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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”40 pages
r. / 7 '\ / n By TH~ ASSOCI.\TED PRESS \. 'l ' n J • ~~r,~, u :\ 10-ycar-old Ed~cwocd youth says f.c f ~r cJ '" :.ho u at one of ;\lew 1\!cX:co'• unidentified !! y in~ o bj c ts . Stday. j' Tb . rc:;>ort "aid · Adams told of seein~; the obi · ct -abont l l O feet off the ~round : He said it appeared to he I a fl:.:o:.e..;ccn: or glowing ~re.:n-colored object al.out 2S J· feet !on:;. . 1'~ .?J-.J } f' ) I...... _, \.:.;:::.J He tnld the office: he C:rove his car under :he me ear.y ~c.::: ;. y, sa.td he . 1'olicema n L on n i e Zamora o!uce that ptctures of an UF -.,: .::<> ,ot yet ~~ ·-~ t h e : 'igh ted ;,n egg - shap~d object stghted in 1956 . by a s hi :- · ;- .-.:c.gra pils. ·,·rhi\·h ro.1rcd of! th•! ground, ?oard ~ad10 offlcer were 1: ;.re 1nwhi!e. r.t i 1 i t a r y of.. ll.!a\ ing dec~ impres.:iions and lng malled to Zamora. ::.:~ ill : ; at :Cin!i..-:d .md Rollo... Lun:ed P"tches. The photos were taken 1: .. ' . ~ Alr ?vrc" b.~>es a n d · Fired 12 Shots T. Fog! aboard the USS Ran · l'i.,! tE S:;r:ds ·.:is; !e F.ange Don Adams of Edg;;wood toldlsey off the California coa. stgnt. . long thin;:" early today. He · . told of hitting the UFO si~ ' times and hearing the bullet: ; bounce from it. ' As he paused to reload, thi!er.tJy northward. He w a 1 Jnal::le to determine whcthe1 j ?:'ots 7 to 12 st~ck 'the thixlg. 1 .~' e Jesertbed tt as being a , . t;:ht green color, · about 25 or i :10 . f~_et long, and silent. He l:mtd 1t hovered about 100 feet , directly over his he:od. t &lgewood is about 30 mHes t:~t of Albuquerque. ~ A oe:v hours earlier, a mo- • to:tsl 1n the Las V .ogas area : rEpo,·tcd seeing a ba!l of !ire ; whicit apparently landed near 1 __ ..h.eld be- ~ ti- mates '!'an;;ing !rom lhn ide l· tiry rumseU beculd be Iau~ed at, ::aid •gs . Stale Police Sgt. !·am· • 'h av• z said he was told by :·:ocor " pc!iceman Lonnie :Zamora th t , th ·~ UFO he . saw l:"rid: Y. U ~ first of the series of si~ llting '· . bad red markings on its ~ ilvc1 y si.ing 1 • ! but that the Air Force had to ·1 i hi•n not ·to dL .. / lie~ she saw a fire with som• · th.ng in it in Ole sa me vicini!~ wl ere Zamora had been. Orlando Gallc:,:os, 35, of San! 1 · 1 Fe, said he saw a . craft HS Ion-! as a telephone pole and ah01 t 14 feet in circumfrcncc nc:; r hi~ father's home n->r..h. CJ! L 1 M: dera. !:tate Police Capt. Marl in V · gil investigated the La ~ : ader ' si>.ht1n~. He found the :~roun · I sti 1 smouldering 20 hour' artr r . the si::;htin;;. He said rocks in! the center of U1e area wer·) ' split, a bottle was mcltecl and gr.Jcn bru.h had bCd down Ollt " f tl .t! s:r n 1.. ~ ..,..... ' ') ...,Rob Mercer
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