Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

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SOCORRO tl'l- Dr. J. Allen
Hrr.ck, special uniccn:ified j
fl_1: ng objc.:t consult a:1t f o rj
the A ' r Fo:·ce, arrived jn So- '
crt wus another in
a series which have kc;>l Ne'.v 1
Mex1co and mtlttary authon-
ties bw;y since Zatnora's or-
iginal report Friday. The re-
ports, until Tuesday, h a d
come from points fol!owin" a
line from south of Truth o or
Conscqt:ences to an area ncar
Espanola.
Space Ecin;s Uinteit
At Tucson, the director of
the Aerial Phenomena Re-
Continued on A-U
* * *· 'lnfraA't.ed' n~: : :·~s
S!!ffer.2d by Gi !'l
T!Th 'S ' Q'!... By Tli(.:"•soctATeo PREss ! to lta\'c been left b some t . c
rl LO aw J]ect · I Slate ofnc,·r~ and the military ' or llnding ::car. y >P •
A IG-year-old "irl wa• tn!at-. ~~~cd~~ .~t.:~S·l~ ~ ~ m o r~ unidcn- j Tlc latest rort came Fr.d:oy eve-
Jolly said the girl's Y' ";,.,.,, c~rth 311" Wl':lgc shaped de pres· nin;: from a city uffit·~r a
sister, Robin, 8, also sa ,•: ,,,~· $tons lhJt o•!iccrs sar appeal ! motcrist, George Mitropoh; or !'
object bat refused to loo.c a: tt Albu1uerquc, told of seeing Su:l-
and ran of! to play. The girl day ni:;ht "a luminous !lyin;;
was t~ted by a physicic.t: :o~ thing, like an upside down bath-
bu!":'.s aboc:t the eyes and n·:aid gl<>w like exhausl underncallt it.
he b.!lievcs Sharon "saw some-
thin;:- and it burned her." come up over th~ crest of the
Sharon said it was not the mountains :&nd then go hack
su~ she was lookin; at. She down."
told Jolly the object was to the An unidentified girl, ohottl t8,
nort.hea=t and the sun was be- , told Socorro officer Bill l'ylancl
hind her. P.er parents said !hal she saw a fire in lhc hills ISharon is very tnith!ul. southwest or Socorro Sunday
night, where city officer Lonnie ·
Z3mora firsl r('poft"l.!tl see ing ::an
"egg-shaped object" fly away
from a draw. She said she wcnl
to within 300 feet to 500 ket
from the fire when · she tjtou .~ht
she saw somcthin~ in the
flames. She then lcfllo report it.
JE JOURNAL
Continued From A-1
search Organization said she .
believes intelligent being s j
from anot.iler planet made
several landings in New Mex- 1
ico in tl:e past few days.
"We are convinced the So-
corro policeman saw what he
said he saw," Coral Loren-
zan, the director, said aftc:::-
her return from investigatir.g
the .repo:ied landing of a UFO 1
near Soco:-:-o,
"Mrs. Lorenzen said the
sighting of an object north-
west of Espanola early Sun-
day was similor to the one
described at Socorro. She said
she is inves!.igating the other li
reported sight:Ogs during the 1
past few days, I'The organization was form- 1
ed by Mrs. Lorenzen in 1952 1j
an:! she says it now has near- 11
ly 800 members around the 1
wod d. She says there are
some 6-12 landing incidences 1
a year and she believes they , .
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are made by beings from an- '
lather planet._ I
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About · the report from Gallc·J
· gos, State Pollee Capt. MJrlin
Vigil said, after visiting the
site, "There was cl~finilcly some· 1
thing there.
"The ground was still smnl·
i clcriu:.! 20 hours afl<•r lh~ si;.:.h1 ~
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Ga llc[!et,:; s:lld he had gouc Olll'
to l'itasc away some ltors~s
1
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w!K!n he saw the object. He said
he was about 200 f<·ct away
when he Cirst saw it.
Gallegos said there was no J
noise and as he wa\l:hed, the
flaming jets were turne'd orr. He I
said he didn't sec any~ne or Ianything moving around the
craft.
HC' said he returned to the 1
house and told his family but '
1:1 no unc else ventured nut <icle. j
• Gallegos said "he returned (wicc 1
;. more to look at the object. lie I
!, descrilx!d it as being or bri~: h t
'· metal, without windows, as Ion~
• as a telephone pole and about
H feet in circumference. It was
egg-shaped, he said, and re-
sembled a large butane gas
tank.
Capt. Vigil said the ~round Iwas smoldering later Sunday
and he fount! what looked !il;c I
paw prints along wit11 the d~
pressio:ls that inrlic ~ te ;orne 1
type of !:1nd!ng gear. '
Tl:e captain said lw cont3ct·
cd Kirtland AFB and ~n unidcnli·
!iCd o!!iccr there told him a
team o! military investig •• tors
. was on its way.
St~te Patrolman Marvin Ro-
mcn told or the Satcrday :: igltt
sigh ti n~ hy two mo -.orisl"i in
the ·Espanol:l area. ·
Romero said the men told him
they were driv1n~ £roan Ahiquiu
to Espanola when Ute Clyin:.: ob·
ject came straight toward their
' car. They said it vccrcJ a way
and all they could see was a jet
' strclm or blue flame.
I - -Rob Mercer