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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.
“New Mexico State Police”20 pages
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rIf_._ . ... object had
risen 20-25 ft,
- vas level with
··-····-·---- ·- -·--- ... car. Then roar
S~g the . object,
witness stepped couple
of seconds, thought car
turned upside down. Saw
apparently t~o
stopped, object
went away to sw,
over dynamoshack
iU F : and 6-mile c~~ono
Here "heels
started skidding. peeple (small
adults or
large kids)in
vi tness radioed,
vhite coveralls.
They jumped.
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'Wi tne$S saw ,··)
2 legs like ; "'·
got out of car, still thought
object was car upside down.
Then sau insigna, heard roar,
flame blue, orange at the end,
appeared from objsct. Before,
witness thinks he heard two
thumps like somebody closing
a door. Afraid object was
. , On rough gravel road :
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going to explL'de, ran away
to No:rth (G).
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sound changed from high
frequency to low, th~n
stopped.
Witness heard a roar, saw flame
.-in sky at S\i about 3/4 mile •
... -~ Thought of dynamite shack,
decided to give up chase. Narrow
flame was 'bluish and sort of
Saw object .like :
vith insigna :
2 ft ~arge,
(~\
2i high. Total
object \\fould be
&bout 12-15 feet
orange too. Funnel type, narrower at top like i\
.,./ 17:45, witness started chasing black Chevrolet
~peeding 3 blocks ahead.Rob Mercer Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 217 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.