Socorro
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Sep 10, 2026
Laurent GruetGUEST
And it was planted in Mesilla Valley.
Laurent GruetGUEST
And Mesilla Valley, Las Cruces, also Socorro, all the Rio Grande.
Laurent GruetGUEST
That's where the grapes came from.
Laurent GruetGUEST
So that grape was used to make wine from Churchill.
Eli EilersGUEST
Uh, you have Sonoma Ranch Golf Course, Red Hawk Golf Course, uh, NMSU University Golf Course, and Picacho Hills Country Club down there.
Eli EilersGUEST
Uh, to the north we got our friends in Socorro, New Mexico.
Eli EilersGUEST
Uh, New Mexico Tech is a fun little golf course that, uh, I like to take a trip up every once in a while to, to go see them.
Eli EilersGUEST
And uh, yeah, I, I like to travel this I-25 corridor here and, uh, experience all the golf courses that are in New Mexico.
Preston DennettHOST
The first case I'd like to talk about is probably the most famous case of a landing trace.
Preston DennettHOST
And that is, of course, the Socorro, New Mexico UFO landing.
Preston DennettHOST
This occurred on April 24, 1964.
Preston DennettHOST
And there are actually a number of witnesses to activity at that time.
Preston DennettHOST
There were two gentlemen, Paul Keyes and Larry Kratzer, who apparently saw a UFO while driving along Highway 60, moving towards the area where Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora would see this UFO land.
Preston DennettHOST
At the time, Lonnie Zamora was in pursuit of a speeding motorist when he heard a loud roaring sound and looking towards the source of this noise, he saw a bright flaming object descend behind a small hill near the location of a dynamite shack.
Preston DennettHOST
And he thought that perhaps the shack had exploded, so he drove to the top of the hill and to his shock he saw a small shiny object landed next to the road and two short figures standing next to it.
Preston DennettHOST
J. Allen Hynek also investigated the incident shortly after it happened, and he measured these landing marks, determining that the center of gravity of this object corresponded exactly to the location of the burned foliage.
Miss Retro ReadsHOST
He made a complete getaway.
Miss Retro ReadsHOST
Three or four years later, he was arrested in Socorro, New Mexico, and returned to Austin.
Miss Retro ReadsHOST
At his trial for participation in the Pegleg stage robberies, he was acquitted, and perhaps justly so, for Bill Allison declared to me that Dick Dublin, with his brothers Del and Rolle, and Mac Po- Potter were the real robbers.
Miss Retro ReadsHOST
The arrest and conviction of the Dublins, together with the other man Lieutenant Reynolds had captured or killed, completely cleaned out the stage robbers, cattle and horse thieves, and murderers who had made Kimble County their rendezvous.
Rich HoffmanGUEST
That's, that was just the amazing time that, that I had with the Blue Book people.
Rich HoffmanGUEST
And I jokingly point out that it, wh- when I got that D on that report, that was, that, that evening was when the, they were talking about the, it, it was April 24th, 1964, and that was the Lonnie Zamora and Socorro, New Mexico case.
Martin WillisHOST
Wow.
Rich HoffmanGUEST
Right?
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
I believe my dad was 20.
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
And my mom grew up in a very small town called Socorro, New Mexico.
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
It is, I think in its heyday, probably had 10,000 people living there.
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
I think it's probably less than seven now.
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
And so that's what we did.
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
We packed up everything.
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
And we moved across from Texas, South Texas, back to Socorro.
Eric Carter-LandinGUEST
It was a scary time.
Eric LloydHOST
Excellent.
Eric LloydHOST
At the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge outside of, are you considered outside of Albuquerque or outside of Socorro or is it just in the middle of nowhere? I think the address is La Jolla.
Eric LloydHOST
La Jolla, okay.
Eric LloydHOST
Which is on the
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Eric LloydHOST
Anyway, sorry, a little meta geeky action there.
Eric LloydHOST
So you have this facility here where we are.
Eric LloydHOST
Round numbers halfway between Albuquerque and Socorro.
Eric LloydHOST
And then if we drove down to Socorro and headed west towards Magdalena, we eventually go and get to the VLA where you have another facility.
Steve StocktonHOST
He refused to sell his story, refused to go on television, and eventually became so harassed by tourists that he refused to speak of the event at all.
Steve StocktonHOST
And then there's the Socorro connection.
Steve StocktonHOST
One year earlier, in 1964, Officer Lonnie Zamora in New Mexico reported an almost identical craft, an oval with a central pedestal, and identical small beings.
Steve StocktonHOST
It's highly unlikely that a French farmer in 1965 would have known the technical details of a New Mexico police report from a year earlier.
KyleHOST
Two crash sites have been located close to ESPG Site LZ1 was located at a ranch near Corona, approximately 75 miles northwest of the town of Roswell.
KyleHOST
Site LZ2 was located approximately 20 miles southwest of the town of Socorro, with Oscula Peak being the reference point.
KyleHOST
Personnel were mainly interested in LZ-2.
KyleHOST
This site actually contained the majority of structural detail of the craft's frame.
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Yeah.
Chris LooneyHOST
But I also spent a lot of time in Socorro.
Chris LooneyHOST
And there were plenty of fun places to stop along the road to Socorro as well from Albuquerque.
Chris LooneyHOST
So I'm a huge New Mexico fan.
Chris LooneyHOST
And I've loved this conversation to explore your journey.
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