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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. 42 …We have referred your request for information to the Project Office of Jet Propulsion Laboratory# California…
  • p. 58 …We haft a particular interest 1n the Advanced Imle.r Trans- port Systems. lOR THE COMMANDER…
  • p. 65 …The target date could be assistant once the -!0-day ' Craft De~wbed . 1 advanced several…
  • p. 100 …Conner in advance to keep things quiet. As soon as I got the reporters out of…
  • p. 164 …lt · actually · was headed advanced type of aircraft or space The policeman believed the , straight for…
  • p. 201 …the green fi~Mlmti balls and Zamora's sighting were observations ot'tests of advanced vehic…
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TWX and Messages
l. TWX regarding Capt Quintanilla's visit to Socorro dtd 30 Jun
2. TWX frcm SAFOI dtd 13 May
3. Summary -
4. Letter to SAFOI dtd 28 May
5· Memo frcm Capt Quintanilla to Col de Jonckheere, dtd 27 Apr
6. Initial report received at FTD
Investigative Data .
· 1. 14 May letter to Cloud Gap
2. Opal Grinder
3·. Maj Mitchell
. 4. Ltr to FAA, 27 May
5. Miscellaneous Data
Lunar Module Information
l. Basic List
2. Douglas A/C, dtd 20 May 64
3. Hughes A/C, dtd 20 May & 26 May 64
4. Cleveland Pneumatics, dtd 20 May 64
5. Goodyear, DTD 19 May 64
6. Menasco, dtd 20 May 64
7. Unanswered letters (seven)
Miscellaneous NotesRob Mercer

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