Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

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1L PASO HERALD-POST, Monday, AprU ~'T. 1964
... ... -- ·Sands 'Saucer'
Landin Probed
(Continued from Page One) four girder-like legs. The b u s h
shaped object on the desert about supposedly was burned by exhaust
a mile south of Socorro. He denied from the saucer. j
seeing any signs of life around the He said he first saw the object
object and said the machine rose from about 200 yards away and!
and flew slowly away until it thought it was an overturned auto-
faded from sight mobile. He said it was smoking.
He said he spotted what ap- Zamora said he also saw what
peared to be a pair of white cover- looked like white coveralls but
ails near the saucer, but could not could not tell if anyone-or any-
tell if anything or anyone was in thing-was in them.
them. The object, about the height
of a car but larger, appeared to DRIVING to within 100 feet of
be made of a shiny, aluminum- the object, the policeman said he
like substance, Zamora said. It saw what looked like red letter-
.flew away after he got within ing on the side of the object.
about 100 yards, he said. He said it then rose from the
ground and sailed off in a west-
TWO INVESTIGATING officers erly direction, never getting more
.vere at the scene yesterday from than 20 feet off the ground and
Kirtland Air Force Base in AI· narrowly missing a dynamite
buquerque. Maj. William Connor shack. ·
and Sgt. David Moody used a gei- Holder said he checked with both
gEr counter to check the area, White Sands and nearby Holloman
where the only evidence of an un- Air Force Base. Neither base, he
usual visitor was a burned bush said, is using any object compar·
and four small depressions in the able to Zamora'5 machine.
ground. Government agencies will con-
Zamora said the machine had tinue the investigation, Holder
been supported on the ground by said.Rob Mercer