- Jeff,
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- I send you this report of the Cardenas family from Washington
State whom I met last month when they came to Monterrey. They had a most
unique experience on December 17 and I'm sure you will find it very interesting.
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- My best wishes,
Santiago
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- Note - The following report looms as one of the most
important in years due to the fact this family actually videotaped, with
sound, a very close encounter with an unknown object in the middle of the
desolate Texas countryside...an encounter which may have been far more
than just a close-up visual sighting...
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- As one of Mexico's top researchers, Santiago has been
intensely involved in a number of major investigations, especially of objects
flying above his city of Monterrey. You can find his earlier reports via
our site search engine. Thank you, Santiago, and congratulations...this
is truly an amazing report which will be talked about & studied for
years to come. -Jeff Rense
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- By Santiago Yturria
yugs@prodigy.net.mx
Edited by Jeff Rense
© 2001 Santiago Yturria All Rights Reserved
Neither images nor text may be reproduced
without prior written permission of author.
1-24-01
Last December 17 was definitely an extraordinary day for the Cardenas family
from Washington state...the day fate granted them an encounter with the
unknown. I was lucky to meet Mr. Juan Cardenas and family here in Monterrey,
N.L., Mexico on December 22, as a result of a trip they made to spend the
holidays with his brother's family in this city.
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- During our meeting, Mr. Cardenas and his wife Patricia
Rugeiro gave me their account of an incredible experience they had the
night of December 17, 2000 while travelling on the road to San Antonio,
Texas. Fortunately, they were able to capture virtually the entire extraordinary
event on video. This is our interview:
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- Mr. Juan Cardenas: Last December, I decided to take a
trip with my family to Monterrey, Mexico to pay a visit to my brother and
spend the holidays with his family. We live in Washington State, so it
would be a long trip, but we have made this trip before on past holidays,
so we already know the route. It was Sunday, December 17, when we left
Fort Stockton at 7:00 PM Pacific time (9:00 PM Texas time). I was with
my wife, Patricia Rugeiro, Patricia's father, Noe, and our three sons Jonathan
(8 years old), Jesus Marin and Adrian.
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for a supposed five hour trip. At 7:12 PM (9:12 PM Texas time) approximately,
my wife, Patricia, alerted me about a strange luminous light to our right
side. She said that it was brighter than a star and looked different. I
replied that it had to be some kind of signal light for airplanes. She
continued watching the light and a minute later she said: "It's moving!"
We had our videocamera (an RCA-VHS with zoom) with us and had been taping
our trip since we left Washington State. So, I said: "Film the light."
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- Mrs. Patricia Rugeiro: When I first saw this light at
the distance, it attracted my attention because of its brightness. It was
brighter that an ordinary star, and I kept watching it while my husband
was driving the van. Then he told me to film it so, I took the videocamera
and began filming through the windshield. But there was so much wind outside
and I remember that our van was slightly shaking.
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the sky, however it was not raining. That's when I thought: the sky is
covered with clouds, so that's not a star! I began taping and applied the
zoom. Through the camera's viewfinder I realized that the light was moving
and seemed to be growing, so I said to Juan: "It's moving, I tell
you. It's strange!" and I asked him to stop the van to watch the light
and film it more properly without movements.
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- SY: At this moment in the interview, Mr. Cardenas remembered
an interesting fact that added more mystery to the moment they were describing.
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- Mr. Juan Cardenas: I remember that strong winds were
shaking our van but when I decided to park alongside the road to watch
that strange light, the winds stopped. In fact, there were no sounds outside;
it was dark and that light was still there.
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- SY: I confirmed this statement from Mr. Cardenas by reviewing
the original video. During the first minutes of the film, the van was moving
and you can see the bright light in the distance and the noise of the wind
is also present. But in the next segment of the film, the van was parked
and while Mrs. Rugeiro was videotaping, there was no wind, no noise, or
any other outside sounds audible. By this time, Mr. Cardenas' sons and
Mr. Noe were already alert and excited to find out what the strange light
could be.
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- Mrs. Patricia Rugeiro: When we parked the van, I lowered
my right window and started filming supporting my arm against the door
to avoid as much as possible moving the camera. It has a small color monitor
attached on the left side, so my husband and my sons were watching that
light on the camera's monitor. In less than two minutes, the light began
to act strangely, it seemed to increase its size and made some movements.
I realized it was getting near!
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- "Look, Juan!!" I said, "at how it's moving.
It's not the camera...I'm not moving the camera! This thing is moving and
is getting closer!!"
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- SY: This part of the original video is particularly interesting.
I detected a sudden emotional stress among the occupants of the van when
Mrs. Patricia Rugeiro said those words. The video, indeed, shows an abrupt
change in the light's behavior, and the kids began shaking trying to see
the light through the windshield causing the videocamera to move and Mrs.
Patricia encouraged them to stay calm and not to move the camera. A small
discussion is heard and everybody's talking denotes the excitement of the
family in the presence of something unknown.
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- Mr. Juan Cardenas: My son, Jonathan, was very restless
and I continued watching the light through the windshield and at the camera's
monitor. I began wondering if it would be safe to be parked on this road
alone, and time-to-time, I turned to see if there were more cars passing
by. But there were no cars, no wind, no sounds...and I began to worry.
