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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”40 pages
Ground at La a era Is BurneLA MADERA, April 27 (A'l- A Santa Fe resident reported today he sighted an unidentified flying objP...-1: Sunday near La Madera, northwest of Espanola. A team of investigators from . Kirtland Air Force Base a Gallegos returned tw1ce more group from Washington n'c to look at the object. and the FBI were exPec.ted He describe~ it as b_eing of to join State Police this after- bright metal without wmdows, noon to investigate the new as long as a tele~hon~ pole and report. about ·14 feet m Clrcumfer- State Police also received a ence. He· said it was egg. report from two men travel- shaped and resembled a la:ge ing in the same general area butane tank. Saturday night that a flying At daylight Sunday the ob- object, definitely not an air- ject was gone, but the ground plane, had swooped down -to- still was smoldering. As Gal- ward their car, then veered !egos was returning to Santa oft. Fe Sunday afternoon, he told The report was the second Espanola police officer Nick during the past weekend, with Naranjo what he had seen. the first coming from a So- Notified Officer corro police officer. Espanola p o 1 ice notified "T h e r e was definitely State Police Officer Marvin something there," said State Romero, who with State · Fa- Police· Capt. Martin Vigil af- lice Officer David Kingsbury ter visiting the site at La questioned Gallegos at length. Madera. They then notified Capt. Vigil "The ground was still smol- assigned State Police Officer dering 20 hours after the Albert Vega of Ojo Caliente sighting.'' to go to the scene. Orlando Gallegos 35 of Capt. V i g i l said he talked Santa Fe made 'sunday's by telephone with a major sighting. Trus is his story: at Kirtlan_d Air Force Base Gallegos and ·his family ar- and descn_bed the scene. He rived about 12:30 a.m. Sunday ":'as told 1t _ sounded exactly at the home of his father like the ev1dence found at Frank Gallegos, just north of Soc?rro. Ca~t- Vigil said the La Madera. maJor told_him ~e would send Blue Flame a team of mveshgators today. The younger Galleg~ ldd "Some~h.ing . was there," he went outside to c h a s e Capt. V1g1l srud. away some horses. It was then Officer Romero t?ld t?day he saw the thing sitting on ?f the Saturday rught s1ght· the ground in a gravel area. mg. . . Gallegos said he was about Off1cer Romero sa1d . t w o . men, whose names he d1d not 200 feet away and was afra1d get, told him of seeing a t? approach c;Ioser. When he strange flying object about f~t s1ghted 1t, there wa~ a l0:3o p .m. Saturday, which rmg of blue fl~e erupting would have been about two from numerous Jets around hours before Gallegos' sight· the bottom of the craft, he ing at La Madera. said. The men told the officer There was no no~se and as they were driving from Abi- he watched, the Jets _were quiu to Espanola when t h e turned off. Gallegos sa1d he flying object came straight didn't see anyone or anything toward their car. It veered moving around the craft. · away .. All they could see, they Gallego:' . r_e_t~e~ to t ~ ~ ~.aid , w~~ a jet ~!r~.a~ ?.f ~11;1eRob Mercer
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