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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
Man Reports Firing Sho~. Hitting UF~~ Other Sightings q\1- s. Are Reported N Around State ~ 117 Ualt..t Press taleraalloaal 11 A rash of unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n f o r cement agencies and 1 m i 1 i t a r y installations in a dither today. 1 No less than six "authentic" 1 spottings have been reported 1 since Friday when Socorro . Policeman L o n n i e Zamora !sighted an egg-shaped object . which roared off the ground, ; leaving deep impressions and , burned patches. ; In ·addition, telephone lines , across the state hummed with ; activity as publicity-hunters ( and well-meaning persons got , in the act. c Fired 1Z Shots t An Edgewood man t o 1 d 1 State Police be fired 12 .22- . ! calibre pistol shots at an "ob- . long thing" early today. He told of hitting the UFO six times and hearing the bullets bounce from it. As he paused to reload, the man said, the object moved silently northward. He w a s ,unable to determine whether shots 7 to 12 struck the thing. He described it as being a li&ht green color, about 25 or 3~ feet long, and silent. He . said it hovered about 100 feet - directly over his head. 1 Investigating state police-. l men said the man was com- a pletely "sober." Edgewood is ,.. about 30 miles east of Albu- querque. I A few hours earlier, a mo- l torist in the Las Vegas area ' reported seeing a ball of fire which apparently landed near a radio station. Employes of :he station said the man asked mat his name be withheld be- cause he was afraid of being laughed at. Police also received similar reports Sunday from a Santa Fe man .. . Orlando Gallegos .. ~ who told of seeing an egg- shaped metal object near La Madera, about 50 miles north of Santa Fe. He told of seeing flames spurt from numerous jets around the bottom of the object as it took off. State Police Capt. Martin Vigil, who checked out the in- cident, said "There was def- l initely something there." Other reports came from an Albuquerque mot~ris; w_h o ,saw a "silver lookmg' obJect J .near Truth or Consequences, 'two men driving in the La Madera area and a Socorro teen-ager.Rob Mercer
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