Since
I’ve had so much fun with the “What symbol did Lonnie Zamora see?” a question
sparked by my interview of Ben Moss and Tony Angiola, I thought I’d try it
again. If you remember the interview, Ben or Tony mentioned that three people
had called the police in Socorro to say that they had seen or heard something
about the time that Zamora was approaching the UFO. I asked if they had checked
the police logs to confirm this but somehow I didn’t get a solid answer for it.
Well,
I now have that answer.
As
I was looking for descriptions of the symbol in the Blue Book files, I was
reading the various reports made by those involved in the investigation.
Although undated, one report does mention the sighting on April 24, 1964, and was
clearly written in the days that followed the sighting. It is signed by Captain
Richard T. Holder, who was an Army officer assigned to White Sands in 1964 and
who lived in Socorro (he was the up range commander and Socorro was closer to
his duty station than Alamogordo).
Holder
wrote, “Upon arrival at the office location in the Socorro County Building, we
were informed by Nep Lopez, Sheriff’s Office radio operator, that approximately
three reports had been called in by telephone of a blue flame or light in the
area… These reports were not entered on the dispatcher’s log so no time on
those reports is available – the dispatcher indicated that the times were
roughly similar. Reports were completed at approximately 0100 25 April.”
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Holder's report from the Project Blue Book Files.
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I will say that this is
becoming slightly annoying as I gather more information. We can say that Zamora’s
report is single witness, but that’s just not accurate. Here is an indication
of three other sightings of the blue flame or light (and there could be more
that had been called in) but no one logged them and no one bothered to get the
names. Holder, however, has confirmed the reports into the police and that is
something. In other words, the Zamora sighting is not single witness
