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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. 10 …pm, in an unpopulated area full of hills and gullies and covered with sagebrush. Following is…
  • p. 14 …He also observed the pollee car heading up the hill tova.rd the spot where the…
  • p. 16 …travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. Af"ter two or three ef…
  • p. 77 …Made three attempts to climb hill~ ,Pl./ / .• "B" 800' / ------------ ~ · First sighting of o1)jec :~. Stopped car…
  • p. 86 …to back down and try again before mU.ing the hill.. 1Iil1 abcut 60ft.. loug.P…
  • p. 87 …ard J j~ j~t over the hill--I s ·tG~..t~\~cause I did not…
  • p. 97 …He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill where he could…
  • p. 102 …He thus came up upon the object from behind the hill and from the side, so…
  • p. 106 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 129 …ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
  • p. 135 …or radar the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f…
  • p. 136 …ed hill where a Socorro po- tion in Socorro will deter- (I W h" t th…
  • p. 145 …P.er parents said !hal she saw a fire in lhc hills ISharon is very tnith…
  • p. 151 …As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving…
  • p. 157 …short "men." Zamora continued driving up the hill to get a closer look. When he stopped…
  • p. 164 …ject that would compare to the tile hill to get a closer look at the 1…
  • p. 167 …tnl ~ty~yto examtfre the secluded hill W'here a Socorro policeman reported seeing a…
  • p. 174 …that she saw a fire in the hills southwest of Socorro Sunday night. where city officer…
  • p. 193 …leu Sllg6est tba;t when Za!X>l"a 's car crested tl:e hill, the…
  • p. 196 …As you 1;ey know, we have rented a house at 57 Avon Hill Street . I…
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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 ·
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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
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