THE SOCORRO UAP INCIDENT

The Lonnie Zamora sighting of April 24th, 1964

May 29, 2026

WOO-HOO!

I’m going to drop a flaming hot take that will shock anyone reading this: UFOs are weird. For generations, humankind has had their collective eyes on the strange going-ons in the sky with wonder and sometimes fear. What are these strange lights and crafts that visit us? Where are these beings from and why do they seem to have a significant interest in our genitals? Well, the simple explanation is that they are visitors from another planet or distant stars. And that’s a totally understandable opinion to have—from our experience and history as humans, it just makes sense. As humanity has expanded and explored around the world, we’ve washed up on shores unknown with wood and metal. Heck, we’ve even landed on our moon and even other celestial bodies in our solar system! Though, notably, we traded the wood for more advanced polymers when we left our atmosphere. Why wouldn’t visitors to our planet do the same when visiting our planet?

This is the summation of the “nuts and bolts” theory of UFOs/UAPs; intelligent beings from outside of Earth visit us using physical spacecraft. Though the craft may be unknown to us, it still could hypothetically be touched, entered, and interacted with. In fact, many believe that governments around the world have collected these crafts to study, reverse engineer, and further human technology. I’ll skip the part on how these UFOs were possibly collected.

Actually, as I’m writing this, it is just a few days after the release of the second batch of UAP files released on the Department of War website. So far, the files released to the public have been underwhelming—for me, at least. It’s like I’ve said on the Uncovering Anomalies Podcast; I can’t consider FLIR footage of strange lights or objects in the sky as anything more than evidence of technology not publicly available or known to the public, let alone proof of extraterrestrial life. I’ve been watching videos like that since I was a kid! I want to see visual tours of the insides of the alien crafts that the US government supposedly has. Let me watch the interviews with Klaxxor! Give me the autopsies of recovered alien bodies! If these UAPs are physical crafts, I want PROOF that they are “nuts and bolts” crafts steered by intelligent beings. That being said, I begrudgingly understand why a revelation such as this would need to be slowly rolled out by the government. Kind of.

BUT, what if UAPs are not just weird but really, really weird? What if the craft aren’t entirely just physical “nuts and bolts” objects? That’s right, we’re about to enter the woo. What is the “woo”? Woo relates to all the strange and unexplainable aspects of UAPs. When UFO enthusiasts are discussing things like psychic energy, interdimensional or time travel, and the paranormal or fringe science side of the phenomenon—that’s the woo. Now someone who is new to the UAP field or only gets their information of UAPs from mainstream news will likely disregard claims of the woo, believing it to be too fantastical to be believed. But an increasing number of researchers and people in general are beginning to accept the idea that there is something… more to the UAP field than just nuts and bolts crafts traveling here from another planet.

Enter one Jacques Vallée, a prominent UAP researcher who is considered by many to be one of the best minds studying the phenomenon. I will try to give a quick introduction and provide a summary of his works and beliefs, but it’s best understood from his own words because I will be barely scratching the surface. For some of his more popular interviews, here he is on The Joe Rogan Experience and again on Weaponized with Jeremy ~~“Ju-Jitsu in my Cybertruck”~~ Corbell and George Knapp. Jacques Vallée is a French astronomer and computer scientist who began researching UFOs in the 1960s. From there, he worked with Dr. J Allen Hynek, analyzing UFO case files (remember, Dr. Hynek worked as a government advisor on Projects Sign, Grudge, and Bluebook) and studying the phenomenon.

It was through all of this that Vallée’s belief in the UAP field began to change. UFOs don’t often exhibit behaviors like visitors from other planets would; they instead commit acts that are so strange they can hardly be defined. And these patterns of odd activity go back so far, Vallée began to believe that the modern UFOs of today could be traced to things like medieval folklore. By the late 1960s, Jacques Vallée had broken from the standard nuts and bolts explanation of UFOs and instead embraced the woo—a much more difficult field to research and study. All of this led to, what he calls, the “control system hypothesis”: UFOs/UAPs are likely a phenomenon that has been around for all human history that somehow interacts with consciousness in order to shape human culture in a way that has covertly steered our civilization. It is important to note however that whatever is influencing us is not necessarily benevolent nor malicious; it instead uses a logic that we, mere humans, do not have access to. Jacques Vallée is also a proponent of the interdimensional hypothesis, believing that these beings exist alongside humans in a plane of existence that we cannot fully perceive or understand. I highly recommend his book Dimensions as a good starting point for all things Vallée.

