“Socorro, New Mexico”54 pages
- p. 1 …LOCATION
Socorro, New Mexico 12. CONCLUSIONS
□ Was Balloon
□ Probably Balloon
□ Possibly Balloon
□ Was Aircraft
□ Probably Aircraft…
- p. 2 …the Air Force and night be attributed to the Socorro, New Mexico sighting.
FOR THE COMMANDER
- p. 3 …of Socorro. UFO experts from different parts of the country are in New Mexico to investigate…
- p. 4 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico
SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
- p. 5 …Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot…
- p. 7 …the special Unidentified Flying Object consultant to the Air Force, was sent to New Mexico after…
- p. 8 …Adam's account was another of several such reports that have kept New Mexico and military…
- p. 11 …Right on the edge of White Sands missile range on the wide open New Mexico desert…
- p. 12 …rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and…
- p. 14 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico
SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
- p. 17 …Right on the edge of White Sands Missile Range on the wide open New Mexico desert…
- p. 18 …David Moody of the office already was in New Mexico and would assist Dr. Hynek in…
- p. 19 April 25, 1964, when on the previous day at Socorro, New Mexico a policeman, Mr. Lonnie…
- p. 20 Landing area at Socorro, New Mexico, taken April 25.
- p. 21 MAY 6 1964
# New Sights Of Saucers
## Strange Objects Seen by Several Persons in New Mexico…
- p. 22 …12 FEB 65
## New Mexico
APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico On April 24, 1964, a…
- p. 23 …rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and…
- p. 24 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964
On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
- p. 26 …David Moody of the office already was in New Mexico and would assist Dr. Hynek in…
- p. 27 …My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but…
- p. 28 …in from all over the state of New Mexico and other parts of the west. It…
- p. 29 # El Defensor
SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico
VOL. 98 NO.34…
- p. 31 …reported concrete instance of a UFO in New Mexico.
Policeman Zamora shifted from a routine task…
- p. 35 # UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64
Hq USAF SAF0I PB (Mrs Gaiser) Wash D…
- p. 46 …24 April 1964 Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police accompanied by Agent Burns of…
- p. 57 …Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, New Mexico. The object or vehicle displayed flight characteristics…
- p. 73 …the April 24, 1964 sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zamora.
I would very…
- p. 74 …Bieberman 601 Pitch Avenue Socorro, New Mexico 87801
- p. 78 ## NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING, 24 APRIL 1964
Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday…
- p. 84 TDEW/UFO
UFO Sighting Socorro, New Mexico
14 May 1964
Test Support Officer (Col K. Young…
- p. 85 …835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico regarding the article appearing in the Socorro ElDefnnsor & Chieftan concerning…
- p. 90 …about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico. Cloud Gap personnel did not have any…
- p. 91 …reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings
## ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO AREA
25 Apr. Socorro Unidentified Observer. Rotating Navigation…
- p. 93 …TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING:
1. 26,Apr 64, Grants,New Mexico sighting of a…
- p. 103 …CONCLUSIONS
24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico □ Was Balloon
□ Probably Balloon
□ Possibly Balloon
□ Was Aircraft
□ Probably…
- p. 105 …His theories as to why UFO's land in New Mexico lack, shall we say, a…
- p. 106 …Ted Raynor, Editor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
- p. 124 # UFO REPORT
Lonnie Zamora, 606 Resevoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134, Officer Socorro Police Force…
- p. 131 ## REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP
On Tuesday, April 28, 1964, in response to a call…
- p. 136 …SIGHTING AT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL, CONTINUE TO BE RECEIVED FROM NEWS MEDIA, FROM THE…
- p. 138 …while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of…
- p. 146 …Right on the ge of White Sands Mise Range on the wide en New Mexico desert…
- p. 147 UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64
Hq USAF SAFOI PB (Mrs Gaiser)
Wash 25…
- p. 152 …The Sócorro report and another at La Madera in northern New Mexico were similar in that…
- p. 153 …range, whose headquarters is near the central New Mexico town.
## Six Cars Derail; Rip Mile of…
- p. 154 # ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO
# Flying Objects Area Probed
SOCORRO, N.M.—(AP)—An astronomer from the…
- p. 156 …landings in New Mexico in the past few days.
"We are convinced the Socorro policeman saw…
- p. 157 SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64
# Believes Intelligent Beings on UFOs Sighted in State
TUCSON…
- p. 159 …85 and New Mexico 180 and the object appeared to be about a quarter of a…
- p. 160 …of Socorro. UFO experts from different parts of the country are in New Mexico to investigate…
- 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. 167 …THE SOCORRO REPORT AND ANOTHER AT LA MADERA IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO WERE SIMILAR IN THAT…
- p. 168 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico
SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
But waiving all that aside, the things that would seem to militate against a hoax are the fact that no tracks coming to or going from the region were found, minutes after the sighting occurred; paraphernalia was not located, again within minutes; Chaves and the FHI agent would have to have been in on the hoax; and finally, the object took off crosswind. Paraphernalia I refer to would have been ropes, launching equipment, gas tanks, etc. which would have been difficult to dispose of in a few minutes and certainly without making any tracks. You say "the whole thing could have easily been planned to come off as it did." I think otherwise; it would have been quite difficult to have a thing like this come off, even as to the original timing. Zamora did not have a regular patrol route so his approximate whereabouts would not be known at a given time. I questioned Chaves on this, and Zamora patrols the whole town in an unscheduled fashion. By the way, there is no local UFO club. The fake UFO would have had to have been rather sizable since it looked to Zamora like an overturned car, upended, first off from a considerable distance.
You suggest that when Zamora's car created the hill, the hoaxers triggered another blast of flame and released the UFO, and ran like hell. The terrain is such that when a car creates the hill, it suddenly comes upon the site. There simply would not have been time to wait until this happened to release the UFO and then hide; not unless there were elaborate ropes and wires running over some distance on the ground. As long as Zamora wears his glasses, his eyesight is good, and you must remember that he did not lose the glasses until after he saw the flame and thought the object was about to explode.
Your suggestion that we re-exact the event is more difficult than you think. I have not yet discovered how to make a balloon go off crosswind or to wait to release it and cause an explosion until someone was just one hundred feet away from me, and then disappear and hide "instantaneously." If the purported balloon release had been by means of delay mechanism, with the hornsters having had time to hide, then the release mechanism or some parts of it would have been left behind as tell tale evidence.
Zamora is having his troubles; the boys be picks up are rather direct. Zamora stopped a teenage speeder, and the kid fired back at Zamora, "What are you giving me a ticket for? - Don't you know a flying saucer might come down on you any minute?" You may say that this strengthens the hour hypothesis, but on the other hand it is a perfectly natural remark for kids to make to a man hold up to ridicule for having "seen things."
I con'back also to the trenchart fact that Zamora was a thoroughly scared person. Chaves has remarked this to me a number of times that never in his long association with Zamora has he seen him in anything at all approaching the state he was in when Chaves joined him. I honestly don't think a small gas-filled balloon carrying a cardboard spaceship could have frightened a gruff, practical type like Zamora who is used to accidents, bloodshed, fights, and even murders. We all seem to agree that Zamora say something that really and truly frightened him.