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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…
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W.f VOtlld e.nyone be l..audir,z o. ht.l.l.f ;;!1le sc·u~h o-t n tcwn. ~ 1 al5o, h:lvc
l:>: been unable to unwr th i'ro:!i ·v~ l ous AGenc ies cmy class! tied clues as t.c
s1cr. goingG.-onZ
~I! year 1964 had f'irteen other unid.ent1f1ed case;:.a "be:Jides Za: ~x::ra 's. I in-
ve:st~ted tvo other:s 1 o~e a:-. v~-y ·1ntc.re:sting incident ':lh.lch occUl"rei to two
~te students in ant. :ro?olo3Y" at th~ Univerait~ cf 1!13eorusin al.of1ject to all the ills ot
gene~allzat1on3, but be ~l.al.t aa it 1~·: t.l.rt it
ma struck r~ mrzy- ti:·:ea tret the "'L'elicYerc" ar.,. so thorcu~ vls~1.rul
in U...eir tbinki.:15 t 1~t th~- :iu!it don •t ne~.t :...r.y }1-el-ncnnl ~t::r1P.n~e to
bol.!o""ver thei:- fuith . Acy nc\:Hf:69er clippl-::-..g o-:· aey :r.u:10r 13 tt.ll t! ~e .t\!e l
thc-J" r..e~ The-J hi;l.ve thei r ::LL'i clubB, a rvl tLol:r . ::~et.ir-c ~ a'J t: :.c.;r :-;et a
c~a!l thrill out of Yillf'Yir',e tl~e Air Fo:rca a:·d. in "~ee-v· .!.:zinc' each otl.1t~1 ·.
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On tbe at·her hlnd, t h e ~c::t11~· e r.:orts of UFO':I -; :k~t ! ha\'e co~ across :1!.·e
~ pc!O!Jla vho hav~ :lad little cor:tact w:"th UFO : at.er!.e.l pr C'rio-..a;.ly 1 re:.l:\it:
slurgt!~l f!'ff:n thon.c;h they m·,re had HJl e...'Cp ;~·ie: 1 C C th.At t.l ~ ey ;un 1t. VJ1d¢:·atand,
acl are g~.Crall:r quite rctlz:e.c~ aoo,::.t Sat. conotit.ute t11e ph~n.c:~non to 'M:-.ict I f~ ·;.l
. ure a.t~ion ahO'..lld. be Iltlicl. It is etJ.fliY to d.i!ll.d.ss the cuse:J of bird:;;,
~ll()(.m.S 1 ~teor:J, a~-1. t ~ · e like., but -when good citizenG of e.ve~e oc
better tren &YI!lra.:Je int~lllgotn ce, a.n::l l\bov3 el~, aince:t·e cltizena :ri y _-~ :.!o:.::e-
t:U:l,;l !UZZll~ I think we lave ao :::~ sort cf so,~lnl obligation to d0 &s
gocU a job on it &3 v~ ean. I .jon 't like a. ::-~·ster"/ at cf Q. voice c~~ ln the vlld.e~·ness in thio re$pe.::t • . Tlw
Air Fe- ce iG n<.f'~l:i::arlly a adentific OrSf'L!li~tion, anci it:. concern in t}~ ea<!Rob Mercer

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