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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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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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