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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. 10 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964 On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
  • p. 14 …Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev Mexico. '!be obJect or vehicle displayed :flight cha…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 22 …The object wich vas observed in Socorro, New Mexico exhibited the characteristics of' a heliocopter or…
  • p. 23 …18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico…
  • p. 28 …about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico . Cloud Gap personnel did no.t have…
  • p. 100 .>, REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP On TUesday, April 28, 1964, in resp6nse to a call…
  • p. 106 …while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of…
  • p. 126 …on the April 24, sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora. ,, Project 1964 I…
  • p. 127 …Biebennan 601 Fitch Avenue Socorro. New Mexico 87801 / ·-Rob Mercer
  • p. 133 …in !rom all over the state ot New Mexico and other parts at tne i } west…
  • p. 134 …found no evidence i:> near the central New Mexico · of radio-active material in the 1town…
  • p. 136 ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO Flying Objects Area Probed SOCORRO, N.M.-(jp)-An !Wright-Patterson Air…
  • p. 137 …ALBuQUERQUE JOURNAL SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO 24 Apr 64DATE: 29 APR 64 Air Force UFO Expert to…
  • p. 138 …28 APR 64 . • • SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64 A rash of unidentified fly- e…
  • p. 139 …THE ALBUQUERQUE TRIBU'"}.'E SOCORRO, 1\"EW MEXICO 21; Apr 64DATE:27 APR 64 cF/ying…
  • p. 141 …his investigation of a Socorro policeman's report that he saw a mysterious ilying ob-- ject…
  • p. 143 …LA MADERA, NEW MEXICO SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's peremial addictiot to flying saucers has…
  • p. 149 …Socorro Sightings · 25 Apr 26Apr Z,Apr 23 Apr .ALBtJ~ 1 NEW MEXICO AREA Socorro LaMadera…
  • p. 150 …TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING: 1. 26,Apr 64, Grants, nev Mexico sighting of a…
  • p. 154 …re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 155 …landings m New MeXlCO m the know about as much about 1t the Socorro site and…
  • p. 159 …23 APR 64 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New rdexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's…
  • p. 160 …f' Socorro. UFO experts from < different parts of the country ~:, are in New Mexico to investi…
  • p. 161 …28 APR 64 1 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New ~lexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico…
  • p. 163 ' , PRICE lOc SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology…
  • p. 167 …branch at Wright- Patterson A I r Foree Base, Ohio, ia tn New 'Mexico to as…
  • p. 168 …he fired six ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom…
  • p. 171 …William Con- wide open New Mexico desert, again, he will still run away nor and Sgt…
  • p. 172 …sightings had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character- Mexico State Police, local…
  • p. 173 SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's perennial addictior to flying saucers has taker hold of the…
  • p. 176 …Right on the edge o! White Sands Missile 1 Range on the 'Wide open New Mexico…
  • p. 177 …David Moody of the office already was in New : Mexico and would assist Dr. · Hynek in…
  • p. 178 …when on the pre- . ' Tlo\18 day at Socorro. New Mexico a policeman. Mr. Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 181 …F~ ?>.. '.r ..... ·APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico - on April…
  • p. 182 …of unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n…
  • p. 184 …David Moody of the office already was in New 1 Mexico and would assist Dr. 1…
  • p. 185 …My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but…
  • p. 199 …His theories as to why UFO's land in ·New Mexico lack, shall we say, a…
  • p. 200 …Ted Raynor, Ed1tor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
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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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