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"Any question of hallucination seems clearly out. He is a non-drinking man, and is a solid, well-built, physically healthy individual. He is a cop who looks as though he could be pretty gruff with his customers, and in fact, his complaint about the UFO sighting was that it did not allow him time to give out his full quota of tickets for the day." "About 5-45 P.M., 4-24-64, while in Socorro 2 Police Car ('64 white Pontiac), I started to chase a car due south from west side of the Court House. Car was apparently speeding and was about three blocks in front of my police car. At a point on Old Rodeo Street (extension of Park Street south) near the George Morillo residence (about a half-mile south of Spring Street) the chased car was going straight ahead toward the rodeo grounds. Car chased was a new black Chevrolet. Chased car was still about three blocks ahead and I was alone. "At this time I heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to the southwest, some distance away - possibly a half-mile or a mile. Came to my mind that a dynamite shack in that area had blown up. Decided to leave chased car go. "Flame was bluish and sort of orange, too. Could not tell size of the flame. Sort of a motionless flame, slowly descending. I was still driving the car and couldn't pay too much attention to the flame. It was a narrow type of flame. It was like a 'stream down’ - a funnel type - narrower at the top than at the bottom. Flame was possibly three degrees in width - not wide. "Flame was about twice as wide at bottom as at top and about four times as high, as top was wide. I did not notice if top of flame was level. Sun was to the west and did not help my vision. Had on green sunglasses over my prescription glasses. Could not see bottom of the flame because it was behind a hill. No smoke noted. Noted some 'commotion' at bottom - dust? Possibly from windy day - wind was "Noise I heard was a roar, not a blast, not like a jet. It changed from high frequency to low frequency and then stopped. The roar lasted possibly 10 seconds - was going towards it at that time on the rough gravel road. Saw flame for about as long as I heard the sound. Flame was same color, as best as I recall. The sound was distinctly from high to low until it disappeared. My car windows were both down. No other spectators noted - no traffic except the car in front - and the car in front might have heard it, but possibly did not see it because car in front was too close to a hill in front to see the flame. "After the roar and the flame, I did not note anything while going up the somewhat steep rough hill- had to back up and try again, two more times. Got up about halfway the first time, then the wheels started skidding. The roar was still going on. Had to back down and try again before making the hill. Hill about 60 feet long, fairly steep and with loose gravel and rock. While beginning third time (to climb the hill), the noise and flame were not noted. "After I got to the top, I traveled slowly on the gravel road westward. Noted nothing for awhile ... for possibly 15 or 20 seconds, went slowly, looking around for the (dynamite-storage) shack - did not recall exactly where the dynamite shack was. Now in his own words, listen to Police Officer Zamora's description of the strange UFO he sighted: blowing hard. Clear sunny sky otherwise - just a few clouds scattered over area.