- In the early hours of wendsday, September 17, 1997,a
young man was murdered in a desolate street of La Colectora community,
located in Santurce, Puerto Rico...and the incident became a media event
and a shocking and alarming incident, as it seemed to be related to an
alien situation. Why this? Because a small vial like jar was found at the
site, in close proximity to the man, containing, according to those who
handled it, a strange type embryo, a small creature of anomalous physical
details. Immediately it was described by some as an alien Grey or a Chupacabras
embryo. We report here the facts behind the story, after a preliminary
investigation.
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- On Wednesday morning we received a phone call from Noticentro
4, the news department of WAPA TV, channel 4, they asked us to go to the
station and told us an incredible story. According to the young woman who
called us, Maritza Díaz, a young military man had been killed and
next to him, inside his car, was found a jar with a strange fetus or embryo
that did not look human nor had the looks of any known animal, saying it
seemed to be something alien or extraterrestrial. They wanted an expert
opinion on the matter, and wanted us to examine the physical details of
the alleged embryo. Before our arrival, Channel 4 broadcasted a news report
on the murder and the finding of the alleged alien embryo, announcing there
would be a complete report on the matter on its 5:00 P.M. news edition.
Even though we did not believe the story, we went to the TV station and
once there we were surprised by what we saw in a videotape filmed at the
scene of the crime.
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- According to channel 4 news department director, Mr.
Enrique [Quique] Cruz and Mr. Miguel Banojian WAPA TV vicepresident, the
video footage had been filmed by cameraman Alfonso Sánchez at about
5:00 A.M., at the corner of Progresso alley, in La Colectora community.
The video showed images of the dead man, about 30 years old, slumped in
the driver's seat of a model 1981 dark blue Honda Prelude car, with license
plates ALT 475. The victim had been shot, apparently at close range, and
he showed a bullet wound below the clavicle, that seemed to follow a downward
path inside the body. The video also showed the arrival of police and
Puerto Rico's Forensic Sciences Institute personnel to the site and how
this personnel dealed with the situation, doing a preliminary examination
of the crime scene and the dead man's body. The body was taken afterwards
to the Forensic Sciences Institute by orders of District Attorney Lourdes
Acevedo.
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- According to cameraman Alfonso Sánchez, after
Puerto Rico Police Homicide detectives Jesús Cruz and Héctor
Santiago arrived at the site, together with district attorney Lourdes Acevedo,
the scene was examined thoroughly, and during a search in the car's backseat,
forensic sciences investigators found, in the inside pocket of a green
military type suit, a manila envelope in which a small vial like object
was found. The strange embryo was found in this vial, wich consisted of
a small crystal bottle of about 3 to 3 and 1/2 inches long and about an
inch wide, filled with a viscous thick translucent colorless liquid. The
embryo was surrounded by the substance. The finding provoked a lot of amazement
and speculation by those in the site.
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- Immediately, said Sánchez, District Attorney Lourdes
Acevedo ordered that the vial with the small figure inside of it to be
taken to the Forensic Sciences Institute facilities for an immediate analysis
of the organism. According to cameraman Sánchez, the envelope was
a yellow colored one, and had printed lettering that identified it as belonging
to a lab. Also, the envelope that contained the vial had the words Base
de Ceiba [Ceiba Base], which undoubtedly referred to Roosevelt Roads Naval
Station, the only one in the area, in handwriting, on top of it.
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- Sánchez stated the man was wearing green military
pants and socks, with a cream-beige colored shirt and weared brown non
military shoes. Also, according to him, a suit of the same green military
color had been found in the backseat, in which the envelope with the vial
was found. A small slim wallet, of the type that holds badges and IDs was
found close to the man's body, but no IDs or driver's license was found
in it, only a key. According to Sánchez, initial reports of the
incident indicated the Puerto Rico Police knew about this incident after
being informed that a dark 4x4 vehicle was chasing the car and a shot had
been heard at the site, after this the Honda crashed against two wrecked
cars at the edge of the road. Allegedly, arriving at the scene, some policemen
observed, at a distance, the dark colored 4x4 vehicle and a man standing
next to the Honda's driver's door. The 4x4 vehicle fled as the police patrol
car approached the site.
