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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Emilcin and the Farmer's Monument

On 10 May 1978 a farmer named Jan Wolski was driving a hay cart along a road by this village in the Lublin region when, by his account, he picked up two short beings in tight-fitting suits who sat down beside him. After a while they led him to a white craft hanging over a field, lifted him inside, examined him and let him go. Wolski was illiterate, made nothing from the story, and told it the same way until his death. Local authorities and Polish investigators looked into it; marks were found in the ground. In 2005 a stone monument with an account of the event was put up in the field — the second such in Europe after the Swedish one.