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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. 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…

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# Unusual Marks Found

The man in the street was mystified and the military and other authorities were "investigating" today following reports of the landing of an unidentified flying object at the outskirts of Socorro Friday afternoon and the sighting of two strange persons who left odd, pug-shaped marks instead of footprints.

Socorro City Officer Lonnie Zamora told of seeing the egg-shaped vehicle, roughly the size of an automobile, after he had noted a flash in the southwest sky about 5 p.m. Friday while on routine patrol.

He said he drove to the area, where he got within about 100 feet of the strange craft, saw two 'men' adjacent to it wearing white suits, who jumped in and roared away when they noticed Zamora.

vez, formerly stationed at Tolarosa, was summoned to the scene by Zamora via radio and said he arrived at the site within three minutes after receiving the call. He said dry grass at the obvious point of landing still was smouldering, apparently from a jet-like blast on takeoff, and that mesquite bushes in the vicinity were singed.

Craft Zoomed Away

Zamora said the craft headed due west at an altitude of about 20 feet for nearly a mile, then increased speed rapidly and vanished straight up.

Spokesmen for military installations in the area said they could account for no unusual manifestation from any testing going on at their bases, but said the reports were being investigated.

A party from Stallion Site on White Sands Missile Range visited the landing site Saturday morning, took soil samples, and submitted a report to higher authorities.

The Holloman UFO officer said he had made a report on the sighting to higher echelons, but neither White Sands nor Holloman would comment other than to state that obvious physical evidence at the site indicated some unusual occurrence.

Area Sighting Of Flash

A report to State, Police here Saturday at 10 a.m. by a motorist on Highway 70 said a "bright object" had been seen to go down in the vicinity of Round Mountain east of Tularosa, but no particular search of the area was made. It was not known if the occurrence here.

See OBJECT, Page 6.

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