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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. 2 …COMMENTS Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora • . Initially believed to be observation of Lunar module type…
  • p. 7 …unidentified fi.ying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, Nev Mexico • . a. At appi…
  • p. 10 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 12 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr ·Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 14 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev…
  • p. 16 …Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday 1 24 .April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora ot the…
  • p. 18 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked vith the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamot'a is…
  • p. 24 …vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the eighting as _described by Lonnie Zamora.Rob Mercer
  • p. 28 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flight s wer…
  • p. 29 …j ption provide d by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance fli ghts were…
  • p. 86 ,, ttro~EL' Sccc; Apr11 ~ ~Y !·!.e:dco .1.964 Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
  • p. 96 …We contacted Sgt Chavez, the State Police officer Who was the first to reach Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 97 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 98 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 101 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil. " And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 129 …Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw sighting, said he ·attached no' j And to lbelp find clues to…
  • p. 132 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg- . shaped vehicle, roughly t"e s…
  • p. 133 …The !lap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie . z-ora (note incorrect…
  • p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l about a mile south of Socorro. POLICE…
  • p. 136 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the · object Friday…
  • p. 137 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 138 …Edgewood is about 30 miles \ I !=ity Officer Lonnie Zamora east of Albuquerque. ~1d he saw…
  • p. 139 …l.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~ ~~ Officer Lonnie Zamora. Heights Resident Saw 'Object' Here Mitropolis said there w a s another…
  • p. 142 …he was told by :·:ocor " pc!iceman Lonnie :Zamora th t , th ·~ UFO he . saw l…
  • p. 143 …Lonnie Zamora, who said. he · spotted nn object nea r Secor- . ro Friday night. Zan1ora, in…
  • p. 147 …from a Socorro p::;Ecc~ar.,ll Lonnie Zamora, who s<:.~d he spotte~ an o…
  • p. 151 …from the position of what marks, Zamora said he Officer Lonnie Zamora apparently w ere · landing…
  • p. 152 …experience had taught him something. · Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora said he would · tu~ around and run…
  • p. 154 …Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora re- ported. 'an international reputation in asked Zamora…
  • p. 159 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socor- j ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 161 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he 1 spotted an object near Socor- ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 163 …Seel.ng UfQ Landed City Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a highly reliable source, saw a North Of…
  • p. 166 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on hl~h way patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft…
  • p. 167 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he apotted the object Fri…
  • p. 168 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 171 …of an unusual visitor was a Socorro Policeman Lonnie Za- Zamora said he spotted an burned…
  • p. 173 …from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said be ' spotted an object near Socor- ' ro Friday…
  • p. 175 …e man who started it all, Socoro ~6lice rnan lonnie · 7,amor!:', say's e next…
  • p. 176 I Air Force Probes Policeman's Story Of 1 Saucer1 at Sands - SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 177 …to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h e site where Zamora says he…
  • p. 178 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 181 …Principal in the Socorro sec- tion of the film was city police- man Lonnie Zamora. He…
  • p. 184 …Hynek said be hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie . Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 185 …to talk to Socorro police· II man Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 198 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutr~ but it was at…
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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