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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: ALBUQUERQUE, J'OUR!'TAL.
DATE: 28 APR 64
l~1an Reports
\f~rin~ Shots,~.
Hi'1t~ng Uf~
Other Sightings 1.\t s.
Are Reported ~
Around State. tl
11~ Ualllioaal !
A rash of unidentifoed flY· ~
ing object sightings had New 2
1
Mexico Stale Police, local law r
e ;~ f 0 r cement agenc1es .and 1
m ; 1 i t a r y installations IJl a
di'her today. . ., e
N0 less tr.an six "authentic j
s,:ottings have been reported 1
since Friday when Socorro •
' Policeman Lonnie Za::n.ora
siJhte:l an egg-shaped ob]ect 1
wi1ich roared off the. ground, ,
le 1vin!l deep impressions and 1
burnek to ctelermine • , Jh~t.ber
st ~ ts 7 to 12 "truck t.'l ·, tt"ng. ,
H~ c! ~ scribed it as be1~g a 1
li·•l· t •reen cclor, about -5 or ,
3(' tfe~t lung, and silent. He:
; Sloid i: hovered about 100 feet:
• direct!y over his head. .
l Investigating state pollee-·
l men said the man. was com-
a pletely "sober." Edgewood IS
,.. about 30 miles east of Albu-
., querque.
If A few hours earlier, a mo-
n totist in the Las Vegas a~ea .
. unorted seeing a ball of fire .
·• w;:ch apparently landed near
" radio station. Emplo~es of ~
t fr.e station ;;aid the man asked .
1 th nt his name be wifr.held be-t
\ cl\use he was afraid of bemg 1
laughed at. . . . l
Police also rece1ved s1m1lar t
rtpor\s Sunday from a Santa
F~ m= ... Orlando Gallegos c
w;,o told of seeing an egg- r
. ~.~ped metal object near La f
Mnde~·a, about 50 miles north •
of Santa Fe. He told of seemg 0
names spurt from numerous 1·
. jets around the bottom of the -
, object as it took off. .
, Stat" Police Capt. Mar~m
· Vi!!il, who checked out the m-
ciCC!nt, said '"~here wa~. def-
initely somethmg the~e.
Other reports came Irom an
Albuquerque mot~ris~ ~h 0
sc. w a "silver lookmg oo]ect
n•·ought
out the Air Force Hr.d the
FBI, was spotted e.·.rl:r Sw1·
day rr.ornbg at La /.f ;:cl ,!ra,
about 50 miles north n ~ ::>aa-
ta Fe. State Police C:, r:tai n.
Martin Vigil said, "L ·~ : ·:• ·.vas
definitely somet..~ing .~1 ·:i·e. ••
Orlando Gallegos .. , ~ ·; :1:1t.1 !
Fe told State ?o!icc :1 .: got ·
wiLIJin 2CO feet o! a hu,: ' t -:•et- ~
al object that looked :;. :e an
egg-sho.p~d butane t r.n ~ :. He ,
s;:id fl ~ I":1 es spurted sil e nt!~·
jLV:11 !'ll f'Yl .: .r,::: .."~~. ~ .,. r ,n._.;,,
the bo_to:c. o: ~t1n o:( e ::•~ . 1:r
wa£ as l01_•e as a tt·lc?bo:-e;
pole and P.cout H lee: n Cir-
cumference, he told p .); ice.
Gallegos• report came or.
the heels of e similar report
from a Socorro pol ! r.-~ :nr:.n.
Lonnie Zamora, who said. he
· spotted nn object nea r Secor-
. ro Friday night. Zan1ora, in
clearing up ialse ropo::s Sun- \
day, said the objed rose
about 20 feet off L"te ;::~:md
and slowly new away .
Similar reports can .. ': ::"m
a Socorro teenager, r • .".l:lU·
querque motorist, ar. . · . t~ o
men driving in the I. : ·. ·,·.d-
era area Saturday nie ~~- ·:::·;i.fl
Albuquerque n1otorizt, :..· ': c~c
Milropolis, said ho :; ..- · a
"silver looking" objee :.1 c! •s-
appeared over a motu t; '' in
the Caballo Reservoir r~ · ~'' ·
In both the Socorro .. , 1c: -:~ e
La Madera r e p o r ' ;; ~he
ground in the areas w!· P. re
~e objects were repo·;.o:: t.o
have landed was s . •. "' ·i·.cd
and burned. Also four.". v; e,·e
''pa\V prL'lts, like a m · •l:r Lc.in
lion's," as well as u · ;: 1:: : bg ~
gear marks" - four i 1·.r .. ~ s~
sions in the dirt. 1
Until the recent "P' :: ·• ;::,, ,
the last unidentified (!y • '- "c>-:
ject was spotted in Ke'·' i•~e :-:
ico near Gallup late la: t y~::r
by several motorists .••. ~ .:. m
pus policeman at the um,cr-
sity of New Mexico also spot-
ted the Gallup o!:Jject ilyin~
on the western sky :o.t · the
Jame time.
LA MADERA, NEW MEXICO
SANTA FE (UPI) -New
Mexico's peremial addictiot
to flying saucers has taker
hold of the state ·again wiU
· more "objects" reported t.
' police over tha weekend. :
The latest, which brough
out the Air Force and ·the
FBI, was spott~d early Sun,
day morning a; La Madera
about 50 miles north ot san:
ta Fe. State Police Captain
Martin Vigil saio I, "there was
definitely some bing there." ·
Orlando (,alle ~os ot Santa
Fe ~old State :Police he got
Wlthm 200 feet of a hu~e met-
al object tht.t lo Jked like an
egg-shaped butru:e tank. He
said flames spu.c!ed silently ;
(rom numercu.> je saw a
"silver looking" objr·ct. It dis-
appeared over a me untaln in
t.ie Caballo Re>ervc·ir area.
In both the So~orr . > and the
. La Madera r e p o ~ t s the
ground in the areao; where
. the objects were reported to
. have landed was scorched
. and burned. Also fOl.nd were
"paw· prints, like a nountaln
L lion's," as well as "landing
, g~ar ~arks" - lour impres-
1 Slons m the dirt.
, Until the recent spottings, ·
. ~c last unidentifi~d !l fing ob-
. ~ect was spotted in N< w Mex-
' JCO near Gallup Ia te 1: st year
. by sev<:ral motorists. A cam- i
. P.us pohceman at the Univer- 1
: s1ty of New Mexico al:;o spot- 1: ~ed the Gallup object !lying 1
•
m the western sky at the 1
same time.
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