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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 …pm, in an unpopulated area full of hills and gullies and covered with sagebrush. Following is…
  • p. 14 …He also observed the pollee car heading up the hill tova.rd the spot where the…
  • p. 16 …travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. Af"ter two or three ef…
  • p. 77 …Made three attempts to climb hill~ ,Pl./ / .• "B" 800' / ------------ ~ · First sighting of o1)jec :~. Stopped car…
  • p. 86 …to back down and try again before mU.ing the hill.. 1Iil1 abcut 60ft.. loug.P…
  • p. 87 …ard J j~ j~t over the hill--I s ·tG~..t~\~cause I did not…
  • p. 97 …He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill where he could…
  • p. 102 …He thus came up upon the object from behind the hill and from the side, so…
  • p. 106 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 129 …ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
  • p. 135 …or radar the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f…
  • p. 136 …ed hill where a Socorro po- tion in Socorro will deter- (I W h" t th…
  • p. 145 …P.er parents said !hal she saw a fire in lhc hills ISharon is very tnith…
  • p. 151 …As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving…
  • p. 157 …short "men." Zamora continued driving up the hill to get a closer look. When he stopped…
  • p. 164 …ject that would compare to the tile hill to get a closer look at the 1…
  • p. 167 …tnl ~ty~yto examtfre the secluded hill W'here a Socorro policeman reported seeing a…
  • p. 174 …that she saw a fire in the hills southwest of Socorro Sunday night. where city officer…
  • p. 193 …leu Sllg6est tba;t when Za!X>l"a 's car crested tl:e hill, the…
  • p. 196 …As you 1;ey know, we have rented a house at 57 Avon Hill Street . I…
.ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL 26 APRIL 1994
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\Mysterious Object Pays Visit to Socorro Area
I SOC~RRO CuP!) - It was shiny and stood on four gird- lofficials confirmed .the mark- !Base near Alamogordo.
round, stood on girder - like 1er-Iike legs. .._, !ngs and the bur~ed. grass. ! Holioman officials said they
legs and scorched grass and I But · when he moved closer rhey ~epor!e.d the .mcrde~t to would investigate the incident.
b h b S P li to the object at dusk Friday the umdentrfred flymg obJects
us es, ut ocorro o ce- . ' ff. t H 11 A. F
. all he found was four mden- ? rcer a o oman Ir orce FIL:US FOR W AF IC
man Lonnte Zamora does not tations in the ground and ' · · R A
know what it ..-as. scorched grass and bushes. !1:"4 MOSCOW I 1\IEXICO CITY <A'! - Ten ·
I Zamora saw it, and State \ Zamora told Sgt. s.am Cha-[ !'-1~SCOW !A'I. - Ghana's Mexican movies have been
Policemen and Air Force of- jve·z of the New Mexrco State rruruster of Agnculture, Kra- t purchased for a theater chain
!ficials Saturday saw what it Police. They took six other lbo Edusei, has ~rrived in in. W:st Africa. A spokesman
·left. · Imen to the spot and found i\I o s c o w and will ask, t'l.e :sard !t will be the .first show-
Zamora said the mysteri- four indentations 14 inches t Tas~ agency reported, f~r 1 ing of such films in Spanish
ous object was round . and 1long and six in~he~ wide. Sovret experts to h.elp. Gham ~ i~ Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana,
about as tall as a car. It was \ White Sands Mrss1le Range develop deep-sea flshmg. Srerra Leone and Gambia.Rob Mercer

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