From a search for electron pairs produced in p p collisions at s = 550 GeV we report the observation of eight events which we interpret as resulting from the process p +p→Z 0 + anything, followed by the decay Z 0 → e + + e − or Z 0 → e + + e − + γ , where Z 0 is the neutral Intermediate Vector Boson postulated by the unified electroweak theory. We use four of these events to measure the Z 0 mass M Z = 91.9 ± 1.3 ± 1.4 (systematic) GeV /c 2 .