Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

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2 Anr 64DATI: 29 A.r 6
Flying Object
Expert Checks
Socorro Scene
Astronomer
Takes Photos
At UFO Site
To Analyze Soil Mrs. c o r a 1 Lore~~on 01
Dr. Hynek told Radio Sta- FLYING Tucson director of the Aerial
tion KSRC in Socorro that an Pheno~ena Research Organi-
Analysis of the soil and stones Continued from Page A-t ~z ation , said yesterday. after
at the spot where the craft spending the weekend m So·
was supposed to have landed where State Police Capt. Mar- corro she was "convinced the
will be made and the results tin Vigil found the ground still So.::orro policeman saw what
of the analysis would be made smouldering 20 hours after a he said he saw.
public . . reported sighting. She said she believed intel-
When asked 1f he thought Authorities found scorched Jigent beings f r o m another
the craft was from. o '-!.t e r grass and four wedge-shaped planet ha_ve made s ~ v ~ r a 1
space Dr. Hynek said, Yo:r indentations in the ground at landings m New MeXlCO m the
know about as much about 1t the Socorro site and near Es- past few days.
as I do." panola The Aerial Phenomena Re-
I Dr. Hynek said he h~d no Dr. Hynek hoped to finish s e a r c h Organization w~s
knowledge of any obJects , his invest igation today. formed by _Mrs. L~renzon m
such as have been reported He said he has found most 1952, she said, and 1t now has
(CompUed from Pr..• Dlspatcb••l sighted by num_erou~ person_s people honest and sincere in nearly 800 members around
SOCORRO, April 29 - The over N~w Mexico smce Fn- rep 0 r tin g fly ing objects. the world._
Air Force's chief consultant day, bemg tracked on any r a- Many common things how- Meanwhile, at Las Cruces
on unidentified flying objects dar sets in the area. lever are often responsible for a State Policeman and four
today checked out the scene ' Witnesses to the. cra_ft seen such' reports, he said. employes of the port of entry
where a Socor- ,. by Z a m o r a said . It was "Meteors, flocks of birds, station on Interstate 1~ so1;1th
r o .policeman · marked w1th a red mv~rted weather balloons even the of the city reported Sigh~mg
said he saw a V with a line, or several hnes, moon can lead to these re- a luminous object las_t mght
strange "o b-. horizontally th:ough the V. 'ports," Dr. Hynek said. "In moving in a jer~y mot10n and
ject" last Fri- w.~_,¥-· Dr. Hynek said he had no such cases the reports often changing directions.
day. . · r.t knowledge of any such mark- come from entirely hanest I State Policeman Paul Ar-
Dr. J. Allen · ~ '•, ~ ings on Air Force craft or on people who see something teche of Anthony answered
Hynek, North- . ,,{f; instruments being tested at that puzzles them." the call from the port of en-
western U n i- ~· nearby White Sands Missile 'Routine' Inquiry try, and on his way to the
versity astron- ··~ Range . Dr. Hynek said he had not station also sighted the ?h-
omer, c o m- . Zamora said that from a been told by the government ject. He . said it :was movm~
pleted his in--.A. t# distance there appeared to be whether sending him to New northwest. The p1lot of _a pn-
v e s t i g a- Hynek two figures in white coveralls Mexico indicates that the Air vate airplane made a Similar
t ion shortly ' Jutside the object. It flew ·off Force has eliminated the pos- report about the same time,
before noon after taking nu- Nith a roar when he ap- sibility that the report by between 10 and 10 :30. .
merous photographs and soil ?roached , he said. Zamora was caused by a ·u.s. State Police Capt. Arch1e
samples. Dr. Hynek returned Six Reports aircraft. . White said in Las Cruces that
to Kirtland Air Force Base in Since Zamora's sighting at In Washington, the Air . as far as he was concerned
Albuquerque and · indicated he east six reports have been !!'orce . sai~ yesterday that its : i~ might have been a sa tel-
will comment on his findings nade · to authorities including mveshgahon of the reported lite .
·later in the .day. me from a youth who said:sighting was "routine." It Reports From ~obbs
Hynek and Patrolman Lon- te fired several shots at!sai~ it_will r_ele~se the res_ul~s Hobbs Police received two
nie Zamora went over the ;omething about 100 feet in of 1ts mveshgatlOn when 1t 1s re~orts, one from a group of
place where Zamora said he he air near Moriart completed. children and another from
saw a mysterious flying ob- · . y. Hynek said he had never two adults about 12 blocks
ject Fr~ay inch by inch. T: Sgt. David Moody of the found any evidence that be- from where the children said .
ier_tal phenomena b_ranch at ings from another planet had they saw a white round ob- ·
Wnght-P~tte_rs~m Air Fo~ce visited earth. ject hover over the city and 1
Base, Ohto, 1s m New MeXlco then move off to the north· ·
to · assist Dr. Hynek. east. The two adults reported
Dr. Hynek said his investi- the same sighting at the
gation will determine wheth- same ·time.
cr )l,e would visit Espanola, The F e de r a 1 Aviation
: ·'- ~'FLYING, Page A -Z Ag_ency _offic: said a silver
twm-engme airplane was fly.
ing over the city about the
l
same time but was flying to
the southwest.Rob Mercer