1. To listen to that interview, see https://youtu.be/xd5ToD13d1E, or search for Ben Moss and Tony Angiola on www.kevinrandle.blogspot.com.
2. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer.”
3. To listen to that interview, see https://youtu.be/FIr36JIf48, or search for Rob Mercer on www.kevinrandle.blogspot.com.
4. To listen to that interview, see https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wyz0ZAvhv79, or search for Carmon Marano on www.kevinrandle.blogspot.com.
5. After hearing this, I went through the microfilm copy of the Socorro UFO landing case, and then many other files from that time period, and found they weren’t classified at all. Some of the earlier cases were. If there was some sort of national security aspect to the case, then it might be classified, but generally, the cases carried no classified markings.
1. See Air Force regulations AFR 200-2 (August 1953) and AFR 80-17A (November 1966), and JANAP 146(E), which governs reporting of vital intelligence. UFO sightings fall under it for reporting. The air defense mission for the Air Force fell first under the Air Defense Command and later the Aerospace Defense Command, which was finally deactivated. In 1964, the mission was defense of the continental United States, which by default, gave it the mission of intercepting and identifying any intruders into U.S. airspace. That meant it was required to identify unknown vehicles inside that air space.
2. Randle and Cornett, “How the Air Force Hid,” pp. 18–21, 53–54, 56–57.
3. Mountain Mail (Magdalena, New Mexico) obituary, November 5, 2009, accessed November 9, 2016.
4. Information supplied by Robert Charles Cornett, who was at the very large array outside of Socorro and who called Zamora, who in turn invited him to the barbeque as long as he didn’t mention UFOs.
5. See, for example, Stanford, Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon Pantry, pp. 89–94, and Richards, “UFO Witness Sighs,” pp. A-1–2.
6. The description of the event is taken from the statement made by Patrolman Lonnie Zamora and found in the Project Blue Book files, available on microfilm roll no. 50, case no. 8766. Portions of the statement can be found in Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 856–858, and Steiger, Project Blue Book, pp. 115–121.
7. Steiger, Project Blue Book, p. 118; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Steiger, Project Blue Book, p. 118; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 857; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
11. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 857; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766. There is some question about the author of the statement. It seems to be a combination of Zamora’s words and the notes made by one of the interviewing officials in the hours after the sighting.
12. Steiger, Project Blue Book, p. 119; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
13. Steiger, Project Blue Book, pp. 118–121; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 857–858; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766. Again, this narrative was written mostly in the first person, but it seems to be a statement taken down by a third party.
14. “UAO Landing,” p. 3; Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 30–33.
15. “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
16. “Evidence of UFO,” p. 1.
17. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766; Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 35.
18. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 35–36.
19. “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
20. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 41–43.
21. “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
22. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 860.
23. For a time line of the events, Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp, 32–35.
24. “UAO Landing,” p. 4; Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 42–43.
25. “Evidence of UFO,” p. 1.
26. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 861.
27. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 42–46.
28. Ibid., pp. 46–47.
29. Ibid., pp. 46–48.
30. Ibid.
1. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 1, case no. 10; Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon”; Long, “Kenneth Arnold Revisited”; Sutherly, “Ken Arnold, pp. 42–43, 62, 64–66.
2. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 1, case no. 10; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 139–142.
3. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 1, case no. 10.
4. Badufos.blogspot.com/2016/08/Kenneth-arnold-andpelicans.html, accessed March 26, 2017. The idea that pelicans were responsible for the Arnold sighting was first advanced decades ago.
5. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 1, case no. 34; Ruppelt, The Report, p. 32.
6. Various newspapers around the country reported, including the Phoenix Gazette, Albuquerque Tribune, and El Paso Herald–Post.
7. Project Blue Book files, rolls no. 11, 12, and 13; Ruppelt, The Report, pp. 207–227; Randle, Invasion ; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 998–1,004; Peeples, Watch the Skies!, pp. 62–86.
8. Project Blue Book files, rolls no. 11, 12, and 13.
9. Dewey Fournet, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, July 17, 1995.
10. Ruppelt, The Report, pp. 207–227.
11. Dewey Fournet, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, July 17, 1995.
12. Albert Chop, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, August 20, 1995.
13. Ibid.
14. Project Blue Book, roll no. 29, case no. 5120; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 581–582; Hynek, The UFO Experience ; Swords and Powell, UFOs and Government, pp. 252–255, 263.
15. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 29, case no. 5120.
16. Glenn H. Toy, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, December 11, 2014.
17. Glenn H. Toy, statement in Project Blue Book files, microfilm roll no. 50.
18. Project Blue Book files, microfilm roll no. 50.
19. Glenn H. Toy, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, December 11, 2014.
20. There were, in fact, witnesses at 13 separate locations, and some of those locations had more than a single witness. Pedro Saucedo, for example, was with a pal.
21. “The Levelland Case,” p. 1; Lorenzen, Flying Saucers, pp. 91–99.
22. Project Blue Book files roll no. 45, case no. 7868; Edwards, “Mystery Blast,” pp. 68–72; Stalnaker, “Brilliant Red Explosion,” 1962, p. 1; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 279–281; Holloway, “The Nevada Fireball”; Randle, “The Nevada Fireball.”
23. Stalnaker, “Brilliant Red Explosion,” p. 1.
24. Ibid.
25. Walter Butt, telephone interview by Kevin Randle, November 1988.
26. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 45, case no. 7868.
27. Ibid.
1. The sources for this story, including quotations, are Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 12–17; and Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 859–860.
2. Steiger, Project Blue Book, pp. 125–126.
3. In every other instance, Major Connor has been identified as the public relations officer at Kirtland AFB. Though the assignment to UFO investigation was nearly always an additional duty, it is important to note that Connor was a field grade officer and not a newly commissioned second lieutenant. This suggests a high level of interest by the Air Force.
4. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766. Letter from Colonel de Jonckheere to Headquarters, USAF SAFOI [Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Information) PB, dated May 28, 1964.
5. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766, teletype message marked “routine.”
6. Both Ben Moss and Tony Angiola talked about these other, unidentified witnesses on the radio version of “A Different Perspective,” which can be heard at https://youtu.be/xd5ToD13d1E.
7. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766, undated report signed by Holder but probably written late on April 24th or very early on April 25th.
8. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 82–84; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 860; Ray Stanford, telephone interview by Kevin Randle, February 23, 2016.
9. Ray Stanford talked about the auditory witnesses on the radio version of “A Different Perspective,” which can be heard at www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8QfQ4F_7ww.
10. Ray Stanford, email to Kevin Randle, November 22, 2016.
11. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 83–84.
12. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 859–860.
13. Ibid.
14. Ray Stanford on the radio version of “A Different Perspective,” which can be heard at www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8QfQ4F_7ww.
15. “UAO Landing,” pp. 3–4.
16. Walter Shrode, KSRC radio, Socorro, New Mexico, April 25, 1947, from Wendy Connors audio collection of UFO related recordings. See also www.roswellproof.com/Socorro/Socorro_Zamora_interview.html.
17. “UAO Landing,” pp. 3–4.
18. Hobbs New Mexico News-Sun, April 23, 1965.
19. “Two Dubuquers,” pp. 1, 2.
20. Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 218; “UAO Landing,” pp. 3–4.
21. In later interviews, they would revise this, suggesting that they were west of town when they spotted the dust and then the smoke. Had they been east of town, they would have been heading away from Socorro and the object would have been behind them.
22. “Two Dubuquers,” pp. 1, 2.
23. DeGraw, “Socorro Witness Interviews,” pp. 14–15.
24. Ibid., p. 15.
25. Ibid.
1. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 22–24.
2. “UAO Landing,” pp. 3–4.
3. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 859.
4. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 31.
5. “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
6. Ibid.
7. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 859; Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 35–38; “UAO Landing,” pp. 4–5.
8. Sunset in Socorro on April 24, 1964, was 6:46 p.m. Available light would have persisted for about another 20 minutes but would have been fading fast, especially because of the mountains to the west. With the sun setting and the light fading rapidly, they had little choice but to leave the landing site.
9. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 860.
10. Richard T. Holder signed statement in the Project Blue Book files. It is at the point we can begin to straighten out some of the trouble with the sequence of events that took place after Zamora and Chavez returned to the police station.
11. Recording from Wendy Connor’s collection of UFO interviews. The transcript can be found on Rudiak’s Roswell Proof website: www.roswellproof.com/Socorro/Socorro_Zamora_interview.html.
12. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 42–43; “UAO Landing,” pp. 3–4.
13. Richard T. Holder signed statement in the Project Blue Book files.
14. Ibid. Ray Stanford has a similar notation in his book, though he had inserted Byrnes’s name into the statement written by Holder. Also see Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 42.
15. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 861. Based on an interview Clark conducted with Holder in 1995.
16. “UAO Landing,” pp. 3–4.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., pp. 4–7.
20. Ibid., p. 7. Although Coral Lorenzen suggested an attempt at censorship, the real reason was more likely an attempt to keep the story on a rational track and a fear that it would be derailed by talk of little green men.
21. Richards, “UFO Witness,” pp. A-1–A-2.
22. Ibid., p. 5.
23. Coral Lorenzen reported that while she and her husband were in Socorro, Jim Lorenzen saw Moody standing in a hallway and introduced himself, his last name apparently escaping Moody’s attention. Moody, in the discussion with those at the station, mentioned Dan Fry, who had been an electrician at White Sands and who had claimed contact with alien creatures. Moody then said, “[A]nd there is a woman who heads a research organization.... Her name is Coral Lorenzen. She’s a nut.” See “UAO Landing,” p. 4.
24. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 861–862; “UFO Sighting Re-Enacted.”
25. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766 (Hynek memo on his trip to New Mexico).
26. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 56–58.
27. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 862.
28. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 61–63.
29. Ibid., p. 79.
30. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 89–90.
31. Richards, “UFO Witness,” pp. A-1–A-2.
32. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 90–91.
33. Hynek, “Socorro Revisited”; Steiger, Blue Book, pp. 121–128.
34. This is actually Felix Phillips, who lived a quarter mile or more from the landing site.
35. Hynek, “Socorro Revisited.”
36. Ibid. See also Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 864.
37. Ibid.
38. Ben Moss and Tony Angiola, presentation made to the 47th Annual MUFON Symposium, Orlando, Florida, on August 26–27, 2016.
1. Project Blue Book files, roll 50, case no. 8755; “Mystery Object,” p. 1; “‘Flying Saucer’ Reports”; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 865–866; Lorenzen, “Incident at La Madera,” pp. 4, 6; “Physical Evidence,” p 5.
2. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8755; “The UFO Reporter,” summer 1965 (article in Blue Book with no other identification).
3. Lorenzen, “Incident,” p. 4.
4. Martin E. Vigil letter to Richard H. Hall, June 9, 1964; “Physical Evidence,” p. 5.
5. Lorenzen, “Incident,” p. 5.
6. “Edgewood Man.”
7. Project Blue Book files, roll 50, case no. 8755.
8. Akers, “Landing Region.” One of the most important parts of the article was the mention of the melted soft drink bottle. It would surface in a number of accounts, including one that related specifically to the Socorro landing.
9. Lorenzen, “Incident,” p. 5.
10. Thomas, “‘Flying Saucers.”
11. Project Blue Book files, roll 50, case no. 8755.
12. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 866. “Flying Saucer Puts.”
13. Lorenzen, “UAO Landing,” pp. 1, 3–4; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case 8755 as “Information Only,” from the FSIC Bulletin, Vol. 2, #1 but the origin tracks back to Coral Lorenzen.
14. Lorenzen, “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
15. Good, Alien Contact, pp. 111–114.
16. At one time Norton Air Force Base housed the collection of still and motion pictures from a variety of Air Force missions and commands, and these included those that had been part of Project Blue Book.
17. Emenegger, UFOs, pp. 127–129. This information is apparently part of a dramatization for a documentary about the Holloman AFB landing that is based on the April 1964 incident.
18. At this time, Area 51 and Groomlake were not general knowledge.
19. Good, Alien Contact, p. 113.
20. Ibid., pp. 113–114. See also UFO Cover-Up? (video tape in author’s files).
21. Ibid.
22. Smothers, “Girl Says”; “Flying Object Expert.”
23. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8755.
24. “Flying Object Expert”; “Couple Reports Sighting”; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8755.
25. “‘Flying Saucer’ Reports”; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8755.
26. “‘Flying Bathtub’ Seen.”
27. Randle, The UFO Dossier, pp.102, 107–113, 133; Lorenzen, “The Stokes Case,” pp. 2, 6.
28. Smothers, “Girl Says.”
29. Lorenzen, “The Stull Case,” pp. 1–2.
30. Ibid., p. 2.
31. Ibid.
32. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case number 8759.
