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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
SOIJR"E : ALB'U~UERQL'"' JOUR:!AL D~TS : 30 APR L. 1964 'Talked With Occupants' Man Here Claims He Saw Saucers 5 Times By MARTIN PASKIND . qualities, and in quality of "I don't know why t h e y knowledge. picked me," said Apolinar A. Expect Volcanic Activity Villa Jr. "I'm just an ordi- Saucer crewmembers, he nary working man -just a 1 said, expect a lar~e-scal~ re- · mechanic. newal of volcamc actlvtty "'fhey said there was a pur_ lalong the volcano . rim just pose. What it is, 1 don't west of here. And they expect know." 1t so~m. Five times in about five Th1s year, they expect ca- years, says "Paul" Villa, he t~strophic ~ar between Rus- has seen flying saucers. SL~ and Chma - a w~r that Twice, he has talked to their w1ll mvolve many As1an na- occupants. tions. And once he says he re- Why hasn't Villa sought a turned fro:n his e~counter place of safety? "We can't with a roll of film. If Villa get away from ~~hat Go_d has is the victim of fantasy it's ldecreed for. us .. ~e said .. f t · K d 1 ' Villa's sa1d h1s ftrst saucer an asy m o a co or. · h · th w t v·n 47 r 'th h. s1g ung came on e es1 a, • tve~ WI ~s son Coast, when · he conversed an~ daug~ter-m- law . m a . with the occupant of a small trailer behmd 601 N 1 a gara saucer SOCORPO NEW MEXI~O 24 APR 1964 NE. Born in Tijeras, he at- 1 Twic~. the t!evices hovered tended Longfellow. Elemen- ·over his home, then at 4187 \known me for a long time," tary School and Lmcoln Jun- Edith NE. The second time said Villa. "There were lots ior High School. the home was burned, Vill~ of things . they had answers Quit School said. The burning was for for. They were a very friend- He quit during his first disciplinary reasons. ly sort of people ." year at Albuquerque High I sighting Near Lindrith Friendliness notwithstand- !school. Since then, he served ! Once _Yill?- sight~d a saucer ing, they left Villa in no doubt in the Army Air Force. A near Lmdnth. This was the about what would happen mechanic Villa · works for largest-about 900 feet in di- should he persist in efforts to N. C. Ribble and Co. here. ameter. !duplicate their devices. "The pictures are authen- The saucer he viewed near Villa said the starmen are tic. They'r!! the real thing," Peralta '."as a~out 160 feet interested in New ~exico b~- 1 he says. "There are a lot of across, ~illa sa1d. · cause. of a mag'?ehc. fault m I things 1 can't say _ because From It stepped a number Farmmgton-the1r sh1ps trav- so help me God 1 don't think 'of people from the far-distant el "magnetic lines ." anybody would believe it. But 1 galax_y of Coma . Berenices, "They put . a lot of stress the · ictures are . the rea 1 1magmably far distant from on. New Mex1co and parts .of th. f.. here. Anzona and Utah," he said. ~ · li h . t . d t In the meeting, and in tele- "They mentioned something1 a w o 15 n~ su.rpnse a pathic contacts before and about volcanoes ." r~cen~ saucer .sLghtmgs, took 1since, Villa said he acquired Clothed in tight-fitting one- his pictures With .a Japanese fragments of the starmen's piece uniform, the starmen camera the last tl~e he saw knowledge. made an attractive crew. And the saucers, he. said. La 5 t It was his effort to convert what did they think of us? June 16, he sal?, he spent parts of this knowledge to his "Their opinion is not that from 2 ;30 to 4 m the after- own profit, says Villa, that we're bad or good," Villa noon w1th the people - men resulted in a stream of ill said. Nor will they attempt and women - borne by the fortune . His home burned- to save the human race from space machine . totally and without insurance. itself. The saucer's occupants, He shot himself in the arm. "They know that there is l said Villa, were not superhu- He went through bankruptcy. a super intelligence that gov- man. But they were superior Friendly People erns all the universe and ev- to our species in physical "They seemed to h a v e erything in it," he sa1d.Rob Mercer
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