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FBI files on the Socorro UFO landing

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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.

  • p. 9 …UNIDENTIFIED PLYING OBJECT SOCORRO;' NEW MEXICO APRIL 24, 1964- MISCELLANEOUS - INPORMA'1'IONCO}!CERNING _ (NATIONALITIES INTELLIGENCE…
  • p. 11 …DISARMAMENT AGENCY IN SOUTHi~EST STATES INCLUDING NEW MEXICO. NOT KNOWN IF ABOVE INCIDENT RELATES TO…
  • p. 12 …DIRECTOR, FB I SAC, ALBUQUERQUE (62-1028) UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO APRIL 24, 1964…
  • p. 14 …FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Albuquerque~ New Mexico lVf..ay 8 ~ 1964 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SOCORRO i…
  • p. 16 …Lonnie Zamora, 606 Reservoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134~ Officer Socorro Police Department about five…
  • p. 30 …New Mexico, on 4/26/64, cannot explain the observations described by ZAMORA at Socorro, New…
  • p. 31 …was at socorro, New Mexico~ 4/24/64, and had noted the£our irx:egularburned spots…
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TO: ~ DIRECTOR, FBI
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RE: ' -fi UNIDENTIFIED FL¥ING OBJ~CT ,.'
..SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO,
, 4/24/64
INFORMATION CONCERNING
Re Albuquerque teletypes to
4/27/64.
Lt. Col.1 I Kirtland
. (KAFB), Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 4/26/64,
cannot explain the observations described by
ZAMORA at Socorro, New Mexico.
Air Force Base
advised that he
Officer LONNIE
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Albuquerque, advised that he is the proper officer to handle
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Majorl ladvised that he and T/sgt.1 I \
had examined the site at Socorro, New Mexico, and interview ~. ~
Officer LONNIE ZAMORA. They were impressed by Officer ZAMORA~ ~
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