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Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

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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.

  • p. 10 …Within moments afterward, Sgt Chavez of the Nev Mexico State Police ~rriYed on the scene in…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 18 …He uses the same radio frequency as the New Mexico State Police and that is the…
  • p. 138 …lllter..lloaal . .ng object sightings had New \ Mexico State Police, local law . e n f o…
  • p. 139 …85 and New · Mexico 180 and the object ap- peared to be about a quarter of…
  • p. 141 …State Police this after- bngn: mc:al v:1tnout wmaow.;, noon to investigate the new !as…
  • p. 143 …flY· ~ ing object sightings had New 2 1 Mexico Stale Police, local law r e ;~ f…
  • p. 154 …re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 155 …State Police Capt. Arch1e samples. Dr. Hynek returned Six Reports aircraft. . White said in Las Cruces…
  • p. 159 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction jto flying saucers has taken lhold of the state again…
  • p. 161 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
  • p. 163 …Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology -----------------------------------------------------------------------VOL. 98 - NO…
  • p. 164 …a level with the police car on 'the jed hovering .for two hours at an eral…
  • p. 167 …sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of &ichtinp in Ule state. He planned…
  • p. 168 …ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom my Richardson of…
  • p. 172 …had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character- Mexico State Police, local law…
  • p. 173 …UPI) -New Mexico's perennial addictior to flying saucers has taker hold of the state again…
  • p. 175 …e Police, ;)nd reportedly t !1 ~ FBI. Orlando Gallegos of SanTa e told State nolice he…
  • p. 182 …unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n f…
  • p. 185 …a state load· ed with radar Installations. "It Is my understanding that New Mexico has more…
46 OFFICIAL CASm, 25 Apr - 17 May 64. 5 CASES of sightings 1n 1963 or
early 1964 reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings ·
25 Apr
26Apr
Z,Apr
23 Apr
.ALBtJ~ 1 NEW MEXICO AREA
Socorro
LaMadera
Edaewood, N Mexico
Albuquerque
· Unidentified Observer Rotaing Navigation Beacon
Gallegos Fire 1n dump
Adams · Hoax
Sharon stull Dr Report, Conjunctivitis
caused b;y dust wind, etc
(Also reports of ECHO 1 Venus and night photo missions accounted for 10-15 other
reports 811Svered by phone at local level~ Sgt Moody end l>tajor Conner's, and no
tormal reports turned in. )
19-25 Apr
22 Apr
25-26 kpr
23 Apr
re Apr
re-29Apr
29 Apr
30 Apr
. Early !'JBY
1 May
J May.
1 May
1 May
4 May '
4 May
5 May
6 May
6May
6 May
6 May
8 May
9 May
10 May
11 May
11 May
13 May
13 May
14 May
15 May
15 May
16 May
16 May
17 May
17 May
OTHER. ·REPORTS
Miles City 1 Montana
lwbsinee, Wise (Reported 23 Apr)
Phoenix, Arizona (w/Photos)
·Miamisburg, Ohio
Minot AFB, South Dakota (w/Radar)
San Jose 1 Calif
PaeUic
San Jose, Calif'
.Ashville, North Carolina (Multiple)
Mehlville, lwb .
St George, Utah (Fil.m/nocbject)
Pacific .
North Carver 1 }.(..ass
Cannon AFB, New Mexico
Boise 1 Idaho
Middletown 1 Ohio
CXl tlook, M:>ntana
Yellow Springs, Ohio (Phs Spec)
Savannah, Georgia
Pacific
Ft Collins, Coloredo
Chicego, Ill
Warrensville Heights, Ohio
Hawaii
Kettering, Ohio
Denver 1 Colorado
Caresbad 1 Nev Mexico
DfYton, Ohio
Deyton, Ohio
Dayton, Cbio
Da;yton, Ohio
Dayton 1 Ohio
· Canton • Akron, Ohio
Wil..tington, Ohio
Insufficient Data
ECHO I
A/C (Fboto. Mission)
Venus
A/C
Balloon
Satellite
Venus
Other (Misinterpretatt> n
of' Conventional objects)
Venus
Balloon
Prob Satellite
Venus
1. Venus 2. Balloon
Flares
Venus
Hoax
Part of Crashed B57
A/C
Satellite
ECOO I
Meteor
ECHO I
J'l.sres
A/C
(Pending)
Astro (Uar/Planet)
Venus
!X:HO
Balloon
A/C
!niJUf'f'/Data
Ajc
InBuff' DataRob Mercer

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