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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. 2 …COMMENTS Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora • . Initially believed to be observation of Lunar module type…
  • p. 7 …unidentified fi.ying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, Nev Mexico • . a. At appi…
  • p. 10 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 12 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr ·Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 14 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, •ev…
  • p. 16 …Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday 1 24 .April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora ot the…
  • p. 18 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked vith the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamot'a is…
  • p. 24 …vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the eighting as _described by Lonnie Zamora.Rob Mercer
  • p. 28 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flight s wer…
  • p. 29 …j ption provide d by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance fli ghts were…
  • p. 86 ,, ttro~EL' Sccc; Apr11 ~ ~Y !·!.e:dco .1.964 Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
  • p. 96 …We contacted Sgt Chavez, the State Police officer Who was the first to reach Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 97 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 98 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 101 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil. " And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 129 …Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw sighting, said he ·attached no' j And to lbelp find clues to…
  • p. 132 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg- . shaped vehicle, roughly t"e s…
  • p. 133 …The !lap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie . z-ora (note incorrect…
  • p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l about a mile south of Socorro. POLICE…
  • p. 136 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the · object Friday…
  • p. 137 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 138 …Edgewood is about 30 miles \ I !=ity Officer Lonnie Zamora east of Albuquerque. ~1d he saw…
  • p. 139 …l.. ,.,,,..,·····--··-······: ---· --·---...-~:~ ~~ Officer Lonnie Zamora. Heights Resident Saw 'Object' Here Mitropolis said there w a s another…
  • p. 142 …he was told by :·:ocor " pc!iceman Lonnie :Zamora th t , th ·~ UFO he . saw l…
  • p. 143 …Lonnie Zamora, who said. he · spotted nn object nea r Secor- . ro Friday night. Zan1ora, in…
  • p. 147 …from a Socorro p::;Ecc~ar.,ll Lonnie Zamora, who s<:.~d he spotte~ an o…
  • p. 151 …from the position of what marks, Zamora said he Officer Lonnie Zamora apparently w ere · landing…
  • p. 152 …experience had taught him something. · Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora said he would · tu~ around and run…
  • p. 154 …Mexico who has !icem a n Lonnie Zamora re- ported. 'an international reputation in asked Zamora…
  • p. 159 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socor- j ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 161 …Lonnie Zamora, who said he 1 spotted an object near Socor- ro Friday night. Zamora, in…
  • p. 163 …Seel.ng UfQ Landed City Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a highly reliable source, saw a North Of…
  • p. 166 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on hl~h way patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft…
  • p. 167 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he apotted the object Fri…
  • p. 168 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 171 …of an unusual visitor was a Socorro Policeman Lonnie Za- Zamora said he spotted an burned…
  • p. 173 …from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said be ' spotted an object near Socor- ' ro Friday…
  • p. 175 …e man who started it all, Socoro ~6lice rnan lonnie · 7,amor!:', say's e next…
  • p. 176 I Air Force Probes Policeman's Story Of 1 Saucer1 at Sands - SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 177 …to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit t h e site where Zamora says he…
  • p. 178 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 181 …Principal in the Socorro sec- tion of the film was city police- man Lonnie Zamora. He…
  • p. 184 …Hynek said be hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie . Zamora, and then visit t h…
  • p. 185 …to talk to Socorro police· II man Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 198 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutr~ but it was at…
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.;,iF • wHITE SA NOS MISSILE RANGE_, N. M. J MAY CAP> -A St.COND ATTEMPT ijTI LL
BE MADE TODAY TO FIRE A LITTLE JOE li CKET IN A TEST OF THE APOLLO
M:>O NF LIGHT . ESC APE SYSTE:-1.
• . THE SHOT tJAS POSTPONED YESTERDAY BECAUSE OF GUSTY vJlNDS AND A DESERT
SANDSTORM.
THE LITTLE JOE IS EXPECTED TO HURL THE SIMULATED APOLLO SPACECRAFT
TO 22 000 FEET AT 6 A.M. (MST>.
A ~ESTRUCT SIGNAL VILL DESTROY THE MISSILE AND FIRE THE ESCAPE
SYSTEM. IT WILL ~EPARATE THE COM:1AND MODULE AND PROPEL IT A SAFE
DISTANCE t•JHERE FOUR PARACHUTES WILL BE DEPLOYED TO LOWER TH_E CRAFT TO
EARTH. .
THE COMMAND £10DULE IS THE NERVE CENTER FOR THE APOLLO AND WILL
CARRY THE ASTRONAUT-PILOTS.
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·BY ~~~~~DS~ND~I~i~~fiE RANGE, N.M.J \MaY lJCA?>-THE FIERY EXPLOSION OF
~ LITTLE JOE II ROCKET SHATTERED THE EARLY MORNING CALM TODAY IN A
. TEST OF THE APOLLO t100N SPACECRAFT LAU NCH ESCAPE SYSTEM.
EARLY INDICATIONS FROM NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
OFFICIALS WERE THAT THE TEST THE FIRST OF FIVE OF THE APOLLO ESCAPE
SYSTEM.l WAS SUCCESSFUL. IT ~AD BEEN DELAYED 24 HOURS BECAUSE OF HINDS P.5
DUST STORM YESTERDAY.
LITTLE JOE II BLASTED INTO THE SKY ABOUT 6 A.M. (~iST> FROM A CLOUD
OF DUST CAUSED BY THE ROCKET'S SEVEN SOLID FUEL ENGINES, GENERATING
MORE THAN 300 000 POUNDS OF THRUST.
CLIMB! NG TO 22 000 FEET ALTITUDE IN ABOUT 30 SECONDS THE 85-FOOT
TALL VEHICLE STACKED t{lTH BOILERPLATE [10DELS OF THE APOLLO COMMAND AND
SERVICE MODULEs, REACHED A MA~IMUM AERODYNAMIC STRESS PERIOD AT THE
TIME OF THE EXPLOSION THAT WAS SET OFF BY GROUND SIGNAL.
AT THE SAME INSTANT 1 EXPLOSIVE BOLTS SEPARATED THE C0t1 ;•1AND MODULE
fROM THE DIS! NTEGRATINt; ROCKET AND THE 155 000-POUND THRUST ESCAPE
ROCKET FIRED, CARRYING THE C0t1MAND MODULE ANOTHER 4,000 FEET HIGHER.
SAFELY AvJAY FROM THE E,\ PLOSI ON, THE COMMAND MODULE 1 WHICH tH LL
CARRY ASTRONAUTS TO THS MOON SEPARATED FROM THE ESCAPE TOWER.
ABOUT 7 1/2 MINUTES AFTER'THE FIRING 1 THE COMMAND MODULE, SUSPENDED
BY PARACHUTES, FLOATED TO THE DESERT FLUOR ABOUT FIVE MILES FROM THE
LAUNCH SITE. ·
A NASA SPOKESMAN SAID THE ONLY APPARENT TROUBLE WAS THAT ONE OF THE
THREE 88-FOOT DIAMETER RING PARACHUTES ATTACHED TO THE COMMAND MODULE .
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THE CAPSULE DOWN SAFELY. . .
WATCHING TODAY'S TEST FROM A BLOCKHOUSE NEAR THE LAUNCH SITE
WERE ASTRONAUTS LT. Ct1DR. CHARLES CONRAD 1 LT. CMDR. JA!1ES A. LOVELL,
MAJ. GORDON COOPER, CMDR. ALAN SHEPARD JH., A~~ DONALD SLAYTON.
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