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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.
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SOUFCE : AL~U Q~.TEP O.UE J OURNAL .DA~ : 23 APR 64 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New rdexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction jto flying saucers has taken lhold of the state again with more "objects'' reported t police over the weekend. The latest, wl1ich brought out the Air Force and the FBI, was spotted early Sun- day mornin_g at La Madera, , about 50 miles north of San- ~ ta · Fe. State Police Captain Martin Vigil said, "there was definitely something there." Orlando Gallegos of Santa Fe told State Police he got within 200 feet of a huge met- ~ a1 object that looked like an egg-Shaped butane tank. He said flames spurted silently j from numerous jets ar ou...'ld j the bottom of the ·object. It 1 was as long as a telephone pole and about 14 feet in cirJ 1 . lcumference, he told police. Gallegos' report came on I the heels of a similar report II from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socor- j ro Friday night. Zamora, in clearing up false reports Sun- '! day, said the object rose about 20 feet off the ground II and slowly flew away. Similar reports came from a Socorro teenager, an Albu- querque motorist, and t w o men driving in the La Mad- era area Saturday night. The ' Albuquerque motorist, George Mitropolis, said he saw a · "silver looking" object. It dis- ~ appeared over a mountain in the Caballo Reservoir area. In both the Socorro and the La Madera r e p o r t s the ground in the areas · where the objects were reported to have landed was scorched and· burned. Also found were "paw prints, like a mountain lion's," as well as "landing gear marks" - four impres- sions in the dirt. · J Until the recent spottings, the last unidentified flying ob- 1 ject was spotted in New Mex- , ico near Gallup late last year by several motorists. A cam- pus policeman at the Univer- sity of New Mexico also spot- ted the Gallup object flying in the western sky at the same time .. SCCO::\RO NE\·: ~Ex:::r:o 24 .t>PR 64Rob Mercer
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