Oct 05 2009
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Socorro: The Latest
Tony Bragalia’s research into the Socorro event of 1964 continues to create interest and controversy! Here’s an extract from his new post – over at UFO Iconoclast(s):
“New investigation reveals that the likely culprits behind the Socorro UFO hoax in 1964 were part of a highly secret group of student pranksters at NM Tech. It is now learned that so extreme were some of these Techie ‘pranks’ during the 1960s that they even caused physical endangerment. One especially sophisticated UFO hoax at that time led to the severe reprimand by U.S. military base officials of a Techie whose prank had caused the emergency scrambling of jet interceptors! This intensely private group existed at the College under various code names and leaders for decades.”
And here’s the complete article.
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October 5th, 2009 at 4:30 am
I’m still waiting for the actual confession of the hoaxer with details, which Bragalia seems to indicate will be forthcoming. He might have made a better case if he had waited on this before making his announcements.
It seems paradoxically easier to prove this case as a true unknown than a hoax, probably because the evidence for a UFO is by definition unidentified, while a hoax explanation begs details which should be known.
I’d be interested to see if he can prove his case, but so far, most remain unconvinced, including me.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Anyone doubting the true, high-strange nature of the Soccoro case is advised to find a copy of Ray Stanford’s seminal work: Soccoro Saucer in a Pentagon pantry. IMO the finest book ever written about a single UFO case. There are far too many unexplainable facts with the Zamora case and Ray’s excellent on-site investigation 3 days after the sighting dovetailed with Hynek & the AF. Vitrified quartz, fused sand, radiation-fogged film, metal scrapings from the landing gear, no evidence of hydrocabon fuel on plant and soil samples—the list of unexplained elements is long and the case is still classified as a true unknown by the AF.
October 5th, 2009 at 7:02 am
I read Ray’s book in the 70’s and have a vague recollection of it. The nagging question is why after 45 years are the hoaxers coming forward? If they, being tech scientific types, in fact did build a hoax aircraft, show us the plans and/or photos of the build process and other processes used to hoax the landing. You can claim just about anything but without hard evidence, you sound just as whacky as Bob Lazar.
October 6th, 2009 at 3:31 am
I will be the first to admit that these claims to require evidence if we are to put matters to rest (or not!).
However, I think these revelations have less to do with these people coming forward, and more to do with Tony seeking them out.
But I agree – something substantial is needed to take this further.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Seeing the source, the RR group, I wouldn’t hold my breathe in anticipation of shocking revelations.