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Project Blue Book Socorro file (direct PDF)

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This Project Blue Book file on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting of 24 April 1964 compiles an Air Force record card and a large set of press clippings. The clippings cover policeman Lonnie Zamora's report of an egg-shaped object with four landing marks and scorched brush, plus J. Allen Hynek's investigation and follow-up reports from La Madera, Edgewood and elsewhere. An Air Force summary says soil and brush analysis found no foreign material, radiation or propellant, that the case remains open, and that later related sightings were explained or found to be hoaxes.

  • p. 4 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
  • p. 5 …Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot…
  • p. 7 …sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings in the state. He planned…
  • p. 8 …shots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. State Policeman Tommy Richardson of Moriarty…
  • p. 12 …of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and military…
  • p. 14 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
  • p. 16 …New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers took hold of thae state again Monday. More…
  • p. 23 …Around State A rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law…
  • p. 24 …Within moments afterward, Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police arrived on the scene in…
  • p. 27 …in a state loaded with radar installations. "It is my understanding that New Mexico has more…
  • p. 29 …Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico VOL. 98 NO.34 Published Tuesdays & Thursdays…
  • p. 31 …State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez, State Policeman Ted Jordan, and Undersheriff James Luckie responded. Chavez and…
  • p. 35 …The sighting was reported to Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. The object sighted…
  • p. 46 …April 1964 Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police accompanied by Agent Burns of the…
  • p. 57 …Socorro, New Mexico. The object or vehicle displayed flight characteristics well within the State-of-the…
  • p. 78 …his call was monitored by Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. Sgt Zamora attempted
  • p. 80 …The FBI was informed of the sighting by the New Mexico State Police. The New Mexico…
  • p. 82 Sgt Sam Charez of the New Mexico State Police was interviewed by Major Connor and Sgt…
  • p. 83 …Sawde Damore interviewed by Sgt Chavez, New Mexico State Police Kes
  • p. 154 …New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects in the state…
  • p. 157 …A rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies…
  • p. 159 …85 and New Mexico 180 and the object appeared to be about a quarter of a…
  • p. 164 …Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico who has an international reputation in running down…
  • p. 165 …Hynek said he had not been told by the government whether sending him to New Mexico…
  • p. 168 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
# .anding Probed JBY ASKS TESTS

# gg-Shaped object Seen by Policeman

United Press International SOCORRO, N.M., April 27. It's a good place for a ing saucer. Right on the ge of White Sands Mise Range on the wide en New Mexico desert, st 30 miles northwest of e site of the world's first atomic blast.

Socorro policemen Lonnie Zaora says he saw it, and police military men seem inclined to lieve him.

Zamora is a "very reliable witness," Army Capt. Richard T. older, uprange commander of white Sands' Stallion Range, said. older, whose headquarters is in this central New Mexico town, was called in by local po after Zamora reported seeing a object Friday.

DEPUTY SHERIFF James Jackie said he believes "it's something out of the ordinary, something very few have ever en." "I was scared." Zamora said:

SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N.M. Zamora said the unusual machine rose off the ground and flew slowly away as he watched. With Zamora is Sgt. David Moddy, assistant to UFO (unidentified flying objects) investigator Maj. William Connor of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Zamora is described as a "reliable witness." (UPI Telephoto.)

## Battling Babe Hospitalized After Brawl

A woman was taken to Thomason General Hospital late yesterday minus half an inch of her index finger, after another woman bit it off. The fight was in a bar in the 800 block of South Stanton street, over a shuffleboard game played by the women and

# Vice-Chairman Of UF Named

# Slayer Hits Head On Wall

Lawyers Want More Examinations For Insanity

RUBY, AWAITING death in the electric hair for the murder of accused presidential assassin Leo Harvey Oswald, was not seriously hurt in the incident early yesterday morning.

DALLAS, April 27. — Jack Ruby, still sore from a headfirst dash into his cell wall in an apparent suicide attempt, was expected back in court today to ask for more mental tests.

He was expected to appear with his lawyers this morning before Dist. Judge Joe B. Brown, who presided over his trial, to argue that mental tests given him before the trial did not go deep enough. His attorneys, headed by lawyer-physician Dr. Hubert Winston Smith, filed a request for the tests last week. They said they want more tests, including the use of hypnotism and truth serum (sodium pentathol).

SHERIFF BILL DECKER said Ruby was talking to S. J. Bow.

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