PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSfONS n Was Balloon ~5 Apr 6'~ Socorro J Ne,, i1C'xico . C1 Probably Balloon ,:i: OAT~T-IM_E_G_R_O_U_P ..!._4._TY_P_E_O_:F_OBSi:f~VATl0to' ---------IO Possibly Balloon local night tQ Ground-Vi suol 0 GroundRodar 5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Was Aircraft 0 Probably Aircraft 0 Possibly Aircraft 0 Was Astronomical 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Possibly Astronomical 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 1. NUMBER OF O-BJECTS 9. COURS- E-----J.-u Other_ . ground light 0 Insufficient Oota far Evaluation llot reprtd ,11. COMM[NT~ 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING li tness r eported a light going back nnd fcr t It pver a mountan:or Socorro while he ,.m n . r 1 v .ing .North. ATIC FORM J2Q (RKV 26 9EI" 52) l'lrmrl~ .LII Etl't''D. Nnvlg tLioll be'o con at loc.,ti.o n . Pl'Ohflblc 1eflectlon from ' o" 1.1. j nf h " n con o n c l ouds. SOURCE: ALBUCVERQUE JOURNAL DATE: 28 APR 64 SOCORRO N M oAti' ~.,al ~\I 1 e ate 1ng By .JEBBY SliOTRERS Concem over unidentified :1yina objeets continued at a :1igh pitch Jtere today. LatesL incidents -A report from a 10-year old girl' thM she was burned 'Yhile watc~ng a strange egg- shaped , thing in the sky yes- terdalf ,aftfirnoon. -A,, 'iepo(t from a truck driver-a~his wife that-they saw mysterious objects betwe~m here and incidents start- whe!n a policeman take of:f south of experts from of the country Mexico to investi- eye, nose and fac e yesterday alter- noon Sharon Stull, one of cbildNn of Mr. and Mrs. Mal-S~ of 1409 Wilmoore On LoweU SchOOl Groan 6 . ,- She s~ she gazed;' -..aa. \ a '{!P,O. UFO for ~ve or 10 mfnufes. . x ~ ~ ~.hartly- ~re 12:30 P ODlenith abolrt the incident j'ust !(GC;~=7~ ~ica .. ,ne LoweD School groliad .thad her draw th~ silvery ~Stull sa~ Aite~ I while in clasa, ~a ron~ octor ~atd h .1 . s 37' and _.,his wife' 35, she burning senaa.;dlacno.ais. is, COnJ~ctivltls o~ 1805 Walter SE;. said they tions the eyes and :face. (membrane inflammatlon) of sighted two. UFO' a traveling She an4: mother believe both eyei and first -degree at about the speed of j e t her were inflicted .b,.sunbum. under ~e eyes and pla~es. at 5 :30 p.m. yester- the . the sky. . . :; .... e . t.lie' Jl4f&e, adding: day as they_ ~ere driving to-t. Sharaa:aid she was not fac..'f Tb ~ exposure she had ard Albuquerque;on-U. S . ing th ..~ while watcltillaJeat~rdll would usually be 5,.17 miles north of -Socorro. the ~ slightly smaller nmderecl insufficient to cause . .Shine BriJhtl,- than Blr.:ai)'plane and havm1 ,. bum and infiammatibn. "I wasn't goinl to report it n o windo,.., speed across the t. appe~ to be the type of ~ecause I didn't want to be- sky and &appear in the df a--rn Wll and inflammation lieve my e)(et ~--rMr.::Green ta~ce. Hez: mother said t b,e . used. ~ longer exposure to s~id today. B!:~ ~ wife ha--never had a SUD-:he sun;'!~ d1ved beneath."\, tlie' truck's burn and c:Ouldn't have gotten He said he believes there dashboard ~-eeing the o:1e in the few minutes she s no permanent eye damage. egg-shaped thin1s, about hall was outaide. Mrs. Stull was extremely the size of jee plAnes an Her sister, R obin, 8, says :onc~mect and frightened over shining brigbtly'm th~ -setting s he, too, saw the thing, but he mcident today. She also sun. . paid little .attention to it and tept Robin home from school. Green sa1d he saw them c!idn't continue to watch it. possibly two minutes before Sharon said two other chil they disappeared over t h e dren also &lanced at it brief-eastern horizon . Jy. 1 Federal Aviation Agency ot- Sharon..~as treated by a a~s said the~ have seen doctor at ~ataan Hospital last nothm~ unusual 1n the sky or night and was kept in bed at n the1r radar screens, Air- home today with her blinds anes appear only as small drawn to protect her inflamed ts on. the screen~.and it-. eyes and eyelids. ikely-a UF0Jcoulcl be di Complaiu of Pains_ tinguished trom..