April 24, 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico, United States
Police officer Lonnie Zamora reported a landed egg-shaped craft and small figures near Socorro before the object departed with flame and roar. The event produced physical traces and immediate law-enforcement documentation.
J. Allen Hynek and Project Blue Book investigators treated Socorro as one of the strongest close-encounter cases in official U.S. files.
Blue Book conducted site and witness analysis, including trace photography and interview work.
Despite attempted conventional scenarios, no consensus official resolution satisfied all case features.
Conventional proposals include hoax, experimental craft, or misperception under stress, though each has weaknesses.
UFO researchers rank Socorro as a high-credibility CE2-style event.
Socorro remains one of the best-known police-witness UFO incidents.
It is consistently cited in evidence-focused historical shortlists.
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