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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. 18 …The UFO report had been received by the 1005th from Lt Col King, CID, of Albuquerque…
  • p. 19 …He vill include copies of Lt Col Kings report, the FBI report, and possibly the soil…
  • p. 20 …It is sugested that Lt Col King, .Alb.urJ.erque 268-2107 be contacted for proper…
  • p. 25 …TDEW/ Capt H Quintanilla/692l6 Request for Identir ica t ion o r Mar kings FAA…
  • p. 96 …The contacts for data already collected were Lt Col King (268-2107) and Capt R T…
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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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