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a ufo landing in socorro new mexico

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by charles lear socorro new mexico april

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1964 5 45 pm

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sergeant loni zamora of the socorro

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police is chasing a speeder on highway

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85.

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he hears a roar from the direction of a

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nearby arroyo and because he knows the

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mayor's dynamite shack is in that area

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he breaks off and goes to investigate

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he drives up a hill on the side of the

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arroyo and to his left about 800 feet

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away he sees what he thinks is a white

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car standing on

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end he also sees two figures either big

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children or small adults dressed in

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white coveralls

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thinking there's been an accident he

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calls in and goes to help

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he pulls up gets out of the car and

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drops the mic he goes to put the mic

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back in its holder and he hears another

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roar he then sees a large white oval

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on its side rise up out of the arroyo

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with a flame coming out the bottom

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it's got a red insignia a crescent with

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an arrow underneath

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thinking it might explode he turns to

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run behind the car

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he bangs his leg on the car and drops

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his glasses he crouches behind

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the car and shields his face the roar

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stops he looks up

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and sees the object is now out of the

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arroyo and level with his car

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the flame is gone it's completely silent

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it moves off slowly towards the

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southwest

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and then accelerates until it's out of

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sight zamora calls headquarters and

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talks to operator nep

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lopez he asks if he can see anything out

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his window which he doesn't and gives

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his location

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sergeant sam chavez of the new mexico

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state police is listening

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and he gets to the site within three

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minutes they go down to investigate and

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see four rectangular impressions

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and charred bushes the case makes

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national news the next day

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it's investigated by an fbi agent in an

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unofficial capacity

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state and local police and local

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military personnel

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one of whom is asked to give a report

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over the phone to the joint chiefs of

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staff sitting in the war room at the

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pentagon

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the case is also investigated by two air

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force officers

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and two private organizations the aerial

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phenomena research organization

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apro and the national investigations

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committee on aerial phenomena

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nycap on the 28th jay alan heineck is

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sent in who is a scientific consultant

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for the air force's ufo investigation

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project blue book on a side note the air

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force car bringing heineck down from

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albuquerque got a flat

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and he ended up hitchhiking the rest of

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the way now heineken had been a skeptic

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prior to this during his almost 20 years

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of involvement with project bluebook

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many people think that this is a case

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that turned him around

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and while he might not have believed we

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were dealing with visitors from outer

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space

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he thought there was definitely

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something strange going on heinek

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returned to socorro twice

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in 1969 project blue book was terminated

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and in 1973 heineck went on to form the

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center for ufo studies

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kufos this case remains a mystery to

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this very day

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and consistently ranks as one of the top

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10 classics