- Dear Friends,
-
- The following item arrived in this morning's mail. For
those who might not recall, Mr. Carlos Diaz is an alleged UFO contactee
who has worked closely with certain Mexican researchers and with messianic
Italian contactee Giorgio Bongiovanni. Diaz's main claim to fame have been
his photographs of golden-red spacecraft he has described as "plasma
ships" and which have been featured in a number of UFO documentaries.
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- Scott Corrales Institute of Hispanic Ufology _____
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- The Dubious Contact Experiences Of Carlos Diaz Martinez
By Pascal Lopresti
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- In 1997, Carlos Diaz Martinez was a guest at the 2nd
UFO Congress held in Acapulco, Mexico, and organized by Lic. Jaime Maussan
Flota and yours truly, Pascal Lopresti. [In this conference], Diaz showed
the audience the only extant material known about the plasma ships, whose
videos and still images were taken between 1981 and 1993.
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- His lecture was well received by the conference goers,
and his message in support of global ecology caused a strong impact among
those present. Subsequently, he undertook the commitment to make public
in 1998 all of his new material "which for the moment must remain
concealed" before those in attendance and the news media.
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- Being one of the conference's main organizers, I have
remained in touch with Carlos Diaz since early 1998, asking him when the
material in question would be made known, in fulfillment of his promise.
However, he used his father's illness--and subsequent death--as an excuse
to avoid making good on his promise. I persisted until he agreed to show
it to me in private at my home in Mexico City, where he screened a video
he had taped a day earlier at night over his house in Tepoztlan, Morelos.
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- When I quizzed his wife and children about it, they advised
me that they had not been present during the recording and denied any commitment,
further refusing to issue any opinion on the video in question.
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- The following is my description of what appeared on the
video:
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- Carlos Diaz appears with his camera, recording from the
kitchen of his house in Tepoztlan..walking with camera in hand, he enters
the garden as he remarks that he feels something in his solar plexus which--he
says--is caused by extraterrestrial contact. It is approximately 10 o'clock
at night when, standing in his house's garden, he aims the camera upward
and suddenly finds himself within a plasma ship, as he claims.
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- The television screen shows a yellow light. I then ask
him what is going on and he replies: "I'm inside the spaceship and
I'm with them."
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- I ask him: "Who are they?"
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- C. Diaz: "My alien friends...
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- P. Lopresti: "Why isn't there any movement in the
image?"
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- C. Diaz: Because I'm filming with a tripod.
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- P. Lopresti: "But you didn't have a tripod!"
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- C. Diaz: "My alien friends lent me the tripod."
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- The following image on the video shows a plasma ship,
allegedly inside a cave located in the State of Chiapas to the southeast
of Mexico.
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- In this regard, he told me that he'd traveled aboard
the craft from his house in Tepoztlan to Chiapas (an approximate distance
of 1400 km) in 15 minutes...
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- ...the plasma craft in question projects light and a
circle resembling the British crop circles forms beneath it. Once again
I inquire: "What's going on?"
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- C. Diaz: "I'm filming the spaceship that's forming
the circle."
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- P.Lopresti: "And...you have a tripod there???"
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- C. Diaz: "Yes, my camera has a tripod because my
friends...the aliens...lent me one."
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- Carlos Diaz has always refused to allow the video to
be analyzed by any of Mexico's researchers or from anywhere else in the
world, arguing that he doesn't trust any researcher...
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- My opinion in this regard is that I definitely doubt
that there is any truth to the video.
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- First: Because he has not allowed to be subjected to
laboratory analysis.
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- Second: He leaves his house to film the UFO and doesn't
have a tripod. He then states that the tripod was lent to him by the aliens
("his friends").
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- Third: No human being from this planet can board a plasma
ship with his/her physical body and a camcorder.
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- As a researcher, I feel obligated to make this event
known to the public, and to let the public draw its own conclusions. My
own conclusions as a researcher of this type of event is that it is not
only false, but also utterly ridiculous.
