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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. 152 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the g r o u n d…
  • p. 155 …Hynek said he had never two adults about 12 blocks ject Fr~ay inch by inch…
  • p. 160 …He said nis wife knowle ge,h at he did child has never had a sun…
  • p. 166 …The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never…
  • p. 170 …a west- TWO INVESTIGATING officers erly direction, never getting more .vere at the scene yesterday from…
  • p. 178 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 185 …I never expected to see any- thing like that around here. My husband and I had…
  • p. 200 …say in the paper tr~t he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 201 …According to I..a.PazJ the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why…
  • p. 202 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 204 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a baJLoon. Zamora knows exactly…
.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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