“Socorro”60+ pages
- p. 3 …TWX regarding Capt Quintanilla's visit to Socorro dtd 30 Jun
2. TWX frcm SAFOI dtd…
- p. 6 …EVALUATION
OF TH~ RECENT UFO SIGHTING AT SOCORRO, NEW i•lEXIC , 24 APRIL, CONTINUE
TO BE…
- p. 7 TDEW
UFO Sighting, Socorro, Nev Mexico, 24 Apr 64
Hq USAF SAFOI PB {Mrs Gaiser)
Wash…
- p. 9 …Force
and might be attributed to the Socorro 1 New V..exico sighting.
FOR THE COMMANDER…
- p. 10 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT
SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964
On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
- p. 12 …TDEW
UFO Sighting, Socorro, Nev Mexico, 24 Apr 64 26 May 64
Hq· USAF SAFOI PB…
- p. 13 …On Tuesday I re April 1964, Capt Quintanilla directed
Doctor J All.en Hynek to Socorro…
- p. 14 …produce markings such as those ·round at
Socorro. One knovn experiaental model, constructed by Bell Air…
- p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964
.. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
- p. 22 …OFf\ClAL F\LE COPY
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'l'DEW/UFO
UP'O Sighting Socorro, Nev Mexico
Test…
- p. 23 …18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro
New Mexico…
- p. 24 …capt Quintanilla contacted the FTD liaison office at
Holloman AFB regarding the Socorro sighting and requested…
- p. 25 …with an unidentified flying object sighting
at Socorro, Nev Mexico . The Air Force is · investigating the…
- p. 28 …Cloud ~ ap operations were conducted in an area about
a hundred miles north of Socorro, New…
- p. 29 …Cloud Gap operations were conducted in an area about
a hundred miles north of Socorro, ~J…
- p. 76 …Byrnes to;ould like for me
to contact him at the state Po.Lice Office, Socorro…
- p. 77 …1~f'r
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Wheels skidded.
Made three attempts
to climb hill~ ,Pl…
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Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
- p. 93 …jl.P..nci, lil%t of
the Socorro t--otin~ D~:>J,.b"'Ul: ::.nt., , ;.~ - ~'>b…
- p. 96 INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE SOCORRO SIGHTING OF UFO BY LONNIE z.A.'.iORA
At 0530, Sunday…
- p. 98 …Coral Lorenzen and husband were in Socorro at the time and had inter-
viewed both Lonnie…
- p. 100 .>,
REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP
On TUesday, April 28, 1964, in resp6nse to a call…
- p. 103 …No 9 shows the town of Socorro in the distance, looking down longatudi-
nally through the…
- p. 105 …In about a month, I shall have occassion to return to the Socorro area,
at which…
- p. 106 …But, it is essential .that the Socorro
case be given the treatment.
I also questioned, while…
- p. 126 …details on the April 24,
sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora.
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Project
1964…
- p. 127 …As I recall, the man ~as driving into
Socorro at the time. Unfortunately, I no longer…
- p. 129 …ly over his car.
:Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
- p. 132 …ing of an unidentified flying
object at the outskirts of
Socorro Friday afternoon
·and the sighting…
- p. 133 …American UFO Committee Review, Vol 1 No 2, Sep V'+
Socorro 1 H. H.
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- p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l
about a mile south of Socorro.
POLICE…
- p. 135 …the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f'Pd im…
- p. 136 ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO
Flying Objects Area Probed
SOCORRO, N.M.-(jp)-An !Wright-Patterson Air…
- p. 137 …ALBuQUERQUE JOURNAL SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
24 Apr 64DATE: 29 APR 64
Air Force UFO
Expert to…
- p. 138 …28 APR 64 .
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SOCORRO NEW MEXICO
DATE: 24 APR 64
A rash of unidentified fly-
e…
- p. 139 …SOCORRO, April 27 lA'! -
Socorro police were called to
the scene last night where an
. ·cer…
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SOCORRO ll'l -Dr. J…
- p. 141 …his investigation of a Socorro
policeman's report that he
saw a mysterious ilying ob--
ject…
- p. 143 …the heels of e similar report
from a Socorro pol ! r.-~ :nr:.n.
Lonnie Zamora, who…
- p. 144 …the one-11
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desc·ribej at Socorro. Sho s :lid i
she is investigating the…
- p. 145 …southwest or Socorro Sunday
night, where city officer Lonnie ·
Z3mora firsl r('poft"l.!tl see…
- p. 147 …r : (! from
a Socorro tee::1ager . •u A;bu-!
querquc motorist, ) ~ · .'i :: 1•< o I
men…
- p. 149 …5 CASES of sightings 1n 1963 or
early 1964 reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings ·
25 Apr…
- p. 150 …BE A'I'l'RIBUTED TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING:
1. 26,Apr 64, Grants…
- p. 151 …were irregularly ly landed there," Chavez
A report by a Socorro po- spaced with the distance…
- p. 152 …gained ·sudden
national attention Friday after he saw an egg-shaped flying
object near Socorro said…
- p. 153 …drove
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to Socorro from Tucson to
take samples of the soil and ,
indicated the story…
- p. 154 …sightin J! of a UFO in Socorro puzzled by lack of radar con- balls and meteorites…
- p. 155 …29 A.r 6
Flying Object
Expert Checks
Socorro Scene
Astronomer
Takes Photos
At UFO Site…
- p. 159 …Gallegos' report came on I
the heels of a similar report II
from a Socorro policeman…
- p. 160 …objects (
in the sky between here and ~
Socorro. ~'
The rash of incidents start-
ed .Friday when…
- p. 161 …Gallegos' report came on•
the heels o! a similar report
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from a Socorro policeman,
Lonnie…
- p. 162 .ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL 26 APRIL 1994
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\Mysterious Object Pays Visit to Socorro Area
I SOC…
- p. 163 ' ,
PRICE lOc
SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology…
- p. 166 …The
original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F
has never…
- p. 167 …P'ass and 1 ound scorched
indentations o;: :ed&'e-shaped
the Socorro aft e &'round…
- p. 168 …Sam Chavez
said he was told by Socorro
policeman Lonnie Zamora . that
the UFO he saw…
- p. 170 …burned by exhaust
a mile south of Socorro. He denied from the saucer. j
seeing any…
- p. 171 …United Press International thing very few have ever flew away after he got within
SOCORRO, N…
- p. 172 …Flymg Obects Zamora, when contacted at
since Friday when Socorro sat~ from h~s Oklahoma…
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
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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
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Dr. Hynek said that a re- fering from sunburn or a skin
port that the Air Force had infection.
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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