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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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