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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.
“Lonnie Zamora”45 pages
---EL PASO l:i.i!;rtALD-POST, Thurst 'Saucer' Scares E.P. Woman (Continued from Page One) "come and look.'' She said they both saw the flying object in the air. "It looked like a dish plate upside down and spun away just like a plate would spin if you flung it into the air," Mrs. Reyes said. "It carried a light on the bottom, a bright light.' "I'M REALLY SURPRISED. I never expected to see any- thing like that around here. My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but I didn't think I would ever see anything like that here. "I'Pl 1 t 111 shaking," she added. Several small planes were In the air at the time of Mrs. Reyes' report, but she insisted the object she saw was not an airplane. N.M. Sky Dbjects Puzzle to Expert (Continued from Page One) reported objects in a state load· ed with radar Installations. "It Is my understanding that New Mexico has more than its sllare of radar installations," Hy- nek said. "It seems strange to me that MTI (Moving Target Interception) radar did not pick up anything." HYNEK WAS In Socorro yes- terday to talk to Socorro police· II man Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said he saw a I bathtub-shaped object at dusk last Friday. \ Zamora said the object stood \ on four girder-like legs. He said when he approached the object, Iit flew away. . Hynek said Zamora is a "level · headed police officer." Hynek \1 said he believes Zamora saw something, but does not know I wflat It is. I The latest reports came from deep southern New Mexico last night when many reported seeing a bright object making low passes. JIM-NAVARRO, an employe at the port of entry at Anthony, New Mexico • Texas, said he saw the object the past two nights. "It was the same type illumina- tion as a star, but it was too close, too bright and too big," Navarro said. He said it seemed to remain still for a long time, then took off at a -high rate o: speed. Na- varro said when It took off, It appeared to change "to all kinds of colors.'' A state policeman said he heard reports from the ·Air Force that a plane had been dispatched in the area. REPORTS from Deming and Hatch said many had seen the same object. The Air Force said low-flyjng jets have been taking pictures day and night from Albuquerque west to Kingman, Ariz. and from Deming west to Casa Grande, Ariz. IThe planes use bright Strobe units that flash off and on, light· lng a large area f o r picture taking. !Santa :Fean ,.Reports ,· (Continuec1 from Pa.ge 1) ring of blue flame erupting from many jets around the bottom of , 1the craft. The jets were noiseless and were turned off While he watched. He saw no persons a- round the craft which he describ- ed as a windowless bright metal, egg-shaped object and as long as a telephone pole, and probably 141 feet in circumference. No one ventured out -of the Gallegos home again during the night. The object was gone in , the morning, but the ground was I\still smoldering. 1 A team of investiga·tors at !!Kirtland Air Force Base, Albu- 1querque, was to visit the scene. I 'Whether it was the same UFO -or another one is unknown, bu t IUnder~herift J~mes Luckie said 1 a tounst t old h1m in a cafe here 1Sunday night that a low-flying, bright object had nearly crowd- ' eded him of! U.S. 85 two miles 1 south of Socorro between 7:30 , and 8 p.m. The unidentified l'tourist was traveling north of 85, and the object going south.Rob Mercer
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