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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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Re asked "lfuat is it'l n I e.nmrel·ed, "!·(; loolm like a bcl..l.00-'4" I don't knov 1f he
saw 1tc If Nep looked. out his -w'indoi!~ vhich faces no1"tl.a, h;; c~.J.ldn 't OO.ve seen 1t o I
did nat tell hitl at the mmal'Xt vhich w"indo·J to look out of,
· As I w.s calling Nep, I cruld. stiJ.l see the objec-~o T".o.e o'l;oj~ eee~ to llt't up
sl.cTw~·, and to "get sna":',.l" in the dis·t:..m~e V!ll7 f'asto It s~e:.:ned to just .Qleo.r the
Box Canyon or in Mile Ce.eyon Uount~inc Tt disappc::.ree. as i·t -mm~ C1'ter the mou~ It
had no flAne vbatsoever as 1·:; r.--as trs.velin3 crver th~ srom:.U1 and nl) sm''!ke or noise.,
Feeling in gcod health., ·Le.3t drink....,t'llr--o or three beers...... i~n CNer n mntb !.30:.. Noted
. no odors,) Noted no- aound.a other tbau descrl'bed., Go.ve directions to l:Je:v Lopes at
radio and to Sergeant HS Cbaves to get thexc ., i-Terrt dvvn to where the object had
been, and I noted. the 'br~Wh 'W0.3 bu.:rn.i.ng i.i'l se-veral pla.ceso At that t:tme I hea..'?'tl Sgto
Chaves (N~»Mo state !":>lice ~t Soco..-rco) calling me on radio for cy location, and I
returned to m:f car, told biz:l he w.s looking at lreo Then Sgtc. Cheves ~ up1 asked
me what the trouble w.o because I t.'t!s m-r-~i;ing and he told ne that I ~ms Wite, ve17
~e~ I asked the Sgt" to see Wa:t I saw .'3.!lQ that ires the burning brush., Then Sgto
Cba.ves and I Yaiit to the s~ and Sgto C"oo.ves pointed. cut the trackso
When I f'.lrat sa.v the obJ~ (vmen I thouglftj it might be e. Cftr,) I sav io1l:lat a.p:pea.red
to be tYO legs of some type from the objec-c -to the grcundv At the t11!1..as I didn it pay
mch attention to vr,..,.+. "+ w_s...,-·I thought it was a."l c.ccid<mt ... _,I sav the tvO. persOilSc
I didn't ~ much a-ttention to the tioro "legs" 1: The t~ "lags~ vere at the bottom or
the object 1 slanted. out.....-d--rd.s to ·che {.'7cundv The obje~ m:!.g!lt have been about three
e.nd a he1:f' feet from the ground a.t thai; time~ I just glanced at ito ·
Can •t tell hmr long snv cbje<!t second t:tn:;e . ( the "clear" t:!.me) 1 possibly 20 seconds... ~·
just a guess'"'=for a from the time gc.t O'.It. of car, gle.nced e:c objeC",.;, ran from obJect,
jw:!!ped. O'ler edge of bill, then got be.c...lt to car and radio as object dise.ppearecL,
· As rv mike fell, I got out of ca.r3 a.t sama aretJ.1 I beard e.bcu-'G tvo or three loud.
"thumps," like someone po...qsi~ opening or shutting a door bal-d, These "-'.;humps"
vere possibly a second or less apart;., This va.s just befor~ the roar., The persons
were nat seen when ! got up to the scene arec.,
J\lst before Sgtl) Chaves got to scene, I go-!; nu pen and dre"..r a. picture o'-r the 7
ins:Lgm.a.....__on the obj ec:to .
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