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The Black Vault · 167 pages · text by OCR
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.
“Albuquerque”34 pages
- p. 1 …yesterday as they were driving toward Albuquerque on U. S. 85,.17 miles north of Socorro…
- p. 3 …Similar reports came from a Socorro teenager, an Albuquerque motorist, and two men driving in the…
- p. 9 …TWO INVESTIGATING officers were at the scene yesterday from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Maj…
- p. 10 …Two investigating officers were at the scene Sunday from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Maj…
- p. 11 …Edgewood is about 30 miles east of Albuquerque.
A few hours earlier, a motorist in the…
- p. 13 …Similar reports came from a Socorro teenager, an Albuquerque motorist, and two men driving in the…
- p. 14 …Martin Vigil said investigators from Kirtland Air Force Base at Albuquerque were to arrive in Espanola…
- p. 16 …William Connor of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Zamora is described as a "reliable witness…
- p. 20 …Seen by Several Persons in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (UPI) In New Mexico, first test…
- p. 22 …Edgewood is about 30 miles east of Albuquerque.
A few hours earlier, a motorist in the…
- p. 24 …The apparent low bid came from Case Thompson of Albuquerque. The firm asked $21.78 per…
- p. 26 …The Air Force said low-flying jets have been taking pictures day and night from Albuquerque…
- p. 30 …William Conner of Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, was also here Sunday afternoon to interview Zamora…
- p. 34 …UPI representative Charles Richard, carried in the Albuquerque Journal, 27 April 1964, are essentially correct. As…
- p. 79 …The UFO report had been received by the 1005th from Lt Col King, CID, of Albuquerque…
- p. 82 …It is suggested that Lt Col King, Albuquerque 268-2107 be contacted for proper questioning of…
- p. 89 …I have talked to Major Casper who was the Cloud Gap Field Operations Officer at Albuquerque…
- p. 90 …5 CASES of sightings in 1963 or early 1964 reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings
## ALBUQUERQUE, NEW…
- p. 101 Report on the Trip to Socorro - Albuquerque - Socorro, March 12-13, 1965
Left Las Cruces 7…
- p. 103 …That was the next day in Albuquerque.
I purchased five newspapers which had various stories about…
- p. 105 …and the following day."
I left for Albuquerque about 2:30 P. M., arriving at the…
- p. 110 …I left Albuquerque in the late morning on Saturday and arrived in Socorro abbut 1:00…
- p. 130 …This proved totally unnecessary since, when the plane from Denver arrived in Albuquerque, I heard some…
- p. 137 …We had a late lunch enroute to Albuquerque.
In Albuquerque, I had the opportunity to talk…
- p. 145 …William Connor of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Zamora is described as a "reliable witness…
- p. 154 …He quit during his first year at Albuquerque High School. Since then, he served in the…
- p. 155 …An Albuquerque couple, Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Green, 1805 Walter SE, told the Journal Tuesday nigh…
- p. 156 …Edgewood is about 30 miles east of Albuquerque.
A few hours earlier, a motorist in the…
- p. 158 …The motorist, who identified himself to Pyland as George Mitropolis of Albuquerque, said that while driving…
- p. 159 …yesterday as they were driving toward Albuquerque on U. S. 85, 17 miles north of Socorro…
- p. 162 4th Year
Volume 340 Number 27
Second-class postage paid at Albuquerque and at additional mailing…
- p. 163 …A 10-year-old Albuquerque girl was treated Tuesday night for what her mother told police…
- p. 164 …Hynek returned to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque and indicated he will comment on his…
- p. 167 …Similar reports came from a Socorro teenager, an Albuquerque motorist, and two men driving in the…
It surely would have leaked by now. He told me of an elaborate hoax that was played on one of the geologists at Ohio State University when he taught there. The students had it in for this guy and contrived an explosion in and the crater which it produced an nearby town was reported then as a meteorite crater. It had everybody excited for a while and would have succeeded except who got away with it were so pleased with themselves that they began to brag a bit and got caught. I do not believe that the Socorro high school students could have kept a secret this long. Furthermore, it would seem that any youngsters that hated Zamora sufficiently to have gone to all this trouble to perpetrate a hoax would now be very envious of the glory he is getting in a movie and all the publicity he has received and would certainly burst his bubble right now. Finally, there is the matter of the tourist who reported a strange object to Oelgrinder. This could not very well have been part of the hoax since the tourist was a complete stranger just passing through. Furthermore, if Zamora is to believed at all, the object rose vertically and took off horizontally to the west and was observed as it passed well over the dynamite shack and disappeared over the pearlite mill. This is entirely too big a hoax for high school students to perpetrate.
Perhaps I spent too much time on this matter, but the letter was a very convenient device for re-discussing the whole situation. Sgt. Chaves indicated that Menzel should have been a science fiction writer. Actually Lyle Boyd has done some of this, and I believe also Menzel has.
I left Albuquerque in the late morning on Saturday and arrived in Socorro abbut 1:00 P. M. Raynor, Shrode, and I visited the site and took some more samples, particularly of the sap, and I took a few more pictures, particularly of the dynamite shack to show Menzel. Then I went back to the radio station
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