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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.
“Patterson”37 pages
# BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A 20-year-old Edgewood youth says he fired six shots at one of New Mexico's unidentified flying objects. State Policeman Tommy Richardson of Moriarty reported he received a telephone call from Don Adams of Edgewood about 1:30 a.m. today. The report said Adams told of seeing the object about 100 feet off the ground. He said it appeared to be a fluorescent or glowing green-colored object about 25 feet long. He told the officer he drove his car under the object and his car stalled. The youth reported he then got out and fired six shots at the object, reloaded and fired again, without effect. The officer said he did not determine if Adams was using a rifle or a pistol. Adam's account was another of several such reports that have kept New Mexico and military authorities busy since Friday. Newspaper offices and broadcast stations were receiving a few telephone calls about similar sightings but most callers would not identify themselves, saying they did not want to be ridiculed. The reports came from points following a line from near caballo Reservoir south of Truin or Consequences, north to an area near Espanola. All the reports are similar in that they describe oval or eggshaped objects with size estimates ranging from the size of a car to about 30 feet or longer. State police and military officials have confirmed finding scorched earth at the sites, and wedge-shaped depressions that officers say appear to have been left by some type of landing gear. A man who refused to identify himself because he said he would be laughed at, said he saw a ball of red flame land near Las Vegas. He made no estimate of the size of the ball. He said he was going from Lake McAllister to Las Vegas when he saw the object. New information has been revealed about other sightings. State Police Sgt. Sam Chavez said he was told by Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora that the UFO he saw Friday, the first of the series of sightings, had red markings on its silvery side. Chavez said Zamora told him the design was an inverted V with three bars crossing it, but that the Air Force had told him not to discuss the markings. Three sightings occurred Sunday night. An unidentified 18 year-old girl told Socorro police she saw a fire with something in it in the same vicinity where Zamora had been. Orlando Gallegos, 35, of Santa Fe, said he saw a craft as long as a telephone pole and about 14 feet in circumference near his father's home north of La Madera. State Police Capt. Martin Vigil investigated the La Madera sighting. He found the ground still smouldering 20 hours after the sighting. He said rocks in the center of the area were split, a bottle was melted and green brush had been set on fire, evidently by intense heat. Saturday night two unidentified motorists said an object similar to the egg-shaped, silver craft described by Zamora swooped down out of the sky toward their car in the Espanola area.
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