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- The victim's name was Fred Acevedo Martínez, as
was later informed, and he lived in 24 street, #AC-10, Villas de Rio Grande,
Rio Grande Puerto Rico, and allegedly was in the U.S. military service
[branch unknown].
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- News reporter Pedro Rosa Nales, who was investigating
the incident and the alleged finding of the strange alien embryo for channel
4, told us:
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- After watching the video and talking with authorities,
people involved with this operative, after the finding of the man's body
and the envelope which contained the jar with the strange fetus...I don't
know, there's data that tends to indicate there's something strange involved
with this case. Analyzing the details of this video we can see that the
physical characteristics we can see are similar to the ones given to us
by many witnesses who claim having had encounters with alien or chupacabras
like creatures. The shape of the head, of the eyes, three fingers, its
hands, four fingers in its toes...the body's morphology evidently does
not seem like something human. It could be a malformed embryo or fetus...but
the fact is that it makes you think that it is something very strange,
really strange.
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- What about the alleged 4x4 vehicle that, according to
some, was chasing Acevedo's Honda and from which a man had been seen coming
out from and approaching Acevedo's car?, we asked.
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- The strangest thing is that people who were at the scene
say this jar with the fetus was found inside an envelope found in the inside
pocket of a BDU military green suit, an envelope labeled as coming from
a laboratory, with the words Base de Ceiba written on it, in handwriting.
To me, as a jornalist and as someone who has been doing some research for
some time in the UFO field, and has talked to many witnesses, this tells
me that there's something even weirder in all of this. Why this strange
fetus or embryo inside this jar? Why in an envelope apparently adressed
to a laboratory in the Ceiba Base [Roosevelt Roads Naval Station]? Why
this alleged 4x4 vehicle, similar to other vehicles described before by
other witnesses in Puerto Rico who report having been intercepted by elements
of federal government agencies who are trying to prevent the people from
knowing what's behind the UFO phenomenon? There are many things that arise
suspicions, and as a reporter this opens many doors and possibilities to
us, that we can investigate.
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- After this, I was asked to give an opinion on the image
of the alleged alien embryo, and I stated, and this was taped in video,
that it was very difficult for us to express a responsible opinion based
only on a video image.
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- If we want to make a good analysis - I said -, in which
to base a serious opinion, we need the actual specimen for a thorough examination
of it. Anything I say here would be biased by the fact we don't have the
actual physical evidence before us. Therefore, as I did not see the real
figure or fetus, I can only say that if this image in the video we are
watching is real, I repeat, should it be real, and we don't have any proof
of this at this moment, the physical details of the body in the image are
somewhat compatible with those of a chupacabras type creature, specially
pertaining to its head and eyes [elongated pear shaped head with big almond
shaped black eyes, almost no nostrils and without ears or auditive holes.
It had two apparent small fangs protruding out from its little, lipless
mouth]. The rest of the body seems compatible with that of a so called
Grey alien humanoid creature [very pale, with some apparent blood on it
and scraped out areas, two thin small arms with small three fingered hands
and four toes]. Obviously, all this matter has to be investigated throughly,
with a lot more of scientific data, before we can say anything for sure
about this. Definitely, we still have to wait for the results of the analysis
of the alleged organism being made at the Forensic Sciences Institute.
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- Doctor Carlos Soto, a veterinarian, was asked, separately,
to give his opinion on what type of animal, if any, the image in the video
belonged to. Soto expressed concerns similar to ours, in the sense that
it was difficult to give an expert opinion based solely on a video image,
and stated that if the apparent organism shown in the video was real, it
was not similar to any fetus or embryo of a human being or any animal species
known to him, as it had anomalous physical characteristics such as a big
pear shaped head with a thin jaw, big black almond shaped eyes that tapered
to the sides of the head, which were opened, without any apparent eyelids,
no auditive canals, almost no nostrils, two very small apparent fangs protruding
from its mouth, arms with small three fingered hands.
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- He brought to the TV station a jar containing a dog's
preserved dead fetus and made a comparison between the image in the video
and the dog's fetus, clearly showing the difference between the two of
them, stating that if the image in the video belonged to a real specimen
and was not a hoax of some type, then we were dealing with something very,
very strange. He also emphasized that in order to give a real scientific
opinion based on facts, he needed to do an actual examination and analysis
on the small alleged embryo itself. Otherwise, his opinion should only
be considered as non official and solely as a preliminary comment based
on what he saw in the video. He stated the results of the analysis being
made at the Forensic Sciences Institute were essential in order to give
an expert opinion on the matter.