Now, why is this important? Well, besides the fact that it’s way more fun to discuss and speculate about, I think it brings in a lot more interesting questions when it comes to discussing specific UAP events. Last article, we discussed the Pentyrch UFO Incident which was stuffed full of bizarre UAP experiences that could not be explained, so this article will be (hopefully) less complex and a little more palatable. Today, we are talking about the Socorro UAP Incident and Lonnie Zamora. At first glance, it seems like a normal (ha!) UFO sighting, but after digging into the event and seeing the outlines of a very strange picture, I think it’s worth bringing a little woo into this subject.

JUST DOING MY JOB

On April 24^th, 1964, Police Officer Lonnie Zamora was in the middle of his 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM shift. It had been a day just like any other for him, another quiet shift as a police officer in the small town of Socorro, NM. Socorro is situated about an hour south of Albuquerque, surrounded by mostly undeveloped desert, and had a population of roughly five and a half thousand residents at the time. Truly, you would be hard pressed to find a more stereotypical place for a UFO incident. Interestingly enough, Socorro is also located relatively close to the site of the Roswell UFO crash site, which had occurred nearly two decades before.

On that evening of the 24^th, a little before 6:00 PM, Police Officer Lonnie Zamora was just doing his job. He had seen a teenager speeding south toward the edge of Socorro and was following with the intent of pulling the speedster over. As Officer Zamora continued the chase out of town however, he saw and heard something extraordinary: in the southwestern part of the sky, a bright flame was descending accompanied by the sound of a roar. He would state in his report that the flame had a blueish and slightly orange hue in the shape of a funnel. The flame appeared to be in a “stream down” shape—narrower at the top than the bottom. He also could not make out any kind of object at the top of the flame, but he also was still driving and could only look at the flame briefly. As the roar continued, the flame also continued its descent, passing behind a hill. Whatever this was, Officer Zamora estimated that it was somewhere between a half-mile to a mile away and off the main road, causing him to break off pursuit of the speeding teenager. If you want to read the report, it was released during the first batch of UAP files released on the war.gov website. It’s full of details presented as police reports normally are; dry and meticulous.

Lonnie Zamora’s first immediate thought was that a known dynamite shack in the area had exploded. In order to approach the area where he saw the flame descend, Officer Zamora made his way up the hill, struggling to get his vehicle up the loose gravel road. During this time, he could still hear the roar of whatever had just happened but by the time he reached the top the roaring had stopped. As he looked out into the distance for evidence of the exploded dynamite shack, Officer Zamora saw nothing at first. Then, he observed some sort of white object in the distance, about one hundred and fifty to two hundred yards away, now resting on the ground away from the road. Outside of the object stood two small humanoid figures seemingly wearing white coveralls and lacking any headwear.

“I could see a white object to my left there. I thought it was a turned-over car. When I got up on top of the mesa there, I looked down, and I saw this big white object on the ground. I thought I could see something around the craft there. I could see some figures. Looked like they were walking around the craft.” – Officer Zamora

He later would report that the figures looked human in shape, but short in stature; small enough to be large children or short adults. He first assumed the object was an overturned car, while its occupants stood outside examining the crashed vehicle, so Lonnie Zamora moved his patrol car closer in order to help and radioed in to the sheriff’s office.

“Socorro 2 to Socorro possible 10-44; I’ll be 10-6 out of the car checking the car down in the arroyo.” Officer Zamora called in.

Socorro 2: Officer Zamora call-sign

10-44: Accident

10-6: Busy

But, as you may have guessed, this was not an overturned car at all. While at first Officer Zamora had assumed it had been a wrecked car resting tall-ways on its front or tail end, he could now see the object was instead a large oval or egg shape resting about three feet off the ground, standing on two legs which slanted slightly away from the body of the object. The object itself was a bright aluminum color—white against the brown mesa ground—but not as shiny as chrome. Lonnie Zamora stopped the car, planning to make his way to the object on foot. As he began to exit his vehicle, he fumbled his radio trying to put it back in its holder, and heard three loud thumps. He described the thumps as sounding like hard hammer strikes or the hard shutting of doors, like the slamming of car doors. Then, he looked back at the object and could see that the two humanoids were no longer outside of the craft and he assumed they had retreated back inside.

