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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: THE ALBUQUERQUE TRIBU'"}.'E SOCORRO, 1\"EW MEXICO 21; Apr 64DATE:27 APR 64 cF/ying Bathtub' earth. They also found four impressions in the earth, ap- parently left by landing gear. 1 Seen by Motorist The motorist, who identified himself to Pyland as George Mitropolis of Albuquerque, said that while driving north from El Paso he saw a "sil- ver looking object go up, over a mountain, and down" out of sight. SOCORRO, April 27 lA'! - Socorro police were called to the scene last night where an . ·cer reported seeing a strange flying object. and later a motorist reported a silvery object in the air near Caballo Reservoir. Officer Bill Pyland said a girl, who didn't give her name reported a fire in the hilly area one mile southwest of Socorro. Officer L o n n i e Zamora, while patrolling in his car Friday, said he saw an egg- shaped object land in a draw. When he approached, he said, the object flew away with a roar. Pyland said the girl, about 18, said she was from 300 to 500 feet from the fire and she thought there was some- thing in the flames. l.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~ ~~ Officer Lonnie Zamora. Heights Resident Saw 'Object' Here Mitropolis said there w a s another car ahead of h i m when he first saw the object. "I caught up with them (the other car) and stopped them because I wanted to lknow · if they had seen it too. There were two young men but they denied . seeing any- thing." He said he first reported it to Truth or Consequences of- ficers, ·"but they just got a laugh out of it and told me to ~ tell it to Socorro police be- · cause they had reported some- : thing like it." Mitropolis said he f e 1 t better when he learned in So- , corro that others had seen a similar object. "No, I hadn't read about the other one before," he said. , He said he was near the junction of U. S. 85 and New · Mexico 180 and the object ap- peared to be about a quarter of a mile to the east. He said Pyland said men searched the area described by t h ·e girl but found nothing. He said officers would visit the area in daylight, noting it would be difficult to find any exact spot at night in t h e brushy, desert terrain sur- A Vermont NE resident to. it looked like "an upside down bathtub" about 30 feet in di- ameter. It had no lights.rounding Socorro. day told The Tribune she and Representatives of the mil- a friend saw a strange silvery itary and other officers who object flying over the State visited the spot where Zam- Fairgrounds last Thursday ora saw the object land found afternoon. burned brush and scorched The resident, who asked See FLYING Page A-2 that her name not be pub- • lished, said the object was· definitely not an airplane. She and her friend were in a car traveling south on San Pedro between 3:30 and 4 p.m. when they saw the UFO. She said that the object was more or less egg shaped, sim- ilar to the description given by Socorro Officer L o n n i e Zamora of an object he saw land near Soccorro.Rob Mercer
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