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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.

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  • p. 10 …pm, in an unpopulated area full of hills and gullies and covered with sagebrush. Following is…
  • p. 14 …He also observed the pollee car heading up the hill tova.rd the spot where the…
  • p. 16 …travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. Af"ter two or three ef…
  • p. 77 …Made three attempts to climb hill~ ,Pl./ / .• "B" 800' / ------------ ~ · First sighting of o1)jec :~. Stopped car…
  • p. 86 …to back down and try again before mU.ing the hill.. 1Iil1 abcut 60ft.. loug.P…
  • p. 87 …ard J j~ j~t over the hill--I s ·tG~..t~\~cause I did not…
  • p. 97 …He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill where he could…
  • p. 102 …He thus came up upon the object from behind the hill and from the side, so…
  • p. 106 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 129 …ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
  • p. 135 …or radar the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f…
  • p. 136 …ed hill where a Socorro po- tion in Socorro will deter- (I W h" t th…
  • p. 145 …P.er parents said !hal she saw a fire in lhc hills ISharon is very tnith…
  • p. 151 …As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving…
  • p. 157 …short "men." Zamora continued driving up the hill to get a closer look. When he stopped…
  • p. 164 …ject that would compare to the tile hill to get a closer look at the 1…
  • p. 167 …tnl ~ty~yto examtfre the secluded hill W'here a Socorro policeman reported seeing a…
  • p. 174 …that she saw a fire in the hills southwest of Socorro Sunday night. where city officer…
  • p. 193 …leu Sllg6est tba;t when Za!X>l"a 's car crested tl:e hill, the…
  • p. 196 …As you 1;ey know, we have rented a house at 57 Avon Hill Street . I…
THE FOU.OWIOO SIGHTINGS WERE REPORTED TO 'liE AIR FORCE .AND MIGHT
BE A'I'l'RIBUTED TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING:
1. 26,Apr 64, Grants, nev Mexico sighting of a large W1 te light
shining dovn and illuminating the terrain and also criss
crossing US Route 66 vas caused by an a/ c on a Lev Level
Photo Reconnaissance l.U.ssion or Project Cloud Gap. Incidentally
the photos vhich the observer claims he took vith the camera
did not come out.
2. 28 Apr 64, Santa Cruz.l-Iountain Range sighting has been evaluated
as a balloon and a sighting by the same observers, but at a
later time in the day, ·has been evaluated as the Planet Venus.
3. 28 Apr 64, Miamisburg, Ohio aighting has been evaluated as
a searchlight.
4. 1 May 64, St Louis, Mo sighting has been evaluated as the Planet
Venus.
5. 1 May 64, St George 1 utah sighting has been evaluated as a balloon.
6. 2 May 64, North Carver, Massachusetts has been evaluated as
the Planet Venus.
1· 4 May 64 1 Clovis, New Mexico multiple sighting has been evaluated
as a balloon.
8. 5 !IJly 64, Boise, Idaho sighting has been evaluated as a t'lare.
9· 5 May 64, Middletovnj Ohio sighting has been evaluated as the
Planet Venus .
10 • . 6 May 64 1 Glasgow, rttOntana sighting ha.s been evaluated as possibly
~ t7e.n~s . We can't say for sure that 1 t is Venus because they
:tailed to tell us hov :long they observed the object.
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11. 6 Me.y 64, Savannah, Georgia, sighting has been evaluated as a balloon.
Y~~ . - J.iRob Mercer

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