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Lonnie Zamora incident

The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring blue and orange flame. Zamora's claims were subject to.

Wikipedia overview indexed “Socorro UFO incident” 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: The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring blue and orange flame. Zamora's claims were subject to attention from news media, UFO investigators and UFO organizations, and the U.S. 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.

For Socorro / Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident, the relevant evidence categories include police witness, ground traces, burned brush, Project Blue Book files. The source should therefore be read alongside the dossier's witness accounts, timeline, evidence analysis and skeptical notes, especially where the material concerns official statements, video records, archival summaries or media reports.

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Zamora_incident