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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
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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