One of the most famous cases of UFO landings occurred outside of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Officer Lonnie Zamora came upon a landed craft which he first took to be an overturned car. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the object was egg-shaped, white in color with an unusual red marking on its side. Standing next to it were two child-size occupants dressed in white overalls. As he approached on foot to get a closer look, the object lifted off with a loud roar, the landing gears retracted, and the UFO departed at great speed toward the horizon. A smoldering bush and four rectangular indentations were found at the site.

In a large stack of government UFO documents that I purchased from The Fund for UFO Research, I found the following FBI UFO files which refer to this case: