Documents / Document

Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

The Black Vault (Rob Mercer collection) · 217 pages · text from the file's own layer

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…
-·l
&lmmcry or UFO Report recaiYad by phone on 25 !pril 1964:
Caller: Captain Thaodbre W. Cuny, 1005th Spgcial Investigation Gro·J.p, Wash.
Called at 2130 E~T, 25 April
Call received by 01) (:Haj K S Sa:neshima~
UFO data was receiYad by Capt Cuny from a Lt Col King, Co·mter Intelligence
Division, Albuquerque, New l>'lexico, who in turn read about it in the
lod~ newsp~er and also was provided data by the FBI.
The alleged UFO sighting took place at a bout 1800 MST on 2L April.
The object allegedly was witnessed in a rural area on tm Stallion
Range Center, Cocorro, New Mexico.
The alleged witness was a reputabls local poli.ce officer by the name
of Lonnie Damora. Damora was chasing a speeding motorist when he
saw the bbje ct fro:n the road at a distance of about 200 feet.
He claims to have seen two rren in white overalls get into the silver
colored foot-ball shaped object about 15 feet long. The Yehicle
allegedly took off with a roar, rose to an altitude of a:> fe'3t and
disappeared rapidly to t~e west.
Upon being informed of this, the Army (a Captain R T Holder of 'White
Sands) roped off the area. ~lso the FBI at Albuburque proceeded to
too area, anri allegedly confirmed that "sonathing" had been there.
'!bey reportedly found L"x5" impressions in the ground sorewhat lika
~stand lags; the impressions app9ared burned--nasa of the other area
appeaed to be burned.:n TOO newspaper stated that the Army took soil
sarnples. .
----.-- The aboTe is aU Capt Cuny co,tld report.
N oSl.
It is sugested that Lt Col King, .Alb.urJ.erque 268-2107 be contacted
for proper qu'3stioning of Lonnie TiaMOra.
~ ~ , /rF e.vrn . p owJ (!. ... (__{;. til - ~ "G.
- if ~C-r' ~ r..s
trnl .... u ...(
J fvltcrw-- ~ · C-~ t,~
e..........(" ~ t; L-r, ~--.£ ... ~ . .:...
~ t.f t>Y Y'i s .I Eno.e.A;. ' .,4 ~,h-t -~ - ... -.;c=.s: ~'""' cr:- --:~
-- t.J~ ~ j V"Yl..-t:1J ~ _,·r..s, ~ # n .. -n ~.
c..o-e_ f ~ ns ·11-F L..rrn f' cx0fJ ~-~"!'~
~ Hoi""~ .
YJs- 1~8.5
-rf. .., "' ~ c=. fJ fol wht" !e . SCAA,-~
I IRob Mercer

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.