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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.
“New Mexico State Police”25 pages
# Sergeant Probing Saucer Report 27 apr 644 A Wright-Patterson AFB investigator is on a team probing the sighting of a flying saucer in Socorro, N.M., it was reported today. T/Sgt. David Moody, a WPAFB expert in unidentified flying objects, found no evidence of radio-active material in the desert where the strange object was seen Friday night by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora. POLICE AND military men seem inclined to believe Zamora. "Zamora is a very reliable witness," said Army Capt. Richard T. Yolder, uprange commander of The White Sands Stallion range, whose headquarters is near the central New Mexico town. ## Six Cars Derail; Rip Mile of Track COLUMBUS, O., Apr. 27 (AP) Six cars of a Pennsylvania railroad freight train derailed at the Orange Rd. crossing on the Delaware-Franklin county line early today, tearing up about a mile of track. There were no injuries. Cause of the accident was not known immediately. The Ohio Highway patrol said at least one crossing probably would remain closed most of the day. The policeman spotted an egg shaped object on the desert about a mile south of Socorro. THERE WERE no signs of life around it; but when he approached it, the object rose and flew slowly away until it faded from sight, he reported. Sgt. Moody and other Air Force investigators found a bush, which supposedly was burned by exhaust from the saucer, and evidence of four depressions in the ground. ZAMORA SAID the machine was supported by four girder-like legs. Nearby Air Force bases reported they had no objects in the air that are similar to the machine Zamora saw. Government agencies are continuing their investigation, Holder said.
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