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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 438

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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.

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U NITED STAT ES DEPARTMEN T OF J U ST I C E
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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
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