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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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# "ELPASO TIMES" Film On UFCs To Include Socorro Officer Secorro, N.M. (AP)—A Hollywood, Calif., firm has finished filming the Socorro part of a documentary on unidentified flying objects. Principal in the Socorro section of the film was city policeman Lonnie Zamora. He said he saw an UFO on April 24, 1964; after it had landed in a gully near here and also said he saw it take off. Zamora re-enacted his experience for Empire Film Studios at the scene last Saturday. A studio official said the film may be ready for showing in five weeks. The first public showing is scheduled in Socorro. The film will run about 80 minutes. The documentary will be entitled, "Phenomena - Seven Point Seven." This, said the official, is 7.7 per cent of an estimated 8,000 sightings classified by the Air Force as UFOs. The official said the documentary is designed to show that neither hysteria nor panic were caused by the alleged landing here. 12 FEB 65 ## New Mexico APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico On April 24, 1964, a Socorro, New Mexico police, Mr. Lonnie Zamora, reported an object on the ground a mile south of the town at approximately 5:30 p.m. Lonnie Zamora said the object was white, egg-shaped and supported on girlerlike legs. He heard a roar and saw smoke and flames coming from underneath the object. The UFO rose to a point about 15-20 feet above the ground and the flames and smoke ceased. The UFO remained stationary for several seconds and then flew off in a southerly direction. The Air Force sent investigators from Wright-Patterson AFB to Socorro. The investigation disclosed the following facts. No other witnesses to the object could be located. There were no unidentified helicopters or aircraft in the area. Observers at radar installations observed no unusual or unidentified blips. There was no unusual meteorological activity. There was no evidence of markings of any in the area other than the shallow depressions at the landing site. Laboratory analysis of the foreign material or radiation above normal. Laboratory analysis of the burned brush showed no chemical which would indicate a type of propellent. Air Force conclusion: "Unknown". The AF is continuing its investigation and the case is still open.
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