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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.
... Four Years Old ·$100 RetAJard Offered In Saucer · Mys~eJry station at that ume, reported, the tourist, a man, remarked ' that ·aircraft flew low in the · Socorro area. ; Grinder said there w e r e• several helicopters in the areo .l He quoted the tourist •as reply"" ing that it was a "iu=:t-\ooKi:t' l"~ helicopter if that is what itl SOCORRO !A'I - The mystery $100 reward to help locate a was." Grinder quoted the man ,of .a reported unidentified flying motorist who reported seeing as saying the object flew direct- ~: object four years ago south of the object. ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro Grinder, unaware of Zamora's mains unsolved. Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw sighting, said he ·attached no' j And to lbelp find clues to help what 'he described as a four- importance to the report then. jsolve the problem, Dr. J . .Allen legged, egg-shaped object with Dr. Hynek told the Las ,Hynek,, ... chairman of . the at least two persons aboard. Cruces Sun-News that in an ef- ;estrononiy d e p a r t m e n t at At least one other person, an fort to establish the Socorro: ~rthwestei'D T,Tniv.ersity , ~o unidentified tourist traveling sighting, he authorized the $100' - ·- -~ ·---· - · · · north on old U.S. 85, was quoted reward, which will go to · I ., as saying rhe saw the UFO just p e r s o n s k n o w i n g t h e sightings, said persons whi before it landed in the area. whereabouts of the motorist. would know the motorist shoul1 Opal Grinder, · who w ·as Dr. Hynek, wto is ·a consultant contact Dr. Hynek a .~ of. ~ .a-Socorro service~ .. the.. Ail;_~rce.~o:.:.n:.__UF..;.._..:.O.:.:N..:.o;;.:r..:.th::..w.:.:e;;.:s::..te..:.r.::n_U.:.::ni..:.v.::.:er:.:s.::.:it:::..y.:... __ I ; .. ./Rob Mercer
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