In the last five years or so as the digital age gathered impetus, it became common practice fro people to have some kind of camera on their person at all times. This amazing breakthrough meant that people who were on the spot when historical moments occurred could record them for posterity and alleviate any doubt that these events actually occurred. Sadly this was not the case forty plus years ago when one of the first sightings of an actual UFO landing was made in the US State of New Mexico. The state of New Mexico has gained a reputation as a popular spot for UFO landings, factual or otherwise. What adds to the mystery is the entire state is that since after World War Two 1945, New Mexico has been a leader in energy research and development with extensive experiments conducted at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and Sandia Laboratories in the nuclear, solar, and geothermal areas. Military experiments of a highly classified nature have been going on there for many years also. New Mexico was where the atomic bomb was first assembled and test detonations were carried out there in the mist of the desert at the White Sands Proving Grounds.
What makes the state so attractive to those bodies who want to carry out those tests and experiments without too many watchful eyes around is that New Mexico is one of the largest states in the USA in terms of land density, with a total area of 121,665 square miles, yet the least densely populated with one person to every fifteen of these square miles.
This information will always be the ideal ammunition for those who claim that the famous Zamora Incident where actual evidence of UFO Landing at Socorro, took place on April 24th, 1964, at about 5:45 P.M was something either totally innocent, or the figment of the imagination of a highly reputable police officer who witnessed what he claimed was the crash landing of a UFO.
The policeman, Lonnie Zamora, was on patrol duty that day when he noticed a flame passing above him in the sky. He recalls” It was blue in color, and seen to making a gradual decent towards Earth.” Zamora watched the flame descend to the ground and appear to land not too far off in the distance. The problem was that Officer Zamora was shortsighted and was wearing a kind of clip on sunglasses over his normal eye glasses, which impaired his vision, especially when looking up into the strong sun of the New Mexican sky.
Despite this disadvantage, Zamora set of in search of the crash scene, and came upon more by accident than by design. He was shocked to come across a cylindrical object about the size of a family saloon car, which appeared to have overturned. He could discern no signs of doors or windows. As his car drew closer, Officer Zamora noticed that there were two people standing close to the car. They appeared to be like children in their early to mid teens. As he stepped out of his car, Zamora seemed to alarm the two “visitors” and they jumped back into the craft which took off with a roar. First of all, the flying machine rose vertically about ten to fifteen feet from the ground and then flew off into the horizon at tremendous speed. So taken aback was Officer Zamora by the sudden flight of the space craft that he fell down and lost his glasses in the process.
The only evidence that remained of this sudden encounter was the bushes around the landing scene, which had been burnt and were still smoldering.
No one had any reason to suspect that Officer Zamora’s experience was a fabrication, although the only evidence was the charred bushes and the landing marks on the ground. If the incident had taken place forty years later, Zamora would have been reaching for his digital camera instead of searching for his eye glasses, and would have captured a few images of his encounter for posterity.