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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. 10 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964 On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
  • p. 14 …Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev Mexico. '!be obJect or vehicle displayed :flight cha…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 22 …The object wich vas observed in Socorro, New Mexico exhibited the characteristics of' a heliocopter or…
  • p. 23 …18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico…
  • p. 28 …about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico . Cloud Gap personnel did no.t have…
  • p. 100 .>, REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP On TUesday, April 28, 1964, in resp6nse to a call…
  • p. 106 …while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of…
  • p. 126 …on the April 24, sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora. ,, Project 1964 I…
  • p. 127 …Biebennan 601 Fitch Avenue Socorro. New Mexico 87801 / ·-Rob Mercer
  • p. 133 …in !rom all over the state ot New Mexico and other parts at tne i } west…
  • p. 134 …found no evidence i:> near the central New Mexico · of radio-active material in the 1town…
  • p. 136 ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO Flying Objects Area Probed SOCORRO, N.M.-(jp)-An !Wright-Patterson Air…
  • p. 137 …ALBuQUERQUE JOURNAL SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO 24 Apr 64DATE: 29 APR 64 Air Force UFO Expert to…
  • p. 138 …28 APR 64 . • • SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64 A rash of unidentified fly- e…
  • p. 139 …THE ALBUQUERQUE TRIBU'"}.'E SOCORRO, 1\"EW MEXICO 21; Apr 64DATE:27 APR 64 cF/ying…
  • p. 141 …his investigation of a Socorro policeman's report that he saw a mysterious ilying ob-- ject…
  • p. 143 …LA MADERA, NEW MEXICO SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's peremial addictiot to flying saucers has…
  • p. 149 …Socorro Sightings · 25 Apr 26Apr Z,Apr 23 Apr .ALBtJ~ 1 NEW MEXICO AREA Socorro LaMadera…
  • p. 150 …TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING: 1. 26,Apr 64, Grants, nev Mexico sighting of a…
  • p. 154 …re- Zamora's reliability as _a ity ~New: Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 155 …landings m New MeXlCO m the know about as much about 1t the Socorro site and…
  • p. 159 …23 APR 64 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New rdexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's…
  • p. 160 …f' Socorro. UFO experts from < different parts of the country ~:, are in New Mexico to investi…
  • p. 161 …28 APR 64 1 'Flying Saucer' Reports Spread In New ~lexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico…
  • p. 163 ' , PRICE lOc SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology…
  • p. 167 …branch at Wright- Patterson A I r Foree Base, Ohio, ia tn New 'Mexico to as…
  • p. 168 …he fired six ehots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. ; State Policeman Tom…
  • p. 171 …William Con- wide open New Mexico desert, again, he will still run away nor and Sgt…
  • p. 172 …sightings had New llke a mountam ~Ion's," as coloring, marking, character- Mexico State Police, local…
  • p. 173 SANTA FE (UPI) -New Mexico's perennial addictior to flying saucers has taker hold of the…
  • p. 176 …Right on the edge o! White Sands Missile 1 Range on the 'Wide open New Mexico…
  • p. 177 …David Moody of the office already was in New : Mexico and would assist Dr. · Hynek in…
  • p. 178 …when on the pre- . ' Tlo\18 day at Socorro. New Mexico a policeman. Mr. Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 181 …F~ ?>.. '.r ..... ·APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico - on April…
  • p. 182 …of unidentified fly- \< ing object sightings had New~ Mexico State Police, local law r e n…
  • p. 184 …David Moody of the office already was in New 1 Mexico and would assist Dr. 1…
  • p. 185 …My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but…
  • p. 199 …His theories as to why UFO's land in ·New Mexico lack, shall we say, a…
  • p. 200 …Ted Raynor, Ed1tor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
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As far as lids P~ving it in for%amora, there is ample evidence that
this is~e case. But it was also pointed out to me by op!j;;inder ( sp. ? )
and his assistant and by several others, that it is a national phenomenon
fc(teenagers · to Pa.te "fuzz" and the statement by Wesley Johnston, a high
school senior who works at Opelgrinders is particularly significant • . He
sa.id that IIB.ny of the high school ljids didn 1t like Zamora, but that he,
Zamora, was not important enough to do anything atout it. He sa:i,d that
if' the kids wanted to get even with Zamora they ·would simply thrash him
or do something to his car, but that an elaborate h~ would not be the
· ~before
~they would get even with him. One sho~ re~ember~t~ the time
of the sighting there had been-no talk in the Socorro region of unidentified
flying objects. This would not hRve suggested itself as a means of getting
back at Zamol'a. Apparently the Socorro teenagers are much more direct in
their methods of reprisal for the~zz.• As far as the cardboard is con-
cerned, Menzelt's conjectures -here fall completely flat. The cardboard
was portions of very old and weathered corrugated paper from a packing box.
There are many samples of this all over the region. There is a city dump
not too far away, and when the wind, which blows tumbleweeds all over the
place, get&hold.of tome of this stuff, it scatters the papers pretty well
all over the whole region. Many of the bushes, I noticed particularly this
time, have papers caught on their underneath side. In any case, some thi~ ·
paper was still there, and I shall send Menzel a sample of what this cardboard
really looks like. I would say that the cardboard . had been there through :m.ny
rains and had suffered successive dryings. The original piece I picked u9
1;
was definite/charred, Exkx This was the piece I sent to you along with soil
samples, you will remember.
One rather interesting item is that the burning bush has recently
exuded some. sap) and one of the movie people took this to Los Angeles to
./Rob Mercer

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