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The shack is about eight feet high. The object was traveling very fast. It seemed to rise up and take off immediately across country. The object seemed to lift up slowly and to get small in the distance very fast. It disappeared as it went over Mile Canyon Mountain. It had no flame whatsoever as it was "Noted no odors. Noted no sounds other than (those) described. At that time I heard Sergeant Chavez (of the New Mexico State Police) calling me on the radio for my location. And I returned to my car and told him he was looking at me. Then Sergeant Chavez came up and asked me what the trouble was because I was sweating and he told me that I was white, very pale. I asked the Sergeant to see what I saw and that was the burning brush (in the area where the object had been). The brush was burning in several places. Then Sergeant Chavez and I went to the spot and Sergeant Chavez pointed out the tracks." The UFO had left strong physical impressions in the ground where it had rested. Police Officer Zamora had an explanation for this: "When I first saw the object (when I thought it might be a car), I saw what appeared to be two legs of some type from the object to the ground. At the time, I didn't pay much attention to what it was - I thought it was an accident - (when) I saw the two persons. "I didn't pay much attention to the two 'legs.' The two legs' were at the bottom of the object, slanted outwards to the ground. The object might have been about three-and-a-half feet from the ground at that time. I just glanced at it. "As my (radio) mike fell, when I got out of the car, I heard about two or three loud thumps, like someone possibly opening or shutting a door hard. These thumps were possibly a second or less apart. This was just before the roar. The persons were not seen by me when I got up to the scene area.” Officer Zamora is suggesting that the "thumps" were caused by the "two persons" entering a vehicle and slamming the hatches closed after them - although no doors or windows were observed. The case is not closed in the Project Blue Book files, but neither is it explained. After an intensive survey of all aircraft, research and conventional, that operate out of Holloman Air Force Base and the White Sands Missile Range, both nearby to the Socorro UFO sighting, nothing was turned up that even remotely resembled the vehicle described by Zamora. The sighting must be categorized as a highly mysterious From St. Gallen, Switzerland, came word of another mysterious sighting on August 13 and 14, 1963. Alfred Schelling, a businessman, addressed a letter two days later to "NASA, Pentagon, Washington, USA." His letter was routinely forwarded to Project Blue Book, since it concerned a UFO sighting. In it, Mr. Schelling asked for an explanation of what he thought was "some kind of missile or satellite" flying on two successive evenings. "It was glowing and looked like a small fireball," he wrote. "Speed and height have been constantly the same and we wondered what this could be." The object was first observed in the evening (no time given) on August 13, as mentioned. A second observation showed the UFO to be identical with that of the first sighting: "The next evening, Wednesday 14th August, we waited and at exactly the same time as the evening before this glowing ball raised again exactly at the same point over the mountains and flew with exactly the same speed but slightly lower in the same direction (the italics are mine - LM.). traveling over the ground - and no smoke or noise. "good unknown."