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- I truly regret that persons like Carlos Diaz should go
around telling tales of this nature, since in my opinion, they are solely
interested in attracting fame and money by calling themselves "contactees"
and it troubles me, more than anything, because these attitudes promote
skepticism among those who seek clear and truthful answers.
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- Pascal Lopresti UFO Researcher
-
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- Translation (c) 2000. Scott Corrales/Institute of Hispanic
Ufology Special Thanks to Dr. Virgilio Sánchez Ocejo
- Comment
-
- From Bill Hamilton skywatcher22@hotmail.com
12-12-00
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- Jeff,
-
- Carlos Diaz is a pleasant fellow and friendly enough,
however to support the message posted by Scott Corrales I would like to
say that I had the opportunity to examine the footage he brought to Village
Labs when he was in the company of Michael Hesseman.
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- When Jim Diletosso loaded the footage into the computer
and we started stepping through the frames as well as playing it at various
speeds I noticed that the so-called plasma craft, looking like a Japanese
hanging lamp, descended in a jerky motion as if it were being lowered by
rope or cable. The interior illumination of this object is static (unlike
other UFO illumination) and doesn't change in position or intensity. When
the wind blows nearby branches, the plasma ship also shakes in the wind
as if it were a light object. The so-called firing of a laser beam from
near the bottom side of the object appears like a small focused flashlight
beam.
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- Our conclusion, also based on the fact that Carlos does
video work and films weddings and celebrations, is that his video of the
plasma ship is most likely a hoax using a small model.
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- Sincerely,
-
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- Bill Hamilton
Executive Director Skywatch International, Inc. http://home.earthlink.net/~skywatcher22
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-
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- Carlos Diaz Case Is Not A Hoax!
-
- From Michael Hesemann
-
- Dear Mr. Rense,
-
- as a historian, cultural anthropologist, UFO researcher,
author and film producer I investigate the Carlos Diaz contact case for
seven years. Since I wanted to be sure before I publish the case that any
possibility of a hoax can be excluded, I did not only travel to Mexico
twelve times for on-site field investigations, but also consulted leading
experts in the US, Belgium, Germany and Italy, including:
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- Prof. Corrado Malanga, University of Pisa
-
- Prof. Manfred Kage, University of Mannheim
-
- Prof, Auguste Meessen, University of Louvain
-
- Bob Shell, editor "Shutterbug" Magazine, phototechnical
consultant of the FBI
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- Dr. Robert Nathan, Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA, Pasadena
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- Jim Dilettoso, The Village Labs
-
- None of these phototechnical experts found any evidence
of a hoax in the films and footage shot by Diaz.
-
- Field investigations were performed also by Prof. John
E. Mack of Harvard, who spent three days in Tepoztlan and extensively talked
to the witness, his family and local eyewitnesses. We were able to verify
that over 50 % of the population of the city of Tepoztlan, in which Diaz
lives, about 12.000 people, saw the very same type of object filmed and
photographed by Diaz, a fact confirmed by the mayor of Tepoztlan. The Air
Traffic Controllers of Mexico City´s International Airport confirmed
on camera regular UFO sightings over the area of Tepoztlan. Several researchers
who visited the place, including Dr. Roberto Pinotti, saw the very same
ship Carlos filmed and photographed.
-
- Therefore the personal opinion of Mr. Pascal Lopresti,
who was never known as a UFO researcher in Mexico (actually he served as
a translator and organizer for Italian stigmatist Giorgio Bongiovanni)
is completely invalid. It was nice of Carlos to show him some new material,
which is in my possession for over a year, but it has no news value. Nor
does any of Lopresti´s "conclusions".
-
- According to Carlos Diaz, "the aliens" are
living among us for thousands of years. They live there as normal Mexicans,
drive in terrestrial cars, haveTV sets and cameras and maybe even tripods.
Therefore it is not a big surprise if one of them had a tripod he lent
to Diaz - nobody claimed it was an extraterrestrial tripod!
