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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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Won't Tell Soul Next Time
JOURNAL
;4th Year Volume 340
Number Z7 Second ·class pasta go patd at Albuquerque
and at additional mailing offices Monday Morning,
UFO Witness Sighs
At Reports of What
He Supposedly Said
SCENE OF MYSTERY: Lonnie Za-
mora, left, so'corro policeman, shows
Air Force investigators where he saw
a mysterious flying object - at rest ·
and in flight - Friday evening. In cen-
ter, holding Geiger counter, is Maj.
William Conner, officer assigned to un-
identified flying object investigations at
Kirtland Air Force Base, and at right
By CHARLES RICHARDS
SOCORRO (UPI) - A policeman who. gained ·sudden
national attention Friday after he saw an egg-shaped flying
object near Socorro said Sunday his experience had taught
him something. ·
Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora said he would · tu~
around and run, just like he
did Friday evening, but next
time he'd never n.ention .it to
a soul.
"Thera have been so many
phone calls," he sighed. And
most of Sunday he spent shak-
ing his. head over some of
the reports of what he sup-
posedly said about the inci-
dent.
"Maybe you'd better ·ask
some of these other guys,"
Zamora told 1·eporters. "I'm
the only one who saw it, but
they seem to know more about
it than I do."
Denies Seeing Creatures
Zamora denied he had seen
any little creatures around the
object and said the unusual
machine rose off the ground
and llew slowly away in a
southwesterly direction until
it faded out of sight. It never
got more than about 20 feet off
the g r o u n d while he was
watching it, Zamora said, con-
is Sgt. David Moody of Wright-Patter- trary to reports the ot ject had
son Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, who zoomed up and away from
maintains voluminous files of reported him at a high ·rate of speed.
unidentified flying objects. Small bush : Two investigating officers
in foreground, according to Zamora, ·~rom Kirtland Air ~orce Base '
was defoliated and partially blackened m Albuquerque sa1d reports
by exhaust fumes from the strange a man from the Pentagon
object. (Journal photo by Rar Cary) :~~!d f;~..~e to Socorro also
Termed 'Fantastic'
Capt. Richard T. Holder, a
White Sands Missile Range
commander, termed the· inci-
dent · '.'fantastic" but referred
to Zamora as a reliable wit-
ness. "Neither White Sands
nor Holloman Air Force Base
has anything which wouldRob Mercer

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