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FBI files on the Socorro UFO landing

FBI via The Black Vault · 32 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 17 …of flame because it was behind the hill. No smoke noted. Noted some "commotion" at bottom…
  • p. 18 …and try twice again before made the hill. Hill about sixty feet long, fairly steep and…
  • p. 22 …ducked down p just over edge of hill. I guess I had run about twenty-five…
  • p. 24 …ran from object» jumped over edge of hill, then got back to car-and radioed as…
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