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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.
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# ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO # Flying Objects Area Probed SOCORRO, N.M.—(AP)—An astronomer from the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University was here today to examine the secluded hill where a Socorro policeman reports seeing a mysterious, eggshaped flying object. Dr J. Allen Hynek, the special unidentified flying object consultant, to the Air Force, was sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects in the state. He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the object Friday. Zamora said the object was a brilliant white with a red marking on it . . an upside down V with lines across the top, through the middle and at the bottom. He said that from a distance there appeared to be two figures in white coveralls outside the object. It flew off with a roar when he approached, he said. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is in New Mexico to assist Hynek, a Wright-Patterson spokesman said. Since Zamora's sighting, at least six reports have been made to authorities, including one from a youth who said he fired several shots at something about 100 feet in the air near Moriarty. T. Sgt. David Moody of the Aerial Phenomena Branch at Hynek said his investigation in Socorro will determine whether he will visit Espanola, where a state police captain, Martin' Vigil, found the ground still smouldering 20 hours after a reported sighting. Authorities found scorched grass and four wedge-shaped indentations in the ground at the Socorro site and near Espanola. (In Washington, the Air Force said its investigation of the reported sighting is "routine" and it will release the results of the investigation when it is completed.) 3 minutes % go six miles = 120 miles
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