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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. 152 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the g r o u n d…
  • p. 155 …Hynek said he had never two adults about 12 blocks ject Fr~ay inch by inch…
  • p. 160 …He said nis wife knowle ge,h at he did child has never had a sun…
  • p. 166 …The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never…
  • p. 170 …a west- TWO INVESTIGATING officers erly direction, never getting more .vere at the scene yesterday from…
  • p. 178 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 185 …I never expected to see any- thing like that around here. My husband and I had…
  • p. 200 …say in the paper tr~t he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 201 …According to I..a.PazJ the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why…
  • p. 202 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 204 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a baJLoon. Zamora knows exactly…
Sgt Sam Charez of the Uev Mexico State Police vas intervieved by
Major Connor and Sgt Moody. He could add little to the investigation
except that he arrived at the scene about three minutes after the
incident happened and that Mr Zamora vas· scared.
Major Connor's formal report will be on the vay on 27 April. He vill
include copies of Lt Col Kings report, the FBI report, and possibly the
soil analysis rep6rt if he receives it in time, otherwise it 'Will come
later.
At the present time ve don't kno;.r 'What it >ms, but Major Conner and
Sgt Moody are still checking. They'll check out the Helicopter
act!vi ty today • .
llben Sgt Moody called, he -was getting ready to accompany Lt Col King
on another alleged sighting. Everybody -wants to get into the Act!
HECTOR QUINTANILLA, Jr
Captain, USAF
Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch
2Rob Mercer

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