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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.
“Lonnie Zamora”45 pages
UFO Sighting Re-Enacted; NoHelp to ScientistSOCORRO 111'1 - An Air site of ignition of a thrustlcertainly m~st have seenlwitness was supported b_y !Jr., Force cons ultant on uniden- unit powerful enough to lift a something." Lincoln LaPaz ofthe Umvers- tified fl yin g objects had Po- vehicle the size Zamora re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora re- ported. 'an international reputation in asked Zamora not to discuss enact in de ta il Wednesday the Dr . Hynek said he was also running down reports on fire- the markings was false. sightin J! of a UFO in Socorro puzzled by lack of radar con- balls and meteorites. "No one in the Air Force last F rid ay. tacts . with ohJ"ects that have "I would first point out that even suggested that nothing Th e con sultant, Dr. J. Allen . should he said about the Hvnck sa id after the re-cn- been reported. we arc not personally mvolv- markings," he said. , a~tmc~l th a t he could draw "It's my understanding New ed in t~e i~~cstiga~ion of Dr . Hynek also was asking no .conclusions on w~at Za- Mexico is infested with radar these umdentJhed flymg ob- . er ·r . in the state if I mora s aw and was more equipment, he said. "I'm go- jects," Dr . LaPaz said. "But umv SI Ies . Ipuzzled than I was when I . ' . I do want to say that 1 have they knew of any geophysical arri ved he re ." mg to check to see If there had contacts with Mr. Zamora group work in the state. Dr , Hynek returned to AI- have been radar contacts that in my work and he is a "These people often have buquerque Wednesday after- mi ght tie into these reports ." thoroughly dependable obser- some strange type of vehicles / noon <~ nd departed · for the "Usually one fincls many ver. · and aircraft they use in these. E as t hy ·pla ne. d. . . . . Dr. Hynek said he found rugged areas when taking Za mora reported seeing an contra Jcllons or omJSs!ons m . little · at the Socorro site. , radioactive samples," he said . egg-sh a ped object fly away thes e reports ," Dr. Hynek "The are a certainly has A 10-year-old Albuquerque from a draw last Friday eve- said. "But Mr. Za mora's been thoroughly messed up by girl was treated Tuesday ning. Other reports have fol- story is simply .told, certainly the touris ts . There 's nothing night for what her mother lowed. told without any intent to per- to see there now." told police were "infra-red" After the re-enactment, petrate a hoax. The story of He said soil samples had burns received when she look- however, Dr. Hynek said he course was told by a man been ta ken to " sec if there ed up at a "flying· saucer." was pu zzled that there was who obviously was fri ghtened are a ny particle s in the ashes Hynek said he went to . the no . evidence at the Socorro badly by what he did see. He · or at the site that might be girl's home Wednesday. He 0 (Y') ~-..t 0\0 rr. ~-< 0': 0; o·<J; 0 (f)(\J ! forei gn to this area." said she appeared to be suf- Dr. Hynek said that a re- fering from sunburn or a skin port that the Air Force had infection. **"'K I Is This the AnswerIU. S. Government aircraft flying at ·low levels al,ong · US-66 a.n:l US-70-RO taking photographs with powerful electronic flash . equipment during the last week, may be Jlart of the answer to the rash of "flying sauc·ers" seen in New Mexico. T h e jet air)llanes we1·e taking the photos durin~;" both day and night times ·from Albuquerque west to Kingman, Ariz., and from Deming west to Casa Gran- de, Ariz., up until Sunday, according to a Kirtland AF Base spokesman. Saturday night one of the Kirtland - based jets flew over Albuque·rque with two bright "strobe" (electronic flash) units flashing on and off every s·e cond and light- ing up a large area below it e;1ch time with a white, allnost bluish light. The "saucer" · si~:"htlngs began Friday when a Socor- ro policeman said he saw an ··egg-shaped object a short distance from the town. Since then several reports have been forwarded to po- lice and military · authori- ties.Rob Mercer
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