-..:an' airplan Part of .her face and D~ on radar ... ~ :.~.:,:. a ppeared to be puffy and ~red. -:official' -saict:~tt: would~ possible in. som~ areu t. track a . UFO-tQ see where 1t goes jf they received' a report tror:d. a responsible age~cy immediately after a sightlng. Radar sightings have to be in a direct line and can be blocked by m o u n t a i n s, making low -altitude radar difficult sometimes, The Weather Bureau; FAA and Kirtland AF Base said there were no balloons -Or lotller strange -appearing ob- ~tl iA Uw. &k ben" Shu.ea at. tli .. thne:;, ar- loa. ... what she-t!did!.! '- She continued to complUi of Police interviewed her a , - SOURCE: ALBUQUERQUE, JOURNAL DATE: 28 APR 64 Reports Spread In New Mexico SANTA FE (UPI) -N'tt Mexico' s perennial to flying saucers has hold of the state. &lain more ~'objects" .-reported police over the weekend. The; latest, whicl:i out the . Air :. Force ... and FBI, . was..-spOtted..> early day morniDc at;. La Mac !.,. sl about 50, mi*.Dortb of a Fe. State. Polictt,'-"&J:r~ml .Lvu rtin Vilfl.aaidd'there WaiSI eomethma .. there Orlando Gallegoa. of{ Santa e told State;;P.ollc )h~ within 2QO.,faat gt a me~ a1 objec~ tbatrloobd:. Gallegos' .:r1!' ift'Pt UlC' heels of' 8 mmilar report from a Socorro policeman, Lonnie Zamora; who said. he spotted an object'.near ro Friday. ulpt-~amora,.. tn clearin~ up false -nporta day, said . th .. .:J object. r01~ about 20 feet off~th and slowly. flew, away. . .. ,_-' .. Similar reporta. cam a Soeorio teeaa1er;. e AI' querque motorJat; and t w men drivina iD the La ll4a.c era.~ Satarda~DIIht. Albuquerque motorJSt, Cie4)r Mitropoli1, ~lie aaw "sUver lookfnc'~object. It appeared over .. a:: mountain the Caballo ~Reservoir area. In both the Socorro and Madera r P o r't s ground in th areas w}o,,.,..~ the object, were reported have landed wu and burned. Also found ,., ... P.I "paw prints, like a mCllun1~aiz lion's." as 'Well' as "'laJ1din. g~ar ~arlm' -four-impres- Slon.s m the dirt. Until the recent spottings, the last unidentified ob- ~ect was in New Mttxl 1co near GaLllu:o pus polfdmau at the LA MADERA, NEW MEXICO ormation Only ....- UFO Investigator, Vol. III, No 2, AprU-l.fa;r 65 New Documentary Film A new 80-minute documentary film on U FOs, entitled "Phe- nomena-Seven Point Seven," was nearing release elate :t5 lhi~i issue was closed. The moving picture was prepared by Empire Fllm Stucltos, Hollywood, where a company official explained the title: "Sc\'<.n Point Seven nteans the 7.7% of an estimated 8000 si~htin~s classified as UFOs by the Air Force.'' (This Cl!!ure is close to the latest AF admission or 663 unknowns out or 8008 cases, . which works out as 7 .44~.) . One of the main sequences shows the now widely- known Socorro case. Last April 24, O!hcer Lonnie Zamora, on hll~h way patrol, sighted an oval-sll.'lped craft near Socorro, N. M. When he left his pohce car Cor a closer look, the strange machine blaste d name from unclerneath, rose to a l ow altitude, then raccc1 out of sight. Landin$t-~ear marks and scorC'hed terrain wert> cheC'ked by AF Chief UFO Consultant Dr. J. Allen Hynek and otht>r AF in- vestigators. Later, Hynek st.'lted he did not doubt Zamora's report, and that he had no explanation. Major Maston M. Jacks, AFHQ spokesman, rN(ntly ~avp Zamora a top believability ratm~" In a. ~tatement to noc:er Treat, for a feature article In the Baltimorl' NPws American. Even more surprisin~. In May Jacks' letter to NlCAP mentber Robe1t Barrow, Syracuse, desrrlbed the UFO as a "Vl'hidc"- he still claimed no evidence that It w:\s from outPr space. However, this official ndmisslon that the UFO was snmf' kind of unknown machine, is a lon~-and puzzlintt-}ump ftom th<' usual "explain away" answers of mirac;es, dl'lusions. <'tc. For this reason, the new film may have a strontt impact. The original Socorro report had wide public tty, hut to date the A F has never issued a press release admitt&nc: the UFO was a strange vehicle, nature unknown. U it h.'