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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”40 pages
,By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A 20-year-old Edgewood youth says he fired six ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom my Richardson of Moriarty re- 1 ported he received a telephone call from Don Adams of : EdgewoQ<l about I :30 a.m. today. . The report said Adarris told of seeing the object •about I 00 feet off the ground~ He said it appeared to be a Auorescent ·or glowing green-colored object about 2S 1 ~~~ . I He told the officer he ·drove his car under the ob- ject and his car stalled. The youth reported he · then. got out and fired six shots at the object, reloaded and f1red again, without effe.ct. The officer said he did not. deter- mine if Adams was using a rifle or a pistol. · ~ Adam's .account was another I of several such reports that Ibave kept New Mexico and mil~ tary authorities busy s1nce Frt· day. , Newspaper offices ·and broad- ! cast stations were receiving a 1 few telephone c.alls about simi· lar sightings but most callers would not identify themselves, saying they did not want to be r'idiculoo. The repQrts came from points following a •line from nea•r ·ca- ballo Reservoir south of Truth ' or CeiiiSequences, north to an area near Espanola. Similar Reports All the reports are similar in that they describe_oval_ or eg~- ~ shaped objects With s1ze estl· , mates rranging from the size of a car to about 30 ~eet or longer. state police and military offi· cials have confirmed finding scorched earth at the sites, and ; wedge--sharped depressions that I officers say appear to have been left by some type of landing gear. Spokesmen at all Ne,w Mexico . military bases say they have no such aircraft •fitting the de- scriptions. Reports from Monday night included: A man who refused to 1den· tify himself because he said he would be laughed at, said ~ f saw a ball of red flame land near Las Vegas. He made 'no estimate of the size of the ball. He said he was going from Lake McAllister to Laos Vegas when he saw the object. New information has been re- vealed about other sightings. State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw Friday, the first of the series of sightings, had red markings on its silvery side. Chavez said Zamora told him the design was an Inverted V with three bars crossing it, but that the Air Force had told him not to discuss the mark- ' ings. 1 Three sightings occurred Sun- ! day night. An unidentified 18· year-old girl told Socorro po- l l lice she saw a fire with some· thing in it in the same vicinity where Zamora had been. . I Orlando Gallegos, 35, of Sanla1 Fe, said he saw a. craft as long as a telephone pole and about 14 feet in circumfrence near his father's home north of La Madera. State Police Capt. Martin Vi· gil investigated the La Madera sighting. He found the ground Istill smouldering 20 hours after the sighting. He said rocks in I the center of the IClrea were split, a bottle was melted and green brush had been set on Ifire, evidently by intense heat. Saturday night two unidenti- fied motorists said an object similar to the egg-shaped, sil- ver craft described by Zamora swooped down out of the sky toward tlteir car in the Espan- ,ola area. IRob Mercer
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