What do you think about this?
On the afternoon of April 24, 1964, a police officer named Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeding car through the desert outside Socorro, New Mexico, when he heard a roar and saw a flame drop from the sky. Thinking a dynamite shack had blown up, he broke off the chase and drove toward it.
What he found instead became one of the most respected UFO cases on record. About a hundred and fifty yards off, resting on the ground, sat a shiny egg shaped craft standing on four legs. Beside it stood two small figures in what looked like white coveralls. As Zamora got closer, the figures vanished, the roar returned, and the object lifted off and shot away over the hills. Where it had rested, investigators found scorched brush and fresh, still smoking impressions pressed into the ground.
Zamora had a reputation as a level headed, honest officer with no interest in fame. The United States Air Force, through Project Blue Book, investigated thoroughly and, in the end, listed the case as unknown. The man who led the project’s scientific review called it the most puzzling case he ever handled.
Is it possible that a single, sober small town cop stumbled onto something that the Air Force itself could not explain away?
A secret test craft, a misread aircraft prototype, or a genuine visitor? What do you think Lonnie Zamora saw in that arroyo?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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