00:03When a UFO sighting is reported in a remote community, we tend to react with
00:08Skepticism and a smile when several credible people report seeing a mysterious craft is
00:15It's important to pay attention, but when thousands of people claim to have seen the same object
00:21Strange, and hundreds provide video evidence; we can begin to think that maybe, just maybe
00:27There is more than a grain of truth in the reports, which leads us to explore the fascinating saga of
00:32UFOs in Mexico
00:37November 7, 1991, the last total solar eclipse of this century, perhaps the most spectacular celestial event
00:45The most spectacular event of the last 200 years, Mexico City residents celebrated festively
00:54The eclipse drew thousands of people to the streets of one of the world's largest cities
01:00It was plunged into total darkness in the middle of the day; no one imagined that the whole country was about to
01:06After being swept up in a wave of UFO hysteria that afternoon, a television executive named Guillermo
01:14Aragüín was recording the eclipse on video when he noticed an unusual object in the sky
01:21It was reported on the news that a very strange object was hovering over the city of
01:27Mexico, but nobody said what it was. When I saw it, I exclaimed, "Oh my God, this is a UFO, a real UFO! I want it!"
01:35You can say you can watch it, you can watch the video and be completely convinced of what you're seeing.
01:42Jaime Maussan is a prominent TV journalist in Mexico. For the past nine years he has
01:49produced, directed and presented the Mexican edition of 60 Minutes
01:55Jaime showed images of Aragüín in a special program about UFOs eight days after the eclipse
02:02The network received many phone calls
02:07We asked people in Mexico to send us all their videos because we like to see if in the
02:12clips had recorded the same thing
02:15The phone lines burned out; I mean, 40,000 simultaneous calls at the same time.
02:21Then at that moment the system was completely shut down
02:25We received more than 15 videos and now we know for sure that in at least seven of them we can
02:30to see the same ship exactly as it was recorded by Guillermo Arreguín
02:38One of the many videos was sent by Eric Aguilar, a 19-year-old university student.
02:44A Mexican national was preparing to record the eclipse on the rooftop when his girlfriend noticed something
02:50strange in the sky
02:56We all turned to look and my girlfriend commented that it was a UFO because we thought it was a
03:02It was a harmless joke; nobody really believed him when he said he saw a UFO.
03:07But in a matter of moments everyone decided that the object was no joke at all
03:15At first all we saw was a white dot in the sky
03:20That was all we could see at first.
03:22Later we saw that this spot was shining brightly
03:29It must have been a very bright star, and we didn't realize its magnitude at first.
03:35We didn't detect the error until after we reviewed the tape
03:38We saw that this point was no longer a point
03:43It was a considerably larger object and it shone brightly.
03:47it was shining
03:51almost at the same time, 60 miles from Mexico City
03:54A businessman named Luis Lara photographed a similar object
04:02When I raised the camera, I could make out something interesting in the clouds
04:06And it was a metal object and it looked like it was made of
04:09From the two plates you can distinguish a dome and it rotated on its own axis
04:15It was silver-plated, a color similar to aluminum.
04:20You could clearly see that she's not a star
04:24It's a UFO because it had a shadow underneath it.
04:26If it were a star or a planet, you would clearly see that it would be completely luminous.
04:32But this one had a small shadow underneath it
04:38On another occasion, the Breton family recorded another video in Puebla.
04:42a city 80 miles east of Mexico City
04:49When Breton's video was enlarged, a wave-like disturbance was detected behind the disk.
04:54possibly a trace of energy
05:00Jaime Maussan improved the images of Arreguín and compared them with Breton's film
05:05The objects captured at a great distance showed remarkable similarities in all aspects
05:13The video from Puebla was absolutely identical to the one we had previously seen with Arreguín in Mexico.
05:20And that surprised us a lot.
05:21It was the first time in history
05:23We had never before had a recording of two UFOs in two different locations at exactly the same time
05:32The videos caused a sensation throughout Mexico, but the UFO craze was just beginning.
05:41Two months later, an engineer named Vicente Sánchez took his video camera to a military air show in the
05:47Mexico City
05:50I was tracking one of the planes and I saw a bright spot on the camera
05:54I didn't know what it was, but it seemed to be moving.
05:58was undulating
05:59So I let the planes fly away and focused more on this bright spot in the sky
06:04a golden flash that seemed to guide me
06:10What I saw was a round, shiny, metallic object approximately 10 meters in diameter.
06:16It was made of silver
06:18It shone brightly and reflected the sunlight dazzlingly.
06:26It wasn't flying like an airplane; it was wavy.
06:29The object appeared suddenly, undulated, and moved very quickly
06:35Similar object recorded on video at air show a year later
06:39The record dropped quickly and mysteriously vanished.
06:46by the time of the 1993 air show
06:49People anticipated another sighting
06:52A metallic disc appeared just as a squadron of helicopters was passing by.
06:56on its very, very straight and steady path until it was lost in the sky
07:17The optical enhancement of this video appears to reveal that the object crossed in close proximity to the helicopters.
07:24Interestingly, the army has consistently declined to address the issue.
07:30The army has not commented on that sighting or any sightings.
07:35And there are many more where we can link the army or military aircraft to videos
07:43However, to this day we have not received any response from them.
07:50Since the eclipse in July 1991, there have been thousands of sightings throughout Mexico.
07:56There is no clear pattern, although the vast majority have occurred in and around Mexico City.
08:02Various witnesses include pilots, doctors, drivers, and school children
08:09These drawings were made by a class of fifth-grade students
08:13who supposedly saw UFOs in March 1993
08:16The images are remarkably similar.
08:19three bright lights with the brightest light in the center
08:26The objects shone silver with intense red.
08:31One of them was descending, and the other one that could be seen in the sky was silver.
08:41From below, the shape of the objects can be distinguished.
08:45They were like saucers with a shiny, silver dome.
08:49And although it was harder to see
08:51There seemed to be some kind of magnetic field around him
08:58We haven't found a single reason why these little kids made up this story.
09:04There were so many
09:05And when you talk to them, you can feel the sincerity and authenticity they convey.
09:10They're just little kids
09:12They don't care about the UFO conspiracy
09:14They don't care if they're real or not.
09:17They saw what they saw
09:21People are attracted to UFOs
09:24People really believe in UFOs
09:27And now we are convinced that we are living an incredible experience as a country
09:32as a society because it is everywhere
09:35It's not just one person
09:37There are many people with their eyes fixed on the sky and a camera ready in their skillful hands
09:42We are now living in the age of video
09:45where the videos are expected to unravel the mystery of UFOs
09:49Are UFOs real in Mexico? Shocking video footage that's hard to deny.
09:56although a determined skeptic would undoubtedly find some reason to dismiss the whole episode
10:01But for those who have witnessed the mysterious objects in the skies over Mexico
10:06Seeing is believing.
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