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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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'~"'~ ' i' '... . " . .. .n~".· ,, J ~-"'t:~".t · ·s ,)~.l~"~.l ) i.,:i:'\.11 SOCORRO ll'l -Dr. J. Allen Hynek, sp~cial unidc!ltified 1 fl:nn:; object consultant f o rj' the Air Force, arrived in So- corro Tuesday night to begin! his invcstit;~ation ol a Socorro, pc!iceman's rcpo:t tr.ot he! saw :1 myste:ious flying oO.. ! jcct l:.st !"ri.Cay. ID~. Hync;. said he ho!)ed to ta :!= to the policeman, Lon!lie I Z:.moca, and then visit t h el site v:hc:re Zamora says he saw t.'1e object this mornin:;., Dr. Hynek, o! the D e a ~ bvm Obsc:-Jatory at North-! western University, said he! wculd decide whether to visit Espanola, where another ob- i ject was reportedly spotted , over the weekend, after hi sl investigation of the Socorro; incidcr.t. : He s:>.id l'.c had not been ad- vi•cd hy the Air Fo:cc if his presence here inc!icatcs that the governmer,t has eliminat. ed the possibility of U. S. air- cr~ft ha,:in: cao.!sed the re- po~tid · T. Sgt, David :Moody of thej' o!! .ce already was in New : ~r~xiCo ;!nd would assi3~ D1·.1= Hynek in t.1e investigation. · · Fh ed at Object I1'he mos t recent re;;ort of 1 the obj ~c:s carr.e cnrly Tues· da ~' morning from Sta~e Po- lierman Tomr.1y Richardson of the US-56 community of Moriany. F.e s c·ted hi! then got out and ' firei si" shots at the Qbjcct, relc "de:i onri fired again. · T1.c I eport was a:1oL"tcr in a St· ~ ics w:"l.ich tavc kept New . Me:~co a~:! rr.ilitary authori- ties JU!'Y sbce Z~mora's or- iginal r!pcrt F!"iciay. The re- por:~. 1:ntr! Tt.:csd:J.y, had carr c from p.1ir1ts fonow!ng a lir.e Crom sv'.>th of Truth or Con scq_Lenc:es to an area ncar Esponoln. Spa:': Fieinb:s J!inted AL 'rt:cson, the d1rector of tho Ae:ial Phenomena Re- Ccntinaed on A-U ~I • :-. ,,~'I ··a- -. ?t lf4 • ... ... ~'- D::rns s~Ffered by Cirl Vlho 'Saw' Obj~ct ' By THE _AssociATED PRE:s II.> 1 ~,·e been left by some type, State officers ;~net th~ nH!ItJry . of l:mdinn ncar A 10-year-o!d girl was treat-l - ed for "infra-red burns'' oa h~r 1 !ace a!le:.- si':.e s..1.id she watched an «c~g .. shapcd." · oo;c~: hov~r .. ing :1ear Lowell El~mentary School T:J~!sd.ay noon !or about 10 minutes. a.r~ invl'?ti:;ati~g more unidcn·J T :, ~ 1:1.ic& rc.port came from lifted llrmg ol>;cct r~por:s. I a s~n:~ Fe rce girl was treated by a physician :or bum.i aboat the eyes and n~se who, accordbg to Jo!ly. sa;d he believes Sh:uon '"saw some .. thing and it "burned her." Sharon said it was not the sun she was loo~ing at. She told Jolly the object was to the northeast and the sun was be- hind her. Her parents said Sharon is very truthful. JE JOURNAL Continued From A-1 \ sea rch Org:Jnizotion said she I believes intelligent be in & ~ ~ from another planet made, several landings in New Me:; .. ! ico in the past few days. .. We are convinced the So- corro policeman saw what he said he saw.". Coral Loren- zen, the director, said aft c ~. her return fror.1. investigatir.:: the reported Jar.ding of a UF'C> near Socorro. Mrs. Lorenzen said t ~ u.;. sighting of an object nort'l- 1west of Espanola early Su~- \ day was similar to the o.1"' described at Socorro. She sa u\ 1' she is investig:~ting the other ,• reported sightings duri.,g be :1 \ past ·few days. [: The organization was fonn- : ed by Mrs. Lorenzen in 1952 ,1 ro and the Espanola area. ~n •>bjcc• early Sunday momin;: State Police Capt. Martin · ~• :1is Cather's home north oi Vl~ii saiJ inv~tif::ttors from: L:1 ~:3dera. sitting in a gravel IKir,:~nd Air Force !lase at Al· ar~.t. buqut"t'quc w~re to arrive in Es- S::.ttc Police received a report . panola today after noting the fro::: two men travclin'"' in the similarity in the di!!ercnt re- same area Saturday ni~ht th::~t ports. · a r.;·ing- objcet, which they s:1jd All cf the reported sigh:iags I tl swooped down toward !hctr . oval or cn:·sh~ped objects, ~ car. thea ,·eerec off. ,. !lame.,; surr)uding the ct·oit I Al Socorro, "h res· i r.::~;: . froCl " city cffi,·er, " · s1ons tlnt owccrs say appc:a r :~ o!rr · st. G~""Ol';!~ ~litropoi: .. or , _t,.!bU=it.:C:"qU.c away some hor:,t•-; :I w~n he saw U1e object. He said 1 he was about 200 feet ~w a y . 1when he first saw it. G:~UCgos said then~ was no ' nois.· and as he watdlPd. th:lll ; :.. mel: 1 wilhout window:', JS lung. • as a 'telephone pole and :.bout 14 («~t in cir""mferl!n•·e. It was egg· ;hapcd. he satd. an.w prints alon;: with thanol:l when the fl> in.; ob· jcct came strai~:ht !O\lard !heir e:sr. They said it \'ccr~d .1way and all thcr could s~c w:>.s a jet streJm vi blue flame .Rob Mercer
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