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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…
# .anding Probed JBY ASKS TESTS

# gg-Shaped object Seen by Policeman

United Press International SOCORRO, N.M., April 27. It's a good place for a ing saucer. Right on the ge of White Sands Mise Range on the wide en New Mexico desert, st 30 miles northwest of e site of the world's first atomic blast.

Socorro policemen Lonnie Zaora says he saw it, and police military men seem inclined to lieve him.

Zamora is a "very reliable witness," Army Capt. Richard T. older, uprange commander of white Sands' Stallion Range, said. older, whose headquarters is in this central New Mexico town, was called in by local po after Zamora reported seeing a object Friday.

DEPUTY SHERIFF James Jackie said he believes "it's something out of the ordinary, something very few have ever en." "I was scared," Zamora said:

SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N.M. Zamora said the unusual machine rose off the ground and flew slowly away as he watched. With Zamora is Sgt. David Moddy, assistant to UFO (unidentified flying objects) investigator Maj. William Connor of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Zamora is described as a "reliable witness." (UPI Telephoto.)

## Battling Babe Hospitalized After Brawl

A woman was taken to Thomason General Hospital late yesterday minus half an inch of her index finger, after another woman bit it off. The fight was in a bar in the 800 block of South Stanton street, over a shuffleboard game played by the women and

# Vice-Chairman Of UF Named

# Slayer Hits Head On Wall

Lawyers Want More Examinations For Insanity

RUBY, AWAITING death in the electric hair for the murder of accused presidential assassin Leo Harvey Oswald, was not seriously hurt in the incident early yesterday morning.

DALLAS, April 27. — Jack Ruby, still sore from a headfirst dash into his cell wall in an apparent suicide attempt, was expected back in court today to ask for more mental tests.

He was expected to appear with his lawyers this morning before Dist. Judge Joe B. Brown, who presided over his trial, to argue that mental tests given him before the trial did not go deep enough. His attorneys, headed by lawyer-physician Dr. Hubert Winston Smith, filed a request for the tests last week. They said they want more tests, including the use of hypnotism and truth serum (sodium pentathol).

SHERIFF BILL DECKER said Ruby was talking to S. J. Bow.

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