33. Paskind, “Man Here.”
34. Ibid.
35. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 48, case 8398.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
1. See, for example, Peeples, Watch the Skies!, p. 182.
2. This is the spelling that appears in most of the reports, but in the Project Blue Book files his name is spelled Squyers.
3. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 14, case no. 1972.
4. “Flying Saucer Seen Hovering Near Ground Northeast of Frontenac, Radio Man Tells Police; Disappears in Sky.” Newspaper clipping from www.ufologie.patrickgross.org/bb/1972.htm, accessed December 16, 2016.
5. Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 191.
6. Ibid. See also Project Blue Book files, roll no. 14, case no. 1972.
7. “Flying Saucer Seen Hovering Near Ground Northeast of Frontenac, Radio Man Tells Police; Disappears in Sky.” Newspaper clipping from www.ufologie.patrickgross.org/bb/1972.htm, accessed December 16, 2016.
8. According to information included in the Project Blue Book Special Report No. #14, “Having an artificial leg, he could not leave the road since the surrounding terrain was rough. However, he was within about 100 yards of it at the point he was standing on the road.”
9. See www.ufocasebook.com/pittsburgkansas1952.html, accessed December 17, 2016. See also Project Blue Book Special Report #14, Project Blue Book files, roll no. 86; and Steiger, Project Blue Book, p. 163.
10. This is a reference to Air Force Regulation 200-2, which covered the reports of UFOs, the investigation of them, and other administrative matters.
11. Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 193.
12. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 60, case 10274.
13. Hewes, “The Oklahoma Humanoid,” pp. 12–17.
14. Ibid. See also Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 579–580.
15. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 580; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 60, summary of the case.
16. Crawford, Hewes, and Hewes, The Intruders.
17. Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, pp. 198–200.
18. Ibid., pp. 193–196.
19. He is frequently identified in various publications as Oscar, as opposed to Oskar.
20. Bloecher, “Herr Linke,” p. 6. Krause is identified as a judge in the Project Blue Book report on the case.
21. The Blue Book report misspells the town as Hasselbach, Saxsonia.
22. CIA statement that appears in Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 194. For an alternative statement, see Edwards, Flying Saucers, pp. 97–98. Edwards’s information seemed to come from a newspaper article. The best information is from Bloecher and the MUFON UFO Journal.
23. Bloecher, “Herr Linke,” p. 6.
24. Ibid., p. 8.
25. Kottmeyer, “Missing Linke.” It should also be noted that some had suggested that this ring of fire is similar to the jets on the Spitzbergen crashed saucer reported in 1952. The problem is that it is clear that the Spitzbergen crash is a hoax.
26. Ibid., p. 8.
27. Ibid.
28. Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 193.
1. Project Blue Book files, roll 15, case no. 2078.
2. Nickell, “The Flatwoods”; Nickell, in Story, The Encyclopedia, pp. 194–200.
3. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, pp. 37–52.
4. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 409–412; Lorenzen and Lorenzen, Encounters, pp. 169–170.
5. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 410.
6. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors.
7. Barker, They Knew Too Much, pp. 17–25; Keyhoe, Flying Saucers.
8. Snitowski, “The West Virginia,” pp. 39–41.
9. Ibid.
10. “More on the ‘Green Monster.’”
11. Painter, “What Happened,” pp. 28–35.
12. Ibid., p. 32.
13. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 411.
14. Davis and Bloecher, Close Encounter ; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 24; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 552–553; Story, The Encyclopedia, pp. 293–294; Lorenzen and Lorenzen, Encounters, pp. 174–175.
15. Davis and Bloecher, Close Encounter, pp. 35–36.
16. “Story of Space-Ship,” p. 1.
17. Ibid.
18. Davis and Bloecher, Close Encounter, pp. 37–38.
19. Letter dated August 19, 1957, signed by Captain Wallace W. Elwood, Project Blue Book files.
20. Ibid.
21. Carmon Marano, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, November 2, 2016.
22. Letter dated September 17, 1957, signed by Captain Robert J. Hertell, Project Blue Book files.
23. “Story of Space-Ship,” p. 1.
24. All quotes in this section from the letter dated September 17, 1957, signed by Captain Robert J. Hertell, Project Blue Book files.
