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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.

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  • 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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THE FOLLOWING SIGHTINGS WERE REPORTED TO THE AIR FORCE AND MIGHT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING:

1. 26,Apr 64, Grants,New Mexico sighting of a large white light shining down and illuminating the terrain and also crises crossing US Route 66 was caused by an s/e on a low level Photo Reconnaissance Mission or Project Cloud Gap. Incidentally the photos which the observer claims he took with the camera did not come out.

2. 28 Apr 64, Santa Cruz Mountain Range sighting has been evaluated as a balloon and a sighting by the same observers, but at later time in the day, has been evaluated as the Planet Venus.

3. 28 Apr 64, Miamisburg, Ohio sighting has been evaluated as a searchlight.

4. 1 May 64, St. Louis, No sighting has been evaluated as the Planet Venus.

5. 1 May 64, St George, Utah sighting has been evaluated as a balloon.

6. 2 May 64, North Carver, Massachusetts has been evaluated as the Planet Verms.

7. 4 May 64, Clovis, New Mexico multiple sighting has been evaluated as a balloon.

8. 5 May 64, Boise, Idaho sighting has been evaluated as a flare.

9. 5 May 64, Middletown, Ohio sighting has been evaluated as the Planet Venus.

10. 6 May 64, Glasgow, Montana sighting has been evaluated as possibly astonishing. We can't say for sure that it is Venus because they failed to tell us how long they observed the object.

11. 6 May 64, Savannah, Georgia, sighting has been evaluated as a balloon.

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