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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. 1 …BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Witness reported a light going back and forth over a mountain of…
  • p. 2 …Attached is a listing of sightings reported to the Air Force and night be attributed to…
  • p. 3 …Truck driver Napoleon Green, 37, and his wife, 35, of 1805 Walter SE, said they sighted…
  • p. 6 …Last April 24, Officer Lonnie Zamora, on highway patrol, sighted an oval-shaped craft near Socorro…
  • p. 7 …Zamora's sighting at least six reports have been made to authorities including one from a…
  • p. 8 …Newspaper offices and broadcast stations were receiving a few telephone calls about similar sightings but most…
  • p. 10 …flew slowly away until it faded from sight. He said he spotted what appeared to be…
  • p. 11 …flew slowly away until it faded from sight. He said he spotted what appeared to be…
  • p. 12 …with no end in sight.
  • p. 13 …For several days following this report, other sightings were reported in the New Mexico area. In…
  • p. 15 # More UFO Sightings Are Reported Over Wide Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS State officers and the…
  • p. 18 …Lorenzon said the sighting of an object northwest of Espanola early Sunday was similar to the…
  • p. 19 …Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object on the ground a mile south of the town at…
  • p. 21 MAY 6 1964 # New Sights Of Saucers ## Strange Objects Seen by Several Persons in New Mexico…
  • p. 22 …per cent of an estimated 8,000 sightings classified by the Air Force as UFOs. The…
  • p. 23 # Man Reports Firing Shots, Hitting UFO Other Sightings Are Reported Around State A rash of unidentified…
  • p. 24 …New Mexico policeman, Mr Lonnie Zamora, reported sighting an object about a mile south of the…
  • p. 25 …LA MADERA, April 27 A Santa Be resident reported today he sighted an unidentified flying object…
  • p. 26 …Lorenzon said the sighting of an object northwest of Espanola early Sunday was similar to the…
  • p. 28 …This enables us to confirm the major sightings and report directly to members. The flap started…
  • p. 30 …photo was taken. ## City Policeman Zamora Reports Sighting Egg-Shaped Object and Views Take-Off; Tourist…
  • p. 35 # UFO Sighting, Socorro, New Mexico, 24 Apr 64 Hq USAF SAF0I PB (Mrs Gaiser) Wash D…
  • p. 46 UFO sighting. The data was collected and no positive conclusion reached. On Tuesday, 28 April 1964…
  • p. 57 …the various investigative reports confirms that a sighting definitely did occur. The description of the object…
  • p. 68 …de JOCHKERIE Colonel, U.S.AF Deputy for Technology and Subsystems 1 Atch Narrative of Sighting
  • p. 72 …the letter who might have witnessed the sighting of unidentified flying objects on April 24, 1964…
  • p. 73 …Bieberman's letter who might also have witnessed this sighting. I wish to assure you that…
  • p. 74 …Within a week or two after Zamora's sighting on April 24, 1964, my mother sent…
  • p. 75 …Within a week or two after Zamora's sighting on April 24, 1964, my mother sent…
  • p. 76 …Grinder, unaware of Zamora's sighting, said he attached no importance to the report then. Dr…
  • p. 77 …Civilian Air Military Air & Ground ## ADDITIONAL REPORTED SIGHTINGS (NOT CASES) ## EVALUATION ## SOURCE Summer Skokie, Illinois May…
  • p. 78 ## NARRATIVE OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO SIGHTING, 24 APRIL 1964 Shortly after 5:30 pm on Friday…
  • p. 79 …This resulted in the in-vestigation of the sighting.
  • p. 80 …Lt Col King had read about the sighting in the local newspaper and had also been…
  • p. 82 …accompany Lt Col King on another alleged sighting. Everybody wants to get into the Act! HECTOR…
  • p. 83 …The alleged UFO sighting took place at about 1800 MST on 24 April. The object alllagedly…
  • p. 84 TDEW/UFO UFO Sighting Socorro, New Mexico 14 May 1964 Test Support Officer (Col K. Young…
  • p. 85 …concerning an additional witness to the Zamora sighting. Mr Grinder manages the Whiting Brothers Service Station…
  • p. 86 …Capt Quintanilla contacted the FTD liaison office at Holloman AFB regarding the Socorro sighting and requested…
  • p. 87 …The attached TWX indicates the high level of interest in this sighting. FOR THE COMMANDER ERIC…
  • p. 90 …We have no information on this sighting other than that provided by your SGT MOODY who…
  • p. 91 …5 CASES of sightings in 1963 or early 1964 reported subsequent to Socorro Sightings ## ALBUQUERQUE, NEW…
  • p. 93 THE FOLLOWING SIGHTINGS WERE REPORTED TO THE AIR FORCE AND MIGHT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE SOCORRO…
  • p. 97 …He again told me the story of the tourist who said that he had sighted a…
  • p. 98 …the region were found, minutes after the sighting occurred; paraphernalia was not located, again within minutes…
  • p. 100 …You made mention in your letter that "had the sighting been related to a bank robbery…
  • p. 103 …BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Sighting of landing by Lonnie Zamora. SEE CASE FILE. 11. COMMENTS Initially…
  • p. 104 …Verified Sightings." The February 25th issue contains a front page story on a UFO sighted over…
  • p. 105 …The same issue, however, contains a story of about "UFO Sighted Streaking Over City." "The observer…
  • p. 107 …Another one was sighted this last Christmas night. According to LaPaz, the official investigation never satisfactorily…
  • p. 108 …and suggests some embroidery of the original sighting either by Zamora or by Captain Holder when…
  • p. 109 …One should remember that the time of the sighting there had been no talk in the…
  • p. 110 …It is pàainly visible from the site of the sighting, but about 500 feet to the…
  • p. 112 …government should also have been responsible for the sightings in France, Brazil, Spain, and in England…
  • p. 115 …First sighting of object. Stopped car for a couple of seconds. Thought object car turned upside…
  • p. 119 …15 m, les 2 " D sighting OF OIB Jec T. Where: " IN SIGN NA " OBSERVED 10…
  • p. 128 ## INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE SOCORRO SIGHTING OF UFO BY LONNIE ZAMORA At 0530, Sunday 26 April…
  • p. 130 …The sighting was made at least an hour before sunset. At 630 pm the sun was…
  • p. 132 …the connection of the tracks with the sighting, etc., and he, as did all others whom…
  • p. 133 speeding car had turned into his line of sight from a side road, and we followed…
PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE
25 Apr 64	2. LOCATION
Socorro, New Mexico	12. CONCLUSIONS
□ Was Balloon
□ Probably Balloon
□ Possibly Balloon
□ Was Aircraft
□ Probably Aircraft
□ Possibly Aircraft
□ Was Astronomical
□ Probably Astronomical
□ Possibly Astronomical
□ Other Ground light
□ Insufficient Data for Evaluation
□ Unknown
3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local night
GMT	4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
☐ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar
☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar
5. PHOTOS
☐ Yes
☐ No	6. SOURCE
civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
not reprtd	8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
one	9. COURSE
back and forth
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING
Witness reported a light going back and forth over a mountain of Socorro while he was driving North.	11. COMMENTS
Clouds in area. Navigation beacon at location. Probable reflection from rotating beacon on clouds.

AT1C FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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