Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

Edgewood an Says e Shot
At and Hit Flying Object~~~-.,. Unlled Press lnl•matlonal d · d " . . .
A rash of unidentified fly- .1scovere wer~ P:"-W prmts, "almost tentlcal" in s i z e,
ing object sightings had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character-
Mexico State Police, local law well ~~ "1 a n d 1 n g gear istics. and landing gears to
e n f o r cement agencies and marks. the thmg reported by Zamora .
m i 1 it a r y installations in a Photos Mailed "Either it was an awful
· dither today. The associate director of good coincidence or it is the
No less than six "authentic" Int~rpla?-~tary In~elligenc_ e of same object," Hews said.
spottings have been reported U~tdentlfted . Flymg Ob]ects Zamora, when contacted at
since Friday when Socorro sat~ from h~s Oklahoma City his home early today, said he
· Policeman L 0 n n i e zamora o~ftce th~t pictures of an UFO had not · yet received t h e
; sighted an egg-shaped object sighted m. 1956. by a ship- photographs.
which roared off the ground, ?oard ~adto offtcer were be- Meanwhile, m i 1 i t a r y of-
' leaving deep impressions and mg matled to Zamora. ficials at Kirtland and Hello-
burned patches. The photos were taken by man Air Force bases a n d
Fired IZ Shots T. Fogl aboard the USS Ram- White Sands Missile Range
. Don Adams of Edgewood told sey off the Cal_ifornia coast. continued efforts to investi-
State Police he fired 12 22- The IIU~O offtc:er, Hayden gate the sightings .•. with no
calibre pistol 'shots at an ,;ob- Hews, satd the object w a s end in sight. .
,lcng thing" early today. He
: told of hitting the UFO si:l!
: times and hearing the bullet ~
~ bounce from it.
' As he paused to reload, th1
man said, the object movec
l silently northward. He w a 1
una·ble to determine whethe1
i shots 7 to 12 struck the thing.
f He described it as being a
• light green color, about 25 or
i 30. feet long, and silent. He
said it hovered about 100 feet
.. directly over his head.
t ,Edgewood is about 30 mHes
r east of Albuquerque.
t A few hours earlier, a mo-
-torist in the Las Vegas area
~ reported seeing a ball of fire
: which apparently landed near 1
a radio station. Employes · of c
the station said the man asked 1•
that his name be withheld be- t.
cause he was afraid of being 1
· laughed at. b
Police also received similar
reports Sunday .from a Santa t ·
'!Fe man ... .Orlando Gallegos t
•.• who told of seeing an egg-
. shaped metal object near La •
l Madera, about 50 miles north <
· of Santa Fe. He told of seeing l
1 flames spurt from numerous ,
· jets around the bottom of the :
· object as it took off.
State Police Capt. Martin
Vtgil, who checked out the in- ·
cident, said "There was def-
initely something there."
Other reports came from an ·
Albuquerque motorist w h o '
saw a "silver looking" object :
· near Truth or Consequences,
: two men driving in the La
Madera area and a Socorro
teen-ager.
In both the Socorro and La
Madera reports, burned land
was found at the sites. AlsoRob Mercer