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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 …After radioing to Police Headquarters at Socorro that he was proceeding to investigate what he believed…
  • p. 16 …Zamora vas in radio contact with police headquarters. 'lhe State Police use the same network and…
  • p. 28 PROJECT ClOUD GAP TEST HEADQUARTERS U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION Los Alamitos, California · Captain Hector Quintanilla…
  • p. 29 …Hector Quintanilla. Jr. Chief1 Aerial Phenomena Branch . Headquarters Forei ·n Technology Division WTi g ht-Pa…
  • p. 45 …3781 EAST 77TH STREET CLEVELAND 5, OHIO To Headquarters -~------- Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command…
  • p. 46 …SD-2.-1733 Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United States Air Force Wright…
  • p. 52 . TEXAS DIVISION TELEPHONE BU 3-4471 Headquarters 8 0 X 7 3 8 7 , S Y…
  • p. 54 …9-1100 _Request for Lunar Module Information Headquarters ·Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United…
  • p. 55 …P'ALO, N.W YOIIIK 14240 r Headquarters 01\JEDF!THE .~.;z:;-.:.,........-.;:;.·~...o;::.?!,, ..._ ·~c' P-'1…
  • p. 56 …for Lunar Module Informt.l tt•Jn Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systemn Command Un1…
  • p. 97 …and he radioed this information to Police headquarters. He went down a hill where the object…
  • p. 134 …WPAFB expert in unidentified Ilion range, whose headquarters flying objects, found no evidence i:> near the…
  • p. 176 …he Holder, whose headquarters is will still run away like he did Fri· j near this…
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TDEW/ Capt H Quintanilla/692l6
Request for Identir ica t ion o r Mar kings
FAA Control Systeos Division
Oklahoma Cit y , Oklahor:La
Dear Sir,
27 May 64
'.lbe a t tached marking has been observed and reported to t he
USAF in connection with an unidentified flying object sighting
at Socorro, Nev Mexico . The Air Force is · investigating the
case and identification of this marking would assist in de -
termini ng the cau se of the sighting. 'lbe marks vere estimated
to be about one f oot to eighteen inches in height, colored
red. Any assi s tance •'hich you may offer vill be greatly
apprecia t ed . The a t tached TWX indicates the high level of in-
terest in this s i ghting .
FOR THE COMMANDER
ERIC T de JONCKHEERE
Col onel, USAF
Deputy :for Tecl:mology
.and Subsystems
I .Atchs
1 . Marking
2. TWX
Excerpt tram letter J Douglas Stewart
"With reference to the marking of. u.s. X.
A/C, the Code of Federal Regulations,
Title 14, Pars 1-19, has some very
specific things to say about how
our A/C JIIUSt be marked, experimental
and otherwise. Also, a a civilian
fir.m JIIUSt apply for an Experimental
Certificate on Form ACA-305
(Para. 1.74-1) ••••••••••••
and 3-D drawings of' the A/C.
Aa I'm sure you know ••••••••••••
•••••••• ~ ~-~ ' s Control Systems
Dirlsion in Oklahoma City. ''Rob Mercer

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