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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIOfl
FBI ALBUQ UEE:
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSrlCE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
y1 !M MST . URGENT
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APR 25 1964
/TO DIRECTOR, FBI
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FROM SAC , ALBUQUERQUE 62-NEW
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UNI DENTI FI ED FLYING OBJECT, SOCORRO, N.M. APR T
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INFORMATION CONCERNING.
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INFORMATION RECEIVED APR TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE, FROM
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LONNIE ZAMORA, CONSIDERED SOBER, -DEPENDABLE, MATURE, NOT OF
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FANTASY, OFFICER OF POLICE DEPARTMENT SOCORRO, N.M. THAT AT ABOUT
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FIVE FIFTY PM MST , WHILE IN SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO NOTED FLAME I N
SKY TO SOUTHWEST, WHICH HE DECIDED TO CHECK OUT IN BELIEF DYNAM ITE
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SHACK IN AREA HAD BLOWN UP.
WHILE TRAVELING IN ISOLATED AREA APPROXMATELY ONE MILE
SOUTH AREA OF SOCORRO , NOTED IN DEPRESSION ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED
FEET AWAY WHITISH OBJECT WH ICH, UPON GLANCING AT SAME, APPEARED
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TO BE OVERTURNED AUTOMOBILE.
TWO PERSONS IN APPARENT WHITE
COVERALLS WERE ADJACENT TO OBJECT.
THEN TRAVELED OVER ROUGH ROAD TO SPOT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED
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THREE FEET FROM OBJECT AND ABOUT TWENTY -o TWLNTY FIVE FEET HIGHER.
NO PERSONS VISIBLE. ~EARD TWO OR THREE LOUD THUMPS, LESS THAN
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A SECOND APART, THEN WI TH A ROAR AND BLUISH AND ORANGE FLAMES,
OBJECT SLOWLY VERTICALLY ROSE TO ABOUT CAR HEIGHT, THEN NOISE AND
FLAME STOPPED AND OBJECT TOOK OFF AT HI GH SPEED I N STRAI ~HT LINE AND
ALMOST WQROZONTALLY TO DISAPPEAR OVER DI STANT MOUNTAI N.
ZA'· QRA , GREATLY FRIGHTENED,. RADIOED HIS OBSERVA: IONS AND
NMSP S£rlGEANT AND. SOCORRO COUNTY UNDERSHERIFF, QUICKLY ON SCENE,
NOTED FOUR SMALL IRREGULARLY SHAPED SMOULDERING AREAS AND FOUR
REGULAR DEPRESSED AREAS
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