“Socorro”60+ pages
- p. 1 …LOCATION
Socorro, New Mexico 12. CONCLUSIONS
□ Was Balloon
□ Probably Balloon
□ Possibly Balloon
□ Was Aircraft
□ Probably Aircraft…
- p. 2 …the Air Force and night be attributed to the Socorro, New Mexico sighting.
FOR THE COMMANDER
- p. 3 …85,.17 miles north of Socorro.
"I wasn't going to report it because I didn…
- p. 4 …He told police
Gallegos' report came on the heels of a similar report from a Socorro…
- p. 5 # Mysterious Object Pays
SOCORRO (UPI) - It was shiny and stood on four gird- round, stood on…
- p. 6 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on highway patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft near Socorro…
- p. 7 # Astronomer Hunts Clue To 'Saucer'
SOCORRO, N. M., April 29 (AP). An astronomer from the Dearborn…
- p. 8 …Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora that the UFO he saw…
- p. 10 …the desert about a mile south of Socorro. He denied seeing any signs of life around…
- p. 11 …Policeman
By CHARLES RICHARDS United Press International SOCORRO, N.M. (UPI)—It's
a good place…
- p. 12 …No less than six "authentic" spottings have been reported since Friday when Socorro Policeman L on…
- p. 14 …Gallegos' report came on the heels of a similar report from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora…
- p. 15 …The reports came from Socorro and the Espanola area.
State Police Capt. Martin Vigil said investigators…
- p. 17 SOCORRO POLICEMAN Lonnie Zamora tells how, he spotted an egg-shaped flying object near Socorro, N…
- p. 18 # Air Force UFO 4129 Expert to Check 'Saucer' Reports
SOCORRO (P) Dr. J. Allen Hynek, special…
- p. 19 April 25, 1964, when on the previous day at Socorro, New Mexico a policeman, Mr. Lonnie…
- p. 20 Landing area at Socorro, New Mexico, taken April 25.
- p. 21 …When it flew away, Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie Zamora said he ran from it.
Since…
- p. 22 # "ELPASO TIMES" Film On UFCs To Include Socorro Officer
Secorro, N.M. (AP)—A Hollywood, Calif…
- p. 23 …No less than six "authentic" spotings have been reported since Friday when Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora…
- p. 24 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964
On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
- p. 26 # Air Force Uru Expert to Check 'Saucer' Reports
SOCORRO Dr. J. Allen Hynek, special unidentified flying…
- p. 27 …85 two miles south of Socorro between 7:30 and 8 p.m. The unidentified tourist…
- p. 28 …The flap started, as most know, when Socorro, N.M., policeman Lonnie Zamora (note incorrect spelling…
- p. 29 # El Defensor
SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico
VOL. 98 NO. 34…
- p. 30 Published Tuesdays & Thursdays in Socorro, N. M. 87801
TUESDAY, APRIL 28.
# Of UFO Landing Here Observe…
- p. 31 …Holder of Socorro, U.S. Army up-range commander with headquarters at Stallion Range Center on…
- p. 35 # UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64
Hq USAF SAF0I PB (Mrs Gaiser) Wash D…
- p. 46 …On Tuesday, 28 April 1964, Capt Quintanilla directed Doctor J Allen Hynek to Socorro to obtain…
- p. 57 …produce markings such as those found at Socorro. One known experimental model, constructed by Bell Aircraft…
- p. 73 …on the April 24, 1964 sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zamora.