25. “Spacecraft Story,” pp. 1, 2.
26. Lorenzen, Coral. “Little, Little Men,” p. 8.
27. Ibid.
28. Steiger, Strangers, pp. 126–129.
29. Email from Jim Bain to Susan Lubbers, editor of the Long Prairie Leader, and confirmed to Kevin Randle by Jim Bain.
1. Jesse Marcel, Jr. personal interviews by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, August 2, 1989, and August 18, 1990; Marcel and Marcel, The Roswell Legacy.
2. The Marcels’ illustrations can be found online. See also Pflock, Roswell, photo section.
3. See www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Alien%20Writing/Martian.html, accessed February 7, 2017.
4. Vallee, Revelations, p. 21; Randle, Crash, pp. 23–25.
5. Gillmor, Scientific Study, p. 391. I will note here that Warren Smith, invited to participate in an investigation by Schirmer, reported that he had found markings on the ground that were allegedly left by the object. No one else reported them, no photographs were taken, and Smith’s confession to me that he sometimes invented UFO stories and evidence to help validate a sighting suggest that this was just another of his tales.
6. It must be noted that in 1966 a movie, Mars Needs Women, was released in which the “Martians” wore a helmet that had a piece over each ear with an antenna sticking out of it.
7. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 819.
8. Bullard, UFO Abductions, p. 250.
9. In a discussion with Coral Lorenzen in the mid-1970s, after an investigation of the Pat Roach abduction in which she reported seeing a Sam Browne belt on the uniform of the alien abductors, Coral told me that this was something that had been reported in other cases, but had not been published as a way of separating the copycats from the true abductees. The problem was that all the researchers were sharing the information with one another, so there was a possibility of cross-contamination. I will note that my investigation suggests that the Roach abduction was the result of an episode of sleep paralysis rather than alien abduction.
10. Lorenzen and Lorenzen, Encounters, pp. 61–87, 95–96, 98–99, 155; Lorenzen and Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 42–72; Vallee, Dimensions, pp. 122–124; Dolan, UFOs, pp. 201–202.
11. Coral Lorenzen told me that she had said the hair under the arm was red rather than mention it was red public hair, the implication being that there had been no underarm hair. Lorenzen didn’t want to mention public hair in the APRO Bulletin but thought the hair color important so she changed the location.
12. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 162.
13. Project Blue Book Files, roll no. 54, case no. 9338.
14. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 164.
15. Ibid.
16. Project Blue Book Files, roll no. 54, case no. 9338.
17. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 166.
18. For a good analysis of the UMMO hoax, see Clark, UFO Encyclopedia , pp. 939–942.
19. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 59, case no. 10129; Murphy, “Object”; Wilson, “East of Roswell,” pp. 19–23; Kean, “Forty Years,” pp. 3–9, 28–31; Gordon, “Kecksburg Crash,” pp. 3–5, 9; Young, “The Kecksburg”; Gordon, “The Military,” pp. 174–179.
20. Sheaffer, Robert. “Discovery Canada Serves up the Kecksburg Crash Yarn.” Badufos.blogspot.com/2014/01/discovery-canada-serves-up-kecksburg.html (accessed April 4, 2017); Printy, Tim. SUNlite 3,6 (November-October 2011): pp. 1, 6–44.
21. Pflock, Roswell, photo section.
1. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 206–211.
2. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
3. Ibid.
4. “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
5. Rick Baca, who drew the picture, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, March 6, 2017.
6. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
7. Paul Harden, emails to Kevin Randle dated September 17, 2011; December 2, 2016; December 3, 2016; March 1, 2017; and March 2, 2017.
8. According to Baca, the symbol was added after it appeared in the newspaper. Hynek did suggest that the symbol not be published then, but Harden had been the first to make the suggestion.
9. Rick Baca, telephone interview with Kevin Randle, March 6, 2017.
10. Rich Reynolds, email to Kevin Randle.
11. Ray Stanford, letter to Richard Hall, May 3, 1964.
12. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 209.
13. See www.roswellproof.com/Socorro/Socorro.Hynek_interview.html.
14. http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2014/06, June 4, 2014.
15. Interview with Carmon Marano, October 26, 2016; see http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2016/11/x-zonebroadcast-network-former-blue.html or www.youtube.com/watch?=Wyz0Zvhv7g.
