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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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“Nevers”15 pages

  • p. 1 …Her mother said the child has never had a sunburn and couldn't have gotten one…
  • p. 5 …The original Socorro report had wide publicity, but to date the AF has never issued a…
  • p. 9 …He said it then rose from the ground and sailed off in a westerly direction, never…
  • p. 18 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 26 …I never expected to see anything like that around here. My husband and I had talked…
  • p. 35 MEMO ROUTING SLIP NEVER USE FOR APPROVALS, DISAPPROVALS, CONCURRENCES, OR SIMILAR ACTIONS 1 NAME OR TITLE…
  • p. 97 …Chaves has remarked this to me a number of times that never in his long association…
  • p. 105 …please say in the paper that he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 106 …According to LaPaz, the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why these peculiar…
  • p. 107 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 109 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a balloon. Zamora knows exactly…
  • p. 143 …But never before has the government gone to the heart of Hoffa's operations and tried…
  • p. 159 …Her mother said the child was never had a sun- n and couldn't have gotten…
  • p. 162 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the ground while he was watching it…
  • p. 164 …Hynek said he had never found any evidence that beings from another planet had visited earth…
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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