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Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

The Black Vault (Rob Mercer collection) · 217 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 37 …Planetary Systems/Lunar Ferry Lockheed Aircraft Co, Burbank, Calif * Manned .Mars Landing Study North American Aviation…
  • p. 41 …Hughes Aircraft Co Burbank, California POSTAGE AND FEES PAID ~~--..------.I· ..J...... ~ -----..------------- ----------------~-- ............ ~ .... --... .-=-t ~ ------------ ·~ ..: ~ :' . '4 •• • •• • . : .·Rob Mercer
  • p. 60 …19 May 64 Lockheed Aircri!t Co Burbank, Calif'ornil!l 1. Request any information ·relative…
* Listed as having Spacecraft Landing Gear Experience
Jet Propulsion Labs. NASA's supervises all landers.
* Manned Mars Excursion Module. (MEM)
Aeronertronics Division, Philco, Newport Beach, Calif
Lunar Excursion Module. (LEM)
Grumman A/C, Long Island, New York (Prime Contractor)
* Lunar Excursion Module (Ascent Rocket)
N$ _ Bl211 Aerosystem Co, Buffalo, New York
Lunar Modular Base, 4 legs
~J- Douglas Missile & Space Systems
* Re-Entry & Landing Studies
~j _ Goodyear Aerospace Corp, Akr0n, Ohio
- Lunar Surveyor Vehicle
~~ - Hughes Aircraft Co
* Advanced Lunar Transport Systems
Long-Tempco-Vougbt, Greenville, Texas
·* Manned Planetary Systems/Lunar Ferry
Lockheed Aircraft Co, Burbank, Calif
* Manned .Mars Landing Study
North American Aviation Inc, Downey, Calif
Companies ·having capability in Spacecraft Landing but no specific System is listed.
Bendix Corp
- _ Cleveland Pneumati
McDonnel Aircraft,
..... Menasco Mfg Co, Ft
Northop - (Gemini ,
Stanley a/c.
United a/c.
Aiv of Pneumodynamics
St Louis (Gemini,)
Worth Texas
Mercury & Appolo Landing)Rob Mercer

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