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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.

  • 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…
## NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING, 24 APRIL 1964

Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday, 24 April 1964 Sgt Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department was chasing a speeding auto North on U S 85 in the line of duty. While in pursuit he heard a roar and saw flames in an area where a dynamite shack was known to be located. He abandoned chase of the auto and proceeded to where he thought an explosion had occurred. In order to reach this spot he had to travel a little-used road over several hills and gullies. After two or three efforts to drive his car up a gravel-covered incline he reached a crest where the object was visible. At this point, 800 ft from the object, he observed what he thought to be a car overturned and standing on its end. There were one or two objects described as coveralls which he assumed to be occupants of the vehicle. He radioed in to police headquarters that he was proceeding to investigate a 10-74 (auto accident). Proceeding up the road to a point about 150 ft from the gully where the object was, he stopped the car, got out, and headed toward the object. The object was on girder-like legs, white (not chrome) and egg shaped or oval. As he approached the object there were some noises and flame and smoke began to come from the bottom of the vehicle. The noise increased from low pitch to high pitch, was different from that of a jet or helo and not like anything Sgt Zamora had ever heard. The flame was blue like a welders torch, turning to orange or yellow at the ends. Thinking that the object was going to explode he became frightened. The time was approximately 1745 (1 1/2 hours before sunset), the sun was to his back, slightly to the right. He turned, ran back to get behind the police car, bumping his leg and losing his glasses on the way. He crouched down, shielding his eyes with his arm while the noise continued for another 10 seconds. At this time the noise stopped and he looked up. The object had risen to a point about 15-20 ft above the ground and the flame and smoke had ceased to come from the object. The object had a red marking about 1 ft or maybe 18 inches in height, shaped like a crescent with a vertical arrow and horizontal line underneath. The object hovered in this spot for several seconds and then flew off in a SW direction following the contour of the gully. It cleared the dynamite shack by not more than 3 ft. He watched the object disappear in the distance over a point on Highway 85 about 6 miles from where he was standing. The object took about 3 minutes to travel that far. Disappearance was by fading in the distance and at no time did he observe the object to rise more than 20 ft off the ground.

While proceeding to the location when the object was assumed to be an auto Sgt Zamora was in radio contact with police headquarters. The State Police use the same network and his call was monitored by Sgt Chavez of the New Mexico State Police. Sgt Zamora attempted

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