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This Black Vault release compiles 1964 newspaper and wire service clippings plus a Project Blue Book summary on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting by policeman Lonnie Zamora on April 24, 1964, when an egg-shaped object left four depressions and burned brush. It covers J. Allen Hynek's site visit, APRO and NICAP comment, and related New Mexico reports at La Madera, Edgewood and Albuquerque. The Air Force summary reports that soil and brush analysis found no radiation or propellant, and the case remained open.
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have it analyzed and found it radioactive! I have also obtained some of the sap which I shall send to you and maybe Moody can try it out on his super-duper counter. It is odd that no one seemed to have bothered to have checked this area originally for radiation. Or did they? Menzel's idea that the speeded was a deliberate decoy, who signaled to the hoaxes by walkie-talkie who then released a balloon with a cardboard or aluminum flying saucer attached thereto simply does not hold water. Although some of the students do have walkie-talkies, the fact of the matter is that the wind was from the south, and the object went west. A balloon released at that time would have gone directly over town. Furthermore, they would have had to release after Zamora got there and watched the object on the ground for a short time. A previous release would simply have had it well over town by the time Zamora got to the spot. The dynamite shack does not have legs. would have been a place for hoaxes to have hidden over on the other side of the knoll, particularly had they lain prone. None of the people I talked with gave any credence to the hoax hypothesis, generally considering it to have been far above the capabilities and motivations, and provocations of the hoaxers. Chaves says that Zamora never described the thing as looking like a balloon. Zamora knows exactly where the dynamite shack is. It is pàainly visible from the site of the sighting, but about 500 feet to the west. Zamora does not have any particular schedule for patrolling the town. He has the run of the whole town. There is no UFIO Club in town. No paraphernalia of like a hoax were ever found. It would be rather hard to have done away with all tell-tale evidence, such as tubes of helium, release
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