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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 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
  • p. 4 …Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot…
  • p. 6 …sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings in the state. He planned…
  • p. 7 …shots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. State Policeman Tommy Richardson of Moriarty…
  • p. 11 …of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and military…
  • p. 13 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
  • p. 15 …New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers took hold of thae state again Monday. More…
  • p. 22 …Around State A rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law…
  • p. 23 …Within moments afterward, Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police arrived on the scene in…
  • p. 26 …in a state loaded with radar installations. "It is my understanding that New Mexico has more…
  • p. 28 …Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico VOL. 98 NO.34 Published Tuesdays & Thursdays…
  • p. 30 …State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez, State Policeman Ted Jordan, and Undersheriff James Luckie responded. Chavez and…
  • p. 34 …The sighting was reported to Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. The object sighted…
  • p. 45 …April 1964 Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police accompanied by Agent Burns of the…
  • p. 56 …Socorro, New Mexico. The object or vehicle displayed flight characteristics well within the State-of-the…
  • p. 77 …his call was monitored by Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. Sgt Zamora attempted
  • p. 79 …The FBI was informed of the sighting by the New Mexico State Police. The New Mexico…
  • p. 81 Sgt Sam Charez of the New Mexico State Police was interviewed by Major Connor and Sgt…
  • p. 82 …Sawde Darnore interviewed by Sgt Chavez, New Mexico State Police Kes
  • p. 153 …New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects in the state…
  • p. 156 …A rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies…
  • p. 158 …85 and New Mexico 180 and the object appeared to be about a quarter of a…
  • 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. 167 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
Tuesday, April 28,1964

## NEWSDIAL

Good Morning!

Here's a Newsdial special that is well worth stopping and taking a look at. It's a 1963 Rambler 440-H Hardtop. This one is very clean. The price is just $1795!

Voeters will go to the polls for primary balloting in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania today, but any presidential preferences in either state will have to com: through write in votes.

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Two jurors have been tentatively seated in Chicago for the trial of Teamsters President James Hoffa and seven associates charged with misusing 20 million dollars in union funds.

The nation's cigarette makers have agreed to a new advertising code that would prohibit pitching toward the youth of America.

Two northern Republican senators have called for revisions in the civil rights bill.

New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers took hold of thae state again Monday. More unidentified "objects" were reported. The man who started it all, Socoro policeman Lonnie Zamora, says the next time he finds a "saucer" he's going to run, and not tell a soul. The latest report was Monday. It came from La Madera, about 50 miles from Santa Fe, and it brought out the Air Force, State Police, and reportedly the FBI. Orlando Gallegos of SanTa Fe told State Police he got within 200 feet of a huge metal object that looked like and eg- shaped butane tank. The object was on the ground near La Madera, a tiny community high in the New Mexico back country. Gallegos said flames spurted silently from numerous jets around the bottom of the object. He said it was as long as a telephone pole and about 14 hundred feet in circumference. Gallegos said the object flew away. Zamora started the current flur of reports by reporting he saw a silvery object standing on stilts near Socoro Friday. As he approached, it flew away. Impressions and scorched grass later were found at the spot. Zamora is disillusioned with the whole thing. He says if he ever sees another such object, he won't report it.

* WEATHER *

The forecast says it should be fair through tonight. A little warmer today and tonight. The predicted high for today is 86 and the low tonight should be near 48.

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