Lonnie Zamora

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A Socorro, New Mexico police officer suspended a high speed car chase upon hearing a loud roar and seeing flames near where a dynamite shack was located. He came upon what appears to be two astronauts landing an aluminum, oblate spheroid shaped precursor of the lunar lander. The location is just west of the White Sands Missile Range, precisely where a vehicle of this type would be tested, possibly dropped from an airborne platform like a B-52.

The flames were blue to invisible, which is consistent with hydrogen as fuel. Officer Zamora drew a picture of a large insignia he saw on the side of the craft, which resembles the logo of AstroPower, a subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft Company at the time. Officer Zamora saw two short people in what he described as white coveralls, which is consistent with the Apollo astronaut space suits. The astronauts reboarded their craft, lifted off, and sped away in the direction of Sixmile Canyon Mountain. This is in the opposite direction from White Sands Missile Range. So the test landing could have been blown off course to the west, since Officer Zamora said that the wind was blowing hard.

This incident occurred in 1964, when Officer Zamora could not identify the sound of a rocket engine, although he knew what a jet engine sounded like. Government officials gave him the run around, and never came clean. The incident is still listed as unidentified. Project Blue Book had the habit of never offering information, but would only answer direct questions. It is high time a FOIA request asked the right question regarding this incident. Was NASA using this vehicle to train astronauts for the lunar landing? No natural phenomenon advertises a company logo, at least not yet.