“Socorro”60+ pages
- p. 3 …TWX regarding Capt Quintanilla's visit to Socorro dtd 30 Jun
2. TWX frcm SAFOI dtd…
- p. 6 …EVALUATION
OF TH~ RECENT UFO SIGHTING AT SOCORRO, NEW i•lEXIC , 24 APRIL, CONTINUE
TO BE…
- p. 7 TDEW
UFO Sighting, Socorro, Nev Mexico, 24 Apr 64
Hq USAF SAFOI PB {Mrs Gaiser)
Wash…
- p. 9 …Force
and might be attributed to the Socorro 1 New V..exico sighting.
FOR THE COMMANDER…
- p. 10 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT
SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964
On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
- p. 12 …TDEW
UFO Sighting, Socorro, Nev Mexico, 24 Apr 64 26 May 64
Hq· USAF SAFOI PB…
- p. 13 …On Tuesday I re April 1964, Capt Quintanilla directed
Doctor J All.en Hynek to Socorro…
- p. 14 …produce markings such as those ·round at
Socorro. One knovn experiaental model, constructed by Bell Air…
- p. 16 NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTll~G 1 24 APRIL 1964
.. Shortly after 5:30 pm…
- p. 22 …OFf\ClAL F\LE COPY
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'l'DEW/UFO
UP'O Sighting Socorro, Nev Mexico
Test…
- p. 23 …18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro
New Mexico…
- p. 24 …capt Quintanilla contacted the FTD liaison office at
Holloman AFB regarding the Socorro sighting and requested…
- p. 25 …with an unidentified flying object sighting
at Socorro, Nev Mexico . The Air Force is · investigating the…
- p. 28 …Cloud ~ ap operations were conducted in an area about
a hundred miles north of Socorro, New…
- p. 29 …Cloud Gap operations were conducted in an area about
a hundred miles north of Socorro, ~J…
- p. 76 …Byrnes to;ould like for me
to contact him at the state Po.Lice Office, Socorro…
- p. 77 …1~f'r
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Socorro
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Wheels skidded.
Made three attempts
to climb hill~ ,Pl…
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Lonnie Zamora., 606 Resevoir street~ Socorro, !The…
- p. 93 …jl.P..nci, lil%t of
the Socorro t--otin~ D~:>J,.b"'Ul: ::.nt., , ;.~ - ~'>b…
- p. 96 INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE SOCORRO SIGHTING OF UFO BY LONNIE z.A.'.iORA
At 0530, Sunday…
- p. 98 …Coral Lorenzen and husband were in Socorro at the time and had inter-
viewed both Lonnie…
- p. 100 .>,
REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP
On TUesday, April 28, 1964, in resp6nse to a call…
- p. 103 …No 9 shows the town of Socorro in the distance, looking down longatudi-
nally through the…
- p. 105 …In about a month, I shall have occassion to return to the Socorro area,
at which…
- p. 106 …But, it is essential .that the Socorro
case be given the treatment.
I also questioned, while…
- p. 126 …details on the April 24,
sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zmmora.
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Project
1964…
- p. 127 …As I recall, the man ~as driving into
Socorro at the time. Unfortunately, I no longer…
- p. 129 …ly over his car.
:Socorro on an isolated hill re- On AP'ril 24, 1964, Socorro…
- p. 132 …ing of an unidentified flying
object at the outskirts of
Socorro Friday afternoon
·and the sighting…
- p. 133 …American UFO Committee Review, Vol 1 No 2, Sep V'+
Socorro 1 H. H.
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•t…
- p. 134 …policeman Lonnie zamora. !shaped object on the desert l
about a mile south of Socorro.
POLICE…
- p. 135 …the so>clu·lf:'d hill where Socorro i an ~'.. an \\edg~:--l'?f'Pd im…
- p. 136 ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO
Flying Objects Area Probed
SOCORRO, N.M.-(jp)-An !Wright-Patterson Air…
- p. 137 …ALBuQUERQUE JOURNAL SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
24 Apr 64DATE: 29 APR 64
Air Force UFO
Expert to…
- p. 138 …28 APR 64 .
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SOCORRO NEW MEXICO
DATE: 24 APR 64
A rash of unidentified fly-
e…
- p. 139 …SOCORRO, April 27 lA'! -
Socorro police were called to
the scene last night where an
. ·cer…
- p. 140 '~"'~ ' i' '... . " . .. .n~".· ,, J ~-"'t:~".t · ·s
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SOCORRO ll'l -Dr. J…
- p. 141 …his investigation of a Socorro
policeman's report that he
saw a mysterious ilying ob--
ject…
- p. 143 …the heels of e similar report
from a Socorro pol ! r.-~ :nr:.n.
Lonnie Zamora, who…
- p. 144 …the one-11
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desc·ribej at Socorro. Sho s :lid i
she is investigating the…
- p. 145 …southwest or Socorro Sunday
night, where city officer Lonnie ·
Z3mora firsl r('poft"l.!tl see…
- p. 147 …r : (! from
a Socorro tee::1ager . •u A;bu-!
querquc motorist, ) ~ · .'i :: 1•< o I
men…
- p. 149 …5 CASES of sightings 1n 1963 or
early 1964 reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings ·
25 Apr…
- p. 150 …BE A'I'l'RIBUTED TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING:
1. 26,Apr 64, Grants…
- p. 151 …were irregularly ly landed there," Chavez
A report by a Socorro po- spaced with the distance…
- p. 152 …gained ·sudden
national attention Friday after he saw an egg-shaped flying
object near Socorro said…
- p. 153 …drove
1
to Socorro from Tucson to
take samples of the soil and ,
indicated the story…
- p. 154 …sightin J! of a UFO in Socorro puzzled by lack of radar con- balls and meteorites…
- p. 155 …29 A.r 6
Flying Object
Expert Checks
Socorro Scene
Astronomer
Takes Photos
At UFO Site…
- p. 159 …Gallegos' report came on I
the heels of a similar report II
from a Socorro policeman…
- p. 160 …objects (
in the sky between here and ~
Socorro. ~'
The rash of incidents start-
ed .Friday when…
- p. 161 …Gallegos' report came on•
the heels o! a similar report
1
from a Socorro policeman,
Lonnie…
- p. 162 .ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL 26 APRIL 1994
) 1JE JOU:-'''/' '-
\Mysterious Object Pays Visit to Socorro Area
I SOC…
- p. 163 ' ,
PRICE lOc
SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology…
- p. 166 …The
original Socorro report had wide public 1ty, hut to date the A F
has never…
- p. 167 …P'ass and 1 ound scorched
indentations o;: :ed&'e-shaped
the Socorro aft e &'round…
- p. 168 …Sam Chavez
said he was told by Socorro
policeman Lonnie Zamora . that
the UFO he saw…
- p. 170 …burned by exhaust
a mile south of Socorro. He denied from the saucer. j
seeing any…
- p. 171 …United Press International thing very few have ever flew away after he got within
SOCORRO, N…
- p. 172 …Flymg Obects Zamora, when contacted at
since Friday when Socorro sat~ from h~s Oklahoma…
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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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;. .Rob Mercer