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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.
“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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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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- 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…
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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
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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
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\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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Zamora and explained that he had taken the wrong road as vas, IN fact
looking in the opposite direction for a part of the time. Therefore,
had the object been visible he would not have been in a position to
see it. Sgt Chavez took polaroid pictures of the holes and area.
These are available to us.
Following the interview with Sgt Chavez, Sgt Zamora vas interviewed
and a trip to the location made. All persons interviewing Zamora are
impressed with his sincerity and are of the belief that if a hoax
has been perpetrated Lonnie Zamora is definitely not a part .to it.
The object vas described as white or "light in color and egg shaped."
During the interview it was apparent that a visit to _location was
necessary to determine the time sequence of the event and the re-
lated motion of the object, as well as to obtain speeds and distance of
flight. At approximately 4 pm we proceeded to the site, accompanied
by two reporters from the local press. The sequence of events was
repeated and total duration from the initial contact with the event
to time of it's disappearance did not exceed 10 minutes. A gieger
counter check for background radiation was made in the presence of the
press and Sgt Zamora and no radioactivity count was present. The
counter was checked with Major Conner's watch and found to be in good
working order.
The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora.
Shortly after 5 pm he was on patrol when he heard a noise that he thought
to be an explosion of the Mayor's dynamite shack known to be in that
direction . He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill
where he could see what looked like a car turned upside down with . two
white things he assumed to be the occupants of the car and he radioed
this information to Police headquarters. He went down a hill where the
object was not visible and had to make two tries to get up this hill in
his car. As he came over the tope of the hill {about 300 yds from the
object) it appeared to be a thing on four pronged legs and the two white
things (described as coveralls). were no longer visible. Continuing to
a point about 150 yds from the object he parked the car and got out and
approached the object to a point about 100 ft. At this time the object
made a rumbling noise or rattling noise and a blue flame like an arc
welder turning to yellow or orange at the end came from the center of
the bottom. The object vas about the size of an auto and light colored,
not reflective, but white or silver or just light colored. From this
position the base of the craft was in the bottom of the gully and not
visible to Lonnie Zamora. He thought the thing vas going to explode and
became frightened. He ran to a point behind his car, dropping his _
glasses on the way. He hid behind the car using his arm to shield
his eyes. He remained in this position for not more than 10 seconds,
at which time the noise stopped and his initial fear of the object
lessened. He looked up and the object rose to a point of 15-20 ft
altitude, with the legs still not visible. A Red marking was evident
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