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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 …of Socorro. UFO experts from different parts of the country are in New Mexico to investigate…
  • p. 3 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
  • p. 4 …Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot…
  • p. 6 …the special Unidentified Flying Object consultant to the Air Force, was sent to New Mexico after…
  • p. 7 …Adam's account was another of several such reports that have kept New Mexico and military…
  • p. 10 …Right on the edge of White Sands missile range on the wide open New Mexico desert…
  • p. 11 …rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and…
  • p. 13 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
  • p. 16 …Right on the edge of White Sands Missile Range on the wide open New Mexico desert…
  • p. 17 …David Moody of the office already was in New Mexico and would assist Dr. Hynek in…
  • p. 18 April 25, 1964, when on the previous day at Socorro, New Mexico a policeman, Mr. Lonnie…
  • p. 19 Landing area at Socorro, New Mexico, taken April 25.
  • p. 20 MAY 6 1964 # New Sights Of Saucers ## Strange Objects Seen by Several Persons in New Mexico…
  • p. 21 …12 FEB 65 ## New Mexico APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico On April 24, 1964, a…
  • p. 22 …rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and…
  • p. 23 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964 On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
  • p. 25 …David Moody of the office already was in New Mexico and would assist Dr. Hynek in…
  • p. 26 …My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but…
  • p. 27 …in from all over the state of New Mexico and other parts of the west. It…
  • p. 28 # El Defensor SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico VOL. 98 NO.34…
  • p. 30 …reported concrete instance of a UFO in New Mexico. Policeman Zamora shifted from a routine task…
  • p. 34 # UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64 Hq USAF SAF0I PB (Mrs Gaiser) Wash D…
  • p. 45 …24 April 1964 Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police accompanied by Agent Burns of…
  • p. 56 …Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, New Mexico. The object or vehicle displayed flight characteristics…
  • p. 72 …the April 24, 1964 sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zamora. I would very…
  • p. 73 …Bieberman 601 Pitch Avenue Socorro, New Mexico 87801
  • p. 77 ## NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING, 24 APRIL 1964 Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday…
  • p. 83 TDEW/UFO UFO Sighting Socorro, New Mexico 14 May 1964 Test Support Officer (Col K. Young…
  • p. 84 …835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico regarding the article appearing in the Socorro ElDefnnsor & Chieftan concerning…
  • p. 89 …about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico. Cloud Gap personnel did not have any…
  • p. 90 …reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings ## ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO AREA 25 Apr. Socorro Unidentified Observer. Rotating Navigation…
  • p. 92 …TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING: 1. 26,Apr 64, Grants,New Mexico sighting of a…
  • p. 102 …CONCLUSIONS 24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico □ Was Balloon □ Probably Balloon □ Possibly Balloon □ Was Aircraft □ Probably…
  • p. 104 …His theories as to why UFO's land in New Mexico lack, shall we say, a…
  • p. 105 …Ted Raynor, Editor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
  • p. 123 # UFO REPORT Lonnie Zamora, 606 Resevoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134, Officer Socorro Police Force…
  • p. 130 ## REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP On Tuesday, April 28, 1964, in response to a call…
  • p. 135 …SIGHTING AT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL, CONTINUE TO BE RECEIVED FROM NEWS MEDIA, FROM THE…
  • p. 137 …while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of…
  • p. 145 …Right on the ge of White Sands Mise Range on the wide en New Mexico desert…
  • p. 146 UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64 Hq USAF SAFOI PB (Mrs Gaiser) Wash 25…
  • p. 151 …The Sócorro report and another at La Madera in northern New Mexico were similar in that…
  • p. 152 …range, whose headquarters is near the central New Mexico town. ## Six Cars Derail; Rip Mile of…
  • p. 153 # ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO # Flying Objects Area Probed SOCORRO, N.M.—(AP)—An astronomer from the…
  • p. 155 …landings in New Mexico in the past few days. "We are convinced the Socorro policeman saw…
  • p. 156 SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64 # Believes Intelligent Beings on UFOs Sighted in State TUCSON…
  • p. 158 …85 and New Mexico 180 and the object appeared to be about a quarter of a…
  • p. 159 …of Socorro. UFO experts from different parts of the country are in New Mexico to investigate…
  • p. 163 …Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico who has an international reputation in running down…
  • p. 164 …Hynek said he had not been told by the government whether sending him to New Mexico…
  • p. 166 …THE SOCORRO REPORT AND ANOTHER AT LA MADERA IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO WERE SIMILAR IN THAT…
  • p. 167 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…

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It happens again, he way like he did Fri will not tell a soul saw.

said he spotted an egg on the desert about of Socorro. He denied signs of life around the said the machine rose slowly away until it right.

he spotted what ap be a pair of white cover he saucer, but could not thing or anyone was in object, about the height but larger, appeared to of a shiny, aluminum- tance, Zamora said. It my after he got within yards, he said.

INVESTIGATING officers the scene yesterday from Air Force Base in Alame. Maj. William Connor David Moody used a gei- inter to check the area, the only evidence of an un- sitor was a burned bush or small depressions in the

ra said the machine had used on Page A-13, Col. 3)

## Isburg Jury s Eaves

DSBURG, April 27. A court.jury of 11 men and man deliberated only three with a break for lunch—finding a verdict of not in murder trial of Archie like) Eaves, 57.

was acquitted Friday in shooting death of Elmer Leonapple. 42. Whipple was slain Ang.4 in the Eaves home.

