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Shortly after 1 pm, seventeen different people, unknown to each _ thirty minutes, other, in different locations, waited with camcorders in hand With his countrymen now gripped in what Jaime Maussan called expecting only to capture the total eclipse on videotape. UFO, or OVNI, fever, he accepted an invitation to appear on the To the left of the bright patch of sky, and slightly above, a star, popular television programme Siempre en Domingo. faint at first, began to sparkle in the darkening afternoon sky. After presenting some of the more spectacular tapes, he made Sr Leopoldo Laborde thought he was videotaping two stars. _ what is probably the first televised prime-time appeal to the people Across town, Sr Alejandro Larraguivel also believed he was of Mexico, asking that they send him any videos containing recording bright stars. Sra Laura Hemandez saw a glimmer of a _ unidentified objects, and to please double-check their footage taken bright object as the clouds parted. Sr Miguel Angel Torres video- _—_during the eclipse. The telephone number flashed across the screen taped a shimmering, stationary body. The camcorder read 1.22 pm. and moments later the studio switchboard lit up. Padre Manuel Ferrer, a Catholic priest in the southern quadrant The eclipse footage had flamed the Mexican passion for intellec- of the city, focussed on the luminous orb in the darkened sky. tual debate. Why were the sightings so overt? The UFO had posi- On the outskirts of the city, at a hill named ‘mountain of the tioned itself beneath the eclipsing sun at a time when millions of . stars’, Sr Jorge de la Torre videotaped an extraordinary object sus- people were looking up. Why? Unless it wanted to be seen. And pended over the bustling city. Sr Marco Antonio Flores taped this _ the ultimate question, why Mexico? segment as the fifth sun preceded through its final stages before the Some thought it was an unknown intelligence carrying out a sci- new sun, the sixth, emerged. The time was now 1.24pm. The sun _ entific mission, similar to what our scientists were doing at that was in full eclipse. same time, measuring and monitoring. Others believed it was The Aguilar family tumed the event into a fiesta. The camera _ indeed the fulfilment of the ancient prophecy, the age of cosmic clock read 1.04 pm in the beginning and 1.25 pm at the end. This awareness being ushered in by a god in a sleek, silvery chariot, indicates that the UFO, known in Mexico as OVNI (Objecto _ drawing attention to the sixth sun and to the return of Quetzalcoatl. Volaro No Identificado), remained stationary over the world's Realising the need for outside help, Jaime contacted Lee and Brit largest city for at least twenty minutes. Elders. He explained he had followed their investigation into the ‘From the southem zone of the city, the Swiss Pleiadian UFO contact case, and footage taken by Sr Fuentes is some of "Whether by desion or that he had presented their findings to the the most dramatic ever taken. This is Whether by esign or Mexican people in a two-hour television possibly the first hyperjump ever record- H special. ed. His camera read 1.28 pm. The object accident, the UFO flap Dyer had now hovered over the city for about Mexico City is, thanks to the On 16 September, Mexicans celebrate twenty-three minutes. - ’ their national Independence Day, The Jaime Maussan, editor-general of 60 video camcorder, the most festivities include a parade of marching payee eo — of - documented mass sighting oc mechanised infantry, and military inutes programme), is one o : * re ly-bys. Latin America's most credible and popu- ever. Th e obj ect or objects Vicente Sanchez, one of Jaime's engi- lar investigative journalists. Caught in his were seen or taped for a neers, was prepared to get some good Air own curiosity, with the desire to find Force stock footage. First came the heli- more answers to this mysterious phenom- duration of thirty minutes. copters, then the fighter squadrons. enon, he organised a division of his pro- jim Vicente noticed an object beneath the for- duction company as a UFO investigative , mation of twenty-four Air Force fighters and began to track it. unit. They began in eamest to track the numerous witnesses to the Five of the Mexican Air Force fighters broke formation and gave 11 July event. chase to the unknown craft, but it soon accelerated, leaving them in An executive with Televisa, Mexico's largest television network, its wake, headed north-east towards the volcano zone. Sr Gullermo Arreguin, was the first to step forward. Optical After Jaime's prime-time appeal on television, hundreds of enhancement of the object he taped, depicts a metal disc-shaped reports began to filter into his office at Programas, including new craft. It was suspended in the air and seemed to be floating, per- footage. In one segment, a UFO found itself in the flight path of an haps rotating on its own axis. airliner and had to move to escape detection and a possible colli- The Breton family recorded a silvery object at 1.22 pm, across sion. the nearly 85 miles (132 km) from the location where Sr Arreguin Pachuca, a mountain community north of Mexico City, had took his identical footage. Optical enhancement and split screen _ reported UFOs over their area on several occasions. The local tele- were utilised to compare the segments taken by Sr Arreguin in _yision station filmed one of the sightings, complete with a familiar Mexico City and Sr Breton in Puebla. The two spacecraft corre- star in the background. oan cone sponded in size and shape. Were there two similar objects, or was there one object with the capability of a hyperleap of 85 miles accomplished in a split second? In the north-east portion of this massive city, Sra Laura Hemandez zoomed in on one object she thought was a planet. Slow motion gave a better view, and enhancement showed a pul- sating energy from the metallic craft. At the Televisa studio, the six best videos taken during the his- From the heart of the volcano zone south-east of Mexico City, new reports filtered into Jaime's company. In Atlixco and Medepec, during July and August 1991, UFO activity was extremely heavy, especially over a smal] natural pyra- mid, whose name means ‘in the place in the heart of the gods’, Teteolotitla. Photographs were taken of the skies over nearby Popocatepetl, the mighty volcano known as 'the sleeping sentinel’. a . " r Optical enhancement revealed that an object believed to be a sin- toric eclipse were put through comparative analysis. All were 41 jight source may actually have been a tight formation of ships. shown to be structured metallic objects that reflected sunlight. : These appear to be the same type of craft filmed during the Whether by design or accident, the UFO flap over Mexico City Independence Day parade. is, thanks to the video camcorder, the most documented mass sight- ing ever. The object or objects were seen or taped for a duration of ee Oe ee tea gh, Saag walle ae as curious onlookers waited for a peek at the nightly fly-bys. Pachuca, a mountain community north of Mexico City, had reported UFOs over their area on several occasions. The local tele- vision station filmed one of the sightings, complete with a familiar star in the background. From the heart of the volcano zone south-east of Mexico City, new reports filtered into Jaime's company. In Atlixco and Medepec, during July and August 1991, UFO activity was extremely heavy, especially over a smal] natural pyra- mid, whose name means ‘in the place in the heart of the gods’, Teteolotitla. Photographs were taken of the skies over nearby Popocatepetl, the mighty volcano known as 'the sleeping sentinel’. Optical enhancement revealed that an object believed to be a sin- gle light source may actually have been a tight formation of ships. These appear to be the same type of craft filmed during the Independence Day parade. Popocatept! fever reached an all-time high, creating traffic jams as curious onlookers waited for a peek at the nightly fly-bys. NEXUS¢27 FEBRUARY-MARCH '93