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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. 152 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the g r o u n d…
  • p. 155 …Hynek said he had never two adults about 12 blocks ject Fr~ay inch by inch…
  • p. 160 …He said nis wife knowle ge,h at he did child has never had a sun…
  • p. 166 …The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never…
  • p. 170 …a west- TWO INVESTIGATING officers erly direction, never getting more .vere at the scene yesterday from…
  • p. 178 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 185 …I never expected to see any- thing like that around here. My husband and I had…
  • p. 200 …say in the paper tr~t he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 201 …According to I..a.PazJ the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why…
  • p. 202 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 204 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a baJLoon. Zamora knows exactly…
.. 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.
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ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) I
·.Rob Mercer

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