1. Klass, UFOs Explained, p. 108.
2. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
3. See www.gpposner.com/Klass_inter.htm , first accessed September 12, 2011, last accessed February 28, 2017. See also www.kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2011/09/philip-klass-andsocorro-ufo-landing.html.
4. For more details, see Chapter 3.
5. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
6. Klass, UFOs Explained, pp. 111–12.
7. Ibid., p. 112.
8. Ibid., p. 113.
9. Harden, www.caminorealheritage.org/PH/ph.htm, originally accessed September 12, 2011.
10. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Tony Bragalia, emails to Kevin Randle, January 20, 2015; January 21, 2015; January 25, 2015; and February 9, 2015; Tom Printy, January 21, 2017; Robert Sheaffer, January 20, 2015; and Vincente-Juan Ballester Olmos, January 25, 2015.
14. Tony Bragalia, email to Kevin Randle, December 2, 2009. See http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/10/lonnie-zamorasocorro-ufo-and-new.html.
15. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
16. Ibid.
17. Tony Bragalia, emails to Kevin Randle, January 20, 2015; January 21, 2015; January 25, 2015; and February 9, 2015.
18. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Thomas, “A Different Angle,” pp. 5–6, see also Thomas, “The Socorro.”
22. Ibid.
23. Quintanilla, UFOs, pp. 29–33.
24. Ibid.
1. Robert Shaw, personal interview with Kevin Randle, August 2, 1973; Howard Groves, personal interview with Kevin Randle, August 2, 1973; Randle, “Mysterious Clues,” pp. 20–23, 76–78; Randle, “A Closer Look,” pp. 44–49.
2. Howard Groves, personal interview with Kevin Randle, August 2, 1973.
3. Ibid.
4. Johnson, “Birthday Landing,” p. 1.
5. Randle, “A Closer Look,” pp. 44–49; Robert Shaw, personal interview with Kevin Randle, August 2, 1973.
6. Howard Groves, personal interview with Kevin Randle, August 2, 1973; Randle, “Mysterious Clues,” p. 22.
7. Randle, “A Closer Look,” pp. 44–49; Robert Shaw, personal interview with Kevin Randle, August 2, 1973.
8. Randle, “A Closer Look,” pp. 4–49; “Those Iowa Craters,” pp. 1, 4–5.
9. Ibid.
10. Randle, “A Closer Look,” pp. 44–49.
11. Steiger, Mysteries, pp. 100–103; Pat Barr and Warren Barr, personal interviews with Kevin Randle, September 1972.
12. Steiger, Mysteries, p. 102.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., pp. 103–105.
15. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 41, case no. 7203; “Object Lands,” pp. 1–2; Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 43.
16. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 43.
17. “Object Lands, Takes Off in Texas.” The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, March 1961, pp. 1–2.
18. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 41, case no. 7203.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 65, case no. 10944; “Landing in North Dakota,” pp. 1, 3.
22. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 65, case no. 10944.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 160–162; Project Blue Book files, roll no. 57, case no. 9808.
27. “The Cherry Creek,” p. 7.
28. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 65, case no. 10944.
29. “Landing Probed,” p. 7.
30. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 65, case no. 10944.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 324–326; Faruk, “The Delphos Landing,” pp. 21–25; Faruk, “Further Comment,” pp. 134–137; “Landing Case in Kansas,” pp. 1, 3; “More on the Kansas,” pp. 8–9; Vallee, Dimensions, pp. 164–166; Klass, UFOs Explained, pp. 312–332; “UFO Knocks Down,” pp. 3–4.
34. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 324; Klass, UFOs Explained, pp. 318–319.
35. Ibid.
36. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 324.
37. Ibid., p. 325.
38. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 325; Klass, UFOs Explained, pp. 321–322.
39. www.isaackoi.com/best-ufo-cases/10-consensus-lists-nationalenquirer-panel.html, accessed April 9, 2017.
40. Klass, UFOs Explained, p. 323.
41. Ibid.
42. Gillmor, Final Report.
43. Klass, UFOs Explained, pp. 328–330.
44. “Alleged UFO.”
45. oxalicacidinfo.com, accessed March 1, 2017.
