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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.
“FBI file”1 page
1 AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS DIVISION
WRIGHT·PATTERSOH AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO
MATERIALS PHYSICS DIV
AF MATERIALS LABORATORY
•vALUATION REPORT
Soil Analysis
IIIEPOIIIT Mill: 1-fJ\Y 64-8 · DATE: 19 May 1964
PIIIOJI!CT Mill: G 661-Q2 TYPE EVALUATION:
MAMUP'ACTURI!III: PEC Mill:
SUBMITTED BY: FTD lnM SEIIIIAL Mill:
Sgt D. Moody
I. PURPOSE
Determination of the composition of the soil samples for the purpose of
comparison.
II. FACTUAL DATA
1. The samples were submitted for analysis and assigned Analytical Branch
numbers 4-891 - 4-898.
2. · Spectrographic analysis indicated the gross composition to be the same
for all samples. . The following elements were found in the indicated
concentration range:
Principal element - Silicon
Major elements - Mg, Al, Fe, Na, K and Ca
Minor elements - !'{anganese . and Titanium
III. CONCLUSION
There is apparently no significant differences in elemental composition
between the different samples.
IV~ REX:ON!1ENDATIONS
None, data merely submitted.
PREPARED BY:
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THIS REPORT IS NOT TO BE USED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR ADVERTISING OR SALES PROt.«)TION PURPOSES
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/Rob Mercer Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.