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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, serial 438

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This FBI Albuquerque office memorandum, dated May 8, 1964, reports on an unidentified flying object seen at Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. went to the site and describes four depressions, burned grass and circular marks in the ground. The memo also gives Officer Lonnie Zamora's detailed account of a flame and a roar, a shiny aluminum-like object with two figures in white coveralls, a red insignia, and the object's departure. The memo states that it contains no conclusions.

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  • p. 9 …Could not see bottom of flame because it was behind the hill. No smoke noted. Noted…
  • p. 10 …and try twice again before made the hill. Hill about sixty feet long, fairly steep and…
  • p. 14 …I was still running and I jumped just over the hill--I stopped because I did…
  • p. 16 …ran from object, jumped over edge of hill, then got back to car and radioed as…
  • p. 19 …Could not see bottom of flume because it was behind the hill. No smoke notod. Noted…
  • p. 20 …and try twice again before made the hill. Hill about sixty feet long, fairly steep and…
  • p. 24 …I was still running and I jumped just over the hill--I stopped because I did…
  • p. 26 …ran from object, jumped over edge of hill, then got back to car and radioed as…
  • p. 29 …Could not see bottom of flame because it was behind the hill. No smoke noted. Noted…
  • p. 30 …and try twice again before made the hill. Hill about sixty feet long, fairly steep and…
  • p. 34 …I was still running and I jumped just over the hill--I stopped because I did…
  • p. 36 …ran from object, jumped over edge of hill, then got back to car and radioed as…

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Vol.1

438. Only

## FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER

HQ-HEADQUARTERS	HQ-0000-86775B:HQ
Class/Case#	Sub	Vol.	Serial#
006283894 1	438	ONLY

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Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007.

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