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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.
~ C> <:..). u.J __.J -L.L.. OFf\ClAL F\LE COPY I . 'l'DEW/UFO UP'O Sighting Socorro, Nev Mexico Test Support Officer (Col K. Youn8) Test Hqs, Project Cloud Gap HAS, Los Alamitos, California 1. 'lhe Pictorial Branch of' the Secretary of' the Air Force In:forma"tive O:ffice has been overwhelmed by queries regarding an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) wich vas sighted on 24 April 1964 1n the Socorro, New Mexico area • . People have · been asking the President, their Congressman, and the Secretary of' the Air Force :for an explanati.on of' this sighting. 2. The object wich vas observed in Socorro, New Mexico exhibited the characteristics of' a heliocopter or a vehicle vhicbms the characteristics of a VTO. In this respect, you or one of' your people might be able to help us find the answer to this riddle. Any information wich you might be able to supply vill be appreciated. Colonel Moss :from AFX-PD-PA has informed us that Project Cloud Gap might have had some ectivi ty in the Socorro Area on 24 April 1964. 'Ibe activity could have been planned, authorized, unauthorized or it could have been · a vehicle which strayed :from its flight plan. Our interest lies in :finding an explanation for the sighting and not what .the vehicle vas doing in the Socorro area. 3. It is most urgent that we receive a reply as soon as possible. Feel :free to call the Aerial Phenomena Branch, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ext 6921£:,/66378 as soon as you have any positive or negative information. FOR THE COMMANDER HECTOR QUINTANILU. JR Captain, USAF Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch 1 Atch Resume o:f .Socorro SightingRob Mercer
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