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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.
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-,. -....... ... ... t . .... . I ~ .. Unusual Marks Found I The man in the street was mystified and the military Iand other authorities were "investigating'' today fol- lowing reports of the land- . ing of an unidentified flying object at the outskirts of Socorro Friday afternoon ·and the sighting - of n,-o strange persons who left odd, pug-shaped marks in- . stead of footprints. Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg- . shaped vehicle, roughly t"e s;ze1 of an aubrriol:>He, after he had noted a f!lsh . in the southwest sky about 5 p.m. Fr:day while on routine patrOl. · He said he drove to the a.rea, where be got within about 100 feet of the strange craft, saw two 'men' adjacent to it wear- ing white suits, who jumped in and roared away when they no- ticed Zamora. . ....... ..... . . . ~ . . I -! . · ~ ~t ;_·:- ~ ~ State Police Sgt. Sam Oha:. vez furmerly stationed at Tu- la~a was summoned to the scene 'by Zamora via r~d.io ~d said he arrived at the S1te Wl~ in three minutes after receiv- ing the call. He said dry gr~s; at the obvious point of landin, still was smouldering, apparent- ly from a jet·like blast on take- 1 off, and that mesqui~e bus~es in the vicinity were sm,ged. . ..... .. .. ---""-'fT ..... .. . I .. .... ... .. "" ... ~ .. .. ... -... - - Craft Zoomed Away Zamora said the craft headed due west at an altitude of about 20 feet for nearly a mile, then increased speed rapidly and vanished straight up. Spokesmen for. military instal- lations in the area said they · could account for no unusual manifestation from any testing going on at their bases, but said the reports were being in- vestigated. A party from Stallion Site on white Sands Missile Range vi&ited the landing site Satur- day morning, took soil samples, and submitted a report to high- er autlrorities. The Holloman uFO . officer said he bad made a report on the sighting to higher echelons, but neither White Sands oor Holloman would comment other than to state that obvious phys- ical evidence at the site indi- ca,ted some unusua[ oCcurrence. Area Sighting Of Flash A report b State Police here Saturday at 10 a.m. by a mot:ot- ist on Highway 70 said a "bright object" bad been seen to ..go down in the vicinity of Round Mountain east of Tularosa, but oo particular search of · the I area was made. It was Mt known if the occurrence herQ See OBJECT, Page 6 ~Rob Mercer
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