Here is an email I got from Ray Stanford yesterday...
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I have sent the following to The UFO Iconoclast, in response to Anthony Bragalia's ludicrous claim that the Socorro CE III case was engineered by anonymous college students. I doubt it will get posted, or at least it hasn't as yet.:
The claims made in THE SOCORRO UFO HOAX EXPOSED! (Famous 1964 sighting was a college prank) by Anthony Bragalia would be unacceptable as evidence in any court of law. His article contains only hear-say, and no evidence of what is alleged to have happened has been brought forth.
Any reader with the ability to hear can have the chance to learn the facts on Friday, October 2, at 1:30 to 3:30 PM, eastern USA time. That's because I have kindly been invited to address this matter on The Paracast at that time.
Bragalia's claim that the Socorro CE III case has been exposed should never have been published as being fact.
Please note: I wrote the book on the Socorro case, and that's a literal statement -- all 211 pages of it.
On Wednesday, April 29, 1964, I was the only investigator invited by Dr. J. Allen Hynek to be with him, Lonnie Zamora, and New Mexico State Police Sergeant Samuel Chavez (No one else was allowed there.) while we went over the entire experience.
Zamora didn't like to give many details to 'outsiders', but this time was different since he felt it his patriotic duty because Hynek was the official investigator for the U.S. Air Force.
Lonnie even sat in the police car parked exactly where it had been during the close-range part of the event, and went through the entire bodily action of quickly exiting the police car, stepping fast with his prescription glasses and sunshades on, directly toward the object. Then, as he did again for us, at only about thirty-five feet from where the 18-to-20 foot ellipsoidal object had rested, Zamora threw himself into a protective prone position on the slope, because a sudden and terribly loud roar began as a blue column of brilliant light emitted from the object. It was a diverging cone of light, being narrow at the top, but wider toward the ground.
Even at ~ 35 feet away, Zamora could feel heat radiating from the luminous 'exhaust'. Something has to be extremely hot to be felt at that distance, especially with a stiff breeze blowing it in another direction.
Subsequently, Allen Hynek commended my 1976, 211-page book about the case in a letter to me, intended for use in promoting it. An electronic copy of Hynek's letter is available from me, at anyone's individual request. He also donated a copy of my Socorro book to the technical library of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. (I have proof of that.)
My position regarding the Socorro object: It was an 18-to-20 foot ellipsoid of high eccentricity (i.e., long, rather narrow). It displayed two distinct propulsion modes. One was used only in landing and take-off and was very noisy. The other and apparently primary propulsion mode was, by contrast, very quiet, but it imparted very high speed (both horizontally and in almost vertical flight) to the object in very few seconds of time.
The source of the object is unknown. Although it was technologically sophisticated, that does not certify an extra-terrestrial origin, although associated evidences might, and not unreasonably, be taken as evidence of such.
Publicly unknown but extremely well-documented evidence relevant to the question of exotic propulsion of the Socorro object was recovered from the Socorro landing site and is in my possession. Its nature and possible significance will be discussed on The Paracast, October 2.
I am also preparing an in-depth, written exposé of Bragalia's claims about the Socorro case. It will be published on any willing website when ready, because I don't personally have time to maintain one. Hopefully even Bragalia may be willing to carry it, once he learns the facts.
Ray Stanford
College Park, Maryland, USA
This WILL be fun!!!
