“Socorro, New Mexico”54 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 …of Socorro. UFO experts from different parts of the country are in New Mexico to investigate…
- p. 4 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico
SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
- p. 5 …Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot…
- p. 7 …the special Unidentified Flying Object consultant to the Air Force, was sent to New Mexico after…
- p. 8 …Adam's account was another of several such reports that have kept New Mexico and military…
- p. 11 …Right on the edge of White Sands missile range on the wide open New Mexico desert…
- p. 12 …rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and…
- p. 14 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico
SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
- p. 17 …Right on the edge of White Sands Missile Range on the wide open New Mexico desert…
- p. 18 …David Moody of the office already was in New Mexico and would assist Dr. Hynek in…
- 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 MAY 6 1964
# New Sights Of Saucers
## Strange Objects Seen by Several Persons in New Mexico…
- p. 22 …12 FEB 65
## New Mexico
APRIL 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico On April 24, 1964, a…
- p. 23 …rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies and…
- p. 24 UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL 1964
On April 24, 1964, a Socorro…
- p. 26 …David Moody of the office already was in New Mexico and would assist Dr. Hynek in…
- p. 27 …My husband and I had talked about the thing the people saw in New Mexico, but…
- p. 28 …in from all over the state of New Mexico and other parts of the west. It…
- p. 29 # El Defensor
SOCORRO: Inhabited Since 1540 Home of the Famed New Mexico
VOL. 98 NO. 34…
- p. 31 …reported concrete instance of a UFO in New Mexico.
Policeman Zamora shifted from a routine task…
- p. 35 # UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64
Hq USAF SAF0I PB (Mrs Gaiser) Wash D…
- p. 46 …24 April 1964 Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police accompanied by Agent Burns of…
- p. 57 …Zamora observed on 24 April at Socorro, New Mexico. The object or vehicle displayed flight characteristics…
- p. 73 …the April 24, 1964 sighting at Socorro, New Mexico, made by Lt. Zamora.
I would very…
- p. 74 …Bieberman 601 Pitch Avenue Socorro, New Mexico 87801
- 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 …835-9916 in Socorro New Mexico regarding the article appearing in the Socorro ElDefnnsor & Chieftan concerning…
- p. 90 …about a hundred miles north of Socorro, New Mexico. Cloud Gap personnel did not have any…
- p. 91 …reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings
## ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO AREA
25 Apr. Socorro Unidentified Observer. Rotating Navigation…
- p. 93 …TO THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING:
1. 26,Apr 64, Grants,New Mexico sighting of a…
- p. 103 …CONCLUSIONS
24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico □ Was Balloon
□ Probably Balloon
□ Possibly Balloon
□ Was Aircraft
□ Probably…
- p. 105 …His theories as to why UFO's land in New Mexico lack, shall we say, a…
- p. 106 …Ted Raynor, Editor, Socorro El Defensor Chieftan, Socorro, New Mexico, and he can send one of…
- p. 124 # UFO REPORT
Lonnie Zamora, 606 Resevoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134, Officer Socorro Police Force…
- p. 131 ## REPORT ON SOCORRO NEW MEXICO TRIP
On Tuesday, April 28, 1964, in response to a call…
- p. 136 …SIGHTING AT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, 24 APRIL, CONTINUE TO BE RECEIVED FROM NEWS MEDIA, FROM THE…
- p. 138 …while in Socorro, my old friend, Dr Jack Whothmen, President of the New Mexico School of…
- p. 146 …Right on the ge of White Sands Mise Range on the wide en New Mexico desert…
- p. 147 UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64
Hq USAF SAFOI PB (Mrs Gaiser)
Wash 25…
- p. 152 …The Sócorro report and another at La Madera in northern New Mexico were similar in that…
- p. 153 …range, whose headquarters is near the central New Mexico town.
## Six Cars Derail; Rip Mile of…
- p. 154 # ASTRONOMER TO NEW MEXICO
# Flying Objects Area Probed
SOCORRO, N.M.—(AP)—An astronomer from the…
- p. 156 …landings in New Mexico in the past few days.
"We are convinced the Socorro policeman saw…
- p. 157 SOCORRO NEW MEXICO DATE: 24 APR 64
# Believes Intelligent Beings on UFOs Sighted in State
TUCSON…
- p. 159 …85 and New Mexico 180 and the object appeared to be about a quarter of a…
- p. 160 …of Socorro. UFO experts from different parts of the country are in New Mexico to investigate…
- 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. 167 …THE SOCORRO REPORT AND ANOTHER AT LA MADERA IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO WERE SIMILAR IN THAT…
- p. 168 # 'Flying Saucer Reports Spread In New Mexico
SANTA FE (UPI) - New Mexico's perennial addiction to…
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
It seems much more likely to me that he saw a strange test craft which is super secret. The flaws in this reasoning are that if it is so super secret why would anyone be landing a half mile south of a town. Why, also, have we been unable to unearth from various agencies any classified clues as to such goings-on?
The year 1964 had fifteen other unidentified cases besides Zamora's. I investigated two others, one a vary interesting incident which occurred to two graduate students in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin along with their mother-in-law and their kid sister. They were "buzzed" by some strange craft; after talking with them for nearly two hours, I came away still puxaled. A radio announcer in Toledo, Ohio, who when leaving the station at night, saw a similar array of lights hover in a wheat field by the side of the road be was walking on.
There is no question that a mighty folklore is being built up in this whole field. Someday, it might be worthwhile to document all this for the benefit of historians who will look back on this era. I believe I have found one generalization which, being a generalization, is subject to all the illus of generalizations, but be that as it may: the people who believe in flying sauders are generally distinct from those people who report them. This is Hynek's Axiom No. 1 and is as full of holes as Swiss cheese, but it has struck so many times that the "believers" are so thoroughly wishful in their thinking that they just don't need any personal experience to bolster their faith. Any newspaper clipping or any runor is all the fuel they need. They have their fan clubs, and their meetings as they get a cheap thrill out of vilifying the Air Force and in "gee-whizzing" each other.
On the other hand, the rest reports of UFO's that I have come across are from people who have had little contact with UFO material previously, remain skeptical even though they have had an experience that they can't understand, and are generally quite reticent about saying anything about it as first. Very frequently they are articulate and solid citizens, and, in talking to them, one gathers that they wish the whole thing hadn't happened to them. Time and again, they will write to ask that I please tell them what they saw, or they will write "I don't ever want to see anything like this again." They do not join UFO clubs after their experience and generally do not care to talk about the experience. When they do make the mistake of talking about it, they find that ridicule is their reward, and although I can't document it, I feel certain that their social life is affected and that even jobs and promotions have been lost by their having reported their experiences in the first place.
It is reports such as these that constitute the phenomenon to which I feel more attention should be paid. It is easy to dismiss the cases of birds, balloons, meteors, and the like, but when good citizens of average or better than average intelligence, and above all, sincere citizens report some thing puzzling, I think we have some sort of social obligation to do as good a job on it as we can. I don't like a mystery any more than you do and these series of "unidentifieds" down the years I regard as rather a blot on the escutcheon. Somehow, as scientists, we should be able to (if we are given the opportunity) come up with answers that would stand up in court, but I am still somewhat of a voice crying in the wilderness in this respect. The Air Force is no (primarily a scientific organization, and its concern in these