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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. 7 …was here today to examine the secluded hill where a Socorro policeman reported seeing a mysterious…
  • p. 15 …that she saw a fire in the hills southwest of Socorro Sunday night, where city officer…
  • p. 24 …pm, in an unpopulated area full of hills and gullies and covered with sagebrush. Following is…
  • p. 31 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 57 …He also observed the police car heading up the hill toward the spot where the UFO…
  • p. 76 …ago south of Socorro on an isolated hill remains unsolved. And to help find clues to…
  • p. 78 …travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. After two or three efforts to…
  • p. 98 …You suggest that when Zamora's car created the hill, the hoaxers triggered another blast of…
  • p. 101 …As you may know, we have rented a house at 57 Avon Hill Street. I hope…
  • p. 115 …Made three attempts to climb hill. First sighting of object. Stopped car for a couple of…
  • p. 124 …Could not see bottom of flame because it was behind hill. No smoke noted. Noted some…
  • p. 126 …I was still running and I jumped just over the hill--I step because I did…
  • p. 127 …ran from object, jumped over edge of hill, then got back to car and radio as…
  • p. 129 …He turned off the road and proceeded to a point up a hill where he could…
  • p. 133 …He thus came up upon the object from behind the hill and from the side, so…
  • p. 138 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
  • p. 150 …One year ago Saturday Zam investigated what sounded two explosions in the hills so of Socorro…
  • p. 151 …an unidentified flying object on a lonely hill-just south Socorro. Among results were an Force…
  • p. 152 …reports." Dr Hyek visited yesterday the secluded hill where Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora reported seeing an…
  • p. 154 …was here today to examine the secluded hill where a Socorro policeman reports seeing a mysterious…
  • p. 161 …As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill. He continued driving…
  • p. 166 …short "men." Zamora continued driving up the hill to get a closer look. When he stopped…
  • p. 167 …HYNEK VISITED TODAY THE SECLUDED HILL WHERE SOCORRO POLICEMAN LONNIE ZAMORA REPORTED SEEING AN EGG-SHAPED…

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EL PASO, TEXAS, MONDAY

# Sands "Saucer" SUICIDE FAILS; R

# LBJ Seeks Billions For Appalachia

Emergency Program Goes to Congress

After Johnson Trip

Johnson said his tour also sug-

Johnson, who made a five-state tour of the Appalachian area Friday, worked over the weekend with aides on the "must" legislation he planned to send to the Senate and House.

A PRICE TAG of $3 billion to $4 billion has been put on the program, but the White House said the total outlay could not be calculated accurately. It would cost $220 million in the coming fiscal year.

WASHINGTON, April 27. President Johnson sends to Congress today his emergency program for helping the poverty-stricken Appalachia region.

THE PRESIDENT told his news conference Saturday that his proposals would call for improved highways and communications. better flood control, better use of the region's coal, timber and land, and development of human resources.

# Soviets Battle to Save Fabled Ancient Samarkand

MOSCOW, April 27. Soviet engineers today expressed confidence of winning a "battle of nature" to save the fabled ancient city of Samarkind from a threatened flood by millions of tons of water.

Waters of the Zeravshan River strained against a natural dam caused by a massive landslide in the central Asian region. Collapse of the 800-foot-high barrier would send the water down the valley across the ring cotton and grape area where 500,000 people live.

MOSCOW RADIO said this morning, however, that engineers had nearly finished a "by-pass canal" around the dam, slowing the rise in pressure.

Dynamite is being put in toplace and the charges will be detonated Wednesday, forcing the river into a new bed and allowing the accumulated water to run off harmlessly, the radio said.

At that time, it said, "the danger of floods will be completely eliminated."

REPORTS FROM the dam said the water had been rising 15 inches an hour and had formed a 100-foot deep lake in three days. But Moscow radio said this morning the rate of increase had

SOVIET OFFICIALS hurriedly evacuated villagers near a bulging, earth slide-formed lake which threatened to flood an Uzbekistan valley and overflow into the legendary golden city of Samarkand (shaded area in UPI newsmap.). TASS, the Soviet news agency, said the quake cut nearby Darnvorz Mountain in two, dropping a mass of rock as high as an 80 story building into a nearby river. (UPI Telephoto.)

Lynda's Engagement

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