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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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Captain Hector Quintanilla Jr. Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch Headquarters Foreign Technology Division Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio Dear Captain Quintanilla, Reference is made to my phone call this morning. I have talked to Major Casper who was the Cloud Gap Field Operations Officer at Albuquerque, based at Kirtland AFB, during the time this incident took place. Cloud Gap operations were conducted in an area about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico. Cloud Gap personnel did not have any equipment nor special clothing which could possibly be related to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora. Since certain aerial surveillance flights were being conducted by Navy aircraft, RA 5C's, in the area in question, a check on such flights revealed none were flown on 24 April 1964 in connection with Cloud,Gap. We have no information on this sighting other than that provided by your SGT MOODY who was a participant on our project and that picked up from the newspapers. I have enclosed an article found in the Los Angeles Time of 20 May which may be of interest to you. Sincerely, Kenneth Tt G. Young Colonel, USAF
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