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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. 3 …policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socorro Friday night. Zamora, in clearing…
  • p. 4 …Socorro Police man Lonnie Zamora does not know what it was Zamora said the mysterious object…
  • p. 5 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on highway patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft near Socorro…
  • p. 6 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the object Friday…
  • p. 7 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 10 …Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora says he saw it, and police and military men seem inclined to…
  • p. 13 …Gallegos' report came on the heels of a similar report from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 14 …of Socorro Sunday night, where city officer Lonnie Zamora first reported seeing an "egg-shaped object…
  • p. 15 …The man who started it all, Socoro policeman Lonnie Zamora, says the next time he finds…
  • p. 16 SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how, he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N…
  • p. 17 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit the site…
  • p. 18 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 20 …When it flew away, Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie Zamora said he ran from it. Since…
  • p. 21 …Principal in the Socorro section of the film was city policeman Lonnie Zamora. He said he…
  • p. 22 …No less than six "authentic" spotings have been reported since Friday when Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 23 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 25 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit the site…
  • p. 26 …Socorro yesterday to talk to Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 27 …The flap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie Zamora (note incorrect spelling…
  • p. 29 …when this photo was taken. ## City Policeman Zamora Reports Sighting Egg-Shaped Object and Views Take…
  • p. 34 …Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, New Mexico on 24 Apr. 64, results of the investigation so far…
  • p. 56 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, New…
  • p. 67 …a firm using the marking observed by Lonnie Zamora. (3) NASA has been queried regarding the…
  • p. 75 …On April 24, 1964, Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw what he described as a four-legged…
  • p. 77 …pm on Friday, 24 April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department was chasing…
  • p. 79 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked with the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamora is the…
  • p. 85 …of a vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the sighting as described by Lonnie Zamora.
  • p. 89 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flights were being…
  • p. 102 …BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora. SEE CASE FILE. 11. COMMENTS Initially…
  • p. 103 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutre, but it was at…
  • p. 123 # UFO REPORT Lonnie Zamora, 606 Resevoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134, Officer Socorro Police Force…
  • p. 127 ## INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE SOCORRO SIGHTING OF UFO BY LONNIE ZAMORA At 0530, Sunday 26 April…
  • p. 128 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 129 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 131 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil." And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 145 …SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N…
  • p. 146 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 148 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg-shaped vehicle, roughly the size of…
  • p. 149 …Socorro Po man Lonnie Zamora now w nights so he can sleep. One year ago Saturday…
  • p. 150 …AP) - One year Saturday, Socorro police an Lonnie Zamora reported being an unidentified flying object on…
  • p. 151 …yesterday the secluded hill where Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora reported seeing an egg-shaped ob- ject…
  • p. 152 …Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora. POLICE AND military men seem inclined to believe Zamora. "Zamora is a…
  • p. 153 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the object Friday…
  • p. 155 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit the site…
  • p. 156 …City Officer Lonnie Zamora said he saw an egg-shaped object about the size of a…
  • p. 158 …Officer Lonnie Zamora, while patrolling in his car Friday, said he saw an egg-shaped object…
  • p. 160 …Officer Lonnie Zamora said he not only saw the object but also saw two occupants who…
  • p. 162 …Lonnie Zamora, left, Socorro policeman, shows Air Force investigators where he saw a mysterious flying object…
  • p. 163 …consultant on unidented flying objects had Poeman Lonnie Zamora react in detail Wednesday the hting of…
  • p. 164 …Hynek and Patrolman Lonnie Zamora went over the place where Zamora said he saw a mysterious…
  • p. 166 …HYNEK VISITED TODAY THE SECLUDED HILL WHERE SOCORRO POLICEMAN LONNIE ZAMORA REPORTED SEEING AN EGG-SHAPED…
  • p. 167 …Gallegos' report came on the heels of a similar report from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora…

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maneuver was in progress, unless the log of such maneuvers is produced, and better yet, the entire "crime" reinacted, preforably in Zamora's presence. I recognize that this will be a very difficult task, but in view of the importance of this case, I think every attempt should be made to do this. It will require, very possibly, the attention of the Secretary of the Air Force himself.

It would be well, further, for "files protection" for the Air Force to tabulate from its records, and from available records from other sources, of other reported landings, such as, for instance, the cronological list which appeared in the January-February 1964 issue of Flying Saucer Review. Ignorance of what NICAP and APRO will designate as similar cases will be of little help.

In about a month, I shall have occassion to return to the Socorro area, at which time I will discuss with Zamora and Chaves after the excitement has completely simmered down, some of the finer points of the sighting, such as the location at which radio calls were made, etc.

The wind at that time was blowing very strongly from the south and I established by repeated questioning that the object had taken off either at right angles to the wind, or partially into the wind.

I have not stressed the insignia which Zamora reported, since he drew exactly the same thing which he had drawn for Capt Holder. I did question him many times on the shape of the object, as to whether it had clear cut edges or fuzzy edges, as to bits of color, etc., but the results were virtually the same as the information given to Capt Holder. The object was egg-shaped, had the inverted V insignia on it, two legs seemed to be protruding from the object, which was not chrome but "whitish-aluminum", and it was further established that the great roar during its initial take-off disappeared suddenly and the horizontal flight away and over the dynamite shack was noiseless.

I questioned Mr Art Burns of the FBI, and several others who had been on the site within the first hours after the sighting as to the alleged freshness of the tracks. They were all of the opinion that the tracks were, indeed, fresh.

Although Zamora was the only witness to the actual sighting, nine people in all saw the markings. Altogether nine people saw the markings within hours of the sighting and before the hours of curiosity seekers descended upon the place the following day.

After I visited the place of the sighting, I had several other talks with local people, and, in particular, with the reporter of the El Defensor Chieftan, or perhaps it was the editor (its a small paper). I believe that I talked with Mr Lewis A Reddell, the publisher of the El Defensor.

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