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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 …pm, in an unpopulated area full of hills and gullies and covered with sagebrush. Following is…
  • p. 14 …He also observed the pollee car heading up the hill tova.rd the spot where the…
  • p. 16 …travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. Af"ter two or three ef…
  • p. 77 …Made three attempts to climb hill~ ,Pl./ / .• "B" 800' / ------------ ~ · First sighting of o1)jec :~. Stopped car…
  • p. 86 …to back down and try again before mU.ing the hill.. 1Iil1 abcut 60ft.. loug.P…
  • p. 87 …ard J j~ j~t over the hill--I s ·tG~..t~\~cause I did not…
  • p. 97 …He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill where he could…
  • p. 102 …He thus came up upon the object from behind the hill and from the side, so…
  • p. 106 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 129 …ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
  • p. 135 …or radar the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f…
  • p. 136 …ed hill where a Socorro po- tion in Socorro will deter- (I W h" t th…
  • p. 145 …P.er parents said !hal she saw a fire in lhc hills ISharon is very tnith…
  • p. 151 …As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving…
  • p. 157 …short "men." Zamora continued driving up the hill to get a closer look. When he stopped…
  • p. 164 …ject that would compare to the tile hill to get a closer look at the 1…
  • p. 167 …tnl ~ty~yto examtfre the secluded hill W'here a Socorro policeman reported seeing a…
  • p. 174 …that she saw a fire in the hills southwest of Socorro Sunday night. where city officer…
  • p. 193 …leu Sllg6est tba;t when Za!X>l"a 's car crested tl:e hill, the…
  • p. 196 …As you 1;ey know, we have rented a house at 57 Avon Hill Street . I…
SOCORRO IA'I- Dr. J. Allen
Hynek, special unidentified
flying object consultant f or
the Air Force, arrived in So-
corro Tuesday night to begin
his investigation of a Socorro
policeman's report that he
saw a mysterious flying ob-
ject last Friday.
Dr. Hynek said be hoped to
talk to the policeman, Lonnie .
Zamora, and then visit t h e 1
1site where Zamora says he .
·saw the object this morning.
Dr. Hynek, of the Dear-
bom Observatory at North-
westeJT. University, said he
would decide whether to visit .
Espanola, where another ob- i
ject was reportedly spotted ~
over the weekend, after h i s 1
investigation of the Socorro t
Dlcident. t
He said he had not been ad- 1
vised by the Air Force if his
presence here indicates that l
the .government has eliminat- c
ed the possibility of U. S. air- l
craft having caused the re- l'
ports. t
Capt. Hector Quintanilla, ~
chief of the Aerial Phenomena
Branch at Wright-Patterson r
Air Force Base, Ohio, said 1
T. Sgt. David Moody of the
office already was in New 1
Mexico and would assist Dr. 1
·Hynek in the investigation. .
Fired at Object ·
The most recent report of
the objects came early Tues-
day morning from State Po-
liceman Tommy Richardson
of the US-66 community of
Moriarty.
He said he had a call from
Don Adams of Edgewood,
near Moriarty, who told of
seeing an object about 100
feet off the ground. He said
it appeared to be a fluorescent
or green-colored -glowing ob-
ject.
·Adams told the officer he
drove his car under the object
and his car stalled. The youth
reported he then got out and
fired six shots at the object,
reloaded and fired again.
The report was another in
a series which have kept New
Mexico and military authori-
ties busy since Zamora's or-
iginal report Friday. The re-
ports, until Tuesday, h a d
come from points following a
line from south of Truth or
Consequences to an area near
Espanola.
Space. Beings Hinted
At Tucson, the director of
the Aerja l Phenomena Re-
Expert to Check
'Saucer' Reports
Continued From A-I
sea_rch Organization said she
believes intelligent b e i n g s
from another planet made
~eve~al landings in New Mex-
Ic~. m the past few days.
We a~e convinced the So-
co~ro pohceman saw what he
satd he saw," Coral Loren-
zan, the director, said after
her return from investigating
the reported landing of a UFO
near Socorro.
. Mr~. Lorenz~n said the
stghtmg of an object north- ,
west of Espanola early Sun-
day ~as similar to the one
desc~tb~d at Socorro. She said
she Is mvestigating the other
reported sightings during the
past few days.
The organization was form-
ed by Mrs. Lorenzen in 1952
and ,Jhe sa'Ys it' n"'".v has near·
y 800 me111bers - around thE
vorld. She ' says taere an
orne 6-12 landing incidence!
' year and she believes theJ
re made by beings from an
ther planet.Rob Mercer

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