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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. 152 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the g r o u n d…
  • p. 155 …Hynek said he had never two adults about 12 blocks ject Fr~ay inch by inch…
  • p. 160 …He said nis wife knowle ge,h at he did child has never had a sun…
  • p. 166 …The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never…
  • p. 170 …a west- TWO INVESTIGATING officers erly direction, never getting more .vere at the scene yesterday from…
  • p. 178 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 185 …I never expected to see any- thing like that around here. My husband and I had…
  • p. 200 …say in the paper tr~t he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 201 …According to I..a.PazJ the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why…
  • p. 202 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 204 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a baJLoon. Zamora knows exactly…
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Editor
Teleg~aph Hetald News
Dubuque, Iowa
llear Sir:
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30 April 1968
In my capacity as Scientific Consultant to the Air Forces'
Blue Book I am trying to get more details on the April 24,
sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora.
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I would very much appreciate your help in obtaining the name and
address of the individual referred to in the enclosed copy of
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Mr. Biebarman's letter who might also have witnessed this sighting~
I wish to assure 'you that my interest in this matter is entirely ! ·
professional and under no circumstances do I use this material for '
publieity purposes or for any other reason tha~ to try to solve ·
thia puzzling phenomenon of unidentified flying objects.
JAlhlp
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Sincerely yours,
J. Allen Hynek ·
DirectorRob Mercer

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