorro sighting and the Woomera incident. Could it all be a coincidence, or did Koestler tap into a deeper mystery?” – Anomalist.com
  • Disclosure Pattern 1980-85 | Presidential UFO – Grant Cameron [via archive.org]

“When Linda asked Doty if he knew about the Holloman film, Doty said he did but Emenegger had gotten the date wrong. The date he provided for the Holloman landing film was April 26, 1964 [which was a day after the nearby Lonnie Zamora Socorro landing and which Doty said was a screw up to a preplanned Holloman landing]”

 

 

 

 

 

SUBJECT: TRANSCRIPT FROM LECTURE BY JEROME CLARK             FILE: UFO3142

The following transcript comes from a lecture made by Jerome Clark in Australia, sometime in September of 1991.    . . .

In March 1983, a documentary film-maker from Denver, Colorado, Linda Moulton-Howe was laying plans for a show to be titled “UFOs: The ET Factor” and to be aired on Home Box Office, a cable television network. Gersten arranged for her to meet with Doty and she flew to Albuquerque on April 9th.  Though he was supposed to meet her there, Doty was not at the airport, and Howe ended up calling Jerry Miller, whom she knew from an earlier telephone conversation when she’d asked him what he thought of Bennewitz’s claims.  Miller drove her to his house and phoned Doty who then arrived. Doty in turn drove her to what he described as ‘his boss’s office’ at Kirtland.  Asked if he knew anything about the Holloman landing, Doty said it happened, but that Emenegger had gotten the date wrong; it really took place on April 25th, 1964 —  now note, this is the _third_ date we’ve heard for this alleged event — and it had taken place twelve hours after the famous Socorro landing witnessed by police officer Zamora. Military and scientific personnel at the base knew a landing was coming but quote “Someone blew the time and co-ordinates” end quote, and a quote, unquote, “advanced military scoutship” had come down at the wrong time and place to be observed by Zamora.  When three UFOs appeared at Holloman at six o’clock the following morning, one landed while the other two hovered overhead.  During the meeting between the UFO-beings and a Government party, the preserved bodies of dead aliens had been given to the ETs who, in turn, had returned something unspecified. Five ground and aerial cameras recorded this event.

 – via archive.org

 

 

 

 

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