46. Klass, UFOs Explained, pp. 312–332.
47. Ibid.
48. Swords, “Soil Analysis,” pp. 120–122.
49. Ibid., pp. 313–314, 326–328.
50. Ibid., p. 327.
1. Project Blue Book files, roll numbers 86 and 87, designated as “Administrative Files.” As an example, on April 1, 1960, Francis Archer, a scientific advisor to Blue Book, in a letter to Major General Dougher, commenting on a memo written by Colonel Evans, wrote, “[I] had tried to get bluebook out of ATIC for 10 years...and do not agree that the loos of prestige to the UFO project is a disadvantage.” See also, Randle and Cornett, “How the Air Force,” pp. 18–21, 53–54, 56–57.
2. Review of the Blue Book files including the multiple witness and radar case from Minot, North Dakota, October 24, 1968. Interview with Carmon Marano, former Project Blue Book officer, November 2, 2016. Memos for the record confirm the telephonic investigation. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 81, case no. 12548.
3. The information in this section came primarily from the Project Blue Book files. See also, Randle, Project Blue Book, pp. 151–163.
4. In discussions with Carmon Marano, both during the radio interview and in the prep prior to that interview, he confirmed that neither he nor Lt. Col. Hector Quintanilla, the chief of Project Blue Book, had visited Minot Air Force Base.
5. Project Blue Book files, Project Card, roll no. 81, case no. 12548.
6. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 564.
7. Information developed by Wendy Connors and Michael Hall. For additional information see Randle, The Government, pp. 47–63.
8. Swords and Powell, UFOs and Government, pp. 30–71; Project Blue Book files, rolls no. 86 and 87; Ruppelt, The Report, pp. 26–44.
9. www.project1947.com/fig/projsauc.htm, accessed April 10, 2017; Swords and Powell, UFOs and Government, p. 210.
10. Ruppelt, The Report, pp. 58–59; Swords and Powell, UFOs and Government, p. 42–43.
11. Hall and Connors, Captain Edward, pp. 1–35.
12. Ruppelt, The Report, pp. 275–296.
13. Based on an analysis of the investigative conclusions in the Project Blue Book files.
14. “AF Intimidates,” pp. 1–3, 4.
15. “AF Secretly,” pp. 5–6.
16. Ibid.
17. “AF Intimidates,” pp. 1–3, 4.
18. Gillmor, Scientific Study, pp 529–533; Project Blue Book, Administrative Files, roll nos. 85–86.
19. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 45, case nos. 7868, 7869.
20. In discussions with Carmon Marano, both during the radio interview and in the prep prior to that interview, he described the final months at Project Blue Book and what happened to the material collected by the project.
21. Carmon Marano, telephone interview with Kevin Randle October 27, 2016; radio interview November 2, 2016.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Unofficial Socorro file scanned and sent to Randle, courtesy of Rob Mercer.
1. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 31.
2. Lorenzen, “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
3. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
4. Lorenzen, “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
5. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 36.
6. Holden signed report, Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
7. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
8. Lorenzen, “UAO Landing,” p. 3.
9. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid. This information, though in the Blue Book files, is uncorroborated hearsay from the residents of Socorro. Hynek also took samples of the sap.
12. Ibid.
13. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 55.
14. “Unidentified Flying Object Report,” Socorro, New Mexico, 24 April 1964, Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
15. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
16. Ibid.
17. James E. McDonald letter to Richard Hall, September 5, 1968; Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 864; Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” p. 73–74.
18. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 74–75.
19. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 862–863; Stanford, Socorro “Saucer,” pp. 78–84; Hall, “Pentagon Pantry,” pp. 15–18; Stanford, “The Pentagon Pantry Is Not Bare! (Part 1),” pp. 13–15, 20; Stanford, “The Pentagon Pantry Is Not Bare! (Part 2),” pp. 10–13.
20. Stanford, Socorro “Saucer ,” p. 130.
21. Ibid., pp. 133–134.
22. Ibid., p. 134.
23. Clark, UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 862–863.
24. For another look at this, see Brener, Walking Through Walls, pp. 20–21; Dolan, UFOs, p. 275.
25. “Socorro Analysis,” p. 4.
26. Hall, “Pentagon Pantry,” p. 15.
27. Ibid, p. 16.
1. Project Blue Book files, roll no. 50, case no. 8766.
2. Quintanilla, UFOs, p. 32.
3. Ibid., p. 33.
4. Ibid., p. 32.