Project Blue Book Socorro file

The Black Vault · 167 pages · text by OCR

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.

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“The Wash”5 pages

p. 31 …wash in the gully. Officers earlier had circled with stones the four places where the legs…
p. 34 …Mrs Gaiser) Wash D C. 20330 1. The following is a resume on the unidentified flying…
p. 82 …The newspaper stated that the Army took soil samples. The above is all Capt Cuny could…
p. 146 …Mrs Gaiser) Wash 25 D C 1. The following is a resume on the unidentified flying…
p. 149 …up the chance to investigate, finding what thought was an overturned car on a wash on…

# PUBLICATION REVIEW

This report has been reviewed and is approved.

DISTRIBUTION FTD (Sgt D. Moody) MAY MAYA (5 cys) MAAM (Library)

Steeman Hentley

FREEMAN F. BENTLEY Chief, Analytical Branch Materials Physics Division AF Materials Laboratory

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The Lonnie Zamora Incident, Socorro 1964

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