Saturday, December 30, 2017

Socorro UFO Landing - Fused Sand and More

There have been questions raised about aspects of this case that are buried in documentation that can be found in many locations. Given the questions about Mary Mayes and the "fused sand," I thought I would publish some of that documentation to prove its existence and let others bring their own interpretations to it. First up is from The A.P.R.0. Bulletin of May, 1964, and provides one of the hints about how extensive the search of the landing site was on the first night.


Next up is a letter from Charles Moore to James McDonald about what was found on the night of the landing. This addresses some of the issues about Mary Mayes, but also shows that others were there before her and none of them saw the fused sand that she mentioned to Stan Friedman. It also provides some commentary on the soil analysis, though the comments are not very extensive.


And here is page two, which might be more relevant.


Please note the name of another who visited the site on the evening of April 24, and who made a careful examination of the landing area. While the information is from Charles Moore, it does reflect what he had been told by John Reiche about his examination of the site. It also provides more information about the search for the fused sand.

Soil samples collected by Captain Richard Holder were turned over to Dr. J. Allen Hynek for analysis. The Air Force provided information about that, though it was not very comprehensive.



Finally, in what might explain why Mayes would have told the tale to Friedman, there is this newspaper article. This is, of course, speculation on my part, but when I saw the clipping, I thought immediately of motivation for inventing a tale. Granted, it is speculation, but it is the first document that I have seen that addresses the issue.


This is from an Albuquerque newspaper and it has been suggested that Mayes was a student in Albuquerque at one time. She could have seen the article, but I freely admitted that this is a stretch. I just thought I would mention it.

If I find other documents that seem relevant to the case, I'll publish them here. I will note that each of these documents is protected by copyright.

5 comments:

Paul Young said...

All this Mayes stuff pales in comparison with the big story at the moment concerning the 2004 Nimitz incident. For the first time, that I can remember, news outlets like the Telegraph and BBC are actually reporting on it with a straight bat. I'm looking forward to hearing your take on all this, Kevin?

Anthony Mugan said...

I think this must be the definitive view on this specific topic

Don said...

Kevin "This is from an Albuquerque newspaper and it has been suggested that Mayes was a student in Albuquerque at one time. She could have seen the article, but I freely admitted that this is a stretch. I just thought I would mention it."

Mayes was in Las Vegas in 1968. Whether plane, bus, or driving, and the bus and driving route to Tuscon from Las Vegas would have been, according to my 1970 map, (not the greatest but it has the main highways), from Las Vegas to Flagstaff to Phoenix to Tuscon. It would have been a round trip, too. Doing so, in order to qualify for a $100 reward would likely have cost her more than $100. And that would be out of pocket because McDonald wasn't the one offering a reward.

Best Regards,

Don

Don said...

Kevin, regarding Moore's mention of The Lovelace Foundation in his respnse to McDonald, Mayes was associated with it in 1964, at the time she was a speaker at a conference at NMIT on April 11, 1964, as mentioned earlier, two weeks before Zamora's sighting.

Best Regards,

Don

KRandle said...

Don -

A don't want to sound sarcastic, but in 1968, they did have telephones which meant that she could have used that... but the article just might have inspired her to mention things to Friedman because there was a search for the witnesses in the car at Opal Grinder's gas station (and before someone feels the need to point out that Opal Grinder didn't own the gas station, he was merely the manager... I know that). The money might not have been the motivation, but the "renewed" interest in the case.

So, are you saying that she couldn't have been a speaker at a conference and working at the Lovelace Foundation?