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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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Pentagon ln~r~sted. - t 2.1..' L~~r ~~ - s~.f.~ ~<i Sofcrrro Officer Saw Two en Step Out of Big UFOSOCORRO, April 25 !A'! - sions . were irregularly ly landed there," Chavez A report by a Socorro po- spaced with the distance be- said. liceman that he saw an egg- tween them varying from Zamora was described as shaped flying object land about nine feet to 15 feet. a man not given to imagin- near here yesterday has the He estimated the length of ing things. FBI and military authori- the object at about 15 feet Besides the landing gear ties interested. from the position of what marks, Zamora said he Officer Lonnie Zamora apparently w ere · landing found what appeared to be said he not only saw the gear legs. two round prints like heel object but also saw two oc- Zamora s a i d men who marks. Another man w h o cupants who alighted after identified themselves as visited the site described it landed about one mile :from Army intelligence at the marks as looking 1i k e mile southwest of Socorro White Sands Missile Range mountain lion pad marks. in a draw. took samples of the soil. An FBI agent visited the State . Police Sgt. Sam ) "S o m e t h i n g definite- spot this morning. Chavez said he received a call from the Pentagon and the caller indicated the site would be inspected by someone :from Washington. · As Officer Zamora tells his experience: While in his patrol c a r about 5:50 p.m. yesterday he heard what he thought was an explosion in the area where a dynamite ·shack is located. He drove to with- in 150 yards of the draw where he spotted what ap- peared to be an overturned car. Moving closer he saw two figures moving about !)utside the vehicle. One looked directly at him. As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving to the draw and parked. He walked to within 200 feet of the object and again heard a roar. Taking cover behind his car Zamora saw the ob- ject of brilliant white metal, rise and hover about 20 · feet. off the ground. It then flew off to the west, rising Jradually. "I was scared," said Az- mora, when he heard the deep roar. "I thought it was going to blow up." Zamora said he called Sgt. Chavez on his car radio. Chavez joined h i m and both approached t h e site of the apparent land- ing. They found scorched ground and burned weeds. They also found four 4-5- inch depressions in t h e ground which apparently had supported a heavy ob- ject. Chavez said the impres-Rob Mercer
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