Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw something strange outside of Socorro on April 24th, 1964. Do YOU know anything about what he saw? We are looking for New Mexico Tech students from the 60s who may know ANYTHING about Zamora's sighting. Was it lunar module testing by White Sands? Or, as has been much discussed recently, a student prank/hoax? Or was it really from Outer Space? Now that officer Zamora has passed away, perhaps it's time to come forward with new information. If you were really there, please comment on this blog!
Here is the letter which is producing some of the buzz, as discussed at length on the UFO Iconoclasts page. It is an exchange between Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and Tech president (in 1965) Stirling Colgate. In reponse to Pauling's query about the NMIMT response to the "flying saucer on the ground," Colgate wrote cryptically
I have good indication of student who engineered hoax. Student has left. Cheers, Stirling.
Here's your chance to come clean! Do YOU know something about this incident? Of course, we really do want to get to the bottom of this long-standing mystery. We are hoping for information from Tech students at the time, and are NOT looking for a discussion on ther merits of UFOlogy or the Socorro Sighting as an extraterrestrial visitation.
If you want to contribute something more privately, please email me at nmsrdaveATswcp.com (please replace the AT with an @,to help stop SPAM).
