The Lonnie Zamora/Socorro sighting of April 1964 is said, by the UFO old-timers (Jerry Clark among them), to be one of the best proofs for the extraterrestrial UFO reality.
No matter how much the UFO geezers deconstruct their previous and present implications of the ET hypothesis for UFO sightings, Socorro among them, the overt explication for UFOs by these wizened ufologists is that they derive from intergalactic visitors.
Socorro is a touchstone for that belief.
Anthony Bragalia presented circumstantial evidence at The UFO Iconoclast(s) blog that the Socorro incident was a prank, instigated by college students to fool Lonnie Zamora, for whom they held grudges of various kinds.
The Bragalia material is interesting but not conclusive by a long shot.
We have always maintained that the Socorro sighting was a misinterpretation by Officer Zamora, who actually saw a Hughes/Raven Industries prototype for a lunar landing, being tested in the area.
Others have insisted that the sighting was of a balloon array, being tested by the Navy and Air Force for orbital flights.
Click here for a PDF that allows such a conjecture.
Whatever the object was that Officer Zamora saw and inter-acted with somewhat -- a true UFO (unidentified flying object) as researcher Frank Warren rightfully has it -– the thing seen and the coverall-clad entities outside it when it was on the ground can be readily explained in prosaic terms, David Rudiak’s fanatic ravings notwithstanding.
Socorro and other noteworthy UFO sightings and events -- Kenneth Arnold’s, Rendlesham, the Hills “abduction,” the Phoenix lights, et al. – can be accounted for by mundane explanations just as well, if not better, as they are hyped as extraterrestrial intrusions by the UFO codgers. Roswell too, perhaps.
These sightings aren't really that exciting are they? They are realy just lights in the sky, which serve better as cultural myths here than as something we can learn from.
ReplyDeleteOfficer Zamora stumbled upon the "object" that was
ReplyDeletenot visible from the hi-way he was patrolling. Hoaxers would have needed to lure him to such a remote location. Apparently that is not the case.
Also such a hoax would be immensely dangerous to the hoaxers, as Officer Zamora was armed, and possibly could have seen these "beings" as potentially a threat.
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ReplyDeleteI can see why you are.
You have not done your homework. Read any account of the "sighting": Lonnie was led to the staging scene of the hoax by giving
chase to a speeding car driven by an 18 year old.
AJB