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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.
“New Mexico State Police”20 pages
UFO \Vitness Sighs at Reports Continued From A-1 produce the situation de- scribed in the report," Holder said. · Zamora said the craft clear- ed a· dynamite shack by only a couple of feet as it depart- ed. He lost sight of it within a m a t t e r of minutes, he claimed. He noticed the object after he investigated a cloud of smoke about a mile south of Socorro. He was aware of the dynamite shack in the vicini- , ty and thought at first it ex- ~ ploded, he said. The craft was in a draw not visible from main roads. He first saw it from about 200 yards and thought it was an overturned car. He said he saw what appeared to be a pair of white coveralls, but whether anything was in them he did not know. Within 100 Feet He eventually got within about 100 feet, and it was then Zamora said he noticed it was something out of the ordinary. · "It had red lettering of some kind on the sides," Zamora said .- He . said the object was on the ground, supported by four girder-like legs. At the site, four five to six inch depressions were found as well as· a couple of round 1 tracks a bout four inches in 1 diameter which officers theo- 1 rized might have been made 'I by occupants of the craft. They even · went so far as to estimate by the depression '1 that the tracks were made by a being of approximately 120-160 pounds. On the spot where the ob- ject supposedly sat was a once-green bush, most of it burned bare. by exhaust ·heat. Zamora said it was still smok- ing several minutes after the craft's departure. Leslie J. Lorenzen, a mem- ber of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. drove 1 to Socorro from Tucson to take samples of the soil and , indicated the story was credi- , ble to him. "Reliable people are seeing incredible things," Lorenz e n ~ !' .1id . "Similar things have k ,, ":ned all over the world · .·::! certain details correlate."Rob Mercer
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