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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 …After radioing to Police Headquarters at Socorro that he was proceeding to investigate what he believed…
  • p. 16 …Zamora vas in radio contact with police headquarters. 'lhe State Police use the same network and…
  • p. 28 PROJECT ClOUD GAP TEST HEADQUARTERS U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION Los Alamitos, California · Captain Hector Quintanilla…
  • p. 29 …Hector Quintanilla. Jr. Chief1 Aerial Phenomena Branch . Headquarters Forei ·n Technology Division WTi g ht-Pa…
  • p. 45 …3781 EAST 77TH STREET CLEVELAND 5, OHIO To Headquarters -~------- Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command…
  • p. 46 …SD-2.-1733 Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United States Air Force Wright…
  • p. 52 . TEXAS DIVISION TELEPHONE BU 3-4471 Headquarters 8 0 X 7 3 8 7 , S Y…
  • p. 54 …9-1100 _Request for Lunar Module Information Headquarters ·Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United…
  • p. 55 …P'ALO, N.W YOIIIK 14240 r Headquarters 01\JEDF!THE .~.;z:;-.:.,........-.;:;.·~...o;::.?!,, ..._ ·~c' P-'1…
  • p. 56 …for Lunar Module Informt.l tt•Jn Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systemn Command Un1…
  • p. 97 …and he radioed this information to Police headquarters. He went down a hill where the object…
  • p. 134 …WPAFB expert in unidentified Ilion range, whose headquarters flying objects, found no evidence i:> near the…
  • p. 176 …he Holder, whose headquarters is will still run away like he did Fri· j near this…
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Source: American UFO Committee Review, Vol 1 No 2, Sep V'+
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USA UNDERGOES UFO AVALANCHE!
Beginning in late April the United States bas l i terallJ been besieged
with aightings ot unidenti!ied !lying objects. Even in August, as this is being
written, the "!lap" shows no signs or letting up. Sighting reports keep pouring
in trom ·all Qver the nation. However, a very large percentage ot reports are
coming !rom the 'llestern U.S., the Ohio Valley, and the Pennsylvania-New Jersey
region. ' 'From its nationwide press clipping service AMUFO has received hundreds
ot newspaper clippings dealing with UFO sightings. This enables us to con!ira
the aajor sighting& and report directly to members.
The !lap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie .
z-ora (note incorrect spelling in above clipping) spot.ted an egg-ahaped metallic
object abo~t a aile north ot the town. Two girder-like lege were visible on the
aide of t~e object Zamora !aced (continued on page 3).
·-==========uro ·&VALANCE- continued troa p -~ = 1
Bight next to the object were two !igures, rather small in size •
. . One ot the figures turned and apparently saw him. we ·will not rehash the 1
~ matter, so sut!ice to say that the saucer subsequently let out. a roar and 1' -
with a burst ot !lame took ott.· Two days later the incident made newspaper
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· I ~ headlines all over the world. Shortly atter the Zamora sighting, more ~nding i
~ .reports c-e in !rom all over the state ot New Mexico and other parts at tne i
} west. It is needless to elucidate all ot them here, since many aeabers will !have already. read ot them. However, tull coverage to all •64 sightinga will
,. given · ~n AMOFO's torthcoaing tull-length aook (see page tor details).
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