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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. 9 …scene yesterday from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Maj. William Connor and Sgt. David Moody…
  • p. 10 …scene Sunday from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Maj. William Connor and Sgt. David Moody…
  • p. 16 …William Connor of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Zamora is described as a "reliable witness…
  • p. 30 …William Conner of Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, was also here Sunday afternoon to interview Zamora…
  • p. 144 …INVESTIGATING officers the scene yesterday from Air Force Base in Alame. Maj. William Connor David Moody…
  • p. 145 …William Connor of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Zamora is described as a "reliable witness…
  • p. 162 …William Conner, officer assigned to unidentified flying object investigations at Kirtland Air Force Base, and at…
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