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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 …Within moments afterward, Sgt Chavez of the Nev Mexico State Police ~rriYed on the scene in…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 18 …He uses the same radio frequency as the New Mexico State Police and that is the…
  • p. 138 …lllter..lloaal . .ng object sightings had New \ Mexico State Police, local law . e n f o…
  • p. 139 …85 and New · Mexico 180 and the object ap- peared to be about a quarter of…
  • p. 141 …State Police this after- bngn: mc:al v:1tnout wmaow.;, noon to investigate the new !as…
  • p. 143 …flY· ~ ing object sightings had New 2 1 Mexico Stale Police, local law r e ;~ f…
  • p. 154 …re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 155 …State Police Capt. Arch1e samples. Dr. Hynek returned Six Reports aircraft. . White said in Las Cruces…
  • p. 159 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction jto flying saucers has taken lhold of the state again…
  • p. 161 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
  • p. 163 …Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology -----------------------------------------------------------------------VOL. 98 - NO…
  • p. 164 …a level with the police car on 'the jed hovering .for two hours at an eral…
  • p. 167 …sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of &ichtinp in Ule state. He planned…
  • p. 168 …ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom my Richardson of…
  • p. 172 …had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character- Mexico State Police, local law…
  • p. 173 …UPI) -New Mexico's perennial addictior to flying saucers has taker hold of the state again…
  • p. 175 …e Police, ;)nd reportedly t !1 ~ FBI. Orlando Gallegos of SanTa e told State nolice he…
  • p. 182 …unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n f…
  • p. 185 …a state load· ed with radar Installations. "It Is my understanding that New Mexico has more…
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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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