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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.
But waivil'l-3 all that aside, the thine;n that VOttld. See!!l to nillta:te a~nst a. hoax are the fact tbat no tracks co:ll.ng to o!" goin;J f'ro;u the reclon vere tound., l!lirrutes after t he sichti~ (JCC\lrred.; IGmphe.rnalia wa aet located, again v!thin .-u_,·mtes; Cb:wez and. the FBI ncent vooJ.d have t() mve been 1n on the hoo..."'·q and fl~, the object took off croaS'rlnd. Parapherr.e.lia I refer to vculd bave been rop.:~, .l.~anchir.g equ1:p::~ent, cas tanka, ete. which would bave been Qtlf:f'1eult to :lls;?Cs~ ot in a few ::rl.rru~ and certainly vlthout ::akir13 ru:v· tracks. You ss:.~ ''the whole thing cruld ~ have easily" been planned to c01:-.e off as it did." I think otherwise: itvvould ba.Ye been qu.ite dl~'flcult to rove S. thing like thi.s COl::e off~ even as to the oz·iginal thdng. Za.1·xn:-a ·did not have a regular 'Pf].trol ro>ite so hie apprOxil:e.te vhe ·eo.bouts would not be kncw11 at a given tir1e. I questioned Cbe.vez on this; and Za.~lOl'n rntrols the vhcla town in an unscl1eduled. fashion. By ·tbe W1:J.Y, the:~: e is no local UFO ~1-..:.b . The :fake UFO vool.d have bad to have been re.the::.· sizable since it looked. to Ztu:.cl-n like an ove.'"'tul"l1ed. ~, upended, f.lnrt off fro:: a conalderable .:Usta.nce. leu Sllg6est tba;t when Za!X>l"a 's car crested tl:e hill, the hrexe::-s trlggercol ancther blast ot f'~ ani rel eo.sed the UFO, and ran like hell. ThG terrain is such that vhe..'l a car crests the .:U.ll, it suddenly co:aes upon ths site. There si mply '\w-ould not bave ooen t il.....:e to ".«lit until this happened to relee.se t.be UFO a.nd. the."l hld..a; not unl~ss the;·e vere elaborate l'cpea &."ld Yires running avm.· so!,'\e distance on the gro-J.nd.. As lcng a.~ Zo.::10ra vears his glasses 1 his eyesiGht is goo-1, a nd. you rust re!:$ d to accidents, bloodshed, f'ights 1 a.n.;i even wurde.rs . We all see:·1 to B.bTee tl-.c.t Ze.i:lOra say sor~tLinc the.~ real..ly and truly fd..:;hten~ hi;:J.Rob Mercer
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