Documents / Document
Project Blue Book Socorro file
Internet Archive · 168 pages · text by OCR
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.
“New Mexico State Police”25 pages
- p. 4 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
- p. 5 …Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot…
- p. 7 …sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings in the state.
He planned…
- p. 8 …shots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects.
State Policeman Tommy Richardson of Moriarty…
- p. 12 …of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and military…
- p. 14 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
- p. 16 …New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers took hold of thae state again Monday. More…
- p. 23 …Around State
A rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law…
- p. 24 …Within moments afterward, Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police arrived on the scene in…
- p. 27 …in a state loaded with radar installations.
"It is my understanding that New Mexico has more…
- p. 29 …Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico
VOL. 98 NO. 34
Published Tuesdays & Thursdays…
- p. 31 …State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez, State Policeman Ted Jordan, and Undersheriff James Luckie responded. Chavez and…
- p. 35 …The sighting was reported to Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. The object sighted…
- p. 46 …April 1964 Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police accompanied by Agent Burns of the…
- p. 57 …Socorro, New Mexico. The object or vehicle displayed flight characteristics well within the State-of-the…
- p. 78 …his call was monitored by Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. Sgt Zamora attempted
- p. 80 …The FBI was informed of the sighting by the New Mexico State Police. The New Mexico…
- p. 82 Sgt Sam Charez of the New Mexico State Police was interviewed by Major Connor and Sgt…
- p. 83 …Sawde
Damore interviewed by Sgt Chavez, New Mexico State Police
Kes
- p. 154 …New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects in the state…
- p. 157 …A rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies…
- p. 159 …85 and New Mexico 180 and the object appeared to be about a quarter of a…
- 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. 168 …UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to flying saucers has taken hold of the state again…
An inspection of the scene Saturday morning showed the object had landed astride a narrow, rock-strewn dry wash in the gully. Officers earlier had circled with stones the four places where the legs of the object had touched earth. The holes were shallow, about a foot long by six inches wide. They did not appear to have been made by an object striking the earth with great force, but by an object of considerable weight settling to earth at slow speed and not moving after touching the ground.
The two legs of the object that Zamora saw probably were about 2½ feet long.
It was about 12 feet from one landing hole to the other on the west side and 15 feet between the two on the east side. The width probably was nine o more feet. The clumps of green grass and two greasewood bushes seemed to have been seared all at once by an extremely hot flame. There were also broken branches on one greasewood.
The two round depressions were four and five inches in diameter, respectively.
The cause of the landing of the object, like its identity and its source, remain unanswered. Was the landing in the secluded, little frequented gully for a test or caused by momentary mechanical diffulty?
After Capt. Holder was ap praised of the UFO occurrence, he made a report of it to the proper agencies at WSMR. Investigation of the incident will be conducted by designated government agen ces.
By Sunday afternoon hundreds of curious persons had trampled the scene and there was virtually no evidence left of the landing marks.
About this file
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 168 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.