This is to me the best UFO case ever, by a long ways. It involved a policeman, occurred in daylight, and at close range. It was marked Unexplained after a concerted effort to find a solution by the US govt, featuring an investigative team led by Major Quintanilla and at least 3 employees of the Air Force assigned to it (the only unidentified and unexplained CE III on record classed as an "unknown" by Project Blue Book). It also featured the involvement of J. Allen Hynek.
There's no video or pictures, so it differs from the Patterson/Gimlin situation in that respect. There is a lot of actual Air Force investigation, all chronicled in great detail. I have all the relevant PDF files, they mostly contain the same sketches, etc. but all contribute something the others dont have. I can post them to save the effort to track them down. I will include here an artists conception of what Lonnie Zamora saw that late afternoon, his drawing of the object, and an 'overhead' drawing of the scene. The key point for me is that Zamora got to around 100' (roughly 30 steps) from the object. Walk away from your own car 30 paces, turn around, and it's still clearly your car. It's not a vague shape from that distance, it's easily 'throwable' distance with a decent sized rock.
There have been attempts to debunk based on a hoax (two theories: Zamora was hoaxed by students from a nearby Tech university using a balloon; Zamora was in on a hoax involving the mayor to promote some land or the city, I cant recall which - this was Klass' theory) or a Lunar Lander test vehicle (despite having nothing remotely close to what he described, then or now). That leaves ET visitation or some other novel explanation.
There's no video or pictures, so it differs from the Patterson/Gimlin situation in that respect. There is a lot of actual Air Force investigation, all chronicled in great detail. I have all the relevant PDF files, they mostly contain the same sketches, etc. but all contribute something the others dont have. I can post them to save the effort to track them down. I will include here an artists conception of what Lonnie Zamora saw that late afternoon, his drawing of the object, and an 'overhead' drawing of the scene. The key point for me is that Zamora got to around 100' (roughly 30 steps) from the object. Walk away from your own car 30 paces, turn around, and it's still clearly your car. It's not a vague shape from that distance, it's easily 'throwable' distance with a decent sized rock.
There have been attempts to debunk based on a hoax (two theories: Zamora was hoaxed by students from a nearby Tech university using a balloon; Zamora was in on a hoax involving the mayor to promote some land or the city, I cant recall which - this was Klass' theory) or a Lunar Lander test vehicle (despite having nothing remotely close to what he described, then or now). That leaves ET visitation or some other novel explanation.
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