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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.

AIR MAIL
-...~ .iDERAL AVIATION AGENC l
5300 South Portland Avenue
Oklahoma City, Olclahoma 73119
JUN 2 1964
::,.::;~~ FS-970 .
Eric T. de Jonckheere
Co lone 1, USAF
Deputy for Technology and Subsystems
Air Force Systems Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
Dear Sir:
In reply to your inquiry of May 27, 1964, we are unable to
furnish any information as to the type markings you submitted
for our examination.
United States registration markings for civil aircraft are
preceded by the alpha "N" followed by one-to-five digits,
one-to-four digits followed by one letter, or one-to-three
digits followed by two letters, displayed in twelve-inch
characters. · We have no knowledge of any particular country
using symbols as reference to their registration.
If we may be of further assistance, please let us know.
Sincerely yours,
.· - L~-/_ ~
H. ood~~er
Systems
Data EstablishmentRob Mercer

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