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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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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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