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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.

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ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO
Flying Objects Area Probed
SOCORRO, N.M.-(jp)-An !Wright-Patterson Air Force I Authorities found scorched
JStronomer from the Dear- Base, Ohio, is in New Mexico grass and four wedge-shaped
born Observatory at North- · to assist Hynek, a Wright· indentations in the ground at
western University was here Patterson spokesman said. the Socorro site and near Es-
today to examine the seclud- Hynek said his investiga· panola.
ed hill where a Socorro po- tion in Socorro will deter- (I W h" t th A"
!iceman reports seeing a mys- mine whether he will visit n ~s ~ng ~n, _e . Ir
• a . • Espanola, where a state po- Force said Its mvestigation
!ertous, ecgshaped flymg ob lice captain, Martin" Vigil, of the reported sighting is
)eCt.. found the ground still smoul- "routine" and it will release
I
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ject consultant . to the Air
Force, was sent to New Mex-
ico after ~ rash of reports of
sightings of unidentified fly-
ing objects in the state.
He planned to visit the
place where officer Lonnie
Zamora said he spotted the
· object Friday.
Zamora said the object was
a brilliant white with a red
marking on it ... an upside
down V with lines across the
top, through the middle and
at the bottom.
He said that from a dis-
tance there appeared to be
two figures in white coveralls
outside the object. It flew
off with a roar when he ap-
proached, he said.
Since Zamora's sighting, at
least six reports have been
made to authorities, includ·
ing one from a youth who
said he fired several shots at
something about 100 feet in
the air near Moriarty. 1
T. Sgt. David Moody of the I!Aerial Phenomena Branch atRob Mercer

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