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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. 42 …We have referred your request for information to the Project Office of Jet Propulsion Laboratory# California…
  • p. 58 …We haft a particular interest 1n the Advanced Imle.r Trans- port Systems. lOR THE COMMANDER…
  • p. 65 …The target date could be assistant once the -!0-day ' Craft De~wbed . 1 advanced several…
  • p. 100 …Conner in advance to keep things quiet. As soon as I got the reporters out of…
  • p. 164 …lt · actually · was headed advanced type of aircraft or space The policeman believed the , straight for…
  • p. 201 …the green fi~Mlmti balls and Zamora's sighting were observations ot'tests of advanced vehic…
Additional. Notes to the Report:
It should be noted that, at the time Zanora saw the insignia, t he
craft was well illuminated by sunlight which was streaming in from
Zamora's right. It might. be well to perform some experiments with
placards with insignia and different patterns inscribed t hereon to
see how well these are visable, under good lighting, at 100-200 feet.
Additional Note: What is the power of Zamora's glasses? Does he
suffer from a stigmatism?
Additional Note: Several things are a pity in this situation. One is
that there was not an additional witness. Second is
that no photographs were taken. Th~r d , that no radars
picked up the object, andfourth that the witness whom
we did have was not a better observer and more
articulate.
Recommendations: The object which produced this, if it was a new device
under test or in maneuvers, be brought to same location
and movies be taken of it departing in the manner
described by Zamora, and under t he same lighting
conditions. This then could be played at any future
hearings on flying saucers. This, it seems to me,
could go a very long way toward exploding the myth
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of flying saucers, and might do mer e goai than all the
previous years of propaganda.
)Rob Mercer

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