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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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Tuesday, April 28,1964 ## NEWSDIAL Good Morning! Here's a Newsdial special that is well worth stopping and taking a look at. It's a 1963 Rambler 440-H Hardtop. This one is very clean. The price is just $1795!. Voeters will go to the polls for primary balloting in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania today, but any presidential preferences in either state will have to com: through write in votes. -0- Two jurors have been tentatively seated in Chicago for the trial of Teamsters President James Hoffa and seven associates charged with misusing 20 million dollars in union funds. The nation's cigarette makers have agreed to a new advertising code that would prohibit pitching toward the youth of America. Two northern Republican senators have called for revisions in the civil rights bill. New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers took hold of thae state again Monday. More unidentified "objects" were reported. The man who started it all, Socoro policeman Lonnie Zamora, says the next time he finds a "saucer" he's going to run, and not tell a soul. The latest report was Monday. It came from La Madera, about 50 miles from Santa Fe, and it brought out the Air Force, State Police, and reportedly the FBI. Orlando Gallegos of SanTa Fe told State Police he got within 200 feet of a huge metal object that looked like and eg- shaped butane tank. The object was on the ground near La Madera, a tiny community high in the New Mexico back country. Gallegos said flames spurted silently from numerous jets around the bottom of the object. He said it was as long as a telephone pole and about 14 hundred feet in circumference. Gallegos said the object flew away. Zamora started the current flur of reports by reporting he saw a silvery object standing on stilts near Socoro Friday. As he approached, it flew away. Impressions and scorched grass later were found at the spot. Zamora is disillusioned with the whole thing. He says if he ever sees another such object, he won't report it. * WEATHER * The forecast says it should be fair through tonight. A little warmer today and tonight. The predicted high for today is 86 and the low tonight should be near 48.
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