Location file

Socorro, New Mexico

On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.

Map coordinates

34.0584, -106.8914

1964-04-24 / unresolved

FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. documented a report from Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department concerning an unknown object that "landed and has taken off" about one mile southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Zamora described an aluminum-white, egg-shaped object on or near the ground, two persons in white coveralls nearby, a blue-orange flame and loud roar during ascent, and a red insignia resembling the letter "A" on the object's surface.

Egg- or oval-shaped object, smooth, no windows or doors, aluminum-white in color (not chrome)