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Project Blue Book Socorro file

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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.

  • p. 3 …Her mother said the child has never had a sunburn and couldn't have gotten one…
  • p. 6 …The original Socorro report had wide publicity, but to date the AF has never issued a…
  • p. 10 …He said it then rose from the ground and sailed off in a westerly direction, never…
  • p. 19 …I wrote Lonnie Zamora on several occasions concerning his sighting, and never received a reply. I…
  • p. 27 …I never expected to see anything like that around here. My husband and I had talked…
  • p. 36 MEMO ROUTING SLIP NEVER USE FOR APPROVALS, DISAPPROVALS, CONCURRENCES, OR SIMILAR ACTIONS 1 NAME OR TITLE…
  • p. 98 …Chaves has remarked this to me a number of times that never in his long association…
  • p. 106 …please say in the paper that he never saw a flying saucer land, only a UFO…
  • p. 107 …According to LaPaz, the official investigation never satisfactorily cleared up the question of why these peculiar…
  • p. 108 …As a matter of fact, he never mentioned anything like that to me, originally, but this…
  • p. 110 …Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a balloon. Zamora knows exactly…
  • p. 144 …But never before has the government gone to the heart of Hoffa's operations and tried…
  • p. 160 …Her mother said the child was never had a sun- n and couldn't have gotten…
  • p. 163 …It never got more than about 20 feet off the ground while he was watching it…
  • p. 165 …Hynek said he had never found any evidence that beings from another planet had visited earth…
# The Telegraph-Herald

DUBUQUE, IOWA

DIAL 58 3-6421

May 29, 1968

Dr. J. Allen Hynek Department of Astronomy Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60201

Dear Dr. Hynek:

Your letter of 30 April, requesting information about individuals referred to in the letter who might have witnessed the sighting of unidentified flying objects on April 24, 1964, was forwarded to my attention.

After considerable searching of the newspaper files during the period in question, I have come up with some helpful information.

The Telegraph-Herald carried a page one story on April 29, 1964 covering the details of the sighting. Two per- sons from Dubuque were listed in the story as having seen the object in question. The story lists:

Paul Kies, 650 Sunset Ridge, Dubuque, Iowa and Larry Kratzer, 1504 Henion, Dubuque, Iowa (now of 751 Kane Street)

I hope this information will be of value to you in your search for a solution to puzzling phenomenon of unidentified flying objects and trust that the information will be used with discretion.

Sincerely,

Richard C. Dempsey

Director of Public Relations

JUN 3 1968

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