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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 …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…
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and tried to call the Empire Film Studio, but .it vms closed.
In view of the fact that the prevailing opinion in the town still
is that what Zamora saw not the result of hallucinations or of a hoax,
but ·a secret test vehicle, what has bec01i1e of rey suggestion to have this
left as"an exercise for the students"'? It would be a rrarvelous exercise
for neophyte intelligence officers .
· There is also the opinion expressed in Socorro, and expressed to me
a number of times in the past, by several people (and also by laPaz) that
I am merely a part of a super- smoke screen and so is FTD and Wright Field,
and that the whole Project Bluebook is a grand coverup for something the
government does not want discussed. Best way to give a lie to this, of
course, is to point out that if this were the case, t he U. S. government
should also have been responsible for the sightings in France, Brazil, .
Spain, and in England. Maybe the U. S. goverrunent has really gone global!
On that happy thought I concl ude my report.
Sincerely yours,
i·f!:;tted
P. S. I now have a slight~· . infect/finger from the t horns on the bush that
. was originally charred. The bush drew blood when I attempted to get some
sail samples. Undoubtedly, the finger will now wither a~~Y from radiation
burns . Unfortunately, I do not have interplanetary Blue Cross coverage!
J 1-)Rob Mercer

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