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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 …Within moments afterward, Sgt Chavez of the Nev Mexico State Police ~rriYed on the scene in…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 18 …He uses the same radio frequency as the New Mexico State Police and that is the…
  • p. 138 …lllter..lloaal . .ng object sightings had New \ Mexico State Police, local law . e n f o…
  • p. 139 …85 and New · Mexico 180 and the object ap- peared to be about a quarter of…
  • p. 141 …State Police this after- bngn: mc:al v:1tnout wmaow.;, noon to investigate the new !as…
  • p. 143 …flY· ~ ing object sightings had New 2 1 Mexico Stale Police, local law r e ;~ f…
  • p. 154 …re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 155 …State Police Capt. Arch1e samples. Dr. Hynek returned Six Reports aircraft. . White said in Las Cruces…
  • p. 159 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction jto flying saucers has taken lhold of the state again…
  • p. 161 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
  • p. 163 …Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology -----------------------------------------------------------------------VOL. 98 - NO…
  • p. 164 …a level with the police car on 'the jed hovering .for two hours at an eral…
  • p. 167 …sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of &ichtinp in Ule state. He planned…
  • p. 168 …ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom my Richardson of…
  • p. 172 …had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character- Mexico State Police, local law…
  • p. 173 …UPI) -New Mexico's perennial addictior to flying saucers has taker hold of the state again…
  • p. 175 …e Police, ;)nd reportedly t !1 ~ FBI. Orlando Gallegos of SanTa e told State nolice he…
  • p. 182 …unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n f…
  • p. 185 …a state load· ed with radar Installations. "It Is my understanding that New Mexico has more…
SOURCE: ALBuQUERQUE JOURNAL SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
24 Apr 64DATE: 29 APR 64
Air Force UFO
Expert to Check ·
'Saucer' Reports
SOCORRO IA'I- Dr. J. Allen
Hynek, special unidentified
flying object consultant f o r
· the Air Force, arriv~d in So-
~r~ Tue_sday night to begin
.his mvesbgation of a Socorro
policeman's report that he
~aw a mysterious flying ob-
Ject last Friday.
Dr. Hynek said he hoped to
talk to the policeman, Lonnie
Zamora, and then visit t h e
aite where Zamora says he
saw the object this morning. 1
Dr. Hynek, of the D e a r-
bom Observatory at North-
western University, said he
would decide whether to visit
Espanola, where another ob-
ject was reportedly spotted
over the weekend after . h i •
investigation of tbe Socorr~
incident.
He said he had not been. ad-
vised by the Air Force if his
presence here indicates that
the government has eliminat. .
ed the possibility of U. S. air- /
craft having caused the re- /
ports.
Capt. Hector Quintanilla I
chief of the Aerial Phenomen ~
Branch at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Ohio said
T. Sgt. David Moody ~f the
office already was in New
Mexico and would assist Dr.
Hynek in th~ investigation.
Fired at Object ~--
The most recent report of E t t Ch k and she says it now has near- •
the object~ came early Tues- xper 0 ec ly 800 members around the
day mormng from State Po- world. She says · there · are
liceman Tommy Richardson 'S ' R some 6-12 landing incidences
~~Iort1?aertyU. &-66 . community of aucer eports a year and she belie,·es they., are made by beings from an-
He said he had. a call from other planet.
Don Adams of Edgewood, Continued From A-1 . Inear Moriarty, who told of A sea water desalting plant
seei.!lg an object about 100 search Organization said she \sent from San Diego to Guan-
feet off the ground. He said believes intelligent b e i n g s I tanamo Bay will produce 1;)()••
it appeared to be a fluorescent from another planet made 1000 gallons of fresh water
or green-colored glowing ob- several landings in New Mex- daily.ject. ico in the past few days. _......::...___________ '
Adams told the officer he "We are convinced the So-
drove his car under the object corro policeman saw what he
and his car stalled. The youth said he saw," Coral Loren-
reported he then got out . and zon, the director, said after
fired six shots at the obJect, her return from investigating
reloaded and fired again. the reported landing of a UFO
The report was another · in near Socorro.
a se~ies which ?~ve kept Ne~ Mrs. Lorenzen said the
~eXlCO and_ military au;hon- sighting of an object north-
~~~s busy smce !-amora s or- west of Espanola early Sun-
tgmal report Fnday. The re- day was similar to the one
ports, until ~uesday, _h a d described at Socorro. She said
<:orne from pomts followmg a she is investigating the other
lme from south of Truth or reported sightings during the
Consequences to an .area near past few days.
Espanola.. . The organization was form-
Space Bemgs Bmte~ ed by Mrs. Lorenzon in 1952
At Tucson, the d1rector of
the Aerial Phenomena Re-
Continued on A-URob Mercer

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