Hoyt Velarde Egg-Shaped Craft Sighting near Dulce
In 1964, while working on his father's farm near Dulce, New Mexico, a young Hoyt Velarde observed a roughly twenty-foot-long egg-shaped craft, glowing with an ivory or alabaster light, moving just above the trees — similar in description to the craft seen by Sergeant Lonnie Zamora at Socorro that same year.
Background
The Sighting
In 1964, Hoyt Velarde — then a young man — was working on his father's farm near Dulce, New Mexico, when he noticed an object moving just above the treetops. He described it as egg-shaped, roughly twenty feet long, and glowing with an ivory or alabaster light rather than any sharp metallic gleam.
The Socorro Parallel
The description closely matches the now-famous Socorro, New Mexico incident of 24 April 1964, in which New Mexico State Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora reported an egg- or oval-shaped craft on landing legs with insignia on its side. The two New Mexico events occurred in the same year and the same broad region, suggesting either a shared identification of an unknown craft type or — if taken at face value — repeated activity by the same class of object.
Later Context
Velarde's 1964 sighting is described in In Plain Sight alongside his 1987 and 1997 reports as evidence that his experience with the phenomenon spanned decades, strengthening the credibility of his later testimony as a repeat observer rather than a one-off witness.