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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. 10 …Holder, whose headquarters is near this central New Mexico town, was called in by local police…
  • p. 16 …Holder, whose headquarters is near this central New Mexico Town, was called in by local police…
  • p. 23 …After radioing to Police Headquarters at Socorro that he was proceeding to investigate what he believed…
  • p. 30 …Army up-range commander with headquarters at Stallion Range Center on White Sands Missile Range, said…
  • p. 43 …3781 EAST 77TH STREET CLEVELAND 5, OHIO To Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command…
  • p. 46 …SD-2-1733 Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United States Air Force Wright…
  • p. 53 …TS 5516 Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United States Air Force Wright Patterson…
  • p. 55 …OFFICE BOX ONE · BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14240 Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United…
  • p. 57 …1100 Request for Lunar Module Information To: Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United…
  • p. 58 …1100 Request for Lunar Module Information To: Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Air Force Systems Command United…
  • p. 77 …He radioed in to police headquarters that he was proceeding to investigate a 10-74 (auto…
  • p. 89 …Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio Dear Captain…
  • p. 114 …Radioed in to police headquarters that he was proceeding to investigate a car wreck (10-74…
  • p. 128 …and he radioed this information to Police headquarters. He went down a hill where the object…
  • p. 145 …older, whose headquarters is in this central New Mexico town, was called in by local po…
  • p. 152 …Yolder, uprange commander of The White Sands Stallion range, whose headquarters is near the central New…

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# Mysterious Object Pays

SOCORRO (UPI) - It was shiny and stood on four gird- round, stood on girder - like er-like legs.

SOCORRO (UPI) - It was round, stood on girder - like legs and scorched grass and bushes, but Socorro Police man Lonnie Zamora does not know what it was

Zamora said the mysterious object, was round and about as tall as a car. It was

Zamora saw it, and State Policemen and Air Force officials Saturday saw what it left.

But when he moved closer to the object at dusk Friday, all he found was four indentations in the ground and scorched grass and bushes.

Zamora told Sgt. Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot and found four indentations, 14 inches long and six inches wide. White Sands Missile Range

# Visit to Socorro

officials confirmed the markings and the burned grass. They reported the incident to the unidentified flying objects officer at Holloman Air Force

N? MOSCOW

Base near Alamogordo. Holloman officials said they would investigate the incident.

MOSCOW Ghana's minister of Agriculture, Kroto Edusei, has arrived in Moscow and will ask, the Tass agency reported, or Soviet experts to help Ghana develop deep-sea fishing.

FILMS FOR W. AFRICA MEXICO CITY

Mexican movies have been purchased for a theater chain in West Africa. A spokesman said it will be the first showing of such films in Spanish in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia.

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