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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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SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how, he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N.M. Zamora said the unusual machine rose off the ground and flew slowly away as he watched. With Zamora is Sgt. David Moddy, assistant to UFO (unidentified flying objects) investigator Maj. William Connor of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Zamora is described as a "reliable witness." (UPI Telephoto.) United Press International SOCORRO, N.M., April 27.—It's a good place for a flying saucer. Right on the edge of White Sands Missile Range on the wide open New Mexico desert, just 30 miles northwest of the site of the world's first atomic blast. Socorro policemen Lonnie Zamora says he saw it, and police and military men seem inclined to believe him. Zamora is a "very reliable witness," Army Capt. Richard T. Holder, uprange commander of White Sands' Stallion Range, said. Holder, whose headquarters is near this central New Mexico Town, was called in by local police after Zamora reported seeing the object Friday. DEPUTY SHERIFF James Luckie said he believes "it's something out of the ordinary, something very few have ever seen." "I was scared," Zamora said. He said his experience taught him one thing: If it happens again, he will still run away like he did Friday, but he will not tell a soul about what he saw. Zamora said he spotted an egg- (Continued on Page A-15, Col. 2)
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