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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 …After radioing to Police Headquarters at Socorro that he was proceeding to investigate what he believed…
  • p. 16 …Zamora vas in radio contact with police headquarters. 'lhe State Police use the same network and…
  • p. 28 PROJECT ClOUD GAP TEST HEADQUARTERS U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION Los Alamitos, California · Captain Hector Quintanilla…
  • p. 29 …Hector Quintanilla. Jr. Chief1 Aerial Phenomena Branch . Headquarters Forei ·n Technology Division WTi g ht-Pa…
  • p. 45 …3781 EAST 77TH STREET CLEVELAND 5, OHIO To Headquarters -~------- Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command…
  • p. 46 …SD-2.-1733 Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United States Air Force Wright…
  • p. 52 . TEXAS DIVISION TELEPHONE BU 3-4471 Headquarters 8 0 X 7 3 8 7 , S Y…
  • p. 54 …9-1100 _Request for Lunar Module Information Headquarters ·Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United…
  • p. 55 …P'ALO, N.W YOIIIK 14240 r Headquarters 01\JEDF!THE .~.;z:;-.:.,........-.;:;.·~...o;::.?!,, ..._ ·~c' P-'1…
  • p. 56 …for Lunar Module Informt.l tt•Jn Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systemn Command Un1…
  • p. 97 …and he radioed this information to Police headquarters. He went down a hill where the object…
  • p. 134 …WPAFB expert in unidentified Ilion range, whose headquarters flying objects, found no evidence i:> near the…
  • p. 176 …he Holder, whose headquarters is will still run away like he did Fri· j near this…
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