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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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I Air Force Probes Policeman's Story Of 1 Saucer1 at Sands - SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N.M. Zamora said the un- usual machine rose off the ground and flew slowly away as he watched. With Zamora Is Sgt. David Moddy, assistant to UFO (unidentified flying objects) Investigator Maj. \Villiatn Connor ol Kirtland Air Force Base In Albuquerque. Zamora is described u a "reliable witness." (UPI Telephoto.) Unittd Prtu Tn!ernatlon•l SOCORRO, N.M., April 27.-rt's a good place for a tly- , lng saucer. Right on the edge o! White Sands Missile 1 Range on the 'Wide open New Mexico desert, just 30 miles , northwest of the site of the world's first atomic blast. ' Socorro policemen Lonnie Za- mora says he saw It, and police DEPUTY SHERIFF J a m e s and military men seem inclined to Luckie . said he believes . "it's . . somethmg out of the ordmary, bebeve hlm. something very few have ever Zamora is a "very reliable wit· seen." ness," Army Capt. Richard T. "I was scared." Zamora said .• Holder, uprange commander of He said his experience taught him l White Sands' Stallion Range, said. one thing: It it happens again. he Holder, whose headquarters is will still run away like he did Fri· j near this central New Mexico day, but he will not tell a soul Town, was called in by local po- about what he saw. · Ilice after Zamora r ~port ed seeL1g1 _za~o ·a s~id !1.? spotted an ct:~- ! the object Friday. _____ j(ContJnued on Page A-13, Col. 22 1.Rob Mercer
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