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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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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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