Then, the roaring returned. He confirmed that it was not the sound of something like a jet engine, but instead a roar that began at a low frequency, then moved to a higher pitch. Officer Zamora also noted that the sound of the roar went from loud to very loud as the pitch of the roar increased. The flame that he had originally seen in the sky had also returned, appearing as a thruster of some sort at the bottom of the craft. To Officer Zamora, this flame was the exact same color that he had seen earlier. In addition to the roar and flame, he also was able to determine some new details. From his new angle of the craft, he could see that it was not egg shaped with two legs like he originally thought, but instead more of a tic-tac like object with four legs; he now had a view from the side, rather than from the end. Now seeing the whole craft, he was able to make out a strange insignia on the side—an important detail which we will cover a little later. He also could determine that the craft was completely smooth; no seams, windows, or doors marked its edges.

“I saw this flame come up from underneath it, then I ran back behind the car, and it went up to, 20, 30 feet up in the air. It just stayed there for a while. And then, finally, it just took off slowly to the west. At first, you know, after I got to my senses, I said, ‘Did I see it or didn’t I, you know? What happened, you know?’” – Officer Zamora

At this point, Lonnie Zamora took off running, even bumping into his patrol car and losing his glasses as he quickly put some distance in between himself and the craft. As he ran, he glanced back several times and saw that the craft was beginning to rise, about twenty to thirty feet. He scrambled back up to the top of the hill, throwing himself just over its apex in order to get cover. He covered his head with his arms, expecting some sort of explosion. But by now, the roaring had ceased and was replaced with a sharp whine, which sounded from a high tone to a low tone. This only lasted a second, which was followed by eerie silence, causing Officer Zamora to look over the ridge, back to where the craft had been. The craft, deciding it was time to get the hell out of dodge, hurriedly moved away from him and in a southwestern direction. Officer Zamora stated in his report that the craft rose quickly and took off immediately across the countryside.

CAN YOU SEE IT??

At this point, Officer Zamora was understandably a little freaked out and likely wanted someone, anyone, to verify what he had just witnessed. So, he ran back to his car and once again radioed into the Socorro police station. As he was on the radio, Lonnie Zamora could still see the object making its way through the skies. The object slowly increased its altitude, got “small” very fast in the distance, and disappear over the Box Canyon or Six Mile Canyon mountains. On the other end of the radio was radio operator Nep Lopez, whom Lonnie Zamora asked to look out his window to see if he could spot anything in the sky. When Lopez asked Zamora what he was looking for, Zamora responded that it was something that looked like a balloon. And as someone who studies UAP events, this makes me cringe. Because, as we know, all UFOs can be simply explained by balloons.

Regardless of what Officer Lopez may have expected to see, it was irrelevant; Zamora noted that Lopez’s window faced north while all of this was happening to the south of Socorro. Next, Officer Zamora asked Nep Lopez to send his friend Sergeant Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police to meet him at the site. This call took place somewhere between 5:45 PM and 5:50 PM, according to the FBI documents released about this case. As Zamora waited, he noted that some of the brush at the craft’s landing site was smoking, as if exposed to great heat. He also took the time to sketch out the insignia he had seen on the side of the craft—and don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about expanding on this part of the event. There’s much to unpack about the insignia and it needs its own dedicated section in the article.

“I could tell that Lonnie was excited and probably scared. Lonnie Zamora, he’s a very dependable, honest type of person. He’s not one to create or make stories or build things up to make it exciting or anything like that.” – Sgt. Chavez

When Sgt. Chavez reached Officer Zamora, he could see that Zamora was in a state of distress—Zamora was covered in sweat and looked very pale ~~like the way I am any time I talk to a pretty woman.~~ Zamora asked Chavez if he could see anything down in the arroyo, which Chavez stated that he could; Chavez also saw the smoking brush below their position. So, the two men then headed down to examine further the site where the craft had been. At the site, the two men found concrete evidence that, well, something had been there. In the desert floor, Zamora and Chavez saw four holes, where the ground had been compacted by the four legs of the object that Zamora had seen. And the holes weren’t the only signs of the craft they found; sand around the area had been turned glass-like, due to tremendous heat.

