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Project Blue Book Socorro file
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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.
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- p. 3 …She continued to complain of burn pains.
Police interviewed her at
"The sun exposure she had…
- p. 4 …State Police Captain Martin Vigil said, "there was definitely something there."
Orlando Gallegos of Santa Fe…
- p. 5 …Sam Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. They took six other men to the spot…
- p. 6 …When he left his police car for a closer look, the strange machine blasted flame from…
- p. 7 …Hynek said his investigation in Socorro would determine whether he would visit Espanola, where State Police…
- p. 8 …State police and military officials have confirmed finding scorched earth at the sites, and wedge-shaped…
- p. 9 …Max Stull, 1409 Milmoore SE, told her parents and Police Lt. C. K. Jolly, the "queer…
- p. 11 …Socorro Policeman Lonnie Zamora says he saw it, and police and military men seem inclined to…
- p. 12 …Don Adams of Edgewood told State Police he fired 12.22 calibre pistol shots at an…
- p. 14 …State Police Captain Martin Vigil said, "there was definitely something there."
Orlando Gallegos of Santa Fe…
- p. 15 …State Police Capt. Martin Vigil said investigators from Kirtland Air Force Base at Albuquerque were to…
- p. 16 …Orlando Gallegos of SanTa Fe told State Police he got within 200 feet of a huge…
- p. 17 …Socorro policemen Lonnie Zamora says he saw it, and police and military men seem inclined to…
- p. 22 …April 24, 1964, a Socorro, New Mexico police, Mr. Lonnie Zamora, reported an object on the…
- p. 23 …Fired 12 Shots
An Edgewood man told State Police he fired 12.22calibre pistol shots at…
- p. 24 …After radioing to Police Headquarters at Socorro that he was proceeding to investigate what he believed…
- p. 25 …the FBI were expected to join State Police this afternoon to investigate the new report.
LA…
- p. 27 …Hynek said Zamora is a "level headed police officer." Hynek said he believes Zamora saw something…
- p. 29 …State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez and Lewis A. Reddell, publisher of El Defensor-Chieftain, stand at…
- p. 30 …State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez and Lewis A. Reddell, publisher of El Defensor-Chieftain, and at…
- p. 31 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
- p. 35 …The sighting was reported to Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. The object sighted…
- p. 46 …Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police accompanied by Agent Burns of the FBI and…
- p. 57 …He also observed the police car heading up the hill toward the spot where the UFO…
- p. 78 …He radioed in to police headquarters that he was proceeding to investigate a 10-74 (auto…
- p. 80 …The FBI was informed of the sighting by the New Mexico State Police. The New Mexico…
- p. 82 Sgt Sam Charez of the New Mexico State Police was interviewed by Major Connor and Sgt…
- p. 83 …The alleged witness was a reputable local police officer by the name of Lonnie Damora. Damora…
- p. 90 …be related to the description provided by police officer Lonnie Zamora.
Since certain aerial surveillance flights…
- p. 97 …instant or so later, he saw a police car going. I checked out the time on…
- p. 115 …Radioed in to police headquarters that he was proceeding to investigate a car wreck (10-74…
- p. 124 # UFO REPORT
Lonnie Zamora, 606 Resevoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico, 835-1134, Officer Socorro Police Force…
- p. 127 …State Police at Socorro) calling me on radio for my location, and I returned to my…
- p. 128 …We contacted Sgt Chavez, the State Police officer who was the first to reach Lonnie Zamora…
- p. 129 …car and he radioed this information to Police headquarters. He went down a hill where the…
- p. 138 …The tourist also commented that he had seen a police car heading up the hill. This…
- p. 145 …He notified police, and a short time later Radio Patrolmen Troy Bunn and R. R. Macias…
- p. 146 …Socorro policemen Lonnie Zaora says he saw it, and police military men seem inclined to lieve…
- p. 147 …Mr Zamora, who is a policeman for the Socorro Police Department, believed that a dynamite shack…
- p. 149 …Area Sighting Of Flash
A report to State, Police here Saturday at 10 a.m. by…
- p. 150 …Air force and other police officers on the scene
charge of everything and so busy... Now…
- p. 151 …Air Force and other police officers were on the scene.
"I thought at first that it…
- p. 153 …Friday night by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora.
POLICE AND military men seem inclined to believe Zamora…
- p. 154 …he will visit Espanola, where a state police captain, Martin' Vigil, found the ground still smouldering…
- p. 157 …A rash of unidentified flying object sightings had New Mexico State Police, local law enforcement agencies…
- p. 159 # 'Flying Bathtub' Seen by Motorist
SOCORRO, April 27 (A) Socorro police were called to the scene…
- p. 160 …o continued to complain of in pain.
Police interviewed her at
Sharon's doctor said his…
- p. 161 …State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez said he received a call from the Pentagon and the caller…
- p. 164 …A 10-year-old Albuquerque glrl was treated Tuesday night for what her mother told police…
- p. 165 …State Police Capt. Archie White said in Las Cruces that as far as he was concerned…
- p. 168 …State Police Captain Martin Vigil said, "there was definitely something there."
Orlando Gallegos of Santa Fe…
# Radar Tie-In Sought To UFO Report
DAYTON JOURNAL HERALD APRIL 30, 1964
One of the things that bothers the scientist investigating New Mexico's unidentified flying object reports for the Air Force is the lack of mention of radar contacts.
"It's my understanding New Mexico is infested with radar equipment," said Dr. I. Allen Hynek of Northwestern university, an astronomer who is a
Force. "I'm going to check to see if there have been radar contacts that might tie into these reports."
Dr Hyek visited yesterday the secluded hill where Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora reported seeing an egg-shaped ob- ject fly away from a draw last Friday evening. Other reports have followed.
The Sócorro report and another at La Madera in northern New Mexico were similar in that state and military authorities confirmed a scorched area where the object was supposed to have landed, and wedge-shaped impressions that appeared to have been left by some type of landing gear.
Dr. Hynek would not offer an opinion on just what Zamora did see.
He said he had investigated many such sightings but "This is one of the clearest, no that's not the right word; just say it is one of the soundest, best substantiated reports as far as it goes.
"Usually one finds many contradictions or omissions in these reports." Dr. Hynek said. "But Mr. Zamora's story is simply told, certainly told, without any intent to perpetuate a hoax."
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