Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro

225 Pages·2017·2.18 MB·English

by  Kevin Randle

ENCOUNTER
IN THE DESERT
ENCOUNTER
IN THE DESERT
THE CASE FOR ALIEN CONTACT AT SOCORRO
KEVIN D. RANDLE
Copyright© 2018 by Kevin D. Randle
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Randle, Kevin D., 1949-author.
Title: Encounter in the desert : the case for alien contact at Socorro / by
Kevin Randle.
Description: Wayne, NJ : New Page Books, a division of The Career Press,
Inc., [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017034796 (print) | LCCN 2017043854 (ebook) | ISBN
9781632658937 (ebook) | ISBN 9781632651136 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters--
New
Mexico--Socorro.
Classification: LCC TL789.5.N6 (ebook) | LCC TL789.5.N6 R3598 2018
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Acknowledgments
As I have said before, the problem with acknowledgments is that someone is
always left out, but not on purpose. Without Rob McConnell offering me an
opportunity to host a radio show, I would have never started my research into the
Socorro UFO landing. Ben Moss and Tony Angiola told me things that I hadn’t
heard and wanted to learn more about. This led to Ray Stanford, who had
investigated the case in 1964 and is the only living person who had been on that
site within days of the landing, collecting samples and taking pictures. Rob
Mercer sparked some of this because he searched Craigslist for UFO-related
material and bought a box of documents that came from Project Blue Book.
Carmon Marano, whom I had mentioned in another book but who had been one
of those anonymous officers who worked on Project Blue Book, provided insight
into that investigation as it wound down. Paul Harden and Rick Baca, of
Socorro, provided guidance in my search, and Rick had been the man (kid, then)
who drew the craft as described by Lonnie Zamora, which showed us what it
looked like. Jerry Clark, as always, provided information and guidance in this
search.
There are many others whose names appear in the book who witnessed UFO
landings and found burned areas caused, in most cases, by UFOs, including
Robert Shaw, who had been an Iowa sheriff, and Howard Grove, who was an
Iowa farmer. Pat Barr and her father provided information about her 1969 UFO
sighting. Brad Steiger’s work is always valuable, and Ralph DeGraw
interviewed two men who claimed to have seen the same craft as Lonnie
Zamora. I’m not sure that it does any good at this late date, but Coral and Jim
Lorenzen of APRO helped, as did several members of the Fund for UFO
Research.
There are many more who contributed in some fashion and whose names
escape me at the moment. I don’t mean to overlook your contribution; it’s just
that there was so many others who helped in so many ways that it is impossible
to produce a proper list. For your help, I thank you, too.
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Beginning
Chapter 2: The World of UFOs
Chapter 3: The Other Witnesses
Chapter 4: The Investigation
Chapter 5: Other New Mexico UFO Reports
Chapter 6: Other “Unidentified” Occupant Sightings
Chapter 7: Psychological Solutions
Chapter 8: UFO Symbols
Chapter 9: What Symbol Did Zamora See?
Chapter 10: Socorro as a Hoax
Chapter 11: Other Landings
Chapter 12: Project Blue Book and Socorro
Chapter 13: Physical Evidence
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography