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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 se:>rch Organization said she isdc C(
sev,!ra! landi:lgs ·in ~e\\- ~:Lex· :do
ico :n :he p:tst fe\V days.
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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-
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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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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 Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.