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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. 2 …COMMENTS Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora • . Initially believed to be observation of Lunar module type…
  • p. 7 …unidentified fi.ying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, Nev Mexico • . a. At appi…
  • p. 10 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 12 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr ·Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 14 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev…
  • p. 16 …Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday 1 24 .April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora ot the…
  • p. 18 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked vith the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamot'a is…
  • p. 24 …vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the eighting as _described by Lonnie Zamora.Rob Mercer
  • p. 28 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flight s wer…
  • p. 29 …j ption provide d by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance fli ghts were…
  • p. 86 ,, ttro~EL' Sccc; Apr11 ~ ~Y !·!.e:dco .1.964 Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
  • p. 96 …We contacted Sgt Chavez, the State Police officer Who was the first to reach Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 97 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 98 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 101 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil. " And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 129 …Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw sighting, said he ·attached no' j And to lbelp find clues to…
  • p. 132 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg- . shaped vehicle, roughly t"e s…
  • p. 133 …The !lap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie . z-ora (note incorrect…
  • p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l about a mile south of Socorro. POLICE…
  • p. 136 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the · object Friday…
  • p. 137 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 138 …Edgewood is about 30 miles \ I !=ity Officer Lonnie Zamora east of Albuquerque. ~1d he saw…
  • p. 139 …l.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~ ~~ Officer Lonnie Zamora. Heights Resident Saw 'Object' Here Mitropolis said there w a s another…
  • p. 142 …he was told by :·:ocor " pc!iceman Lonnie :Zamora th t , th ·~ UFO he . saw l…
  • p. 143 …Lonnie Zamora, who said. he · spotted nn object nea r Secor- . ro Friday night. Zan1ora, in…
  • p. 147 …from a Socorro p::;Ecc~ar.,ll Lonnie Zamora, who s<:.~d he spotte~ an o…
  • p. 151 …from the position of what marks, Zamora said he Officer Lonnie Zamora apparently w ere · landing…
  • p. 152 …experience had taught him something. · Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora said he would · tu~ around and run…
  • p. 154 …Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora re- ported. 'an international reputation in asked Zamora…
  • p. 159 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socor- j ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 161 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he 1 spotted an object near Socor- ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 163 …Seel.ng UfQ Landed City Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a highly reliable source, saw a North Of…
  • p. 166 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on hl~h way patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft…
  • p. 167 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he apotted the object Fri…
  • p. 168 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 171 …of an unusual visitor was a Socorro Policeman Lonnie Za- Zamora said he spotted an burned…
  • p. 173 …from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said be ' spotted an object near Socor- ' ro Friday…
  • p. 175 …e man who started it all, Socoro ~6lice rnan lonnie · 7,amor!:', say's e next…
  • p. 176 I Air Force Probes Policeman's Story Of 1 Saucer1 at Sands - SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 177 …to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h e site where Zamora says he…
  • p. 178 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 181 …Principal in the Socorro sec- tion of the film was city police- man Lonnie Zamora. He…
  • p. 184 …Hynek said be hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie . Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 185 …to talk to Socorro police· II man Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 198 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutr~ but it was at…
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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.
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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-
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off, and that mesqui~e bus~es
in the vicinity were sm,ged. .
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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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