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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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' , PRICE lOc SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology -----------------------------------------------------------------------VOL. 98 - NO. 34 Published Tuesdays & Thursdays in Socorro, N. M. 87801 TUESDAY. APRIL 28. 1964 Evidence Of UFO Landing Here Observed ...l.. . * City Policeman Zamora Reports Sig ling Egg-Shaped.Object and Views Ta e-Off; Tourist Sees Craft Just Before Landing * What appears to be substantial S F R evidence of an unidentified fly- 1 anfa ean eports ing object landing and taking off in Socorro has been observed. Seel.ng UfQ Landed City Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a highly reliable source, saw a North Of Espanola four-legged, egg-shaped object, and two persons in a gully a An uniderutified flying object mile south of the courthouse was reported to have· landed and shortly before 6 p.m. Friday. Ht! taken oU near La Madera, north saw the object rise straight up of Espanola, two days following and take off, and disappear be- the stop of a UiFO in Socorro. yond Six-Mile Canyon to tht! ; The evidence that Orlando Ga- west. Some of the evidence of llegos of Santa Fe reported wa5· the landing and take-off rema:n_ similar to that found in Socorro. ed in the gully. There were four He and his family went to visit shallow holes where the object his father, just north of La Ma- apparently landed on its legs; dera, arriving about 12:30 a.m. /there wer.e burned greasewood Sunday. and seared clumps of green grass; Gallegos later told State Police there were two round, very sligh~ Ihe saw tbe object sitting on the depressions. No footprints were I ground in a gravel area when he found . , went outside to chase away Zamora said he saw let ~ er i ncr Where UFO Landed in Socorro: State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez . 1 horses. He did not approach clos- on the side of the UFO, and h~ and Lewis A. Reddell. publisher of El Defensor'-Chieftain, er than 200 feet. He noticed a sketched the lettering on a paper stand at one of the stone-circled depressions (arrow) made by ! (Continued on Page 4) sack after the object had taken a leg of an unidentified flying object_ which landed in ~ g u lly I off. He did not believe the le:ter- a mile from the courthouse last Fnday. The arrow m left I ing was in English and h~ observ- foreground points to another depression made by a leg. Nea r ,. ed no numerals as there are on the center foreground are burned greasewood and clumps oi j known aircraft. Zamora said he orass. The person at the left also looks over the scene, which ' was not at hberty to furth er had not b een trampled hy t~c curious Saturd3 y rP orning when · describe the lettering. thts pho t o was taken:_Rob Mercer
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