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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…
# Socorro Officer Saw Two Men Step Out of Big UFO
SOCORRO, April 25 (P) A report by a Socorro policeman that he saw an eggshaped flying object land near here yesterday has the FBI and military authorities interested.
Officer Lonnie Zamora said he not only saw the object but also saw two occupants who alighted after it landed about one mile southwest of Socorro in a draw.
sions were irregularly spaced with the distance between them varying from about nine feet to 15 feet. He estimated the length of the object at about 15 feet from the position of what apparently were landing gear legs.
ly landed there," Chavez said.
Zamora said men who identified themselves as from Army intelligence at White Sands Missile Range took samples of the soil. "Something definite
Zamora was described as a man not given to imagining things...
State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez said he received a call from the Pentagon and the caller indicated the site would be inspected by someone from Washington. As Officer Zamora tells his experience: While in his patrol car about 5:50 p.m. yesterday he heard what he thought was an explosion in the area where a dynamite shack is located. He drove to within 150 yards of the draw where he spotted what appeared to be an overturned car. Moving closer he saw two figures moving about outside the vehicle.
Besides the landing gear marks, Zamora said he found what appeared to be two round prints like heel marks. Another man who visited the site described the marks as looking like mountain lion pad marks.
An FBI agent visited the spot this morning.
One looked directly at him. As Zamora moved closer he lost sight of the object behind a hill.
He continued driving to the draw and parked. He walked to within 200 feet of the object and again heard a roar. Taking cover behind his car Zamora saw the object of brilliant white metal, rise and hover about 20 feet off the ground. It then flew off to the west, rising gradually.
"I was scared," said Azmora, when he heard the deep roar. "I thought it was going to blow up."
Zamora said he called Sgt. Chavez on his car radio. Chavez joined him and both approached the site of the apparent landing. They found scorched ground and burned weeds.
They also found four 4.5 inch depressions in the ground which apparently had supported a heavy object.
Chavez said the Jmpres-
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