Documents / Document
This Project Blue Book file on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting, held by the Internet Archive, collects Air Force records and 1964 press clippings. It covers policeman Lonnie Zamora's April 24, 1964 report of an egg-shaped object with four legs, the scorched brush and ground depressions, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek's investigation. An Air Force summary says soil and brush analysis found no radiation or propellant and the case stayed open. Later New Mexico reports were judged known objects or hoaxes.
“Albuquerque”34 pages
# Another Flying Saucer # This One Egg-Shaped and Shiny, Says Policeman By CHARLES RICHARDS United Press International SOCORRO, N.M. (UPI)—It's a good place for a flying saucer. Right on the edge of White Sands missile range on the wide open New Mexico desert, just 30 miles northwest of the site of the world's first atomic blast. Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora says he saw it, and police and military men seem inclined to believe him. Zamora is a "very reliable witness." Army Capt. Richard T. Holder, uprange commander of White Sands' Stallion Range, said. Holder, whose headquarters is near this central New Mexico town, was called in by local police after Zamora reported seeing the object Friday. Deputy Sheriff James Luckie said he believes "it's something out of the ordinary, something very few have ever seen." "I was scared," Zamora said. He said his experience taugh him one thing: If it happens again, he will still run away like he did Friday, but he will not tell a soul about what he saw. Zamora said he spotted an egg-shaped object on the desert about a mile south of Socorro. He denied seeing any signs of life around the object and said the machine rose and flew slowly away until it faded from sight. He said he spotted what appeared to be a pair of white coveralls near the saucer, but could not tell if anything or anyone was in them. The object, about the height of a car but larger, appeared to be made of a shiny, aluminum- like substance, Zamora said. It flew away after he got within about 100 yards, he said. Two investigating officers were at the scene Sunday from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Maj. William Connor and Sgt. David Moody used a Geiger counter to check the area, where the only evidence of an unusual visitor was a burned bush and four small depressions in the ground. Zamora said the machine had been supported on the ground by four girder-like legs. The bush supposedly was burned by exhaust from the saucer. Holder said he checked with both White Sands and nearby Holloman Air Force Base. Neither base, he said, is using any object comparable to Zamora's machine. Government agencies will continue the investigation, Holder said.
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 168 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.