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- In the meantime, a lid of silence had been placed on
the matter in the Forensics Sciences Institute. Channel 4 kept calling
and visiting the premises of the Institute, asking to see Dr. Weissman,
in charge of the analysis of the embryo, but their response was always
the same: We are investigating the matter. Dr. Weissman can't respond now.
We are doing chemical analysis on the specimen.
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- We were informed by Mr. Enrique Cruz and Mr. Banojian
that another doctor [physician] they had called in order for him to give
an expert opinion on the image on the video, which he did not do, called
by phone right in the news department, a close friend who has a high level
position in the Forensic Sciences Institute, asking him to tell him whatever
he knew about the alleged embryo. His friend told him it was for real,
and that he could say they knew that the thing was neither human nor any
type of animal species known to human science. He was told high level officers
of the Institute were dealing with the evidence. At the moment, Mr. Cruz
was very impressed, apparently convinced that something very strange and
important was ocurring.
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- Needless to say, as the media got a hold on the news,
the finding of the alien embryo became the story of the day. Everyone wanted
to know about the event, and conspiracy stories began running around about
the man having being killed by dark forces in the government after [possibly]
taking such an evidence out from a classified government facility. Another
theory was that there could be two factions of the government struggling
for control over the UFO / alien situation, and that maybe he was transporting
the specimen to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station when he was killed. This
was pure speculation.
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- A sudden turn of the events
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- At about 4:00 P.M. things started to change. Suddenly,
the murdered man, Fred Acevedo Martínez, according to the police,
was not in the military, and his clothing, they said, was not military
either. He was, they said, employed at El Conquistador Hotel and Resort
in Fajardo, and had come a year ago from Louisiana, where he lived previously.
At the same time, it was informed he was self-employed in Fajardo. It was
also stated that he was a photocopy machine repair technician. Obviously,
the scenario was becoming a confusing one. Also, he did not live in Rio
Grande, but in a condominium in Luquillo.
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- Right before their 5:00 P.M. news, Channel 4 called Forensic
Sciences Institute, and again, the Institute's representatives said they
were...examining and analyzing the evidence and doing chemical analysis
to the organism, to see what they were dealing with.
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- The first part of the news program was o.k., and Channel
4 reported on the event, presenting the data on the situation. Even Police
Superintendent Pedro Toledo was asked about the finding, and he stated
knowing nothing about the matter, but said that whatever was in the jar
looked remarkably similar to what people had been describing as the Chupacabras.
But all of a sudden, news director and anchor man Enrique Cruz and co-host
Ada Torres Toro stated they had been receiving calls from people saying
that the small corpse or embryo was only a souvenir...and from then on
the report became a real joke. They said everyone involved with the finding
of the alien embryo had been fooled, because it was a only toy, a souvenir,
a keychain consisting of a small plastic alien figurine inside a crystalline
jar connected to a keychain. Together with another member of the news department,
Maritza Diaz, who allegedly bought several of the keychains or amulets,
as they also called them, in a shopping center, they ridiculed everything
and everyone involved with the investigation of the embryo in a disgusting
manner, even their own reporters were ridiculed.
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- But the thing is that none of the keychains both channels
showed were similar to the one taped in the video, the one still under
examination and analysis by the Forensic Sciences Institute personnel,
and if this was the case, they could have informed the public on the possibility
that everything was the product of a mistake, and report on the keychain
angle. By ridiculing everything that way they branded a falsehood or hoax
sign on the matter, affecting any other efforts into the matter.
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- But strangely enough, in its 10:00 P.M. report, channel
4 informed that even with the keychain factor, the Forensics Sciences Institute
still informed that they still were investigating the matter and doing
chemical analysis to the specimen, to know what they were dealing with.
This was an obvious contradiction. If the alien embryo specimen was a plastic
toy, why was the Forensics Institute still doing chemical analysis and
other tests to it? Are we to believe that the Police officials, the Forensic
investigators, the homicide detectives, District Attorney Lourdes Acevedo
and the pathologists at the Forensics Sciences Institute can't differentiate
between a plastic toy and a flesh and bone biological organism? I doubt
this is the case.
