Published: 3:46 AM 10/16/2009

By John Larson, for Mountain Mail

SOCORRO, New Mexico (STPNS) -- Local artist Patrick Richard asked the Socorro City Council to re-consider a previous request to allow a historical marker to be placed in the area of a Socorro policeman’s report of an unidentified flying object.

The location of Lonnie Zamora’s 1964 experience is in an arroyo about a quarter of a mile north of Park Street on Raychester Road.

The report attracted the attention of the U.S. Air Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and related agencies.

According to official files, the sighting remains unexplained, Richard said.

Also see the UFO Casebook case file, UFO Lands in Socorro, New Mexico.