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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”40 pages
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DATE: 28 APR 64
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IM · • . 1 "d" .1 ex1co s perenmo ac. :c:ro:>..
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to flying saucers h ~ s take:1 :
hold of the state again with
more "objects" reported to
police over the weekend.
The latest, which brou;;;ht
out the Air Force and ~e
FBI, was spotted early Su.;.- j
day morning at La ::-,ru.C.cra, j
about 50 miles no:-t'!l. c.f Sar.-
ta Fe. State Polke Cautaln
Martin Vig:J. said, ·'tcer~- ' ':as
defL'litely so:nethl::g the:~."
1 Orlando Gallt!g'O:> of S:m:a
Fe told State Folic~ he get
within 200 feet ot a hu ~ c ne:-
al object that loo:;ed :E::e a:>.
egg-sha?ed but.:n'" t a:-.k. Ee
said :law~s sp~rt ~ :i siler...:!y (
from au m e:cus j .;;~ s :~ :·o;,::.:i i
the bot ~om of the ob_l ;:c_:. I: l
was as long as a t e .e-;J!l'J:'la :
pole and about 14 ff~"'~ 1:1 .::r-1
cumference, he tc.<i :;::.:;lice. 1'
Galle;os' report ::;J:ne 0:1
the heels of a si m ~ la :· ~·cnortl
from a Socorro p::;Ecc~ar.,ll
Lonnie Zamora, who s<:.~d he
spotte~ an o~!e;t ~:~02.:· ~o.::o;-1
ro Fnday nl 0 h,. Zar.,o.a, .:...'"1,
clearing up false I(;Jj~t" t !l S~'"l-1
day, said the o:J;ect. rose I
about 20 feet off ·tJ::•? gro--.:.nd I
and slowly flew a•. ••'1;·. ISimilar reports . ~ :: r : (! from
a Socorro tee::1ager . •u A;bu-!
querquc motorist, ) ~ · .'i :: 1•< o I
men driving in th ·~ :i. J. ~<:d- i
era area Saturday :m,):l. Ti:::e !
Albuquerque motor ~ ! ; i; , George I
Mitro polis, said b: saw a I
"silver looking" ob ! e: ~ . It dis- Iappeared over a mm;_rrtain in
the Caballo Rcscr\·ei:- area.
In both the Sacor•o and ~'he !
La Madera r e p o r t s the!
ground in the ar -~a~ ·..,here !
the objects were T('_p::rted to
have landed v."a~ ~curciled.
a!ld burned. Also ~cut: ci were
"paw prints, like ;.. ::-.(•i":.!:::ain
lion's," as . \Veil '-.: ~ · ·1:-_c.,C:ing
gear marks" - fc ·~r i:np:·es-:
sions in the dirt. 1
Until th: re~eJ:l~ _ ;;? c:tt.:;:g_s.f
the last'l!."Udcntifle•: ~ •. · ~ r. t; oo-1ject was spotted. b : ; , ··: :~: C):
ico near Galit:p Ia·.·: L: "t ::;::ar
by several moto::-i:: .::..~. c am- j
pus policemr.n at ;i· '! i.-:l:ver-!
sity of Xe\\.. 1,·Iexic\; a:sc s,;c:.- ;
teci the Gallup o'Lj.:c i nyi:::: r
in the . western ~ ::y :ot t:1c Isame urr.e. ,
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24 APR 64Rob Mercer Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.