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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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# Astronomer Hunts Clue To 'Saucer' SOCORRO, N. M., April 29 (AP). An astronomer from the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University was here today to examine the secluded hill where a Socorro policeman reported seeing a mysterious, egg-shaped, flying object. Dr. J. Allen Hynek. the special Unidentified Flying Object consultant to the Air Force, was sent to New Mexico after a rash of reports of sightings in the state. He planned to visit the place where officer Lonnie Zamora said he spotted the object Friday. ## OTHER REPORTS. Mr. Zamora said the object he saw was a brilliant white. He said there was a red marking on it like an upside down V with three lines across the top, through the middle and at the bottom. He also said that from a distance there appeared to be two figures in white coveralls outside the object. It flew off with a roar when he approached. he said. Since Mr. Zamora's sighting at least six reports have been made to authorities including one from a youth who said he fired several shots at something about 100 feet in the air. T./Sgt. David Moody of the phenomena branch at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio, is in New Mexico to assist Dr. Hynek, a Wright-Patterson spokesman said. ## SCORCHED GRASS Dr. Hynek said his investigation in Socorro would determine whether he would visit Espanola, where State Police Capt. Martin Vigil found the ground still smouldering 20 hours after a reported sighting. Authorities found scorched grass and four wedge-shaped indentations in the ground at the Socorro site and near Espanola. Dr. Hynek said he hoped to finish his investigation here today. He said he has found most people honest and sincere in reporting flying objects. Many common things,however, are often responsible for such reports, he said. "Meteors, flocks of birds, weather balloons, even the moon can lead to these reports," Dr. Hynek said. "In such cases the reports often come from entirely honest people who see something that puzzles them."
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