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Project Blue Book Socorro file

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This Black Vault release compiles 1964 newspaper and wire service clippings plus a Project Blue Book summary on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting by policeman Lonnie Zamora on April 24, 1964, when an egg-shaped object left four depressions and burned brush. It covers J. Allen Hynek's site visit, APRO and NICAP comment, and related New Mexico reports at La Madera, Edgewood and Albuquerque. The Air Force summary reports that soil and brush analysis found no radiation or propellant, and the case remained open.

  • p. 1 …Her mother said the child has never had a sunburn and couldn't have gotten one…
  • p. 5 …The original Socorro report had wide publicity, but to date the AF has never issued a…
  • p. 9 …He said it then rose from the ground and sailed off in a westerly direction, never…
  • p. 18 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 26 …I never expected to see anything like that around here. My husband and I had talked…
  • p. 35 MEMO ROUTING SLIP NEVER USE FOR APPROVALS, DISAPPROVALS, CONCURRENCES, OR SIMILAR ACTIONS 1 NAME OR TITLE…
  • p. 97 …Chaves has remarked this to me a number of times that never in his long association…
  • p. 105 …please say in the paper that he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 106 …According to LaPaz, the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why these peculiar…
  • p. 107 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 109 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a balloon. Zamora knows exactly…
  • p. 143 …But never before has the government gone to the heart of Hoffa's operations and tried…
  • p. 159 …Her mother said the child was never had a sun- n and couldn't have gotten…
  • p. 162 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the ground while he was watching it…
  • p. 164 …Hynek said he had never found any evidence that beings from another planet had visited earth…
Report on the Trip to Socorro - Albuquerque - Socorro, March 12-13, 1965

Left Las Cruces 7:45 A. M., Friday, March 12. Arived Socorro 10:30 A. M. and had an immediate conference with Mr. Ted Ratner, Editor of the El Denfensor Chieftan, the Socorro newspaper. Our first subject was the movie that had been made by the Empire Films whose address in Hollywood is 7417 Sunset Blvd. A name connected with it is Morry Malkin; a phone number is AC 213, 876-6800. Malkin is coming back to Socorro in a few weeks to arrange for the world premiere of the UFO movie in Socorro. This will be a white tie affair probably! Do you think the Air Force official consultant should be present at this world premiere? He does not think so. It would be exciting, but it would also give needless significance and importance to the picture. I think we had at best ignore it.

However, I learned through the grapevine that the picture is to have a Washington, D. C. preview in about three or four weeks and that Senator Symington is interested in it. We had better get Maston Jacks office, or whoever is running the show now, on to this if at all possible. That is one preview that I should attend if at all possible. The scuttlebutt picture has it that the picture contains movies taken in Milan, Italy of a UFO landing with a little man getting out of it. Thix Rumor has it that the Empire Film Studios paid $40,000 for that Milan, Italy filmstrip. Apparently they have sunk quite a bit of money into this picture and expect to have it shown in many movie houses throughout the country and then shortly thereafter to release it for TV use. The film runs 86 minutes.

I found the situation in Socorro largely unchanged. Zamora still generally believed, but the current feeling seems to be that there is no question that he saw something real, but that it was most likely a super secret device being tested. I was asked many times whether I was really sure that the U. S. government didn't have a super secret project. I pointed out that if this were the case, that it would be unlikely that we would be testing

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