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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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Report on the Trip to Socorro - Albuquerque - Socorro, March 12-13, 1965 Left las Cruces 7:45 A. H., Friday, March 12. Arived Socorro 10:30 A. M. Tc~ and had an immediate conference with Mr.~ Fa~, Editor of the El Denfensor Chieftan, the Socorro newspaper. Out. first subject was the novie that had been made by the Empire Films whose address in Hollywood is 7417 Sunset Blvd.,.(~A name connected with it is Morry. Malkin,• a phone number is AC 213, 876-6800. ~~lkin is coming back to Socorro in a few weeks to arrange for t~e world premiere of the UFO movie in Socorro. This will_be a white tie affair probably! Do you think the Air Force bfficial consultant should be present at this world premiere? He does not think so. It would be exciting, but it would also give needless :significance and importance to the picture. I think we ~~d at best ignore it. However, I learned through the grapevine that the picture is to have a Washington, D. C. preview in about three or four weeks and that Senator Symington is interested in it. w~ had better get ~aston JackS officeJor w.hoever is running the show now1 on to this if at all possible. That is one preview that I should attend if at all possible. The scuttlebutt ~Jfetare has it that the picture contains movies taken in Miian, Italx . \tv of a UFO landing with a little man getting out of it • . tirtx Rumor:has it that the Empire Film Studios paid. $40,000 for that Milan, Italy filmstrip. Apparently they :b~ve sunk quite a bit of money irto this picture and expect ·to have it shown in many movie houses thro-.1ghout the country and then mortly thereafter to release i:t for TV use. The film runs 86 minutes. . . ~ I found the situation in Socorro largely unchanged. zt,mora~still generally believe~ but the current feeling seems to be that there is no question~ that he saw something real, but that it was most likely a supeP- secret device being tested. I was asked many times whether I was really sure that the U. S. government didn't have a super secret project. I pointed out that if this were the case, that it would be unlikely that we would be testing I )Rob Mercer
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