\d, this probably would have been a front-page story, focussln~t ser1ou~ attention on Cont. p. 5 col. 1 , 'Phenomena-Seven Point ' T mW. :YORK .~ournal American Dr. Hrnek eataha ra.tton 1n Socorro-woUld Qet.cr-1 mine whether he would Espanola. where State Capt. Martln Vlril found ground . still. smouldertn . hours after a reported alg: Authorities.. found &Tass an tour Indentation .. In t:'edae-sha:ped the Soeorro- panola . . . . . lUlu near . .t;s- 1 finish Hynek uicl: ~ hoped ftoc:lt ~:v. ~ .~v t~J&tlon hes-e He-aald lie' fl~s.' fo~d ' . People honeat-: and. 1n mo&tl reportt~ ,. ... . I cere -Y common thJn '"' ever. are often rea rs,. uOW such reports, h P<>nsible . tor weather balloo I . Of birds, moon can I u., eve~ the PGrts .. D ead. to. ihese re- auch , case . ek ld .. IJn come from entire! r~hportt often pJe who T . oned peo- aee IO~t!:!!ln,. tha . ~.,._a,. . ASSOCIATID PRISS ,: A 20-year-old gejwood youth say; he fired aix ahota at one of Me~co'a unidentified flying objects. State Police~n Tommy Richardson of Moriarty re- ported he receive9 a telep?one call from Do'n Adams of EdgewOQd aboutr I : 30 a.~ today. . The repod said Adams told of seeing the object about I 00 feet. off the ground: He said it appeared to be a AuoTeSCent or glowing gTeen-colored object about 2 5 feet long. ' ! He told ~he officer he :drove his car under the ob- jeot and hia.car stalled. The youth reported he then got out and fired six ahota at the object, reloaded and fired again, without effe:ct. The officer said he did not. deter mine if Aclama. was using a rifle or a pistol. _ ;._ . . -- -, teA. Adam'a. account~ was another of several sueb . reports that b.ave kept New Mexico and mili- tary authorities puay smce Fri- Newspape'r offices and broad- cast stationa were recetvmg a few telepbooe calls. about simi lar sigbtiDg.s but moat. call would not ideaify themselves saying they did .DOt want to . The reports came from po'lDUI\ following t tlioe !rom oear ~ ballo Reservoir. south of. Tn&.ni ' or Ceneequeoces, north to . an\ area near Eapaoola. .' Slmilu-Rap otis , All the r.rta are slmilar in that they describe oval or egg- shaped objects. with siz ~ti mates!l"anliol from th.e ~e. a ~ar to about 30 {eet or lDII State. poU~ cialB . have. eQlftrmed. flnctinl, scorc:be.Veart~t.lit the altet;. aod left b1(..1fDe C.~ Spokesmen. at all N~ Mt'Kl!I;UI military baiBI P)t they have such 'airc:nft. ~fltti.DI tbe script:ioas. . Repo& Monday Dight included: , . . man Who-refused to 1den tify himself because he said be would be laughed at, said ho saw a ball of red flame JAWJ' near Las Vegas. He made estimate of tbe size of the ball He said he was going from J.AAt:l McAllister to J ,,. be saw tbe objec.t. New informati.oo hi-. be 'G rea vealed about other 1i1htinp, State Police Sgl. Sam have% sa'id he was told by Socorro policeman Lmuue Zamora that the {1}1() he . saw Friday, the f irst of the series of sightings, had red markings on its silvery Chavez said Za11lOI'a told him the design was an 'inverted V with three b ars crossing it, but Utal the A ir Force had told him not. to discuss lhe mark- Three sigbtiogs occurred Sun day night. An un.identifJed 18- year-old girl told. Socorro po- lice she saw a fire with some thing in it in Lhe same vicinity where Zamora had been, .. Orlando Gallegos, ss; of Santa Fe, said he saw a. craft as long a~ a telephone pole and, about 14 feet in circumfreoce near his father's home north of La . State Pollee Capt, Martm Vi gil investigated the La Madera sighting. He fomwi the ~round still smouldering 20 boun alter the sighting. He. said rocks in the ~enter of . t.be area' were split, a botUe-wu melted and green bro811 had baeD. ~t on fire, evidently by heat. Saturday ' night two