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This is an FBI FOIA release sent to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault on September 16, 2020, under request 1474900-000. It contains 1964 Albuquerque field office teletypes, airtels and memoranda on Officer Lonnie Zamora's report of an oval object with a red insignia that rose with a roar and flame near Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Agent D. Arthur Byrnes Jr. noted four indentations and burned patches. Kirtland AFB officers said they could not explain Zamora's observations, and the FBI did not investigate.
FEDERAl BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIOM
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMMUNICATiONS SECTION.,-"--
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FROM SAC, ALBUQUERQUE 62-NEW
L:GNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTf SOCORRO,.." :: . - :---. .... N.M. APR
INFORMATION CONCERNING.
INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE, FROM
LONN~MORA, CONSIDERED SOBER, DEPENDABLE, MATURE, NOT OF J.I:r_
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FANTASY, OFFICER OF POLICE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO, ~ THAT AT ABOUT, t({;~.,.. ""/
FIVE FIFTY PM MST, WHILE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME IN ~""
SKY TO SOUTHWEST, WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN BELIEF DYNAMIT~E_-a
SHACK IN AREA HAD BLOWN UP. -'M Ji -'!-1r.P
WHILE TRAVELING IN ISOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE .
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SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO, NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT ELGHT ~ND~ED ,~,.-
FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT \mrCH, UPON GLANCING AT SAME,/?\PPEARED p)~'
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TO 8E OVERTURNED AUTOMOBILE. TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT .~HIT~
COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT. .J)
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'.'"' THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED...
THREE FEEI FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY TO TWENTY FIVE FEET HIGHER.
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A SiCOND 'APART, THEN WITH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND!.' ANGE FLAMES;
OB.ijCT SL OWLY VERT! CALL Y ROSE Ta .~ Ii ~ CAR HE I G~J, THE;N NOT Sf. NI D I: £11 F;.~., ~~ ~ y RECQ 53 I'~,.J - Y 3 ? 'f'~ .,.-~ :J1t!ft~
FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOOK OFF AT HIGH SPEE,D IN STRATGll.'LJ.JNE AND
NO~PERSONS VISIBLE. HEARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS, LESS THAN" .
ALMOST ~OROZONTALLY TO DI~APPEAR..PVER PlpJ~~T ,.MOUNTAI6!APR 30 19641
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~' .. I:. ZAr10RA, GREATLY FRIGHTENED, RADIOED HIS OBSERVA'tL(}.NS0AND ~
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NMSP S'ERGE,ANT Af.m' So'CO'HRO dOUNTY··UNDERSj-J,ERIFF. QUICKLY ON SCENE, )
NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR ~(
REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS APPROXIMATELY SI XTEEN BY SIX INCHES IN ~/ ·u v
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