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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. 10 …pm, in an unpopulated area full of hills and gullies and covered with sagebrush. Following is…
  • p. 14 …He also observed the pollee car heading up the hill tova.rd the spot where the…
  • p. 16 …travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. Af"ter two or three ef…
  • p. 77 …Made three attempts to climb hill~ ,Pl./ / .• "B" 800' / ------------ ~ · First sighting of o1)jec :~. Stopped car…
  • p. 86 …to back down and try again before mU.ing the hill.. 1Iil1 abcut 60ft.. loug.P…
  • p. 87 …ard J j~ j~t over the hill--I s ·tG~..t~\~cause I did not…
  • p. 97 …He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill where he could…
  • p. 102 …He thus came up upon the object from behind the hill and from the side, so…
  • p. 106 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 129 …ly over his car. :Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
  • p. 135 …or radar the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f…
  • p. 136 …ed hill where a Socorro po- tion in Socorro will deter- (I W h" t th…
  • p. 145 …P.er parents said !hal she saw a fire in lhc hills ISharon is very tnith…
  • p. 151 …As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving…
  • p. 157 …short "men." Zamora continued driving up the hill to get a closer look. When he stopped…
  • p. 164 …ject that would compare to the tile hill to get a closer look at the 1…
  • p. 167 …tnl ~ty~yto examtfre the secluded hill W'here a Socorro policeman reported seeing a…
  • p. 174 …that she saw a fire in the hills southwest of Socorro Sunday night. where city officer…
  • p. 193 …leu Sllg6est tba;t when Za!X>l"a 's car crested tl:e hill, the…
  • p. 196 …As you 1;ey know, we have rented a house at 57 Avon Hill Street . I…
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THE CLEVELAND PNEUMATIC TOOl CO f.PAN Y
May 2.6, 1964
Reference': SD-2.-1733
Headquarters
Foreign Technology Division
Air Force Systems Command
United States Air Force
Wright-:Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
ATTENTION: Captain Hector Quintanilla/ TDEW
SUBJECT: Lunar Module Spacecraft Landing Gear
Gentlemen:.
3781 EAST 77TH STREET
CLEVELAND !5. OHIO
DIAMOND 1-1700
This is to confirm our recent telephone conversation with
regard to your letter of May 2.0, 1964 in which you ask for information
relative to our experience in the lunar field. We believe a review of the
enclosed booklets will indicate to you that we do have considerable background
in this field.
We have submitted proposals to the Martin Company,
Baltimore, Maryland, and also Grumman in Bethpage, Long Island. These
were classified proposals, details of which are possibly available to you at
Wright Field.
Our Instrumentation and Control Division in Grand Rapids
received a contract {AF33{616) -6572.) several years ago covering a study of
"Vehicle Departure and Alightroent Concepts". Again, may we suggest that
the complete file on this subject is available to you at Wright Field. For your
convenient reference, we attach copies of reports 1, 3, 4, 5. 14, and 15
covering this particular study. These are probably the roost graphic reports
submitted against the contract, and will serve to show you the numerous areas
of study.
Our National Water Lift Division in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
produced the landing gear assembly for the "surveyor" project. A copy of a
single page brochure on this topic is enclosed.
A DIVISION OF CLEVELAND PNEUMATIC INDUSTRIES, INC.Rob Mercer

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