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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIOfl
FBI ALBUQ UEE: • • •
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSrlCE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
y1 !M MST . URGENT 4 -'2?·64 RGL· APR 2 5 1964
/TO DIRECTOR, FBI • TELETYPE ' ··
FROM SAC , ALBUQUERQUE 62-NEW 1,1 , tt
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UNI DENTI FI ED FLYING OBJECT, SOCORRO, N.M. APR T
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INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE, FROM _.... ·-·--
LONNIE ZAMORA , CONSIDERED SOBER, -DEPENDABLE, MATURE, NOT OF ~
FANTASY, OFFICER OF POLICE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO, N.M. THAT AT ABOUT •
FIVE FIFTY PM MST , WHILE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME I N
SKY TO SOUTHWEST , WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN BELIEF DYNAM ITE
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SHACK IN AREA HAD BLOWN UP.
WHILE TRAVELING IN I SOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE
SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO , NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED
FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT WH ICH, UPON GLANCING AT SAME, APPEARED )
TO BE OVERTURNED AUTOMOBILE. TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT WHITE
COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT.
THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED \.
THREE FEET FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY - o TWLNTY FIVE FEET HIGHER .
NO PERSONS VISIBLE. ~EARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS, LESS THAN
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A SECOND APART, THEN WI TH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND ORANGE FLAMES ,
OBJECT SLOWLY VERTICALLY ROSE TO ABOUT CAR HEIGHT, THEN NOISE AND
FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOOK OFF AT HI GH SPEED I N STRAI ~HT LINE AND
ALMOST WQR OZONTALLY TO DISAPPEAR OVER DI STANT MOU NTAI N.
ZA '· QRA , GREATLY FRIGHTENED,. RAD IOED HIS OBSERVA: IONS AND
NMSP S£rlGEANT AND. SOCORRO COUNTY UNDERSHERIFF, QU I CKLY ON SCENE ,
NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR
REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS
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