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Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

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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.

  • p. 10 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964 On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
  • p. 14 …Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev Mexico. '!be obJect or vehicle displayed :flight cha…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 22 …The object wich vas observed in Socorro, New Mexico exhibited the characteristics of' a heliocopter or…
  • p. 23 …18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico…
  • p. 28 …about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico . Cloud Gap personnel did no.t have…
  • p. 100 .>, REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP On TUesday, April 28, 1964, in resp6nse to a call…
  • p. 106 …while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of…
  • p. 126 …on the April 24, sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora. ,, Project 1964 I…
  • p. 127 …Biebennan 601 Fitch Avenue Socorro. New Mexico 87801 / ·-Rob Mercer
  • p. 133 …in !rom all over the state ot New Mexico and other parts at tne i } west…
  • p. 134 …found no evidence i:> near the central New Mexico · of radio-active material in the 1town…
  • 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 . • • SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64 A rash of unidentified fly- e…
  • p. 139 …THE ALBUQUERQUE TRIBU'"}.'E SOCORRO, 1\"EW MEXICO 21; Apr 64DATE:27 APR 64 cF/ying…
  • p. 141 …his investigation of a Socorro policeman's report that he saw a mysterious ilying ob-- ject…
  • p. 143 …LA MADERA, NEW MEXICO SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's peremial addictiot to flying saucers has…
  • p. 149 …Socorro Sightings · 25 Apr 26Apr Z,Apr 23 Apr .ALBtJ~ 1 NEW MEXICO AREA Socorro LaMadera…
  • p. 150 …TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING: 1. 26,Apr 64, Grants, nev Mexico sighting of a…
  • p. 154 …re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 155 …landings m New MeXlCO m the know about as much about 1t the Socorro site and…
  • p. 159 …23 APR 64 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New rdexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's…
  • p. 160 …f' Socorro. UFO experts from < different parts of the country ~:, are in New Mexico to investi…
  • p. 161 …28 APR 64 1 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New ~lexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico…
  • p. 163 ' , PRICE lOc SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology…
  • p. 167 …branch at Wright- Patterson A I r Foree Base, Ohio, ia tn New 'Mexico to as…
  • p. 168 …he fired six ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom…
  • p. 171 …William Con- wide open New Mexico desert, again, he will still run away nor and Sgt…
  • p. 172 …sightings had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character- Mexico State Police, local…
  • p. 173 SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's perennial addictior to flying saucers has taker hold of the…
  • p. 176 …Right on the edge o! White Sands Missile 1 Range on the 'Wide open New Mexico…
  • p. 177 …David Moody of the office already was in New : Mexico and would assist Dr. · Hynek in…
  • p. 178 …when on the pre- . ' Tlo\18 day at Socorro. New Mexico a policeman. Mr. Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 181 …F~ ?>.. '.r ..... ·APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico - on April…
  • p. 182 …of unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n…
  • p. 184 …David Moody of the office already was in New 1 Mexico and would assist Dr. 1…
  • p. 185 …My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but…
  • p. 199 …His theories as to why UFO's land in ·New Mexico lack, shall we say, a…
  • p. 200 …Ted Raynor, Ed1tor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
SOURC2: AlEUQUERQUE JOURNAL
DATE: 28 APR 64
Girl Says She Was Burned
While Y,/atching UFO HereBy JERRY S:\IOTHERS ·
Concern over unidentified
:lying objects continued at a
ligh pitch here · today.
Latest incidents inciude:
-A report from a · 10-year-
old girl that she was burned
while watching a strange egg-
shaped thing in the sky yes-
terday afternoon.
-A · report from a truck
driver and his wife that they
saw two mysterious objects (
in the sky between here and ~
Socorro. ~'
The rash of incidents start-
ed .Friday when a policeman f
saw a UFO take off south of f'
Socorro. UFO experts from <
different parts of the country ~:,
are in New Mexico to investi-
gate.
Suffering eye; nose and
face burns yesterday after-
noon was. Sharon Stull, one of
five children of Mr. and Mrs.
Max L. Stull of 1409 Wilmoore
.SE.
SOCORRO N M
24 Apr 1964
On Lowell School Ground · ·.· . "·· .,·:'·:,: ...,. ..,..,"·.. <.,...;,.. :· 1
She said she gazed at a • · · · · · · uld
UFO for five or 10 minutes Sharon Stull m Bed Today I One ~fflct?l satd 1t wo
short! before 12 ·30 m n . . 1 be posstble m some areas t_o
th l 11 S h i p . d. o length about. the mctdent and "I'm just scared to death " track a UFO to see where tt
18g9 ;_we SEc ~ot grotun . athad her draw the silvery ob- I' Mrs. Stull said. ' \goes if they received a report \
oss a er re urrungJect . ' 'bl gency
there from lunch at home · . Truck driver Napoleon from a responsl e .a .
.After 1 p.m., while in cla~s, _Sharon's . doctor said his Green, 37, and his wife, 35, \immediately after a s1ghttn~ .
she noticed burning sensa- d I a g nos Is . IS conju~ctivitis J of 1805 Walter SE, said they Rad~r slgh~mgs have to be m
tions abbut the eyes and face. (membrane mfla_mmatwn) of sighted two UFO 's traveling .a direct lme and can. be
She and her mother believe both eyes and fn·st - degree Jat about the speed of jet blocked by mount a 1 n s,
her burns were inflicted by sunburn under the eyes and planes at 5:30 p.m. yester- making lo~ .- altitude radar
the thing in the sky. . on the nose, addmg: Jday as they were driving to- . trackm~ difficult sometimes,
Sharon said she was not fac- "The sun exposure she had lward Albuquerque on U. s. he advised. B FAA l
ing the sun while watching yesterday would usually be ' 85, 17 miles north of Socorro. . TheK~~at~erAFur~au, a'd 1
the thing, slightly smaller :ons1dered insufficient to cause
1
1 Shine Brightly 1 and lrt an b Uase s 1 1
\
than an airplane and having the burns and inflammation. "I wasn't going to report it there were no a o~ns 0~:
no windows, speed across the t appears to be the type of because I didn't want to be- u ?ther _ str~nge k- ~peartm1heir
sky and disappear in the dis- urns and inflammation 1lie_ve my eyes," Mr. Green Jects md e st ~h e~~:neu Shar-
tance. Her mother said the _aused by longer exposure to ,sald today. He said nis wife knowle ge,h at he did
child has never had a sun- .he sun." . dived beneath the truck's on saw w a s e ·
burn and couldn't have gotten He said he belie\·es there dashboard after seeing the
one in . the few minutes she s no perm anent eye d a m age .! egg-shaped things, about half
was outside . Mrs. Stull was extremely i the size of jet planes a n d
Her sister, Robin, 8, says :o nc~rn_ed and frightened over shining brightly in the setting
she, too, saw the thing, but he InCident today. She also sun.
paid little attention to it and <ept Robin home from school. Green said he saw them
didn't continue to watch it. possibly two minutes before
Sharon said two other chil- they disappeared over t h e
dren also glanced at it brief- ~ eastern horizon.
}y. Federal Aviation Agency of- ~
Sharon was treated by a ficia~s said they have seen
doctor at Bataan Hospital last nothmg unusual in the sky or
night and was kept in bed at on their radar screens. Air-
home today with her blinds planes appear only as small
drawn to protect her inflamed 1 I' dot~ on the screens and it is
eyes and eyelids. unlikely a UFO could be dis-
Complains of Pains tinguished from an airplane
Part of her face and nose on radar.
appeared to be puffy and red .
She continued to complain of
burn pains.
· Police inten·iewed hPr :nRob Mercer

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