An explosive tale that’s been lost among the dust of the Mexican desert. In 1974 a mysterious incident took place that some say involved a UFO and a small plane on a collision course followed by a race between two governments to recover the debris. UFO Files s2e13: Mexico’s Roswell, History 12th December 2005
The object appeared to be heading on a course towards Corpus Christi, Texas. American air defense systems were alerted. ibid.
The unthinkable had happened: a UFO/plane collision. ibid.
A Mexican recovery [team] searched for the downed craft. Across the border American Intelligence was listening in. ibid.
The saucer’s surface had the appearance of polished steel. It had no makings, no lights and there were no bodies inside. It did however appear to be damaged in two spots. ibid.
American surveillance revealed that the Mexicans had placed the UFO on a flat-bed truck but something had gone wrong. ibid.
27th August 2.38 p.m. Unsure of what happened US officials sent out their rescue team. Four helicopters departed from Fort Bliss. But nothing had prepared the Americans for what they found ... All the Mexicans dead. There’s no evidence of what killed the Mexican team. ibid.
The disc was lifted and taken back to the US. ibid.
1991: That year not one, not two, but dozens of UFO sightings were reported over Mexico. What gave the 1991 sightings credibility was that strangers reported seeing the same thing at the same time on the same day yet they were hundreds of miles apart. ibid.
From all corners of Mexico came videos showing a strange metallic-looking object just east of the eclipse. ibid.
Captured on tape ... 10 June 2004: Guadalajara, Mexico: An amateur photographer captures unknown objects in the sky. 21st June 2004 ... Another fleet caught on tape. 30th March 2005 ... Yet more unexplained objects dot the Mexican sky ... In June 2005 a fleet sighting had people believing. ibid.
A series of frightening UFO encounters, some allegedly fatal, which took place in the Amazon jungle … on the island of Colares at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. UFO Files s2e14: Brazil’s Roswell, History 17 December 2005
An extraordinary and disturbing series of events that transformed life on Colares for ever. It began on a warm night in October 1977. ibid.
Dozens of people claim that over the past few weeks they’d been chased as if they were being hunted down and attacked by the lights. ibid.
Over the next two months the sightings increased and panic swept the island. Over 80 people reported being targeted by the intense beams of light. The locals became so alarmed that many of the women and children left the town. ibid.
The patients displayed what appeared to be radiation burns as well as unusual puncture marks. ibid.
The Air Force did not release their findings to the public. ibid.
Christmas 1980: For more than 20 years a handful of US Air Force personnel has been haunted by an event that took place in Rendlesham Forest, just outside their base near Woodbridge in Suffolk. They maintain that in 1980 they experienced close-up an encounter with an unidentified craft. Their accounts make the Rendlesham incident one of the most detailed and well documented to date. These witnesses also say that the authorities launched an investigation and tried to cover it up. UFO Files s2e15: Britain’s Roswell, History 17th December 2005
Researchers and observers agree that a massive nuclear arsenal was stockpiled beneath these concrete bunkers. ibid.
Burroughs felt nervous. Alarmed, the men sped back to the gate to call the Flight Desk from a secure phone line. ibid.
Within minutes [Jim] Penniston and his driver arrived at the East Gate. ibid.
They headed toward the mysterious light … Sergeant Penniston felt an electric charge in the air. The closer they moved toward the light, the less the scene resembled a crash. Sergeant Penniston approached within ten feet of the object. And the bright light dimmed. His eyes adjusted but he still couldn’t take in what he was seeing. Penniston took photos with his military-issue camera. He then circled the object writing descriptions in a notepad. bid.
Finally he [Penniston] reached out to touch the object. On the front side of the object Penniston noticed several strange symbols – he copied them into his notebook. ibid.
Along with his notes and roll of film, the Sergeant now had the three plaster moulds to back up his story. But Penniston’s physical evidence didn’t solve the mystery of Rendlesham. Just two nights later the UFO returned. And this time the deputy base commander [Charles Halt] made a chilling record of his own encounter. ibid.
‘What our government did in the name of secrecy to these individuals is absolutely shameful.’ ibid. Peter Robbins, US UFO researcher
For as long as there have been eye-witness sightings of UFOs in our skies there have been similar reports of so-called USOs, or Unidentified Submerged Objects, in our seas. UFO Files s3e2: Deep Sea UFOs
14th June 1992 10.24 p.m. For almost two minutes the waters of the Pacific Ocean explode with light as hundreds of bright disc-like craft are witnessed flying out of the water together … in complete silence. ibid.
Late USO researcher Ivan T Sanderson’s 1970 book Invisible Residents was the first to analyse the USO phenomenon. ibid.
The 11th October 1492 sighting was not an isolated occurrence. Over the two-month journey Columbus’s log shows a consistent pattern of cryptically reported peculiar incidents including unexplained sightings and unusual events in outer space. ibid.
Shag Harbour: According to government records, the object travelled from south to north along the Nova Scotia coastline. At one point it stops and hovers, then at approximately 11.20 p.m. it enters the water at a forty-five degree angle three hundred yards offshore. ibid.
In late 1969 while conducting their regular operations – deep-freeze ice-breaking exercises near Antarctica – US Navy sailors aboard the USS Calcaterra apparently witnessed an unidentified submerged object with some extraordinary capabilities. A large submarine-shaped object at least one hundred feet long was seen bursting out of the frozen ocean passing through several yards of solid ice at incredible speed. This case is one of many similar incidents reported by navies around the world. ibid.
Four images of a saucer-shaped object taken in 1965 by Rex Heflin in Santa Anna, California, and sited by many as a hoax on the basis that Heflin could not possible have shot three Polaroids in just twenty seconds with his old 1950s camera. ibid.
Suppose an alien spacecraft had crashed in the desert and we had recovered it. Our job is to discover how it works. With the help of leading physicists, astronomers and engineers we’ll decipher UFO technology. UFO Files s3e3: Alien Engineering I, History 6th February 2006
Few of the reported sightings mention wings, tails, jets or propellers. But an object lacking these essentials could still stay in the air. ibid.
Saucers aren’t that stable or easy to control at least for us humans. ibid.
Some radar reports indicate an object going from rest to 9,000 miles per hour almost instantaneously. ibid.
A gravitational force-field – this must be exactly how the alien inertia-canceller works. ibid.
Our next goal is to decipher the propulsion system: our experts believe it’s either a force-field generator or an anti-gravity drive. ibid.
Since gravity bends space, the aliens might be utilizing that phenomenon to jet across the galaxy. ibid.