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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. 152 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the g r o u n d…
  • p. 155 …Hynek said he had never two adults about 12 blocks ject Fr~ay inch by inch…
  • p. 160 …He said nis wife knowle ge,h at he did child has never had a sun…
  • p. 166 …The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never…
  • p. 170 …a west- TWO INVESTIGATING officers erly direction, never getting more .vere at the scene yesterday from…
  • p. 178 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 185 …I never expected to see any- thing like that around here. My husband and I had…
  • p. 200 …say in the paper tr~t he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 201 …According to I..a.PazJ the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why…
  • p. 202 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 204 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a baJLoon. Zamora knows exactly…
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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