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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.
.. PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ..... t. DATE .~OCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS . rsoco~o, .. -. ·~ Was Balloon 24 April 1964 .... New Mexico 0 Probably Balloon 3. DATE-TIME GROUP "- TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon Loc~ll745 Q[Ground- Vi suol 0 Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft 0 Probably Aircraft GMT 25L0045z 0 Air- Vi suol 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly ·Aircraft .5- PHOTOS 16. SOURCE 0 Was Astronomi col o Y•• Physical Spec 0 Probably Astronomical ~No Civilian 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION a. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other UNIDENTIFIED 0 Insufficient Data for Evaluation 0 xUnknown Less than 10 minutes one Stationary 1SW or rwest 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora • . Initially believed to be observation of Lunar module type cafiguration. SEE CASE FILE. Effort to date cannot place vehicle at site. Case carried as UNIDENTIFIED I pending additional data. ' - ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) I ·.Rob Mercer
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