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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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Information Only Source: UFO Investigator, Vol TII, No 2, April-11a¥ 65 New Documentary Film A new SO-minute documentary film on UFOs, entitled "Phe- nomena-Seven Point Seven," was nearing release date as this issue was closed. ·The moving picture was prepared by Empire Film StudiOS, Hollywood, where a company official explained the title: " Sevp n Point Seven means the 7.7% of an estimated 8000 sightm~s classified as UFOs by the Air Force." (This fitrure is close to the latest AF admission of 663 unknowns out of 8908 cases, ·. which works out as 7.44'k. .l One of the main sequences shows the now widely-known Socorro case. Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on hl~h way patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft near Socorro, N.M. When he left his police car for a closer look, the strange mach me . blasted flame from underneath, rose to a low altitude, then raced out of sight. Landing-gear marks and scorched ten·am were checked by AF Chie( UFO Consultant Dr. J. Allen Hynek and other A F m- vestigators. Later, Hynek statPd he did not doubt Zamora's report, and that he· had no explanation. Major Maston M. Jacks, A FHQ spokesman, F<'c,·ntly ~a vP Zamora a •·top believability ratm~" in a statement to Ro~er Treat, for a feature article in the Baltimore News Amenc:m. Even more surprisin~. in May Jacks' letter to NlCAP member Robert Barrow, Syracuse, described the UFO as a " vducle'· - though he still claimed no evidence that it was from out<'l' space. However, this official admission that the UFO was som<' kllld of unknown machine, is a long-and puzzlin~- jun1p from the usual "explain away" answers of mira~es, delusions, etr. For this reason, the new film may have a strong 1mpact. The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never issued a press release adnuttlll~ the U FO ·was a strange vehicle, nature unknown. If it had, tins probably would have been a front-page story, focussing serious attention un UFOs. Cont. p. 5 col. 1 • Documentary FUm - Cont~ from p. 4 col. 2 Empire Film Studies says the d that neither hysteria nor panic w ocumentary Is designed to show report. First showing will b ere caused by Officer Zamora's appear nationally. e at Socorro, then the film will NICAP Will review and report on Seven" aa 800Q aa poasible. , Phenomena-Seven PointRob Mercer
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