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Special Series part 1 – In honor of Lonnie Zamora and his Soccoro Sighting. @ Truth Seeker Forum.

LONNIE ZAMORA (1933 – 2009): Eulogy, to a Man of His Word, and The Finest Witness One Could Ever Interview

The Socorro Incident: <br/>Did Zamora’s Egg Shaped UFO Cause Burns On Young Witness?

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UFO investigators are in Socorro — and they’re not here to visit the site where an Unidentified Flying Object reportedly landed in 1964.

The Mutual UFO Network will hold a panel discussion on the UFO phenomenon on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2-5 p.m., at the Socorro Public Library. The meeting is open to the public and free of charge.

“It’ll be a panel discussion involving field workers, who will be talking about some of the cases they’ve investigated,” said Dr. Donald R. Burleson, who heads the group’s state chapter. “And we’ll get a little philosophical by asking, ‘What makes this important?’ and ‘What have we learned?’”

Burleson said the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, is an international organization dedicated to UFO research. Its mission statement is “Scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity.”

Burleson said the group takes its scientific study seriously.

“We’re very careful in trying to separate things out and we try to be as scientific as we can,” he said. “If we don’t know what it is, we say so.”

Burleson said there’s an average of about one UFO sighting per week in New Mexico. Members of the panel will discuss some of the most recent cases that appear most genuine.

“There’s a series of what appears to be a landing circles in the earth near Angel Fire,” he said. “They’re not crop circles. They’re circles in the earth that are still very visible. We don’t know what to make of them.”

Another recent case still under investigation involves an aerial sighting by law enforcement officers near Deming, Burleson said.

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The Force is Disrupted
One way to raise the hackles of the UFO faithful . . . to stir the proverbial pot, is to take a well-documented case and decree it false in some form or fashion; for example, stating that Kenneth Arnold witnessed “pelicans” on that fateful day in June of ’47; or the never-ending weather balloon argument for Roswell by well known debunkers; or the infamous “swamp gas” statement uttered by Allen Hynek while investigating the notable Michigan sightings of 1966, which precipitated then Congressman Gerald Ford to formally request a congressional investigation into the mysterious UFOs. When such instances occur it sends mild shockwaves throughout the UFO community, and evokes immediate and sometimes harsh responses.

Generally when these actions take place, the names of the perpetrators are very familiar to Ufologists; their ideologies are cemented in anti-Ufology rhetoric and the behavior is a component of what I call “cognitive bias” in the best examples, and just plain ignorance in the worst-case scenarios.

In that vein, it was quite a surprise to most when an article was published—not by the usual debunkers, but from a noted Ufologist, pronouncing a very prestigious case in UFO history a hoax! The case was The Socorro Incident, and the Ufologist is Tony Bragalia, whom I not only consider a friend, but also have the highest regard for, and am grateful for his efforts in Ufology.

Bragalia has been getting much deserved attention lately for his research into Roswell; our regular readers aren’t strangers to his work as he has been kind enough to allow us to publish his articles, here at TUC. Accordingly, we’ve published the article in question entitled, “THE SOCORRO UFO HOAX EXPOSED!”

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