Person
Lonnie Zamora
Also known as Zamora
- Police officer, Socorro, New Mexico
Lonnie Zamora was a police officer in Socorro, New Mexico. On the afternoon of 24 April 1964, while chasing a speeding car, he reported seeing an egg-shaped craft and two small figures in coveralls in a gully south of town, and the craft lifting off with a roar and flame. His sighting became one of the best-documented landing cases in Project Blue Book, which listed it as unidentified.
Sources: Project Blue Book case file, Socorro 1964 (NARA)
Facts and claims
- documented On 24 April 1964 he reported a white, egg-shaped object on girder-like legs, with one or two figures in coveralls nearby, that rose with a roar and flame and flew off south of Socorro. Project Blue Book carried the case as unidentified, and the Air Force found the sighting legitimate with no indication of a hoax. Source: Project Blue Book case file: Socorro, New Mexico, April 1964 (Lonnie Zamora)
Connected files
Incidents
- Socorro landing (New Mexico, 1964) (witness)
Mentioned in documents and records
- Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
- Project Blue Book case file: Socorro, New Mexico, April 1964 (Lonnie Zamora)