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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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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 ~
iIn;..:::'' '
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.
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