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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 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964 On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
  • p. 14 …Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev Mexico. '!be obJect or vehicle displayed :flight cha…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 22 …The object wich vas observed in Socorro, New Mexico exhibited the characteristics of' a heliocopter or…
  • p. 23 …18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico…
  • p. 28 …about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico . Cloud Gap personnel did no.t have…
  • p. 100 .>, REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP On TUesday, April 28, 1964, in resp6nse to a call…
  • p. 106 …while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of…
  • p. 126 …on the April 24, sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora. ,, Project 1964 I…
  • p. 127 …Biebennan 601 Fitch Avenue Socorro. New Mexico 87801 / ·-Rob Mercer
  • p. 133 …in !rom all over the state ot New Mexico and other parts at tne i } west…
  • p. 134 …found no evidence i:> near the central New Mexico · of radio-active material in the 1town…
  • p. 136 ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO Flying Objects Area Probed SOCORRO, N.M.-(jp)-An !Wright-Patterson Air…
  • p. 137 …ALBuQUERQUE JOURNAL SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO 24 Apr 64DATE: 29 APR 64 Air Force UFO Expert to…
  • p. 138 …28 APR 64 . • • SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64 A rash of unidentified fly- e…
  • p. 139 …THE ALBUQUERQUE TRIBU'"}.'E SOCORRO, 1\"EW MEXICO 21; Apr 64DATE:27 APR 64 cF/ying…
  • p. 141 …his investigation of a Socorro policeman's report that he saw a mysterious ilying ob-- ject…
  • p. 143 …LA MADERA, NEW MEXICO SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's peremial addictiot to flying saucers has…
  • p. 149 …Socorro Sightings · 25 Apr 26Apr Z,Apr 23 Apr .ALBtJ~ 1 NEW MEXICO AREA Socorro LaMadera…
  • p. 150 …TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING: 1. 26,Apr 64, Grants, nev Mexico sighting of a…
  • p. 154 …re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 155 …landings m New MeXlCO m the know about as much about 1t the Socorro site and…
  • p. 159 …23 APR 64 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New rdexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's…
  • p. 160 …f' Socorro. UFO experts from < different parts of the country ~:, are in New Mexico to investi…
  • p. 161 …28 APR 64 1 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New ~lexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico…
  • p. 163 ' , PRICE lOc SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology…
  • p. 167 …branch at Wright- Patterson A I r Foree Base, Ohio, ia tn New 'Mexico to as…
  • p. 168 …he fired six ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom…
  • p. 171 …William Con- wide open New Mexico desert, again, he will still run away nor and Sgt…
  • p. 172 …sightings had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character- Mexico State Police, local…
  • p. 173 SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's perennial addictior to flying saucers has taker hold of the…
  • p. 176 …Right on the edge o! White Sands Missile 1 Range on the 'Wide open New Mexico…
  • p. 177 …David Moody of the office already was in New : Mexico and would assist Dr. · Hynek in…
  • p. 178 …when on the pre- . ' Tlo\18 day at Socorro. New Mexico a policeman. Mr. Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 181 …F~ ?>.. '.r ..... ·APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico - on April…
  • p. 182 …of unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n…
  • p. 184 …David Moody of the office already was in New 1 Mexico and would assist Dr. 1…
  • p. 185 …My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but…
  • p. 199 …His theories as to why UFO's land in ·New Mexico lack, shall we say, a…
  • p. 200 …Ted Raynor, Ed1tor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
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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