The Saucer

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In April of 1964, a Socorro, New Mexico police officer, Lonnie Zamora, experienced one of the most famous UFO sightings in US history—one often overshadowed by the more famous Roswell incident some years before. Lonnie’s story has it all: Project Blue Book, aliens, the CIA. . .and a lot of half-baked explanations.

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. Well, strangers, it's that time again.
0:28.6	We're back with another soaring tale of unidentified flying objects.
0:34.6	To set the mood, we want to tell you about an interesting little release from
0:39.9	the CIA, something they dropped back in 2016. Consider it a appetizer to today's tale.
0:49.8	So, in 2016, the CIA issued a very odd press release titled How to Investigate a Flying Saucer.
0:59.7	And believe it or not, this missive actually included information on how to do exactly that.
1:06.6	Perhaps they would have rethought this fun little exercise, which was time to come out
1:11.5	along with the reboot of the X-Files, if they'd known that Storm Area 51, they can't
1:17.1	stop all of us, would become an incredibly popular meme just three years later.
1:23.1	The CIA, Always Thinking.
1:26.9	Now, their investigative tips amounted to a broad overview of the procedure developed during
1:33.4	the Air Force's infamous 1952-1969 mission known as Project Blue Book.
1:41.2	If you're a government nerd, you might ask, why would the CIA release this if it was an Air Force project?
1:48.0	Well, maybe the CIA has been going for more of a fun look. Maybe they were jealous.
1:54.0	In any case, there is actually a better, historically based answer to that question.
2:00.0	According to Network World, who extensively quoted the CIA's release, one-time chief historian
2:06.6	Gerald Kay Haynes, wrote that,
2:08.6	Although the CIA was not directly affiliated with Project Blue Book, the agency did play a large
2:14.6	role in investigating UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which
2:20.2	led to the creation of several studies, panels, and programs.
2:25.1	According to the Palm Beach Post, Project Blue Book used to be called Project Grudge,
2:30.4	until its name was changed in 1952. The Air Force chooses not to tell us what the names mean or why the name was changed.
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