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Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

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This 217-page Project Blue Book desk file on the 24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico sighting by policeman Lonnie Zamora comes from the Rob Mercer collection. It contains the Blue Book record card, which carries the case as unidentified pending more data, along with Foreign Technology Division messages and resumes and a narrative of the sighting. It also holds inquiries about lunar modules, helicopters and VTOL craft, soil and radiation findings, and a letter by J. Allen Hynek rejecting Donald Menzel's hoax hypothesis.

  • p. 2 …COMMENTS Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora • . Initially believed to be observation of Lunar module type…
  • p. 7 …unidentified fi.ying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, Nev Mexico • . a. At appi…
  • p. 10 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 12 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr ·Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 14 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev…
  • p. 16 …Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday 1 24 .April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora ot the…
  • p. 18 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked vith the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamot'a is…
  • p. 24 …vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the eighting as _described by Lonnie Zamora.Rob Mercer
  • p. 28 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flight s wer…
  • p. 29 …j ption provide d by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance fli ghts were…
  • p. 86 ,, ttro~EL' Sccc; Apr11 ~ ~Y !·!.e:dco .1.964 Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
  • p. 96 …We contacted Sgt Chavez, the State Police officer Who was the first to reach Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 97 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 98 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 101 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil. " And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 129 …Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw sighting, said he ·attached no' j And to lbelp find clues to…
  • p. 132 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg- . shaped vehicle, roughly t"e s…
  • p. 133 …The !lap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie . z-ora (note incorrect…
  • p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l about a mile south of Socorro. POLICE…
  • p. 136 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the · object Friday…
  • p. 137 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 138 …Edgewood is about 30 miles \ I !=ity Officer Lonnie Zamora east of Albuquerque. ~1d he saw…
  • p. 139 …l.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~ ~~ Officer Lonnie Zamora. Heights Resident Saw 'Object' Here Mitropolis said there w a s another…
  • p. 142 …he was told by :·:ocor " pc!iceman Lonnie :Zamora th t , th ·~ UFO he . saw l…
  • p. 143 …Lonnie Zamora, who said. he · spotted nn object nea r Secor- . ro Friday night. Zan1ora, in…
  • p. 147 …from a Socorro p::;Ecc~ar.,ll Lonnie Zamora, who s<:.~d he spotte~ an o…
  • p. 151 …from the position of what marks, Zamora said he Officer Lonnie Zamora apparently w ere · landing…
  • p. 152 …experience had taught him something. · Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora said he would · tu~ around and run…
  • p. 154 …Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora re- ported. 'an international reputation in asked Zamora…
  • p. 159 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socor- j ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 161 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he 1 spotted an object near Socor- ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 163 …Seel.ng UfQ Landed City Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a highly reliable source, saw a North Of…
  • p. 166 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on hl~h way patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft…
  • p. 167 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he apotted the object Fri…
  • p. 168 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 171 …of an unusual visitor was a Socorro Policeman Lonnie Za- Zamora said he spotted an burned…
  • p. 173 …from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said be ' spotted an object near Socor- ' ro Friday…
  • p. 175 …e man who started it all, Socoro ~6lice rnan lonnie · 7,amor!:', say's e next…
  • p. 176 I Air Force Probes Policeman's Story Of 1 Saucer1 at Sands - SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 177 …to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h e site where Zamora says he…
  • p. 178 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 181 …Principal in the Socorro sec- tion of the film was city police- man Lonnie Zamora. He…
  • p. 184 …Hynek said be hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie . Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 185 …to talk to Socorro police· II man Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 198 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutr~ but it was at…
maneuver was in progress, unless the log of such maneuvers is produced,
and better yet, the entire "crime" reinacted, preferably in Zamora's
presence. I recognize that this will be a very difficult task, but
in view of the importance of this case, I think every attempt should
be made to do this. It will require, very possibly, the attention of
the Secretary of the Air Force himself.
It would be well, .further, for "files protection" for the Air Force to
tabulate from its records, and from available records from other sources,
of other reported landings, such as, for instance, the cronological list
which appeared in the January-February 1964 issue of Flying Saucer Review.
Ignorance of what NICAP and AFRO will designate as similar cases will be
of little help.
In about a month, I shall have occassion to return to the Socorro area,
at which time I will discuss with Zamora and Chaves after the excitement
has completely simmered down, some of the finer points of the sighting,
such as the location at which radio calls were made, etc.
The wind at that time was blowing very strongly from the south and
I established by r~peated questioning that the object had taken off
either at right angles to the wind, or partially into the wind.
I have not stressed the insignia which Zamora reported, since he drew
exactly the same t hing which he had drawn for Capt Holder. I did question
him many times on the shape of the object, as to whether it had clear
cut edges or fuzzy edges, as to bits of color, etc., but the results were
virtually the same as the information given to Capt Holder. The object
was egg-shaped, had the inverted V insignia on it, two legs seemed to
·be protruding from the object,which was not chrome but "whitish-
aluminum', and it was further established that the great roar during
its initial take-off disappeared suddenly and the horizontal flight away
and over the dynamite shack was noiseless.
I questioned Mr Art Burns of the FBI, and several others who had been
on the site within the first hours after the sighting as to the alleged
freshness of the tracks. They were all of the opinion that the tracks
were, indeed, fresh.
Although Zamora was the only witness to the actual sighting, nine
people in all saw the markings. Altogether nine people saw the markings
within hours of the sighting and before the hourds of curiosity .seekers
descended upon the place t he following day.
After I visited the place of the sighting,· I had several other talks
with local people, and, in particular, with ~~e reporter of the El Defensor
Chieftan, or perhaps it was the editor (its a small paper). I believe
that I talked with Mr Lewis A Reddell, the publisher of the El Defensor.
6Rob Mercer

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