Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

SOURCE: THE ALBUQ.UEQUE TR IBUl\"E
DATE: 28 APR 64 .
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SOCORRO NEW MEXICO
DATE: 24 APR 64
A rash of unidentified fly-
e S e ~ 1Jall•• Prua lllter..lloaal .
.ng object sightings had New \
Mexico State Police, local law
. e n f o r cement agencies and
Be I
. ngs on U Os military installation!; inadither today.
No less than six "authentic"
spottiDgs have been reported
h d • -since Friday when Socorro
S.I Q te 5t a ~~1~~=~~~ ~;g~s~~p~dz~~~~~ ~I n e !which roared off the ground.
~eaving deep impressions and
TUCSON, Ariz., April 28 !A'! discovered were "paw prints, "almost ientical" in · s i z e, urned p~tches.
-A Tucson woman who does like a mountain lion's," as coloring, marking, character- Fued 12 Shots I
research. in unidentified flying well as "1 a n d i n g gear istics and landing gears to Don Adams of Edgewood told
objects believes intelligent be- marks." the thing reported by Zamora . tate Police he fired 12 .22-
ings from another planet have Photos Mailed "Either it was an awful calibre pistol shots at an "ob-
made several landings in New The associate director of good coincidence or it is the ong thin~". early today. ~e
Mexico in the past few days. Interplanetary Intelligence of same object," Hews said. told of h1ttmg . the hUFb~lls~x
Mrs. Coral Lorenzen, direc- Unidentified Flying Objects Zamora, when contacted at bmes and he~rmg t e e s
tor of the Aerial Phenomena said from his Oklahoma Cit y his home early today, said he bounce from lt. d th
Research Organization, just re- office that pictures of an UFO had not yet received t h e As he . paushed t~ . re~oa ' ~
turned from investigating the sighted in 1956 by a s h i p- photographs. n:an sa1d, t e 0 Jec move
reported landing of an uniden- board radio officer were be- Meanwhile, m i 1 i t a r y of- sile~ily to~t~war~. H!h:~e~
tified o.bject in Socorro, N. M., ing mailed to Zamora. ficials ~t Kirtland and Hollo- ~~~ts ~ t~ 12e s~~~;~ethe thing.
last Friday. The photos were taken by man A1r Force bases a n d H d ·b d it as being a
UWe are convinced the So- T. Fogl aboard the USS Ram- White Sands Missile Range r \t escn e olor about 25 or
corro policeman saw what he sey off the California coast. continued efforts to investi- ;~ f g{efn ~ an'd silent. He
said he saw," said ~rs. ~ren- The II~O offi~, Hayden gate ~he ~ightings •.• with no said ei~ ho~~r~d about 100 feet
zon, who . h~s mveshgated Hews, sa1d the obJect w a s end m s1ght. I directly over his head.
many such mc1dences. Edgewood is about 30 miles \
I !=ity Officer Lonnie Zamora east of Albuquerque.
~1d he saw an e_gg-shaped ob- A few hours earlier, a mo-
Ject abo';lt the size _of a large torist in the Las Vegas area ;
automobile. land with a roar reported seeing a ball of fire
and ·• burs~ of blue flame. which apparently landed near 1
Then the obJect flew .off. a radio station. Employes of
. Mrs. Lorenzen said other the station said the man asked
sightings have been reported that his name be withheld be-
in New Mexico in the past cause he was afraid of being
fe": days and she is investi- laughed at. . . .
gating them. Police also received similar
The Aerial Phenomena Re- reports Sunday from a Santa .
search 0 r g a n i z a t i o n was Fe man ... Orlando Gallegos I
formed by Mrs. Lorenzon in ... who told of seeing an egg- 1
1952. She said it now has near- shaped metal object near La I
ly 800 members around the Madera about 50 miles north :
world. of Sant~ Fe. He told of seeing '
She claims there are six to flames spurt from numerous 1
12 landing incidences a year . jets around the bottom of the :
and she believes they are made object as it took ·off. . J
by beings from another planet. State Police Capt. Martm
·Vigil, who checked out the in- r
cident said "There was def- •
initely something there." :
Other reports came from an ·
Albuquerque mot~ris;, w _h o ·
saw a "silver looking obJect
near Truth or Consequences,
two men driving in the La
Madera area and a Socorro
teen-ager. ·
In both the Socorro and La ·
Madera reports, burned land ·
was found at the sites. AlsoRob Mercer