More officers of law enforcement would join the duo’s investigation of the area. Don’t get lost in the weeds here, as I’m going to list some names only to show that this event was investigated by no-nonsense people who all took this seriously. Involved in the original investigation and listed in the FBI files was: Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes of the FBI, Socorro County Undersheriff Jim Luckie, and Officer Ted Jordan. All of which joined Officer Zamora and Sgt. Chavez to check out the site of the craft, and all would confirm what Zamora and Chavez found. By the time the new men would arrive, the area was still smoking, and the group believed the landing marks to be fresh.

-sketch of the landing site found in the FBI documents

Special Agent Byrnes noted the four indentations in the ground and noted their size; about sixteen by six inches, in a rectangular shape. The depressions were about two inches deep and had moved some of the dirt to the sides, indicating that whatever had been there had been of substantial weight. Inside of the four depressions were three burn marks along with one more burn outside of the marks. Other clumps of grass outside of the area had been left undisturbed. There were also three other circular marks in the area, about four inches in diameter but only about an eighth of an inch deep. According to the report, it was if a jar lid had been pressed gently into the ground. These four shallow depressions were labeled as “footprints” in the diagram, though it is important to note that no conventional footprints were found at the site, according to the FBI documents of the case—we’ll circle back to this later.

Now remember, despite everyone who was named above, this case really centers on one man: Officer Lonnie Zamora, as he was the only one who had witnessed this event. Zamora was well respected by his colleagues and was well known for his even temperament and not a man to make up stories. The FBI files describe him as “well regarded as a sober, industrious, and conscientious officer and not given to fancy.” When mentioned in the report immediately after the event he was once again described as sober, though shaken. Officer Zamora himself claimed that his last drink had been a couple of beers over a month before this, which matches everyone’s descriptions of the man. In fact, everyone who comes to investigate this case speaks highly of Lonnie Zamora, including Dr. J. Alan Hyneck, who was brought in to investigate by Air Force officials. The fact is that Lonnie Zamora is the most persuasive argument for this case being real.

As it turned out however, Officer Zamora was NOT the only one to see this craft. During the investigation, the FBI found many other witnesses of the craft in the area. Over the following days, reports would be gathered from others who had heard the same roars that Zamora had; matching the timeline that the officer had reported. There had also been three separate reports filed from citizens calling into the police, reporting bright glowing objects in the sky. It is important to note that these reports from citizens had been made before knowledge of the case went public. Someone had even called into the local television station to report a UFO that had been seen flying south of Socorro—roughly fifteen minutes before Zamora’s encounter. A few days after Zamora’s experience, a man visiting his father in the area, reported an object shaped like a butane tank was disturbing his father’s horses in the middle of the night. The man also witnessed the craft emitting similar flames from its underside and when an officer later investigated the scene, indentations and a large patch of smoldering earth were found at the site.

One witness story that stands out in this case is Opel Grinder, a gas station attendant in Socorro. Customers who had been on the highway came in complaining of low-flying aircraft in the area. When Grinder responded with disinterest that they had likely just seen a helicopter, the customer responded that it would have been a very funny looking helicopter if that’s indeed what it was. The timing of it caught Grinder by surprise; the next morning when news about the Socorro UFO broke, Grinder realized that the customer had reportedly seen the object at the exact time Officer Zamora had witnessed the craft. Grinder then called the report into the local radio station, further corroborating Zamora’s story. Ray Standford, ufologist and researcher, interviewed Opel Grinder, which can be heard here. In the years later, UFO researchers would catch up with the two witnesses who had spoken with Grinder, and they confirmed that the object they had seen was egg-shaped.

THINGS JUST GOT REAL

For those unaware, the White Sands Missile Range along with Holloman Air Force Base are located a few hours south/southeast of Socorro and where this UAP incident took place. Holloman AFB is its own can of worms that ties into countless UAP theories and beliefs, that won’t be covered today—just know that Holloman is deeply tied to the UAP field. So, by the next day, the Air Force (and by extension, Project Blue Book) had joined the investigation in order to uncover what had happened and sent Captain Richard T. Holder to Socorro. And at first, Captain Holder expected the event to be something of an open and shut, simple case:

“My first impression was that it was something from the range that needed possible help. You know, first aid, attention, or at best, security.”

But after examining the evidence and interviewing Officer Zamora along with the other officers involved, things became a little murkier.

