Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

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i se:>rch Organization said she isdc C(
sev,!ra! landi:lgs ·in ~e\\- ~:Lex· :do
ico :n :he p:tst fe\V days.
•· V·.re are convinced the So-
cor.o ;>Jliceman saw what he
said he saw," Coi-al Loren-~
zan. t!le · dir~ctor, said after
!her return from investigating
the reported landing of a UFO
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'near Sccorro.
Y.rs. Lorenzen said the
jsigl:t:ng o! i!.n object north-
l wes ~ of E s pa nola early Sun-
d:>y wa; similar to the one-11
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desc·ribej at Socorro. Sho s :lid i
she is investigating the otLer 1
. repc.rted sigh:ings during !he l
.t pa~ fe v. days.
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'led by l\: rs. Lorenzen in 1952
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newly-formed Congressiona
action committee, v:hich m
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be active in connection wit
legislation affecting Albt
~ 1c;uerque's interests.
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SOCORRO li'l- Dr. J . !·.ll:n
Hynek, special unic!cnt!fl_"
po li cema.~'s report ti.1a .. he
saw a mys~ eri ous flyi.~.; ob-
ject last FriCay.
Dr. Hyne~ so.id he ho;.ed to
talk to t..r.e pcli~:":'lan, l. ~ r: ..io!
Zamo.ra, anc! t.hen visit : ~ e 1
site where Znmora sa: s :1~ j
·saw the object this mo Th~ I
Dr. Hynek, o! the D ~ • r- 1
bo:n Obs-i i
ject was reportedly SFVttcc : ~
over the weekend, after niS i]
investigation of the Su : ·>: co !t
incident. jt
He said he !:ad not C.ccr • .:.1 1
vised · by the Air Fo=ce :t >i•lpresence here indica!es t!! ... \ .l
the government has elir:t!n;.:.t·! ~
ed the possibil::y o! U. ~. atr- ,}
craft having caused th o;;: re· : ~
ports. jt
Capt. Hector Quintanilia . :i
c.'lief a! the A" rial ?hencm;,na 1
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Branch ;:;t Wright-?alterson r
Air Force Bas~. Ohio, said 'jt
T. Sgt. David Moody o! tl:e
office already was in New 1
2-!exico and would assis: Dr. it
Hynek in the investigation. j:
Fired :1! Object .
The most recent reoort ofj
the obje r.,_
por~s. tL"ltil Tu~sday, :t ad '
come from points following a I
line from south of Truth orl
Consequences to an area near
Espanola.
Space Beings Hinted
At Tucson, the director c.!lthe Ael'lal P henomena P..e-
Co~ued on A-U :
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L~ :\iADERA, April 27 Lt'l-- A Santa Fe rcsidc'lt
· re?~~::d t.xiay he sighted an un dentificd flying obje:t
:s;;nday nc.J.r La ;:\Iadera, northwest of Espanola.
I A tea= o !' in\·estigators from[ .
; Ki~: la.r. :! Atr F orce Base, a Galle ~ os rctur:~ed twtcc roo ·o
i::rou;> r:om Washington, ·D.C., t•> ;o-
,object d<>!ini:ely not an air- ,ject v:as gone, but the ground
:p:a.:::e,' ·oad swooped down to- stiU was smoldering. A; Gal-
jward t3eir car, then veered ll"gos was returning to S.tnta
off. Fe St nday afternoon, he to:d
I The repo r t was the second E spat.ola police otr:cer Nick
idt.rin:; :1-,e f as: W~ekend, . with,1 Narat .jo what he h ad secil.
;th e fb.t cc =ng from a So- Notified Officer
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corro ~!i cc officer. Espanola pa l icc notifie d
'1.' h e r e was definitely S:ate Police Officer :\!arv:n
sone~ng t!:tere," said State iR omero, who w ith Sto.te Po-
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Po:.ice Capt. ::O!artin Vigil a!- \ice C!ficer David Kingsbury
t"= v:.Si~.,g the site at La questioned Gallegos at length.
.Madera. They then notified Capt. Vig il
I ''T'"' gro=d was still smo!. a ssigned State Police o~.fic~r
l d e~ i ng 20 hours after the Albert Ve:;a of 0Jo Calten.a
si~h:i:lg:' to go to the .seen~.
· 0::-:a::.:!o Gallegos, 35, of Capt. Vi g tl s atd he tal~ed
1Sa:tt:> Fe, m ade Sunday's by ~~lephone .wtth a maJO!."
'sig~:in~. Th is is his story: at Kirtlan.d Ai:. Force Bas\!
Gal!e,:os and his family ar- and des~r :b cd .nc scene. ~a
r:,~ ;:,l:::::!-l::l-' hor;es. It was then Of ~ tcer Romero told t~day
lhe """" t.'le thing sitting on of tne Saturday mght Slght-
1 ~"-~ ground in a gravel area. mg. . .
G all;;.! OS said he was about Offtcer Romero sa1d . two
., ; .. . , , . men, ·.vhosc na:ncs he dtd not
.00 .ee. : ·':Y ,and was a.rmd get, told him of seeing a
,l? app.rc:~c:: 7oscr. When he strange flyint: object about
ft.rst s::;n:1
o«! 1t, there wa~ a 10:30 p.m. Saturday, which
nng o! blue fla':'e erupting would have been about two
from &UI:'leous Jets around lhours before Gallegos' sight-
t!te bo::o:n of the craft, he ing at La Madera.
sa.td. The men told the officer
There v:as no noise and as they wero driving from Abi-
he wa~ed·~ the jets . .were ' quiu to Espanola when the
·turne-d oiL uallegos satd he flying object came straight
di6't se" ar:yone or anything toward their car. It veered
r:tovir.;: around the craft. · awo.y. All they could see . t.'"ley·
Gailegu:> returned to t h e said, \las a jet stream o: blue
house =d told his family, but flame. They sa id it deii:litely
no one ~ vent.ured outside. was not an airplane.
•Rob Mercer