
Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (Socorro, New Mexico; Aliens?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Socarro Prank at New Mexico Tech
UFO researcher Tony Brigalia corresponded with Dr. Colgate by email several times in 2012, as well as with two others from New Mexico Tech to get some more of the story. What it came down to was this: The Intergetics lab on campus stocked all kinds of pyrotechnics and white lab suits were conveniently available. With one driver to possibly lure Zamora to the scene by speeding, perhaps another to tow the big white balloon off into the distance at high speed when it took off. On Skeptoid, Brian Dunning suggests that this man was a Confederate.
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Transcript

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.
