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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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. ~'EWYORK Journal American o. scc . :~ s S !J ~t &.40.S86 APR 2 9 1964 ~ ' ·. ·l- ..Astronomer Hunts Clue To 'Saucer'·' . SOCORRO, N. M., April 29 (AP) .-An astronomer from the·oearborn Observa- tory ~ at ~r_thwestei1]_t[nl ~ty~yto examtfre the secluded hill W'here a Socorro policeman reported seeing a mysteri- ous, egg-shaped f 1y 1n g object. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the spe- cial UnldentUied Flyln&' Object consultant to the Air Foree, was sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of &ichtinp in Ule state. He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he apotted the object Fri- daJ. OTHER ltEPORTS Mr. Zamora aald the object he saw was a brilliant white. He aafd there was a red mark- inc on Jt like an upside down ; V with three Unes across the top, through the middle and at the bottom. He also said that from a distance there ap- peared to be two firures in ' white coveralls outside the ob- I Jeet. It. flew off with a roar when he approached. he aafd. . Since Mr. Zamora's &irhtinr a& least sa reports have been made to authoritie& lncludinr ene from a :routh who aald he fired uveral &hots at I!Ome- Ulinl' about 100 feet In the air. TJSgt. David Moody of the phenomena. branch at Wright- Patterson A I r Foree Base, Ohio, ia tn New 'Mexico to as- aiat Dr. liYnek. a Wright-Pat- terson spokesman said. ~COBCUED GRAss Dr. HYnek llald ~·- · ration 1n Soc ·~ investl- m.tne 1\'heth orro lVOUld deter- Espan I er he WOUld Visit Capt. ~~rt~~~ 1~tate Police around still s/n' fou_nd the hours after a re OUlder!llr 20 Authorities fJ>Orted Sighting. P'ass and 1 ound scorched indentations o;: :ed&'e-shaped the Socorro aft e &'round at Panola. e and near Es- ~ HYne~ said he hoped to today. hia inve.st1f'a.tion here He said he h people honest ::d founin d most repOrting tlyfn a cere in M,..,~ i' obJects. _..., collllllon thin ever, are often gs, how- SUch repOrts h res~onsible for • • e sa1d. 'Meteors flock weather baJJo 5 of birds, moon can Jea:nst even the PGrts " Dr H 0 these re- • • Ynek aald .. such cases th • In e reports ftcome from entJ 1 h o en Pie W'ho lie re Y onest Peo- PUUJea- th~ .. aomethfnl' thatRob Mercer
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