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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.

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“Office of Special Investigations”5 pages

  • p. 137 …h i • investigation of tbe Socorr~ incident. He said he had not been. ad- vised by…
  • p. 144 …t!le · dir~ctor, said after !her return from investigating the reported landing of a UFO…
  • p. 145 …tt Albu1uerquc, told of seeing Su:l- and ran of! to play. The girl day ni…
  • p. 177 …of the office already was in New : Mexico and would assist Dr. · Hynek in the investigation…
  • p. 184 …David Moody of the office already was in New 1 Mexico and would assist Dr. 1…
::-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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