tmidenli- fied motorists sa'id &n .object similar to the egg-shaped., siJ- :ver craft described. by Zamora --~.saf?ttb sky 1tonn~:~eir ,,~ 'pPao lnfra-Red' Burns Suffered by Girl Who ~Saw' Objecf A lOyear-old girl was treat ed for "infr8-red burns" on her face afte~ she said she watched an "egg-shaped" object hover- ing near Lowell . Elementary School Tuesday noon for about 10 minutes. Young Sharon Stull, daugh- ter. of Mr. and Mrs .. Max .Stull, 11409 Mllmoore SE, told. her-par. ents find Pollee Lt. C. K. Jolly, the "queer looking . thing" bounced . up and doW11. about three-times in the sky and Jolly said the girl's younger sister, Robin, 8, also saw the object but refused to look at it and ran off to play. The girl was treated by a physician for burna "about'the eyes and nose who, aceording to Jolly,. said he believes Sharon "saw some thing and it"' burned 'her;~; ~1' Sharon said it was not. the sun abe :.was .. looking at4 .She told Jolly the obj~ wu tothe .northeaa~ and the aun . .wu.. be- hind . her~ Her parenta -said : Sharon it very truthful. }L PASO H F:R.At.O-POST, Monday, AprU 2'T, t98t _..._ (CoatJ.auecl from PJ One) '' foor 'Jirder-like Jegi ... The 'j, u s h object OIJ the desert about supposedly was burnect by exhaust a mile south of Socorro. He denied from the saucer. ~ seeing any signs of Ufe around the . He said he first saw the object object 1Jld. aai4 tbe machine rose from~about 200 yards. away and and flew slowly away witil. It thought it was-an overturned au~ faded from sight: '.,, ' -. mobile. He 5aid it waa smoking. He said . he spotted what a~ Zamora said he also saw what red to be a. pair of white cover looked. like white coveralls but alls-near tbe saucer, but could not could DOt tell if anyone-or IDY tell H IDJthinc or anyone was iD thiDg-was in them: . . them. The object.,..about the height < ~ ' - of a car but larJer, appeared to DRIVING to within 100 feet of be made of a shiny, aluminum the object; _ the policeman said he like substance; Z!lmora said . . It saw what looked like red letter- . flew away after he got within ing OJi the side of the object. about 100 yards; be. said..~,. Hrsald It then rose from the . ~ ' .'i ~t , ! r'"'' ~ ground and sailed off ln a west TWO INVEmGATING officers erly direttioo, never.ae~ng more -Nere-at thescen~ yeste~y from than'21t-feet off_ thJ .around and Kirtland -Ai~Force-~Bue ill AI narrowly-tinissina a dynamite buquerqu&. Maj.WDUam Conaor shaclc.~1!d -: .. ~ ." : .: and Sgt. DavieS. Moody UJed a gel Holde~ said he checked with both ge,-counter to check the area, Wbltfl' Sands-and nearby Holloman where the oilly evidence of ID. un-Air Force Base-. NeltJ\er base, be usual visitor wai a b~med b~b said,'.Js usina any object compar- and four ~m&!l depresal~ns !P" the able to: mora'a machh".. . .. ground:-,- :-:J. -.' .:. .'? ' Gove~meat; agencies .wJll' con- -Zamora. said th& machin~ ~had tinut' tba.: jnvutiaat.ina, ... Holder B1 Ualletl Preu tat.raau .. at discovered were "paw prints, "almost ientical, in s i z c, A rash of unidentified fly-like a mountain lion's,". as coloring, marking, character- ing object sigbtings had New well as "1 and in g gear istics and landing gears to Mexico State Police, local law marks , the thing reported by Zamora. e n f ~ r ceme!lt agen~ies .and Photos Mailed .. Either it was an .awful ~ i 11 tar Y mstallabons m a The associate director of good coincidence or it 1s the dtther today. .',. Interplanetary Intelligenc e of same object," Hews said. No less than six "authentic Unidentified Flying Objects . Zamora, when contact~d at spottings have-been reported trom ru. Oklahoma City his home early today, satd he since Friday when Socorro that pictures of an UFO bad not yet received t h e ~ollceman L o n n i e Zamora in 1956 by a s h i p-pbotographsp : s1ghted an egg-shaped radi() officer were be-Meanwhile, m iIi tar y of- whlc,h roared. off the ground, ing mailed.