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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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·' Anoth.er Flying Saucer 'This One Egg-Shaped and Shiny, Says Policetnan By CHARLES RICHARDS thing out of the ordinary, some- like substance. Zamora said. It. United Press International thing very few have ever flew away after he got within SOCORRO, N.M. (UPI)-lt's seen" about 10~ yal'rl:s. ~e said .. . · Two mvestlgatmg off1cers a good place for a · flymg sau- "I was scared," Zamora said. were at the scene Sunct:~y from cer. Right on the edge of White He said his experience taugh Kirtland Air Force Base in Al- >Sands missile range on the him one thing: If it happens buquerque. Maj. William Con- wide open New Mexico desert, again, he will still run away nor and Sgt. David Moody used just 30 miles northwest of the like he did Friday, but he will a Geiger counter to check the site of the world's first atomic not tell a soul about what he area, where the only evidence blast. saw. of an unusual visitor was a Socorro Policeman Lonnie Za- Zamora said he spotted an burned bush and four small mora says he saw it, and po- egg-shaped object on the desert depressions in the ground. lice and military men seem in- about a mile south of Socorro. Zamora said the machine had clined to believe him. He denied seeing any signs of been supported on the ground Zamora is a "very reliable life around the object and said by four girder-like legs. The witness," Army Capt. Richard the machine rose and flew bush supposedly was burned by T. Holder, uprange commander slowly away until it faded from exhaust from the saucer. of White Sands' Stallion Range, sight. Holder said he checked with said. Holder, whose headquar- He said he spotted what ap- both White Sands and nearby ters is near thi!\ central New peared to be a pair of white Holloman Air Force B a s e. Mexko town, was called in by coveralls near the saucer, but Neither base, he said, is using local police after Zlfinora re- could not tell if anything or any object comparable to Za- ported seeing the object Fri- anyone was in them. The ob- mora's . machine. day. ject, about the height of a car Government agencies will Deputy Sheriff James Luckie but larger, appeared to be continue the investigation, said he believes "it's some- made of a shiny, aluminum- Holder said . .(Rob Mercer
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