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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. 152 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the g r o u n d…
  • p. 155 …Hynek said he had never two adults about 12 blocks ject Fr~ay inch by inch…
  • p. 160 …He said nis wife knowle ge,h at he did child has never had a sun…
  • p. 166 …The original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F has never…
  • p. 170 …a west- TWO INVESTIGATING officers erly direction, never getting more .vere at the scene yesterday from…
  • p. 178 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 185 …I never expected to see any- thing like that around here. My husband and I had…
  • p. 200 …say in the paper tr~t he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 201 …According to I..a.PazJ the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why…
  • p. 202 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 204 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a baJLoon. Zamora knows exactly…
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THE C'.EVELAND PNEUMATIC TOO.. JMPANY -. A DIVlStOM OP' CLIVI:LAND ~NI:UMATIC, 4NOU$T,.II:S , INC. PAGE
We do not feel free to pass on further information on this
program because of the restrictions imposed by the prime contractor, Hughes
Aircraft Company. Additional information on this project may be in your
. files or available to you by contacting the Hughes Company.
If it would be of any assistance to you in your present
project, we would be pleased to have one of our preliminary design engineers
visit you for general technical discussions on "lunar landing gear 11 • If you
would prefer to visit us, we would be certainly glad to have you spend a day
or two with us. These suggestions, of course, do not place you or the
Gove.rnment under any obligation to us whatsoever.
Very truly yours,
THE CLEVELA;~::;:OMPANY
W. A. Lavery--<__ J . .---- ~Manager - Sales, Contracts ~ \
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2Rob Mercer

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