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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. 10 …pm, in an unpopulated area full of hills and gullies and covered with sagebrush. Following is…
  • p. 14 …He also observed the pollee car heading up the hill tova.rd the spot where the…
  • p. 16 …travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. Af"ter two or three ef…
  • p. 77 …Made three attempts to climb hill~ ,Pl./ / .• "B" 800' / ------------ ~ · First sighting of o1)jec :~. Stopped car…
  • p. 86 …to back down and try again before mU.ing the hill.. 1Iil1 abcut 60ft.. loug.P…
  • p. 87 …ard J j~ j~t over the hill--I s ·tG~..t~\~cause I did not…
  • p. 97 …He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill where he could…
  • p. 102 …He thus came up upon the object from behind the hill and from the side, so…
  • p. 106 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 129 …ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
  • p. 135 …or radar the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f…
  • p. 136 …ed hill where a Socorro po- tion in Socorro will deter- (I W h" t th…
  • p. 145 …P.er parents said !hal she saw a fire in lhc hills ISharon is very tnith…
  • p. 151 …As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving…
  • p. 157 …short "men." Zamora continued driving up the hill to get a closer look. When he stopped…
  • p. 164 …ject that would compare to the tile hill to get a closer look at the 1…
  • p. 167 …tnl ~ty~yto examtfre the secluded hill W'here a Socorro policeman reported seeing a…
  • p. 174 …that she saw a fire in the hills southwest of Socorro Sunday night. where city officer…
  • p. 193 …leu Sllg6est tba;t when Za!X>l"a 's car crested tl:e hill, the…
  • p. 196 …As you 1;ey know, we have rented a house at 57 Avon Hill Street . I…
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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