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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. 3 …Her mother said the child has never had a sunburn and couldn't have gotten one…
  • p. 6 …The original Socorro report had wide publicity, but to date the AF has never issued a…
  • p. 10 …He said it then rose from the ground and sailed off in a westerly direction, never…
  • p. 19 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 27 …I never expected to see anything like that around here. My husband and I had talked…
  • p. 36 MEMO ROUTING SLIP NEVER USE FOR APPROVALS, DISAPPROVALS, CONCURRENCES, OR SIMILAR ACTIONS 1 NAME OR TITLE…
  • p. 98 …Chaves has remarked this to me a number of times that never in his long association…
  • p. 106 …please say in the paper that he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 107 …According to LaPaz, the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why these peculiar…
  • p. 108 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 110 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a balloon. Zamora knows exactly…
  • p. 144 …But never before has the government gone to the heart of Hoffa's operations and tried…
  • p. 160 …Her mother said the child was never had a sun- n and couldn't have gotten…
  • p. 163 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the ground while he was watching it…
  • p. 165 …Hynek said he had never found any evidence that beings from another planet had visited earth…
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