“The more I got into it, the less convinced I was that that was the case.” … “Everything we saw seemed to support the story that officer Zamora recounted. Nothing gave me the slightest hint that he did this as a hoax or cooked it up for fame or fortune.”

Later in 1964, even the National Investigations Committee on Ariel Phenomenon would say that whatever had happened had not originated from either of the military locations:

“All possible explanations were explored by Army Capt. Richard T. Holder who attempted to determine whether White Sands Missile Range at Holloman Air Force Base had anything that might produce the conditions described.

But neither White Sands Missile Range nor Holloman had an object that would compare to the object described; there was no known firing mission in progress at the time of the occurrence that would produce the conditions reported.”

But with all things involved in a government-backed investigation, the Socorro UAP Incident was much more complicated than what many believe. Reading the post-mortem makes the Socorro incident seem like government agencies happily working together to discover the truth. In reality, however, it was full of the government’s playbook when it comes to the UAP field; coverups and lies.

When originally interviewed by Capt. Holder and Special Agent Byrnes on April 25^th, Officer Zamora stated that he believed he had witnessed some sort of military test or experimental vehicle. Immediately after the interview, Holder and Byrnes rushed out to the landing site to investigate further. It was dark at that time, and the men had to use flashlights to perform their work. Why the rush? And why had all the crystalized sand been removed by the following morning? Dr. James E. McDonald wrote this:

“…Investigating officers from the Air Force Project Blue Book had taken over the site, gleaned every piece of burned brush and rocks and, reportedly, fused sand. They had cleaned out the gully, taking the physical evidence away to sites unknown. No independent scientists or researchers had been able to learn the results of any analyses the air force might have done.”

Another often missed detail to this case was the confiscated footage of Officer Ted Jordan. Officer Jordan was one of the men who originally went to investigate Lonnie Zamora’s claims and would provide further information about what had happened during the Air Force investigation years later, after he had retired. As the men investigated the site in 1964, Jordan took many photographs of the area in order to document everything that had happened. But when the Air Force began their investigation, they asked Officer Jordan for the reel of film he had used for the photographs. It likely doesn’t need to be said, but Officer Jordan would never see that reel of film again. According to the Air Force, the film had been exposed to radiation, and no photographs were able to be produced from the film. What’s further interesting is that when Jordan was asked about the film after his retirement, he said that it included photographs of not only the indentations and burns in the ground, but also of “footprints shaped like coffee cups”.

Of course, no explanation has ever been given for the confiscations of photographs or material from the incident site, but it seems safe to say that the evidence was removed so no outside forces could further research the Socorro UAP incident. In the end, two reports would be created by Captain Holder. The external, released to the public, downplayed what Officer Zamora had seen, though gave no true resolution to what had occurred on April 24^th. The other report, released internally to his superiors, was much more urgent: despite Holder thoroughly investigating the case, he could not determine what Zamora had experienced and very much believed what Zamora had reported. Nothing from his military knowledge or experience could explain what had happened.

THE INSIGNIA

In several of the pictures I’ve used in this article, you’ve likely noticed the bright red insignia on the side of the craft. It’s an odd-looking design; described as an arrow with a line underneath it, and a semicircle above it. As far as anyone can tell, this is not a design used in any of our military or government programs. However, this insignia just goes to show that there was at least some level of coverup in this case, because this is NOT the insignia that Lonnie Zamora saw on the side of the craft. Instead, what he described was an upside down “V” shape with three horizontal lines running through the “V”. Once the air force investigation began however, Officer Zamora was told not to discuss the real markings he saw on the craft. You can hear a radio interview here where he briefly speaks about it. Reportedly, Captain Holder told Zamora to instead describe the insignia as the arrow shape to match the report that the air force would release about the incident. Supposedly, this is commonplace in these types of investigations, and done so investigators can locate other, legitimate witnesses. If someone reported the craft with the arrow-style insignia, the Air Force can write them off as a big fat phony. But if someone reports a similar craft with the correct, upside-down V shaped insignia, investigators will know that they need to go talk to that witness.

