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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.
“New Mexico State Police”25 pages
and tried to call the Empire Film Studio, but it was closed. In view of the fact that the prevailing opinion in the town still is that what Zamora saw not the result of hallucinations or of a hoax, but a secret test vehicle, what has become of my suggestion to have this left as"an exercise for the students"? It would be a marvelous exercise for neophyte intelligence officers. There is also the opinion expressed in Socorro, and expressed to me a number of times in the past, by several people (and also by LaPaz) that I am merely a part of a super-smoke screen and so is FTD and Wright Field, and that the whole Project Bluebook is a grand coverup for something the government does not want discussed. Best way to give a lie to this, of course, is to point out that if this were the case, the U. S. government should also have been responsible for the sightings in France, Brazil, Spain, and in England. Maybe the U. S. government has really gone global! On that happy thought I conclude my report. Sincerely yours, P. S. I now have a slightly infect/finger from the thorns on the bush that was originally charred. The bush drew blood when I attempted to get some soil samples. Undoubtedly, the finger will now wither away from radiation burns. Unfortunately, I do not have interplanetary Blue Cross coverage!
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