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36 lines
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SUBJECT: A ROARING UFO AND FIGURES AT SOCORRO FILE: UFO2405
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Officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeder south of Socoro, New Mexico, late
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on the afternoon of April 24, 1964, but he was about to enter UFO history. No
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less than the head of Project Blue Book would later tell a CIA audience that
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Zamora's experience was the most puzzling UFO case he had ever dealt with.
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All Zamora knew at first was that a roar was filling his ears and a flame was
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descending in the southwestern sky. Breaking off the chase, Zamora sped to the
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site, where he expected to find that a dynamite shack had exploded. Instead,
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as he maneuvered through the hilly terrain, he glimpsed a shiny car-size
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object resting on the ground about 150 yards away. Near it stood two small
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figures clothed in what looked like white coveralls.
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Zamora briefly lost sight of the object and figures as he passed behind a
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hill. Zamora thought he had witnessed a car accident, but when he got out of
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his car to investigate, he suddenly realized otherwise. Egg-shaped and
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standing on four legs, the object displayed a peculiar insignia on its side,
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something like an arrow pointing vertically from a horizontal base to a half-
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circle crown. The two figures had disappeared, and the object was emitting an
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ominous roar again. Frightened, Zamora charged back to his car. At one point
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he glanced over his shoulder to see the UFO, now airborne, heading toward a
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nearby canyon.
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Project Blue Book investigators found that Officer Zamora had a reputation for
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integrity. The investigators also examined what looked like landing marks
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found on the desert floor. In the middle of these marks was a burned area,
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apparently from the spacecraft's exhaust.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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