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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. 42 …We have referred your request for information to the Project Office of Jet Propulsion Laboratory# California…
  • p. 58 …We haft a particular interest 1n the Advanced Imle.r Trans- port Systems. lOR THE COMMANDER…
  • p. 65 …The target date could be assistant once the -!0-day ' Craft De~wbed . 1 advanced several…
  • p. 100 …Conner in advance to keep things quiet. As soon as I got the reporters out of…
  • p. 164 …lt · actually · was headed advanced type of aircraft or space The policeman believed the , straight for…
  • p. 201 …the green fi~Mlmti balls and Zamora's sighting were observations ot'tests of advanced vehic…
.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
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. 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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