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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.

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  • p. 3 …TWX regarding Capt Quintanilla's visit to Socorro dtd 30 Jun 2. TWX frcm SAFOI dtd…
  • p. 6 …EVALUATION OF TH~ RECENT UFO SIGHTING AT SOCORRO, NEW i•lEXIC , 24 APRIL, CONTINUE TO BE…
  • p. 7 TDEW UFO Sighting, Socorro, Nev Mexico, 24 Apr 64 Hq USAF SAFOI PB {Mrs Gaiser) Wash…
  • p. 9 …Force and might be attributed to the Socorro 1 New V..exico sighting. FOR THE COMMANDER…
  • p. 10 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964 On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
  • p. 12 …TDEW UFO Sighting, Socorro, Nev Mexico, 24 Apr 64 26 May 64 Hq· USAF SAFOI PB…
  • p. 13 …On Tuesday I re April 1964, Capt Quintanilla directed Doctor J All.en Hynek to Socorro…
  • p. 14 …produce markings such as those ·round at Socorro. One knovn experiaental model, constructed by Bell Air…
  • p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964 .. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
  • p. 22 …OFf\ClAL F\LE COPY I . 'l'DEW/UFO UP'O Sighting Socorro, Nev Mexico Test…
  • p. 23 …18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico…
  • p. 24 …capt Quintanilla contacted the FTD liaison office at Holloman AFB regarding the Socorro sighting and requested…
  • p. 25 …with an unidentified flying object sighting at Socorro, Nev Mexico . The Air Force is · investigating the…
  • p. 28 …Cloud ~ ap operations were conducted in an area about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New…
  • p. 29 …Cloud Gap operations were conducted in an area about a hundred miles north of Socorro, ~J…
  • p. 76 …Byrnes to;ould like for me to contact him at the state Po.Lice Office, Socorro…
  • p. 77 …1~f'r tI - ~ - Socorro of .t! ~- Wheels skidded. Made three attempts to climb hill~ ,Pl…
  • p. 86 ,, ttro~EL' Sccc; Apr11 ~ ~Y !·!.e:dco .1.964 Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
  • p. 93 …jl.P..nci, lil%t of the Socorro t--otin~ D~:>J,.b"'Ul: ::.nt., , ;.~ - ~'>b…
  • p. 96 INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE SOCORRO SIGHTING OF UFO BY LONNIE z.A.'.iORA At 0530, Sunday…
  • p. 98 …Coral Lorenzen and husband were in Socorro at the time and had inter- viewed both Lonnie…
  • p. 100 .>, REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP On TUesday, April 28, 1964, in resp6nse to a call…
  • p. 103 …No 9 shows the town of Socorro in the distance, looking down longatudi- nally through the…
  • p. 105 …In about a month, I shall have occassion to return to the Socorro area, at which…
  • p. 106 …But, it is essential .that the Socorro case be given the treatment. I also questioned, while…
  • p. 126 …details on the April 24, sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora. ,, Project 1964…
  • p. 127 …As I recall, the man ~as driving into Socorro at the time. Unfortunately, I no longer…
  • p. 129 …ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
  • p. 132 …ing of an unidentified flying object at the outskirts of Socorro Friday afternoon ·and the sighting…
  • p. 133 …American UFO Committee Review, Vol 1 No 2, Sep V'+ Socorro 1 H. H. : . . I •t…
  • p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l about a mile south of Socorro. POLICE…
  • p. 135 …the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f'Pd im…
  • p. 136 ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO Flying Objects Area Probed SOCORRO, N.M.-(jp)-An !Wright-Patterson Air…
  • p. 137 …ALBuQUERQUE JOURNAL SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO 24 Apr 64DATE: 29 APR 64 Air Force UFO Expert to…
  • p. 138 …28 APR 64 . • • SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64 A rash of unidentified fly- e…
  • p. 139 …SOCORRO, April 27 lA'! - Socorro police were called to the scene last night where an . ·cer…
  • p. 140 '~"'~ ' i' '... . " . .. .n~".· ,, J ~-"'t:~".t · ·s ,)~.l~"~.l ) i.,:i:'\.11 SOCORRO ll'l -Dr. J…
  • p. 141 …his investigation of a Socorro policeman's report that he saw a mysterious ilying ob-- ject…
  • p. 143 …the heels of e similar report from a Socorro pol ! r.-~ :nr:.n. Lonnie Zamora, who…
  • p. 144 …the one-11 l desc·ribej at Socorro. Sho s :lid i she is investigating the…
  • p. 145 …southwest or Socorro Sunday night, where city officer Lonnie · Z3mora firsl r('poft"l.!tl see…
  • p. 147 …r : (! from a Socorro tee::1ager . •u A;bu-! querquc motorist, ) ~ · .'i :: 1•< o I men…
  • p. 149 …5 CASES of sightings 1n 1963 or early 1964 reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings · 25 Apr…
  • p. 150 …BE A'I'l'RIBUTED TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING: 1. 26,Apr 64, Grants…
  • p. 151 …were irregularly ly landed there," Chavez A report by a Socorro po- spaced with the distance…
  • p. 152 …gained ·sudden national attention Friday after he saw an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro said…
  • p. 153 …drove 1 to Socorro from Tucson to take samples of the soil and , indicated the story…
  • p. 154 …sightin J! of a UFO in Socorro puzzled by lack of radar con- balls and meteorites…
  • p. 155 …29 A.r 6 Flying Object Expert Checks Socorro Scene Astronomer Takes Photos At UFO Site…
  • p. 159 …Gallegos' report came on I the heels of a similar report II from a Socorro policeman…
  • p. 160 …objects ( in the sky between here and ~ Socorro. ~' The rash of incidents start- ed .Friday when…
  • p. 161 …Gallegos' report came on• the heels o! a similar report 1 from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie…
  • p. 162 .ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL 26 APRIL 1994 ) 1JE JOU:-'''/' '- \Mysterious Object Pays Visit to Socorro Area I SOC…
  • p. 163 ' , PRICE lOc SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology…
  • p. 166 …The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never…
  • p. 167 …P'ass and 1 ound scorched indentations o;: :ed&'e-shaped the Socorro aft e &'round…
  • p. 168 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora . that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 170 …burned by exhaust a mile south of Socorro. He denied from the saucer. j seeing any…
  • p. 171 …United Press International thing very few have ever flew away after he got within SOCORRO, N…
  • p. 172 …Flymg Obects Zamora, when contacted at since Friday when Socorro sat~ from h~s Oklahoma…
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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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# · FIRST LEAD LITTLE JOE C270 > ,qv
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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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c~t[~ BRING
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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