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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. 2 …COMMENTS Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora • . Initially believed to be observation of Lunar module type…
  • p. 7 …unidentified fi.ying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, Nev Mexico • . a. At appi…
  • p. 10 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 12 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr ·Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 14 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev…
  • p. 16 …Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday 1 24 .April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora ot the…
  • p. 18 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked vith the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamot'a is…
  • p. 24 …vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the eighting as _described by Lonnie Zamora.Rob Mercer
  • p. 28 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flight s wer…
  • p. 29 …j ption provide d by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance fli ghts were…
  • p. 86 ,, ttro~EL' Sccc; Apr11 ~ ~Y !·!.e:dco .1.964 Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
  • p. 96 …We contacted Sgt Chavez, the State Police officer Who was the first to reach Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 97 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 98 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 101 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil. " And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 129 …Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw sighting, said he ·attached no' j And to lbelp find clues to…
  • p. 132 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg- . shaped vehicle, roughly t"e s…
  • p. 133 …The !lap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie . z-ora (note incorrect…
  • p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l about a mile south of Socorro. POLICE…
  • p. 136 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the · object Friday…
  • p. 137 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 138 …Edgewood is about 30 miles \ I !=ity Officer Lonnie Zamora east of Albuquerque. ~1d he saw…
  • p. 139 …l.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~ ~~ Officer Lonnie Zamora. Heights Resident Saw 'Object' Here Mitropolis said there w a s another…
  • p. 142 …he was told by :·:ocor " pc!iceman Lonnie :Zamora th t , th ·~ UFO he . saw l…
  • p. 143 …Lonnie Zamora, who said. he · spotted nn object nea r Secor- . ro Friday night. Zan1ora, in…
  • p. 147 …from a Socorro p::;Ecc~ar.,ll Lonnie Zamora, who s<:.~d he spotte~ an o…
  • p. 151 …from the position of what marks, Zamora said he Officer Lonnie Zamora apparently w ere · landing…
  • p. 152 …experience had taught him something. · Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora said he would · tu~ around and run…
  • p. 154 …Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora re- ported. 'an international reputation in asked Zamora…
  • p. 159 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socor- j ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 161 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he 1 spotted an object near Socor- ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 163 …Seel.ng UfQ Landed City Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a highly reliable source, saw a North Of…
  • p. 166 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on hl~h way patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft…
  • p. 167 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he apotted the object Fri…
  • p. 168 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 171 …of an unusual visitor was a Socorro Policeman Lonnie Za- Zamora said he spotted an burned…
  • p. 173 …from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said be ' spotted an object near Socor- ' ro Friday…
  • p. 175 …e man who started it all, Socoro ~6lice rnan lonnie · 7,amor!:', say's e next…
  • p. 176 I Air Force Probes Policeman's Story Of 1 Saucer1 at Sands - SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 177 …to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h e site where Zamora says he…
  • p. 178 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 181 …Principal in the Socorro sec- tion of the film was city police- man Lonnie Zamora. He…
  • p. 184 …Hynek said be hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie . Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 185 …to talk to Socorro police· II man Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 198 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutr~ but it was at…
DJ.·. Donald Henz~:l
M:L·s. !ifle Boyd
Ha~-d Collc3e Obser.~tory
Ca r:ibr1dge 38, l·nsaachusetts
Dear Don ana Iqle:
29 April 19J5
At lo~ last. I a!!l preparC\1 to t:Rke a re?ly to your letter of Feb:t"'..!lll'Y 19.
I a:J al.so encloslns a piece of the identical type of cardbco.:r:i o:d.,:1inall:1
picked up l:ry !:le at the lnndlng site. T'.::.:e only dlrfercr.ce betveen t l:is
cardban·:i and the one t'bo.t I pi ~cl up and tu:..'lled into t he Air Fol'ce is
that the ori"'inal plece had ctarred edges wilich uJ.y or ney not :have 'had uny
connection vith t he alle~ed landing. But tl1c.'Lt it was cbl.rl'ed I will attest
to. This sort o! ca.rdboe:d. gets cnught under r nrry of the uu3hes in t l"lut
area. As you know the wlnds there can get verJ high in the windy sooson ~
ani yoo nat otD.y see tu:.:!bleT..reeds batting acroos t 1:e ccunt1-y, 'but ~pe r s,
old lunch boxes, ptlcking c:rat~a, etc. also r::-err i~ batting alon3. These
get wedged in under the bushes ani otay there to Weather somet.i!.iCS fcl~
a year or !!lOre, I would Ju'lC"· This cardboard., a,;3 you ca.n see, r.as
pJ.alnlY been veathered quite SO!:le time a.nd. is l~l'dly the kind t!-at woul,'t
have been used to fake a :noclel of a spaceship.
I ahc~lld !:!entlon that I llacu.ssed this whole \~tter 'o."ith l·i'lJor Quintamlla.,
and he a~1 I are in ~-e~nt on wrAt foll~J.
In ~ visit to Socor:tq I determined that Za.::x:lra tad been urged by the 1·Ay'or·
t.o get into the l!.:CVie and tha.t . he hi!~elf l~:vl been rather reluctant to uo
so. The txw!e is due to rove its world pre:;.d.e:t·e in Scorro, and I a ::i hoping
to get down to see it!
I don •t think we can ~ too wch about the :f'la.;Je \ihlch could be pretty
subjective. A swirl or duzt 1 etc. r.light :fror1 the dintnnce rave been
inte..'"P!"et.ed as a f1&.1e. An far as st:cke or a burnine bush, etc. , I could.n ·~
get anyone to say at this th-.e that they r.ad seen s'ooke or tba.t anything
'Ua3 burnint;. Chavez inslated. only on the :f"a.ct tr..at a grease-wood bush
appeared to be cha.rreJ. in spots or rather seared and tl:e.t the searing w.s
highly localized. Greas~ltood is notoriously hard to 1c;nite, and. a t:utcl1 or
ordinary fkne held to it r.a1·dly af'f'ects lt. Chavez said tlat the ourns
appeared as thou.g..l'\ intonoe but localized fla nes had seared the grass and t he
uaheo, but r~~ked that right next to a sear~l portion he =ound po~ions
cr..t!te urrtoucht..>d. A.:}ain, I don •t knov hov ~tch credence can be pla~e-1 on all the
burning bu.Gh 1 etc. I tr.J.nk we r.nat ~o to other rujor points.Rob Mercer

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