In 1964, when Officer Lonnie Zamora heard an explosion outside Soccoro, NM, what he found was an egg-shaped craft that took off into the sky. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what the police officer saw that day and why this is one of the most intriguing UFO cases of the 1960s.AI-powered
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Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (Socorro, New Mexico; Aliens?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
What Can We Say About the Socorro UFO Sighting?
Skeptics have proposed that the Socorro UFO sighting was a misidentification of a natural phenomenon. Alan Heineck frequently challenged skeptics to explain this report, which he regarded as the epitome of the UFO phenomenon. A mirage of Canopus was the object reported by police patrolman Lonnie Zamora over Socorro, New Mexico in April, 1964. At that time in 1964, NASA was testing an early engineering model of the surveyor, the lunar probe that went to the moon in 1966.
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