Symbols are actually quite common in UAP lore; the craft described in the Rendlesham Forest Incident had them, the Roswell craft supposedly had them as well, and there are many more examples. Usually, they are compared to Egyptian hieroglyphs. And digging into this insignia led me down some pretty deep rabbit holes but I’m inclined to link to the research done by a user on Reddit, which you can see here. To sum up the user’s research, he believed both the real and fake symbols found in the Socorro Incident are related to Sanskrit, and they go on to try and translate the meaning. The user admits that they are an amateur in this field, so take their research with a grain of salt. Still fun, however!

WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED ANSWERS

So, what happened in Socorro on April 24^th, 1964? Eh, who knows. Come on, you know how UAP investigations go by this point. I do have a theory that I will get into in just a bit. First, I want to briefly address the debunks and explanations for this case—they’re just as stupid as always. Skeptic Philip J. KlASS~~HOLE~~ visited Socorro several years later and claimed, with his sticky, greasy pockets no doubt filled with cash from the CIA, that the entire event had been fabricated by the local government in order to promote tourism. Another skeptic, Steuart Campbell, believes that what Lonnie Zamora and other witnesses saw and heard was “almost certainly” a mirage of the star Canopus. Skeptic Robert Sheaffer put forward that the entire event was a hoax created by students at New Mexico Tech. The university president at the time, Stirling Colgate, supported this theory and believed that the craft that Officer Zamora saw was, “A candle in a balloon. Not sophisticated.” Yes, these are REAL PEOPLE who REALLY BELIEVE THINGS LIKE THIS.

Eons ago, I began this article talking about the weirdness of UAPs and the woo. At first glance, Socorro feels like a pretty standard nuts and bolts case but between the descriptions of the craft, the landing site, and the symbol seen on the craft, my sci-fi brain went in a different direction. I’m quite open in my beliefs when it comes to UAPs; just see my other articles for some insight. Basically, what it boils down to is this: we, as a society, are half the phenomenon when it comes to UAPs. For whatever reason, the entities use our subconscious to mold themselves into our 3D realm. Some examples: when zeppelins were just getting off the ground, UFOs took cigar shapes. Centuries before that, when masted ships were the ultimate form of long-distance travel, UFOs often looked like flying nautical ships. A few years after 1784, when the Montgolfier brothers performed the first hot air balloon flight, a balloon shaped UFO crashed in the French countryside.

Now, what was the United States smack in the middle of during the 1960s? The space race, of course, which culminated with the placement of the red, white, and blue flag on the lunar surface on July 20^th, 1969. You might have a good mental image of the Apollo Lunar Lander but in case you don’t, here you go:

It’s definitely not a one-to-one recreation of the “Socorran Terran Lander”, but the similarities are there—especially for a UAP, which are notorious for being “close, but not quite” when it comes to aping human technology. With four legs extending from a body and using a propulsion system from the bottom of the craft, there’s enough similarity to make me think of UAP woo-ness. And watch the take off of Apollo 17 from the moon’s surface; a burst of propulsion sends the craft straight up and away from the lunar surface. There are definitely more than a few parallels here. I think that, in true intelligence-we-can’t-understand form, this was like many UAP sightings and a way to break through to our reality or a convoluted way to connect with us.

All in all, this is an incredible case. Officer Lonnie Zamora experienced something absolutely incredible and thanks to his honesty, bravery, and role as an upstanding officer, this event would become well documented, studied, and believed in. Despite the blowback he originally would receive, he summed up his experience like this:

“If they want to believe me, good. If they don’t want to believe me, it’s all right, too.”

Today, the community of Socorro celebrates the event. In 1966, Socorro’s Chamber of Commerce developed the site of Lonnie Zamora’s experience—kind of. The attraction was built about a quarter of a mile away from the real landing site due to rumors about radiation. You can even find information on the city’s website here and in 2012, the city commissioned a local artist named Erika Burleigh to paint a mural to commemorate the event. When I take my across the world tour of UAP sites, I’ll be sure to stop here!

SOURCES

War.gov documents - https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_438.pdf

https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/socorro-ufo.htm

https://unsolved.com/gallery/socorro-ufo/

Reddit posts about insignia - https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1cry8nu/the_truth_regarding_the_insignia_reported_from/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/13bn1x2/important_this_might_explain_the_writing_on_the/

Soccoro city website - https://socorronm.org/location-activity/socorro-landing-a-ufo-story/

NICAP documents about Socorro - https://www.nicap.org/640424socorro_dir.htm

INCREDIBLE reenactment-