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Project Blue Book Socorro file

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This Project Blue Book file on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting, held by the Internet Archive, collects Air Force records and 1964 press clippings. It covers policeman Lonnie Zamora's April 24, 1964 report of an egg-shaped object with four legs, the scorched brush and ground depressions, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek's investigation. An Air Force summary says soil and brush analysis found no radiation or propellant and the case stayed open. Later New Mexico reports were judged known objects or hoaxes.

  • p. 4 …policeman, Lonnie Zamora, who said he spotted an object near Socorro Friday night. Zamora, in clearing…
  • p. 5 …Socorro Police man Lonnie Zamora does not know what it was Zamora said the mysterious object…
  • p. 6 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on highway patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft near Socorro…
  • p. 7 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the object Friday…
  • p. 8 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora that the UFO he saw…
  • p. 11 …Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora says he saw it, and police and military men seem inclined to…
  • p. 14 …Gallegos' report came on the heels of a similar report from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 15 …of Socorro Sunday night, where city officer Lonnie Zamora first reported seeing an "egg-shaped object…
  • p. 16 …The man who started it all, Socoro policeman Lonnie Zamora, says the next time he finds…
  • p. 17 SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how, he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N…
  • p. 18 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit the site…
  • p. 19 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 21 …When it flew away, Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie Zamora said he ran from it. Since…
  • p. 22 …Principal in the Socorro section of the film was city policeman Lonnie Zamora. He said he…
  • p. 23 …No less than six "authentic" spotings have been reported since Friday when Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora…
  • p. 24 …1964, a Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile…
  • p. 26 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit the site…
  • p. 27 …Socorro yesterday to talk to Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora who started it all when he said…
  • p. 28 …The flap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie Zamora (note incorrect spelling…
  • p. 30 …when this photo was taken. ## City Policeman Zamora Reports Sighting Egg-Shaped Object and Views Take…
  • p. 35 …Lonnie Zamora, of Socorro, New Mexico on 24 Apr. 64, results of the investigation so far…
  • p. 57 …what type of vehicle or object Mr Lonnie Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, New…
  • p. 68 …a firm using the marking observed by Lonnie Zamora. (3) NASA has been queried regarding the…
  • p. 76 …On April 24, 1964, Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw what he described as a four-legged…
  • p. 78 …pm on Friday, 24 April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department was chasing…
  • p. 80 …Major Connor and Sgt Moody had talked with the witness Lonnie Zamora. Mr Zamora is the…
  • p. 86 …of a vehicle at White Sands capable of causing the sighting as described by Lonnie Zamora.
  • p. 90 …to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flights were being…
  • p. 103 …BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora. SEE CASE FILE. 11. COMMENTS Initially…
  • p. 104 …He said that Zamora had not wanted to be in the picutre, but it was at…
  • p. 124 # UFO REPORT Lonnie Zamora, 606 Resevoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134, Officer Socorro Police Force…
  • p. 128 ## INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE SOCORRO SIGHTING OF UFO BY LONNIE ZAMORA At 0530, Sunday 26 April…
  • p. 129 …The following is a sequence of the event as reported by Lonnie Zamora. Shortly after 5…
  • p. 130 …Lonnie Zamoras description of the object is vague. The only specific detail being the red marking…
  • p. 132 …the matter, Lonnie; you look like you've seen the devil." And Zamora stated, "Well, maybe…
  • p. 146 …SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N…
  • p. 147 …The following is a resume on the unidentified flying object sighted by Mr Lonnie Zamora, of…
  • p. 149 …Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg-shaped vehicle, roughly the size of…
  • p. 150 …Socorro Po man Lonnie Zamora now w nights so he can sleep. One year ago Saturday…
  • p. 151 …AP) - One year Saturday, Socorro police an Lonnie Zamora reported being an unidentified flying object on…
  • p. 152 …yesterday the secluded hill where Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora reported seeing an egg-shaped ob- ject…
  • p. 153 …Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora. POLICE AND military men seem inclined to believe Zamora. "Zamora is a…
  • p. 154 …He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the object Friday…
  • p. 156 …Hynek said he hoped to talk to the policeman, Lonnie Zamora, and then visit the site…
  • p. 157 …City Officer Lonnie Zamora said he saw an egg-shaped object about the size of a…
  • p. 159 …Officer Lonnie Zamora, while patrolling in his car Friday, said he saw an egg-shaped object…
  • p. 161 …Officer Lonnie Zamora said he not only saw the object but also saw two occupants who…
  • p. 163 …Lonnie Zamora, left, Socorro policeman, shows Air Force investigators where he saw a mysterious flying object…
  • p. 164 …consultant on unidented flying objects had Poeman Lonnie Zamora react in detail Wednesday the hting of…
  • p. 165 …Hynek and Patrolman Lonnie Zamora went over the place where Zamora said he saw a mysterious…
  • p. 167 …HYNEK VISITED TODAY THE SECLUDED HILL WHERE SOCORRO POLICEMAN LONNIE ZAMORA REPORTED SEEING AN EGG-SHAPED…
  • p. 168 …Gallegos' report came on the heels of a similar report from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora…

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He had gone into this thing quite thoroughly and in a quite sedate and unexcited manner. His story, published Tuesday, April 28, 1964, is an excellent summary of the sighting. It includes one point not mentioned previously: "At least one other person - an unidentified tourist traveling north on US 85 - saw the UFO just before it landed in a gulley. Opel Grinder, manager of Whitting brothers' Service Station on 85 North, said the man stopped at the station and remsrked that aircrafts flew low around here. Grinder replied that there were many helicopters in this vicinity, and the tourist said, "It was a funny looking helicopter, if that's what it was." The man said further that the object had flown over his car. It actually was headed straight for the gully where it landed moments later. The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This was apparently Zamora's car.

I believe that we can dispense with the rash of other reports that sprang up immediately thereafter. This was the case near Santa Fe, the case in Montana, the girl with scorched eyes because she looked at a flying saucer in Albuquerque, and others. But, it is essential that the Socorro case be given the treatment.

I also questioned, while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of Mines, who said he knew of no geophysical or other types of experiements going on in the area at the time. He, as the rest of the townspeople, were puzzled by the event, but the general underground slull of opinion was that it would turn out to be some device which the government still had under raps. Not one person whom I talked with in the least, by either implication or inuendo, challenged Zamora's veracity.

Finally, the drawings which Captain Hilder and his associates made, when replotted according to scale, (already enclosed with the report of Captain Holder, already sent to you) which indicate that the diagonals between the markings intersected perpendicularly. It would appear essential that for this case to be fairly closed out, if the interpretation is that of a new device and its dimensions be shown to match the markings found on the ground; that is, that the device finally selected as the culprit, be indeed capable of producing the marks observed.

I left Socorro shortly after noon on Wednesday April 29th, Major Conner and James Ray having come down late that morning to pick me up. We had a late lunch enroute to Albuquerque.

In Albuquerque, I had the opportunity to talk with Mr Arthur Burns, of the FBI, who added nothing new to the situation but confirmed the general reliability and stability of Mr Zamora. He also was of the opinion that the marks might well have been fresh ones. I also called the mother of the young girl whose eyes were alledgedly burned by having looked too long at a flying saucer, and found that the name of the Doctor who treated her and who had confirmed the burns, was a Dr Best of Albuquerque. Major Conner indicated that he would investigate further. That is all.

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