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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.

  • 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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abot':t 25 feet when I glanced bac!:i: cx.d S::i.:I the qbject about level i.dth the ear a.nd it
appeared. aba-1t d.l.l·ecrtly over tl:e DJ-tt~e wb.P.r& lt ro3e fro!'lc
I lias still runn!t13 ard J j~ j~t over the hill--I s ·tG~..t~\~cause I did not hear
the r oo.r., I w-as scared of th.: roaz-,y a~ I bad ~la.nned. to con-time runni.ng do-w-n
the hillo I turned .around tmr-ar-J. tne o"'uj...=:;t ar..'3d am ::.u·.r the object going a-wy from me.,
It did not co:u:~ ;::_;_~- cl0~e:r to IUeo It a:p~·ei to go in ei.:raight
llne anu a·" ::.cw1e heigl:.t...-...-pc~sibly lO to 15 :feet from gro.lld.) and it cl~L'~ the dynamite
shack by e.bot:.-t three f~et, Shack s.:->Ox': eight f'eet bi~ll, Object -;ras trav~i!lg very
f'ast .. It seemed to ria~ u.p~ end. tal:e of:"Z i.=lm.:.->dia.te~la.crosn country~. I ran bc.ck to
I!rf car and as I ran back_, I l:ept ~r: e,~e 0:1 "the obj~ctc . I picked
up DV gla.sser:J (I left the sun ,sL'lsze-s on gr-c..rnd.) 3 got in:co the oor and radioed to
bo Lopes · radio opexa-tcr, to nul().:: out the \!in6.o·..r1 to see if' you could see an ob.1~c:-+ t;Rob Mercer

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