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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…
::-attera is to deter-::llnc vl;etLer UFO reports conto.in aey hostile ele_lt':nta.
If' they do not, it 1s na;; in the Al.l· Force c:~.rt.er, so to speak, to ~on~
duet lengthy investi&ations ~s to th~ nature o:r t he stlnul.ua that ge:i'e rise
to the report.
or course, I rave ct..r:e to re-a:uU al.l thie as rether a habbYJ there is such a
dellelOtW variety of' repmts and of' the people :!Bkint~ t!1e:1. Ar. l<>!lii as it
doe:a not take tbo !.uch ti~, I enjoy talking to people ·who have L-ade the
reports and.~ of course, \faBte no tl:·ie en t h~!l.'all.y, th ~ f"ir:;t th.!::!g
ia to find otit whet~ ~~ lt rea.Uy vas that l.n1·;1e and whethe:;.· it ~eal.J..;r di·l
last that longt _ )f:a~n'ft:} 1;:-·f-bn~-i"h:st -th~~ 1~ tG rind ·o;rt \1l:f.:t.hcr lt.- Yetlrlly
~~t.~~a:rxt--.."'h~!r~r 1'ti~l.l:f tt!:i~ltlBt tr~lOllrl • ~ This cc.>Uld b.;; e.
:t"ull tloe job!
vauee •s book vill be :rnbliSi!cd June 15. I htwc aC"Ceded to hi~ request;
S ' s ve £P_vcn 1Edrcast:d scientific attention sha...tld I.-e
given ae:rious consideration. This is, of cou"S·J 1 'illut I bave i)een a....vi:''t3
all along because a. .:~rst.a-:;:~r ;_ukcs r:la ·~.>.nco::Jfo..."'tab~, and I don ' t like: tc !1;::.ve
tr...ese uni ;lentlf"ied tl1ir..gs !"'1inging arrund, ~rticu.ls.:::·ly v! :~n they ~·c ca _" it."l,.1 ized
on "vy the cu.ltists, etc. I 'W'Ollld real~· like t.o s.ee a rca.lly ::;cod r·epc~
mde by save~ra l w:!.tn~sse::; of good intelligence lnvasticutel to tl~e bo!1c ard
then to· 1'-..ave a paper v:itt~n on th -. case, ::llch 1n thr.le cltl:te!i.S of Socor..:• over a considcra"".:lle lell{.-t h of tit:c • . Pe!:laps
thiG is our best !.'",CI;tns cf attackine tl:is paJ.-tiet.!la!" p.coble.r !. I a:.! tc vlsi~Rob Mercer

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