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You're listening to episode 231 of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the Lonnie Zamora 1964 UFO incident in Sakura, New Mexico.

I'm Don Betanelli and Junemy today is Jimmy Aiken. Hey Jimmy. Howdy, Dom.

In 1964, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora was following a car when he heard an explosion.

Fearing a local dynamite shack had blown up, he abandoned pursuit and went to the side of the shack.

What he saw startled him. There was an egg-shaped craft sitting on the ground and he briefly saw two

humanoids outside of it before the craft took off, leaving physical traces behind.

The result was one of the most intriguing UFO cases of the 1960s.

So who was Lonnie Zamora? What did he see? And what makes this case so intriguing?

And that's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World.

Jimmy today's mystery is an example of a close encounter of the third kind. So where does that

term come from and what does it mean? It comes from a system for classifying UFO sightings that

was developed by the astronomer J. Allen Heineck who worked for the Air Force's UFO study,

Project Blue Book in the 1950s and 1960s. Basically Heineck had six types of sightings, three of which

were distance sightings and three of which were close up enough to allow the witnesses to see

significant detail on a UFO. Of the three close-up sightings, the first kind involved only a

visual sighting, but within about 500 feet or less so that you could see significant detail,

not just a light in the sky. Close encounters of the second kind involved the object interacting

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