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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. 35 …GORDON COOPER, CMDR. ALAN SHEPARD JH., A~~ DONALD SLAYTON. (NO PICKUP> B924ACSRob Mercer
  • p. 200 …March 9 issue PAS a story "Film Studios Praise Cooperation Here in . t:) Film on UF0…
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.Would yoU. be kind enougl:j to send about ten blank forms to Hr.
Ted Raynor, Ed1tor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico,
and he can send one of these fonns to l".rs. Williains to fill out. The
results ·will be, probably, a me~eor. I tried to get in touch with her
the next day, but she see~ed to be at some sewing circle.
March 9 issue PAS a story "Film Studios Praise Cooperation Here in
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Film on UF0 1s;." The letter received from Mr.· Michael Mustl~·~ letter
serit to Mayor Holn 0. Burson, sated, · "Phenomena 1J_ is now cornpletedt
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It will be viewed by bountless millions of p~ople throughout the world.
It will open the door to facts heretofore shrouded in secrecy. It will
prepare the entire human race for a better knowledge of the universe
and- possible neighbors who rray rave been observing our earth for centuries."
Fiha.lly,~March ll, ~' .issue has a short article on "Zamora
Saw a UFO, · Not Flying Saucer." This was in response to a request by Za~ora
to please say in the paper tr~t he never saw a flying saucer land, only
a UFO. In part the . article states, "Zamora says he was trying to coperate
with IErsons who asked him a1:out the UFO, which he described as egg-shaped,
and he wishes that they would not ask him about a flying saucer which he
says he has never seen and cannot describe.~ 'rhe policermn says that
the account here stanc5 unchanged from that he gave on April 24 and the
following day. "
I left for Albuquerqu.e about 2:30 P. M. , arriving at the Institute
of MeteDDetics, where Dr. Lincoln La Paz. was waiting for me, at 4:00 P. t-1.
Inseet A: .&l.ynor showed me a letter from Rev. Guy J. Cyr S. M. (Society of
Mary) Sacred Heart Rectory, Lawrence, f-1ass. dated November 26, 1964. It is
a long letter concerned with intelligence on other planets and trying to make
civilization on the moon. The letter was rightfully ~t ·Rob Mercer

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