- El Mañana de Valles (newspaper)
- Date: August 21, 2007
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- A Report from Ana Luisa Cid
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- According to a news item published on August 21 2007
by the El Mañana de Valles newspaper, two unidentified flying objects
allegedly fell in Valles and Xilitla (San Luis Potosi).
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- The first of them was reported on the evening of Sunday,
August 19 and the second during early morning hours of Monday the 20th.
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- Reporters Antonio Martínez and Maribor Villalobos
state that the initial report was received by Jose Angel Avalos, an officer
on duty at the Centro de Control y Comando (C4) through the 066 call line.
This report was from Rubén Velázquez, who stated that a silver
object measuring 20 cm long had fallen from the sky in a plot of land of
the San Miguel collective farm.
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- Another witness, high school student Oscar Gonzalez Mar,
a resident of the El Sidral collective farm, told the "El Mañana"
newsromm that he had seen a shining object streaming across the skies toward
the Gulf of Mexico between 8 and 9 p.m. on August 19 before he lost it
from sight, not knowing whether the object crashed or not.
- Nearly two and a half hours after the San Miguel incident,
Mrs. Saturnina Castillo reported from Xilitla that an object resembling
a fireball had impacted a tree in a property located near the "Montoya"
metal shop, owned by her husband Juan Montoya, adding that the tree had
caught fire.
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- Joaquín Hernández was a direct witness
to the sighting. He and his family prepare zacahuil and live next
to where the object hit the ground. In fact, Hernández was preparing
the zacahuil batter and he saw the "fireball" as it came down
over the tree. Afraid that no one would believe him, he screamed for Juan
Montoya and his wife to witness the tree bough catching fire.
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- He added that it was a highly unusual thing to see, as
there was no thunder or storm activity that could lead anyone to think
it had been a stroke of lightning.
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- The incident was reported to the Municipal Civil Protection
unit, but no investigation was conducted.
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- (translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Prof. Ana Luisa Cid)
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