-
- But Lopresti is just wrong when he claims: "Carlos
Diaz has always refused to allow the video to be analyzed". He gave
me a copy a year ago, I analyzed it frame by frame and I will publish it
in our upcoming documentary "Ships of Light" which will be presented
at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin in March 2001. Even a bigger
mystery to me is Lopresti´s "conclusion": "No human
being from this planet can board a plasms ship with his/her physical body
and a camcorder." How the hell does he know? Is Lopresti an Extraterrestrial??
Or how can he make such a claim with the certainty of a dogma? We don´t
even know if the ship really consists of plasma (although it looks like
plasma), "plasma-ship" is just a metaphor, so how can he ever
make such a statement?
-
- Lopresti calls himseld an "investigator". To
my knowledge, he has no education or background to make such a claim. He
claims to be the co-organizer of the Acapulco-conference, which was ONLY
set up by Jaime Maussan and his team of Tercer Milennio and Los Vigilantes.
Lopresti´s job was that of a translator for Giorgio Bongiovanni.
Therefore, the one who obviously seeks attention by big claims seems to
be Lopresti, not Carlos Diaz.
-
- Every investigator who ever met Carlos was impressed
by his willingness to share his material. Diaz was never interested in
money. He is very poor but he never charges anything, When Bill Hamilton
claims that "Carlos does video work and films weddings and celebrations",
it is just not true. Carlos did work as a wedding (still) photographer
as a young man but never did that with video. He just has the Camcorder
given to him by Jaime Maussan. He doesn´t have an external microphone,
no light, no editing equipment. He did not even have a monitor to view
what he shot before I bought him a TV set three years ago.
-
- Bill Hamilton critizised that the object on the films
"descended in a jerky movement". This happens very often in UFO
cases, we call it "falling leaf movement", a detail mentioned
by many eyewitnesses in Tepoztlan and elsewhere. The UFO was obviously
NOT lowered by a cable, since its movements never had a center. He critizised
the "static interior illumination" of the object - Jim Dilettoso
called it "coherent light" and made a parallel to laser light.
Besides the fact that on one film the center of the object is pulsating
and the object increases and decreases its brightness, the "uniformity"
of the light of the craft indicate a light quality very different from
that of an illuminated model or lamp. In that case namely the light would
be most intense in the center and less at the edges. No, the object is
not moving with the wind. The tree´s movement in one film is completely
untypical for wind movement, since it is too shaky, and seems to be caused
by the ship. In the sequence with the object firing a beam down to Earth,
the beam´s light is too strong and too condensed to be that of a
flashlight.
-
- In one case Diaz filmed a craft right behind a tree,
partially covered by it. We were able to identify the tree and verify it´s
diameter and distance from the camera. From our calculation, the object´s
diameter must have been at least 60 feet... too big for a hoax with a small
model!
-
- Michael Hesemann
Duesseldorf/Germany
-
- Comment
Carlos Diaz Case Is Not A Hoax!
-
- From Michael Hesseman http://hesemann.m-n-d.com/repliestorense.html
5-20-1
-
- Dear Mr. Rense,
-
- as a historian, cultural anthropologist, UFO researcher,
author and film producer I investigate the Carlos Diaz contact case for
seven years. Since I wanted to be sure before I publish the case that any
possibility of a hoax can be excluded, I did not only travel to Mexico
twelve times for on-site field investigations, but also consulted leading
experts in the US, Belgium, Germany and Italy, including
-
- * Prof. Corrado Malanga, University of Pisa
- * Prof. Manfred Kage, University of Mannheim
- * Prof, Auguste Meessen, University of Louvain
- * Bob Shell, editor "Shutterbug" Magazine,
phototechnical consultant
- of the FBI
- * Dr. Robert Nathan, Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA, Pasadena
- * Jim Dilettoso, The Village Labs.
-
- None of these photo technical experts found any evidence
of a hoax in the films and footage shot by Diaz. Field investigations were
performed also by Prof. John E. Mack of Harvard, who spent three days in
Tepoztlan and extensively talked to the witness, his family and local eyewitnesses.
