The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
UAP Insight Analysis— AI generated, not official
This FBI file (Serial 438) contains multiple copies of two detailed investigative reports dated May 8, 1964, documenting the famous Socorro, New Mexico UFO incident of April 24, 1964. The file includes FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes Jr.'s field report and a lengthy verbatim testimony from witness Officer Lonnie Zamora, along with hand-drawn diagrams of the landing site showing the positions and measurements of ground impressions, burn marks, and 'footprints.' The document represents the primary FBI investigative record of what became one of the most thoroughly documented close-encounter cases in UFO history.
Key Findings
→Officer Lonnie Zamora, Socorro Police Department, reported observing a shiny, aluminum-white, smooth oval/egg-shaped object (no windows or doors) with two landing legs and two humanoid figures in white coveralls approximately 150-200 yards from his patrol car at approximately 5:45 PM on April 24, 1964.
→The object displayed a blue-orange flame emanating from its underside, emitted a roaring sound that changed from low to high frequency, rose slowly straight up, then accelerated away in a southwest direction toward Box Canyon/Six Mile Canyon Mountain.
→FBI Special Agent Byrnes personally inspected the site and documented four rectangular ground indentations (approximately 16x6 inches, 2 inches deep) and three burned grass patches, consistent with a landed object; hand-drawn diagrams with precise measurements are included in the file.
→Agent Byrnes vouched for Zamora's credibility, noting he had known him for five years and considered him sober, industrious, and not given to fantasy; Zamora was observed to be pale and agitated at the scene.
Extracted Entities
People
Officer Lonnie Zamora (Socorro Police Department)Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes Jr. (FBI, Albuquerque)Nep Lopez (radio operator, Socorro County Sheriff's Office)Sergeant M. S. Chavez (New Mexico State Police)Socorro County Undersheriff Jim LuckieOfficer Ted Jordan (New Mexico State Police)George Morillo (Socorro resident, location reference)Floyd Reynolds (Socorro resident, referenced incidentally)Vivian Reynolds (Floyd Reynolds' son, ~17, referenced incidentally)
Agencies & Organizations
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Albuquerque Field OfficeNew Mexico State Police
→The object bore a red insignia on its side described as roughly an inverted 'V' with a horizontal line, approximately 2.5 feet high and 2 feet wide, which Zamora sketched before Sergeant Chavez arrived.
Analyst Notes
Single primary witness (Zamora) for the object itself; Sergeant Chavez arrived after the object departed and only corroborated physical ground traces, not the object. The document contains multiple carbon/photocopy duplicates of the same pages rather than additional witnesses. Zamora initially described the object as looking 'like a balloon' when radioing in, suggesting some interpretive uncertainty. No sensor data, radar confirmation, or photographic evidence of the object itself is present. The file is notable for physical trace evidence (ground impressions, burned grass) personally inspected by an FBI agent, which elevates evidential value above single-witness-only status.
Socorro County Sheriff's Office
Socorro Police Department
Locations
Socorro, New MexicoAlbuquerque, New MexicoOld Rodeo Street (extension of Park Street south), Socorro606 Reservoir Street, Socorro (Zamora's address)Box Canyon / Six Mile Canyon Mountain, southwest of SocorroSite approximately one mile southwest of Socorro
Aircraft & Objects
Shiny, aluminum-white, smooth oval/egg-shaped object with no windows or doors, bearing two leg-like appendages slanted outward, approximately 3.5 feet off ground when first observed, emitting a blue-orange flame from underside during ascent, traveled at very high speed in straight-line flight 10-15 feet above ground
Dates
April 24, 1964 (incident date, approximately 5:45-6:00 PM)April 25, 1964 (early morning, continuation of Zamora interview)May 8, 1964 (date of FBI reports)