In 1964, when Officer Lonnie Zamora heard an explosion outside Soccoro, NM, what he found was an egg-shaped craft that took off into the sky. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what the police officer saw that day and why this is one of the most intriguing UFO cases of the 1960s.
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Links for this episode:
- Kevin Randle’s book Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro
- Lonnie Zamora Incident
- Steuart Campbell’s Canopus theory
- Skeptoid podcast on Lonnie Zamora
- UFO Casebook on Lonnie Zamora
- Death of a Legend
- Radio Interviews with Zamora and others
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