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This Federal Bureau of Investigation report from Albuquerque, New Mexico, dated May 8, 1964, deals with an unidentified flying object at Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. describes visiting the site and finding four depressions, burned grass and circular marks in the ground. The report also records Officer Lonnie Zamora's account of a roar and a flame, a shiny object standing on legs with two people in white coveralls beside it, and the object's departure. The document states that it contains no recommendations or conclusions.
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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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT Insignia was about two and one-half feet high and about two feet wide, guess. Was in middle of object, like . Object still like aluminum-white. After fell by car and glasses fell off, kept running to north with car between me and object. Glanced back couple of times. Noted object to rise to about level of car, about twenty to twenty-five feet, guess----took I guess about six seconds when object started to rise and I glanced back. I ran I guess about half way to where I ducked down----about fifty feet from the car is where I ducked down, just over edge of hill. I guess I had run about twenty-five feet when I glanced back and saw the object about level with the car and it appeared about directly over the place where it rose from. I was still running and I jumped just over the hill--I stopped because I did not hear the roar. I was scared of the roar, and I had planned to continue running down the hill. I turned around toward the object and at same time put my head towards ground, covering my face with my arms. Being that there was no roar, I looked up, and I saw the object going away from me, in a southwest direction. When the roar stopped, heard a sharp tone whine from high tone to low tone. At end of roar was this whine and the
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.