We were able to verify that over 50 % of the population of the city of
Tepoztlan, in which Diaz lives, about 12.000 people, saw the very same
type of object filmed and photographed by Diaz, a fact confirmed by the
mayor of Tepoztlan. The Air Traffic Controllers of Mexico City's International
Airport confirmed on camera regular UFO sightings over the area of Tepoztlan.
Several researchers who visited the place, including Dr. Roberto Pinotti,
saw the very same ship Carlos filmed and photographed.
-
- Therefore the personal opinion of Mr. Pascal Lopresti,
who was never known as a UFO researcher in Mexico (actually he served as
a translator and organizer for Italian stigmatist Giorgio Bongiovanni)
is completely invalid. It was nice of Carlos to show him some new material,
which is in my possession for over a year, but it has no news value. Nor
does any of Lopresti´s "conclusions".
-
- According to Carlos Diaz, "the aliens" are
living among us for thousands of years. They live there as normal Mexicans,
drive in terrestrial cars, have TV sets and cameras and maybe even tripods.
Therefore it is not a big surprise if one of them had a tripod he lent
to Diaz - nobody claimed it was an extraterrestrial tripod!
-
- But Lopresti is just wrong when he claims: "Carlos
Diaz has always refused to allow the video to be analyzed". He gave
me a copy a year ago, I analyzed it frame by frame and I will publish it
in our upcoming documentary "Ships of Light" which will be presented
at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin in March 2001. Even a bigger
mystery to me is Lopresti´s "conclusion": "No human
being from this planet can board a plasma ship with his/her physical body
and a camcorder." How the hell does he know? Is Lopresti an Extraterrestrial??
Or how can he make such a claim with the certainty of a dogma? We don't
even know if the ship really consists of plasma (although it looks like
plasma), "plasma-ship" is just a metaphor, so how can he ever
make such a statement?
-
- Lopresti calls himself an "investigator". To
my knowledge, he has no education or background to make such a claim. He
claims to be the co-organizer of the Acapulco-conference, which was ONLY
set up by Jaime Maussan and his team of Tercer Milennio and Los Vigilantes.
Lopresti´s job was that of a translator for Giorgio Bongiovanni.
Therefore, the one who obviously seeks attention by big claims seems to
be Lopresti, not Carlos Diaz.
-
- Every investigator who ever met Carlos was impressed
by his willingness to share his material. Diaz was never interested in
money. He is very poor but he never charges anything, When Bill Hamilton
claims that "Carlos does video work and films weddings and celebrations",
it is just not true. Carlos did work as a wedding (still) photographer
as a young man but never did that with video.. He just has the Camcorder
given to him by Jaime Maussan. He doesn't have an external microphone,
no light, no editing equipment. He did not even have a monitor to view
what he shot before I bought him a TV set three years ago..
-
- Bill Hamilton criticized that the object on the films
"descended in a jerky movement". This happens very often in UFO
cases, we call it "falling leaf movement", a detail mentioned
by many eyewitnesses in Tepoztlan and elsewhere. The UFO was obviously
NOT lowered by a cable, since its movements never had a center. He criticized
the "static interior illumination" of the object - Jim Dilettoso
called it "coherent light" and made a parallel to laser light.
Besides the fact that on one film the center of the object is pulsating
and the object increases and decreases its brightness, the "uniformity"
of the light of the craft indicate a light quality very different from
that of an illuminated model or lamp. In that case namely the light would
be most intense in the center and less at the edges. No, the object is
not moving with the wind. The tree's movement in one film is completely
untypical for wind movement, since it is too shaky, and seems to be caused
by the ship. In the sequence with the object firing a beam down to Earth,
the beam's light is too strong and too condensed to be that of a flashlight.
-
- In one case Diaz filmed a craft right behind a tree,
partially covered by it. We were able to identify the tree and verify it's
diameter and distance from the camera. From our calculation, the object's
diameter must have been at least 60 feet... too big for a hoax with a small
model!
-
- Michael Hesemann Duesseldorf/Germany
-
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