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A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed at White Sands National Park about 11:50 a.m. April 30, officials with the 49th Wing at Holloman Air Force Base said.
Juan Corral, Alamogordo Daily News April 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM Two people died in a three-car crash at the intersection of White Sands Blvd. and 10th St. on April 7.
White Sands National Park is located in southern New Mexico, on the north side of U.S. Route 70 approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Alamogordo and 52 miles (84 km) northeast of Las Cruces, [2] in western Otero County and northeastern Doña Ana County. [54] The closest commercial airport is in El Paso, Texas, about 85 miles (137 km) away ...
Alamogordo Daily News, founded in 1898, is a daily newspaper published in Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. It carries local news as well as syndicated content from Associated Press and others. It carries local news as well as syndicated content from Associated Press and others.
The Bataan Memorial Death March is an annual commemoration of the Bataan Death March attended by many of the survivors of the march, along with thousands of supporters from around the world, held at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
In addition to the local school system, Alamogordo is home to the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, founded in 1903, and a branch of New Mexico State University founded in 1958. [13]: 44, 58 The largest non-government employer in the city is the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center with 650 employees in 2008. [53]
Alamogordo–White Sands Regional Airport (IATA: ALM, ICAO: KALM, FAA LID: ALM) is a city-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, a city in Otero County, New Mexico. [1] It opened in 1959 and was formerly known as Alamogordo Municipal Airport.
The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring blue and orange flame.