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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 …Greenville, Texas ·* Manned Planetary Systems/Lunar Ferry Lockheed Aircraft Co, Burbank, Calif * Manned .Mars Landing Study…
  • p. 60 …M:xlul.e Information 19 May 64 Lockheed Aircri!t Co Burbank, Calif'ornil!l 1…
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Attention:
BELL AEROSYSTEMS COMPANY
BUFFALO !5 . NEW YORK - PHONE , NIAGARA FALLS 297-1000 AREA CODE 716
4 September 1964
NAS 9-1100
_Request for Lunar Module Information
Headquarters
·Foreign Technology Division
Air Force Systems Command
United States Air Force
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433
Captain Hector Quintanilla
FTD ( TDEW/UFO)
1. We have received your request for LEM information. Thank you
for your interest in Bell's participation in this program. Bell's
participation involves the production of both the LEM Ascent Engine
and positive expulsion tanks for the LEM reaction control system.
These tanks are patterned after similar tanks we are making for the
Apollo Command Module reaction control system.
2. We are unable to honor your request for LEM information at
this time. Because of the terms of our subcontracts with Grumman
Aircraft, approval must be obtained from Grumman prior to releasing
information concerning the subcontracts. A request has been sent
to Grumman requesting approval to supply you with information. To
date we have not received this approval.
3. If you wish to contact Grumman directly to explain your
requirements . for information, we suggest that you contact the
following:
AEM:JKS:nm
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
Bethpage, Long Island, New York
Attention: Mr. E. F. Hintz
Subcontract Administrator
Plant No. 25
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A. E. Mirti
Project Director
LEM Ascent Engine
cc: Col. E. T. de Jonckheere, USAF
Mr. E. F. Hintz, GAEC
Mr. J. Conover, GAEC Res. Rep. at BAC
DIVISION OF BELL AEROSPACE CORPORATION -A ijxtronJ COMPANYRob Mercer

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