I would…
- p. 74 …As I recall, the man was driving into Socorro at the time. Unfortunately, I no longer…
- p. 75 …As a recall, the man was driving into Socorro at the time. Unfortunately, no longer have…
- p. 76 ## Four Years Old
# $100 Reward Offered In Saucer Mystery
SOCORRO The mystery of a reported unidentified…
- p. 78 ## NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING, 24 APRIL 1964
Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday…
- p. 84 TDEW/UFO
UFO Sighting Socorro, New Mexico
14 May 1964
Test Support Officer (Col K. Young…
- p. 85 …On 18 May 1964 TSgt Moody called Mr Opal Grinder at 835-9916 in Socorro New…
- p. 86 …Capt Quintanilla contacted the FTD liaison office at Holloman AFB regarding the Socorro sighting and requested…
- p. 90 …Cloud Gap operations were conducted in an area about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New…
- p. 91 …5 CASES of sightings in 1963 or early 1964 reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings
## ALBUQUERQUE, NEW…
- p. 93 THE FOLLOWING SIGHTINGS WERE REPORTED TO THE AIR FORCE AND MIGHT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE SOCORRO…
- p. 96 …In my visit to Socorro I determined that Zamora had been urged by the Mayor to…
- p. 100 …Coming back to the Socorro case: I'm sorry that I couldn't have been of…
- p. 102 Report on the Trip to Socorro - Albuquerque - Socorro, March 12-13, 1965
Left Las Cruces 7…
- p. 103 …CONCLUSIONS
24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico □ Was Balloon
□ Probably Balloon
□ Possibly Balloon
□ Was Aircraft
□ Probably…
- p. 104 it on a global basis and the UFO phenomenon apart from the Socorro case is certainly…
- p. 105 …His principal reason for selecting Socorro seems to be the following: "The main one can be…
- p. 106 …Ted Raynor, Editor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
- p. 109 …Apparently the Socorro teenagers are much more direct in their methods of reprisal for the "fuzz…
- p. 111 …I do not believe that the Socorro high school students could have kept a secret this…
- p. 112 …There is also the opinion expressed in Socorro, and expressed to me a number of times…
- p. 124 # UFO REPORT
Lonnie Zamora, 606 Resevoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134, Officer Socorro Police Force…
- p. 126 …Radioed to sheriff's office Socorro 2, possibly 10-44 (accident). I'll be 10-6…
- p. 127 …State Police at Socorro) calling me on radio for my location, and I returned to my…
- p. 128 ## INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE SOCORRO SIGHTING OF UFO BY LONNIE ZAMORA
At 0530, Sunday 26 April…
- p. 130 …Coral Lorenzen and husband were in Socorro at the time and had interviewed both Lonnie Zamora…
- p. 131 ## REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP
On Tuesday, April 28, 1964, in response to a call…
- p. 134 …No 9 shows the town of Socorro in the distance, looking down longitudinally through the gulley…
- p. 136 …NUMEROUS INQUIRES CONCERNING AIR FORCE INVESTIGATION AND EVALUATION OF THE RECENT UFO SIGHTING AT SOCORRO, NEW…
- p. 137 …In about a month, I shall have occassion to return to the Socorro area, at which…
But waiving all that aside, the things that would seem to militate against a hoax are the fact that no tracks coming to or going from the region were found, minutes after the sighting occurred; paraphernalia was not located, again within minutes; Chaves and the FHI agent would have to have been in on the hoax; and finally, the object took off crosswind. Paraphernalia I refer to would have been ropes, launching equipment, gas tanks, etc. which would have been difficult to dispose of in a few minutes and certainly without making any tracks. You say "the whole thing could have easily been planned to come off as it did." I think otherwise; it would have been quite difficult to have a thing like this come off, even as to the original timing. Zamora did not have a regular patrol route so his approximate whereabouts would not be known at a given time. I questioned Chaves on this, and Zamora patrols the whole town in an unscheduled fashion. By the way, there is no local UFO club. The fake UFO would have had to have been rather sizable since it looked to Zamora like an overturned car, upended, first off from a considerable distance.
You suggest that when Zamora's car created the hill, the hoaxers triggered another blast of flame and released the UFO, and ran like hell. The terrain is such that when a car creates the hill, it suddenly comes upon the site. There simply would not have been time to wait until this happened to release the UFO and then hide; not unless there were elaborate ropes and wires running over some distance on the ground. As long as Zamora wears his glasses, his eyesight is good, and you must remember that he did not lose the glasses until after he saw the flame and thought the object was about to explode.
Your suggestion that we re-exact the event is more difficult than you think. I have not yet discovered how to make a balloon go off crosswind or to wait to release it and cause an explosion until someone was just one hundred feet away from me, and then disappear and hide "instantaneously." If the purported balloon release had been by means of delay mechanism, with the hornsters having had time to hide, then the release mechanism or some parts of it would have been left behind as tell tale evidence.
Zamora is having his troubles; the boys be picks up are rather direct. Zamora stopped a teenage speeder, and the kid fired back at Zamora, "What are you giving me a ticket for? - Don't you know a flying saucer might come down on you any minute?" You may say that this strengthens the hour hypothesis, but on the other hand it is a perfectly natural remark for kids to make to a man hold up to ridicule for having "seen things."
I con'back also to the trenchart fact that Zamora was a thoroughly scared person. Chaves has remarked this to me a number of times that never in his long association with Zamora has he seen him in anything at all approaching the state he was in when Chaves joined him. I honestly don't think a small gas-filled balloon carrying a cardboard spaceship could have frightened a gruff, practical type like Zamora who is used to accidents, bloodshed, fights, and even murders. We all seem to agree that Zamora say something that really and truly frightened him.