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- Mrs. Patricia Rugeiro: It was about 7:20 PM (9:20 PM
Texas time). We were all calmly watching the camera's monitor when suddenly
the light disappeared. "It's gone!" I said but kept the camera
turned on and running.
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on again and it was so near and so bright that the camera went out of focus.
My son Jonathan shouted: "Wow, it's big!" I pulled the zoom back
and also shouted: "Look, Juan, look at that...it's like an orange!!"
You can hear all this in the video.
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- SY: This video segment presents a dramatic change of
size and shape of the object, like a luminous redish orb with some kind
of flamed tail attached on the lower left side. It definitely has movements
and the expression of little Jonathan is more that explicit.
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family is also detected. Complete silence took over while they were observing
this huge presence. Only the comments of Mrs. Patricia while filming are
heard, describing what they are confronting.
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- Mrs. Patricia Rugeiro: "It is an object, it's a
UFO!" I said, and now I realized that it was very close. It looked
like a red ball at first but then it spun slightly to the right and some
kind of luminous flame was visible on its lower left side. But the best
part was just about to come.
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- I was very excited and convinced this was a true UFO.
Then it began to spin very slow to the left, and the shape changed as well
as the luminous intensity.
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tube-shaped thing, so intense, that its light seemed to be reflected down
onto the ground. "It's like a rocket Juan!!" I said...but he
didn't reply. I was absobed filming and watching the changing colors that
the object began to make.
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- SY: Reviewing the original video, several colors from
red, violet, and green are detected on the contour of the white tube-shaped
object and also a bigger section on the front is visible. This suggests
that the object was seen from the front during the first moments, perhaps
when it was approaching their location. That could explain the orb shape
and then it spun around, revealing it's real shape (a cylinder). However,
we have to dedicate more time to study and analyze the video before we
can adopt more definite conclusions.
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- Mrs. Patricia Rugeiro: The object turned into a colored
light show and the camera was capturing it very accurately. I was so excited
and never felt fear at any time. Every time the object made a movement
I described it to the camera. It was an unexplained feeling. Suddenly,
my husband Juan said: "That's it, let's go!" and started to run
the van and I stopped filming.
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- Mr. Juan Cardenas: I was really worried when the object
showed up so big and bright. I must say that I preferred to watch the camera's
monitor instead of watching it through the windshield and I was thinking:
it's dangerous, here we are in this dark night, alone on a lonely road,
in the middle of nowhere, and in front of this "thing."
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to leave the place as soon as posible. Of course, I didn't want my family
to be aware of my fear, so I said to my wife: "Listen, we may spend
all night looking at this object, but remember that we have a long way
still to go and you all will be sleeping while I have to drive, so we better
go now. I don't want to get more tired, ok?" And we left the place.
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- SY: At this final part of the interview, both accounts
seemed to have some discrepancies with the video occurances itself. For
instance, the video suddenly stops, as if it were interrupted or the battery
discharged.
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- I didn't hear any expression by Mr. Cardenas just before
the video stopped. In fact, Mrs. Patricia was mentioning something about
the ufo when the video abruptly stopped.
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Patricia as an excuse to leave the place. On the other hand, Mrs. Patricia
didn't mention any of those words. She just said that Mr. Cardenas told
her, "Thats it, let's go!"
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video, I didn't hear in the audio portion the words supposedly spoken by
Mr. Cardenas at all. So, I sense the drastic interruption of the taping
may be caused by a reason not yet specified.
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- I asked Mr. and Mrs. Cardenas, separately, about this
inaccuracy but they didn't seem able to remember what happened exactly
at that moment. I became aware that both became very nervous when I asked
what happened when the video stopped. Fearful of making them feel uncomfortable,
I didn't press the subject.
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finished our meeting, that after they left the place, sometime later he
parked the van again alongaside the road where he, as well as the others,
all fell asleep.
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- When I heard this I asked him to let me review the portions
of the video after the UFO encounter, and he said, "Well, you will
find something rather unusual...the times of the camera's clock don't match."
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- Reviewing the video after the ufo sighting, I confirmed
that the hours in the video were mixed-up, and I could find no plausible
reason for this discrepancy.
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- Preliminary conclusion: I confess I was tempted to suspect
a "missng time" kind of an abduction case, but I preferred to
stay with the facts and the Cardenas' testimonies, avoiding any type of
speculation.
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- I must say that I had a pleasant impression of the Cardenas
family. They were very open and cooperative in telling their story, giving
me the original VHS video for analysis and agreeing to be interviewed.
I believe they are a completely honest, middle-class family, and I don't
find any reason why they would invent such a story or hoax their video.
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- This case is still under investigation and further discoveries
may lead to a more conclusive definition of what happened. Despite the
evidence presented, I consider this event still unexplained. In reviewing
the transcripts, one of the most profound questions remains: what happened
to the Cardenas family after their video stopped on that fateful night
of December 17, 2000?
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- Maybe the answer lies somewhere in the minds of the members
of that family.
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- Santiago Yturria
- OVNI Investigaciones Mexico
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