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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 <a href="http://ufos.homestead.com/colgate-letter.jpg" target="_blank">Dr Linus Pauling</a> have to do with it?

<a href="http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2009/09/socorro-hoax-exposed-famous-1964.html" target="_blank">Read on</a> at the UFO Iconoclasts.

Via Nick Redfern at <a href="http://www.ufomystic.com/author/nick/" target="_blank">UFO Mystic</a>