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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.
“New Mexico State Police”20 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
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