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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. 2 …COMMENTS Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora • . Initially believed to be observation of Lunar module type…
  • p. 7 …unidentified fi.ying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, Nev Mexico • . a. At appi…
  • p. 10 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 12 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr ·Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 14 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev…
  • p. 16 …Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday 1 24 .April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora ot the…
  • p. 18 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked vith the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamot'a is…
  • p. 24 …vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the eighting as _described by Lonnie Zamora.Rob Mercer
  • p. 28 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flight s wer…
  • p. 29 …j ption provide d by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance fli ghts were…
  • p. 86 ,, ttro~EL' Sccc; Apr11 ~ ~Y !·!.e:dco .1.964 Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
  • p. 96 …We contacted Sgt Chavez, the State Police officer Who was the first to reach Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 97 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 98 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 101 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil. " And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 129 …Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw sighting, said he ·attached no' j And to lbelp find clues to…
  • p. 132 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg- . shaped vehicle, roughly t"e s…
  • p. 133 …The !lap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie . z-ora (note incorrect…
  • p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l about a mile south of Socorro. POLICE…
  • p. 136 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the · object Friday…
  • p. 137 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 138 …Edgewood is about 30 miles \ I !=ity Officer Lonnie Zamora east of Albuquerque. ~1d he saw…
  • p. 139 …l.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~ ~~ Officer Lonnie Zamora. Heights Resident Saw 'Object' Here Mitropolis said there w a s another…
  • p. 142 …he was told by :·:ocor " pc!iceman Lonnie :Zamora th t , th ·~ UFO he . saw l…
  • p. 143 …Lonnie Zamora, who said. he · spotted nn object nea r Secor- . ro Friday night. Zan1ora, in…
  • p. 147 …from a Socorro p::;Ecc~ar.,ll Lonnie Zamora, who s<:.~d he spotte~ an o…
  • p. 151 …from the position of what marks, Zamora said he Officer Lonnie Zamora apparently w ere · landing…
  • p. 152 …experience had taught him something. · Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora said he would · tu~ around and run…
  • p. 154 …Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora re- ported. 'an international reputation in asked Zamora…
  • p. 159 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socor- j ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 161 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he 1 spotted an object near Socor- ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 163 …Seel.ng UfQ Landed City Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a highly reliable source, saw a North Of…
  • p. 166 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on hl~h way patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft…
  • p. 167 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he apotted the object Fri…
  • p. 168 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 171 …of an unusual visitor was a Socorro Policeman Lonnie Za- Zamora said he spotted an burned…
  • p. 173 …from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said be ' spotted an object near Socor- ' ro Friday…
  • p. 175 …e man who started it all, Socoro ~6lice rnan lonnie · 7,amor!:', say's e next…
  • p. 176 I Air Force Probes Policeman's Story Of 1 Saucer1 at Sands - SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 177 …to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h e site where Zamora says he…
  • p. 178 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 181 …Principal in the Socorro sec- tion of the film was city police- man Lonnie Zamora. He…
  • p. 184 …Hynek said be hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie . Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 185 …to talk to Socorro police· II man Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 198 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutr~ but it was at…
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Journal American
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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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