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Socorro UFO: Another one bites the dust?

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Was one of the most celebrated UFO incidents of the 1960s a college prank on a policeman who hounded students from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology? The answer is a conclusive maybe…

The April 1964 Socorro New Mexico encounter between cop Lonnie Zamora and an ovular UFO is considered one of the most solid cases on record; but evidence is now surfacing that it was an elaborate prank staged by disgruntled psychology and engineering students. And what does Dr Linus Pauling have to do with it?

Read on at the UFO Iconoclasts.

Via Nick Redfern at UFO Mystic