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- Investigating further, we interviewed police sergeant
Modesto González, of 266 Police Precint, located in Santurce, the
police station that originally dealed with the murder of Fred Acevedo Martínez.
González explained he was at the scene and saw when the vial was
found, and to him the one he saw had nothing to do with the ones shown
in TV. You could see there was something in the vial that looked like a
fetus of something not natural, not human - he said. It was occupied, together
with all other evidence, and sent to Forensic Sciences Institute with the
victim, still identified as John Doe...That thing was like a small jar,
sealed. It did not look as a keychain. It was the first time I saw anything
like that.
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- On the other part, homicide detective Jesús Pérez,
one of the detectives in charge of the investigation of the murder case,
stated, during an interview we made to him, that to him, the small body
inside the jar he saw at the murder site looked as composed of flesh, organic
tissue. His partner, detective Héctor Santiago, thinks it was a
toy.
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- Still today, Friday September 19, 1997, a Forensic Sciences
Institute representative said they were still investigating the matter,
and doing chemical analysis to the unknown organism. Again, how can this
be? Was it a toy or not? Or are we facing a cover up of something really
important pertaining to the small body in the vial? The information below
may give us an answer on this.
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- After leaving from Notiuno radio station, after the broadcast
of our Evidencia OVNI program, on Thursday night, we met, on a confidential
basis, and thanks to a common friend, with a person who works in the Puerto
Rico Forensics Sciences Institute, who told us that the alleged strange
embryo was a real.
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- This is not a laughing matter - he said -, there are
federal officers involved with this. As soon as the specimen was brought
to the Institute by the forensics agents, it was taken, by orders of Dr.
Weissman, to a sterile room. In case you are not knowledgeable on this,
sterile rooms in the institute are used when there is some concern about
the possibility of bacterial, virus or any other type of contamination.
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- The specimen was taken out of the glass cylinder and
both the cylinder and the small body were placed on top of metal trays
there, over some gauze pads, to begin the examination and the analysis
of the samples.
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- Dr. Weissman was in charge, but all of a sudden an American
pathologist, we don't know who he was, came and joined him during the examination.
The two of them were left alone in the sterile room.
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- Two federal agents, dressed in fine suits, who had escorted
the American specialist, kept guard outside the door of the sterile room,
preventing anyone from going in. The sterile room was declared off limits
to the Institute's personnel and orders were issued out in the sense that
no one could talk about the work being done in the Institute pertaining
to the examination of the small specimen.
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- He added: I can assure you this is for real. We saw the
small body that was in the jar, and it was different from the ones shown
in TV. It was not a keychain. It was not a toy. It was some type of organism...I
don't know what it was. It looked like a small fetus, but if it was a fetus
it did not look like anything I had seen before... What I saw was made
out of flesh, tissue, and its flesh looked somewhat like raw tissue...with
like fetal tissue, skin peeled off in some places...and what seemed like
blood. It had a very pale skin. It looked like a small fetus or embryo...but
it was weird. Really weird. You can believe it, it is weird, but true.
It was an ugly little thing.
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- We showed this source one of the keychain aliens from
channel 4 [one that was somewhat similar, to a certain degree, to the aspect
of the alien embryo, and he was adamant in his opinion that what he saw
was different. What he saw, he said, was similar to the photo of the creature
in the jar that was published in El Vocero newspaper in its Thursday 18
edition [page 11], and the jar was a little bigger, about three inches
long and one inch wide [the keychains glass jars were about two inches
long and about 1/2 wide, with a chain attached on top on its sealed cap].
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- Finally, he said he was surprised the federal authorities
hadn't taken away the organism yet, whatever it was. He also couldn't understand
why the spokesmen of the Institute kept telling the media they were still
investigating and doing chemical analysis to the sample. If the authorities
want to cover this up...As it has already been said that it was a plastic
toy...Why are they doing this? I can't understand it, he said finally.
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- Neither do we, we must say.
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- We are trying to verify this source's disclosures with
other independent sources inside the Puerto Rico Forensic Sciences Institute.
Also, we are following other interesting leads on this matter. Should any
new developments arise that may allow us to verify the reality or falsehood
of this situation, we'll report them as soon as possible.
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