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From the source: Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
' . U NITED STAT ES DEPARTMEN T OF J U ST I C E .) F E DERAL B U R EA U OF INVE STIG ATION In Reply, Please R efer to Albuquerque , New Mexico Fik N o. May 8 , 1964 UNIDENTIFIED FLYIN:r OOJECT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO APRIL 24 , 1964 Specia l Agent D. Arthur Byr nes , Jr ., Federal Bureau of I nvest igat ion , stat ioned at Albuquerque , New Mexico , was at Socorro , New Mexico , and a t t he State Pol ice Office t here on business l a t e afternoon of Apr i l 24 , 1964. At a ppr oximately 5 : 45 to 5:50 P. M., Nep Lopez , r adio oper ator in the Socorro County Sheriff ' s Office, located about t hi r t y feet down the hall f r om the State Poli ce Office , came int o the State Police Office . Mr . Lopez advis ed M. S . Chavez , New f,iaxico St at e Polic e , that he had just recei ved a r adio call from Officer Lonnie Zamora to come to an area about one mile southwest of Socorro . The call was in relation t o some unknown object which "landed and has taken off . " Agent Byrnes finished his wor k in the State Poli ce Office at Socorro at approximat ely 6:00 P . M., April 24 , 1964 , and ther e after proceeded t o the site where Officer Zamora , Socorro County Under sher iff Jim Luckie , Ser geant M. S . Chavez , and Officer Ted Jordan , New Mexico State Police , were assemb led . It may be not ed that it has been the obser vat ion of Agent Byr nes t hat Offi cer Zamora , known i ntimate l y for approximat ely fi ve years , is well regar ded as a sober , industrious , and conscient ious officer and not given t o fantas y. Officer Zamora was noted to be perfectly sober and somewhat agitat e d over his experience . Special Agent Byr nes noted four indent at i ons in the rough gr ound a t t he "sit e" of t he object des cribed lM. '-cum~nl: con~ ins neithe, recomm@ndations .., <•ndus,o ns of any l::i nd 1.. • th el r; • • < ,s e prop ertt the 8 1, ,ind is a fo an to you r agency; it and/ or ib conteitts ue ne t t o be cli:;tributed o utsi de your ....,.
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.