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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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## Four Years Old # $100 Reward Offered In Saucer Mystery SOCORRO The mystery of a reported unidentified flying object four years ago south of Socorro on an isolated hill remains unsolved. And to help find clues to help solve the problem, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, chairman of the astronomy department at Northwestern University in $100 reward to help locate a motorist who reported seeing the object. On April 24, 1964, Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora saw what he described as a four-legged, egg-shaped object with at least two persons aboard. At least one other person, an unidentified tourist traveling north on old U.S. 85, was quoted as saying he saw the UFO just before it landed in the area. Opal Grinder, who was manager of a Socorro service station at that time, reported the tourist, a man, remarked that aircraft flew low in the Socorro area. Grinder said there were several helicopters in the area. He quoted the tourist as reply ing that it was a "funny-looking helicopter if that is what it was." Grinder quoted the man as saying the object flew directly over his car. Grinder, unaware of Zamora's sighting, said he attached no importance to the report then. Dr. Hynek told the Las Cruces Sun-News that in an effort to establish the Socorro sighting, he authorized the $100 reward, which will go to| persons knowing the whereabouts of the motorist. Dr. Hynek, who is a consultant to the Air Force on UFO sightings, said persons who would know the motorist should contact Dr. Hynek at Northwestern University.
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