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

by Kevin Randle

Overview

From a former army officer and author of UFOS and the Deep State, a new examination of a UFO sighting in a New Mexican arroyo.

The UFO landing at Socorro has been wrapped in controversy almost from the moment that police officer Lonnie Zamora watched a craft descend and land. Zamora saw alien beings near the craft and a symbol on its side but was told that he shouldn’t mention either. Encounter in the Desert reveals—for the first time—exactly what he saw in that arroyo in 1964 and what an examination of the landing revealed to investigators. Socorro wasn’t a stand-alone case. Other sightings, some of them nearly as spectacular as Zamora’s, were reported at the time. A study of the Air Force investigation of this case reveals an effort, at first, to learn the truth that mutated into a clever attempt to hide the information from the public. Encounter in the Desert reveals all this and much more, including:

• The first new, in-depth look at the Zamora UFO landing in more than three decades.
• Other reports of alien creatures sighted around the country at the same time.
• An examination of the physical evidence found on the landing site.
• The revelation that there were other witnesses to the craft and the landing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632658937
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	06/23/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	289
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Kevin D. Randle is a retired Army lieutenant colonel who served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and an intelligence officer in Iraq. He studied anthropology and journalism at the University of Iowa and holds advanced degrees from the American Military University and California Coast University. He has been studying UFOs for 50 years and has published dozens of books about the subject, including Crash: When UFOs Fall from the Sky. He hosts a radio show on the X-Zone Broadcast Network and a blog, A Different Perspective. He has appeared on dozens of television and radio shows, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, and many others.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 The Beginning 19

Chapter 2 The World of UFOs 33

Chapter 3 The Other Witnesses 51

Chapter 4 The Investigation 65

Chapter 5 Other New Mexico UFO Reports 81

Chapter 6 Other "Unidentified" Occupant Sightings 99

Chapter 7 Psychological Solutions 111

Chapter 8 UFO Symbols 139

Chapter 9 What Symbol Did Zamora See? 157

Chapter 10 Socorro as a Hoax 167

Chapter 11 Other Landings 185

Chapter 12 Project Blue Book and Socorro 209

Chapter 13 Physical Evidence 225

Conclusions 239

Notes 251

Bibliography 273

Index 281