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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. 42 …We have referred your request for information to the Project Office of Jet Propulsion Laboratory# California…
  • p. 58 …We haft a particular interest 1n the Advanced Imle.r Trans- port Systems. lOR THE COMMANDER…
  • p. 65 …The target date could be assistant once the -!0-day ' Craft De~wbed . 1 advanced several…
  • p. 100 …Conner in advance to keep things quiet. As soon as I got the reporters out of…
  • p. 164 …lt · actually · was headed advanced type of aircraft or space The policeman believed the , straight for…
  • p. 201 …the green fi~Mlmti balls and Zamora's sighting were observations ot'tests of advanced vehic…
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