## With Rusk Set

HINGTON, April 27. — Briti- ment Secretary Richard A. survived in Washington yes- talks with Secretary of Iran Rusk and other U.S.

Another customer, who tried to separate the battlers, was taken to the hospital after he got hit over the head with a shuffleboard puck.

## Police Capture Three Burglars

Police captured three burglars in two separate incidents over the weekend.

A Burns Detective Agency officer, investigating a burglar alarm at Feder's Jewelers at Bassett Shopping Center Saturday night, found a broken window. He notified police, and a short time later Radio Patrolmen Troy Bunn and R. R. Macias picked up a suspect wandering the neighborhood nearby. He admitted stealing 49 rings and some cigarets, and implicated his partner who was arrested at home. The first suspect also had a marihuana cigaret.

Officers Darrell Gilbert and Robert Gonzalez arrested another (Continued on Page A-13, Col. 6)

## Maryland Views Wallace

Maryland will be the best testing ground to date for Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace.

The Democratic primary there comes May 19.

POLLSTER Samuel Lubbell has been sounding out Maryland's "Little Dixie"the Eastern Shore - Baltimore's "big city" voters, and the white collar suburban belts.

HE HAS found curious reactions and significant trends all of which he sets forth in "The People Speak—" in today's HERALD-Post on Page B-3.

RICHARD H. FEUILLE

Richard H. Feuille, local attorney, has been named general vice-chairman of the coming annual United Fund appeal, Ray Lockhart, general campaign chairman this year for the United Fund, announced today.

Lockhart, a former El Pasoan who left a vice-presidency of Stone and Webster Service Corp. in New York City to assume presidency of El Paso Electric Co. last July, was recently appointed general campaign chairman. Charles H. Leavell is president of the United Fund of El Paso County.

MR. FEUILLE has been president of the Community Concert Ass'n. for the last four years, is on the YWCA board of trustees, and is a director of El Paso National Bank and the Northgate National Bank.

A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School in 1948, he began practicing law here with the firm now known as Hardie, Grambling, Sims and Galatzan and was with it until 1957 when he was made a partner with the firm now known as Scott, Hulse, Marshall and Feuille.

He is president of the school board of St. Clement's Episcopal Parish School, was a senior warden of the Church and has served on its vestry.

HE WAS a founder and secretary for both the International Club and the Coronado Country Club, is a former director of El Paso Country Club, is a member of El Paso Club, and El Paso Chamber of Commerce.

He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the Order of Coif, an honorary law school award.

one of the deputies who keep an around-the-clock watch on him, when Bowlin turned away to get a drink.

Decker said Ruby suddenly backed off two or three feet in his 10-foot wide cell and hurled himself into the plaster wall. He was taken to Parkland Hospital, where 'president Kennedy and Oswald were pronounced dead last November, and treated by an intern for a one-inch gash on his head.

X-RAYS SHOWED no other damage, and he was returned to his maximum security cell. The gash swelled into a small bump.

It was the second commotion in three days at the tumult-torn county courthouse. On Thursday night, 163 Negro prisoners rioted for two hours, breaking windows and hurling blazing mattresses. (Continued on Page A-13, Col. 3)

## El Paso Sunshine

The sun shone today for the 831st consecutive day. The sun has failed to shine only 12 of the last 1985 days.

April 27. 1964

## Inside Your Herald-Post

U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Fair. (Details on Page A-14.)

Section and Page

Amusements ... A...6

Ann Carroll ... B..13

Comics ... B..13

Crossword Puzzle ... B..13

Dr. B. U. L. Conner ... B...2

Editorials ... B...2

Inez Robb ... B...1

Markets ... B..12

Sports ... B 4-5-6

Taylor ... B...2

TV Programs ... A..8

Women's News ... A 10-11

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a secret until they

case against Hof government's ef how and for the seven others the $275 - million

only defendant of the fund. He of 16 trustees the union and eight ment. But, says be used "fraud, presentation and persuade the to approve loans

UNLIKE MOST pension funds, Central States money has been invested largely in real-estate loans. According to the grand jury, Hoffa and his associates worked this way:

Various of the seven others would represent themselves to prospective borrowers as being close to Hoffa. The indictment charges they would demand "fees, stock options and stock interests" as payment for using their influence with him.

—Hoffa, it is alleged, then "made false representations and misleading statements" about the loans to the trustees

once the loans were made, the indictment says the defendants diverted more than $1 million "for the personal use and benefit" of themselves.

and their professional advisers. As a trustee, he also allegedly "spoke out and voted in favor of the loans."

IN ONE CASE, according to the charge, Hoffa told the trustees that a North Miami, Fla., hospital which sought—and got a $2 million loan would be leased to Dade County and that the county would put up at least as much money as the pension fund. Both statements

were false, the grand jury said, and actually a "substantial portion of the loan was diverted to purposes other than construction.

In another instance, it charged, at least $100,000 was diverted to clear up Hoffa's personal involvement in Sun Valley, Inc., a Florida development he helped promote as a retirement center for aged teamsters.

Altogether, 14 specific loans involving $20 million in six states are cited in the indictment. Additional cases are expected to be brought during the trial.

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