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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.
“Lonnie Zamora”45 pages
- 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…
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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.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~
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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…
( 6) V'roL and lunar !!todules :
(a) Personnel working on the development of
VTOL type aircraft and lunar modules were consulted. VTOL
t;ype a/ c vere not eliminated as a pos sible cause due to the
absence of a blast effect in the area. 'lbere are several
iypes Of due ted blast devices which \IOUld divert the force of the
blast outward. However, they vere not aware of an eperational
cratt of this nature. ·
(b) Innar Module configurations conform not only
to the description of the object but also have girder like legs
or pods Which would produce markings such as those ·round at
Socorro. One knovn experiaental model, constructed by Bell Air-
~ Corporation, is located at Edwards AFB.
(7) Additional Witness: The El Defensor and Chie:ftsn
of '1\lesday 28 Apr 64 carried an article indicating that an
unidentified tourist traveling North on U S 85 sav the UFO just
before it landed. He also observed the pollee car heading up
the hill tova.rd the spot where the UFO landed. If' this is true,
the UFO not only disappeared in the direction of 'White Sand's but
also came :from that · same direction. A telephone call to Mr Opal
Grinder of Whiting Brothers Service Station indicated that he vas
the source for reporting that an unidentified tourist had observed
the unidentified :flying object. He verified that the information
1n the news article vas correct.
c. General Conclusions to Date:
(1) Evaluation of the data contained in the various
investigative reports confirms that a sighting definitely did
occur. The description of the object and flight characteristics
are coincident vith that expected of a helicopter, V'roL or Lunar
Module configuration. CUrrent investigative efforts are being
made to establish or identity the specif'ic vehicle vhich caused
the sighting. '!he following statement by Captain Hector ~intanilla
1"9reaents a statement wich may be released to the press: ·
. ·•conclusion: '!be investigators at Wright-Patterson have
not been able to identify or determine what type of vehicle or object
Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev Mexico. '!be
obJect or vehicle displayed :flight cha.racteristics well vi thin the
State-of-the-Art and the sighting cannot be attributed to atmospheric
or astronomical phenomena. In this respect, I can categorically
at.ate that the vehicle or object observed by Mr Lonnie Zamora vas
not an inter-planetary space vehicle visiting the planet Earth.
ttbis case is still open and the investigation is still in progress. ··
3 JlRob Mercer
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