Off San Diego and the Tic Tac
On 14 November 2004 the Nimitz carrier group, a hundred-odd kilometres south-west of San Diego, spent several days tracking returns that dropped from twenty-five kilometres to sea level in seconds. A pair of F/A-18s was sent to look; the squadron commander, David Fravor, reported a white object with no wings and no exhaust, shaped like a breath mint, moving over the water in sharp jumps. The second aircraft filmed it on an infrared camera. That recording, known as FLIR1, was published in 2017 and confirmed by the Pentagon in 2020 as genuine and unidentified. It is the first case on this map where the defence ministry itself vouched for the document.
Socorro and Lonnie Zamora's Landing
On 24 April 1964 Officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeder south of Socorro when he heard a roar and saw flame beyond a hill. Coming closer, he made out a white object standing on legs in an arroyo, shaped like an egg on end, with two small figures in white beside it. Then came a roar, and the object rose and went off to the south-west. What it left behind was four pressed depressions where the legs had stood, scorched brush, and smaller prints. All of it was photographed and measured that same day, before the press arrived. J. Allen Hynek, who ran Project Blue Book, called Zamora the best witness he had met, and the case was closed as unexplained — one of very few in the project's files.
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