NICAP preserved “The Zamora case” in connection with the public record around Socorro / Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident, a 1964 UFO/UAP dossier centered on Socorro, New Mexico, United States. The source is useful because it fixes a checkable part of the record: who published the material, what topic it addressed, and how it connects to the timeline, witness layer, official response or later research around the case.
The accessible source text states: "At 5:50 PM on the 24th he had been in his cruiser... in hot pursuit of a speeding car.... His attention was diverted by a loud roaring sound, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a blue flame which disappeared down toward the ground and out of sight.... he abandoned his chase... and headed toward the area where the car disappeared, which was near an abandoned dynamite shack... he followed a trail which led up. In the archive context, that material is treated as a primary or secondary record to be compared with the case chronology rather than as a standalone proof of an extraordinary origin.
Additional context from the source adds: "Zamora... called Chavez and asked for assistance... Zamora then drove his car up and across the next mesa where he stopped it. Those details matter only when they can be aligned with the case's date, location, named institutions, reported evidence types and possible conventional explanations.
The evidence boundary remains important. A source page can document that a report, document, video or database entry exists, but it does not by itself establish that the object or event was anomalous. This local record preserves the source's role in the case while keeping unresolved claims separate from confirmed facts. Original source URL: https://www.nicap.org/reports/640424zamora.htm