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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.
“Socorro”12 pages
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT whine lasted maybe a second. Then there was complete silence about the object. ThatUs when I lifted up my head and saw the object going away from me. It did not come·,· any closer to me. It appeared to go in a straight line and at same height--possibly ten to fifteen feet from ground~ and it cleared the dynamite shack by about three feet. Shack about eight feet high. Object was traveling very fast. It seemed to rise up and take off immediately across country. I ran back to my car and as I ran back, I kept an eye on the object. I picked up my glasses, (I left the sunglasses on the ground) ~ got into the car, and radioed to L.I____...J radio operatoI'$ to "look out the window~ to see if you could see:·.an object." He asked~ "What is it?" I answered~ "It looks like a balloono" I don it know if he saw it. If 1-1__..... looked out his window~ which faces north~ he couldntt have seen it. I did not tell him at the moment which window to look out of. As I was callingL.I_----JII could still see the object. The object seemed to lift up ~loWly ~ and to "get small" in the distance very fast. It seemed to just clear the Box Canyon or Six Mile Canyon Mountain. It disappeared as it -8- b6 b7C
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