- THE JOURNAL OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY
- FEBRUARY 12, 2010
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- MEXICO: AIRLINERS AND "UNIDENTIFIED TRAFFIC"
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- Reports of encounters between Mexican aviation and unidentified
flying objects are far from over, as we can see from today's message from
Prof. Ana Luisa Cid.
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 "According to a report from Alfonso Salazar, a commercial
airliner encountered an unidentified flying object over the Gulf of Mexico.
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- "The TCAS radar detected it for five (5) minutes,
alerting the airliner's crew to the presence of unidentified traffic nearby.
It followed them and maneuvered above them.
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- "[The airliner] involved was Magni Flight 774, flying
between Mexico City and Cancún, registration number XA-MAI (Boeing
737-300)
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- "There were several reports of encounters between
UFOs and airliners in the skies over Mexico during the month of January."
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- VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokOhV0uEjA
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- (Translation (c) 2010 S.Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Ana Luisa Cid,www.analuisacid.com)
- POSTED BY INEXPLICATA AT 5:29 AM
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- Mexico: What Crashed in Hidalgo?
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- INEXPLICATA recieved a message yesterday morning from
Contributing Editor Ana Luisa Cid regading the collision of an unexplained
object in the state of Hidalgo (central Mexico) -- initial excitement over
an "extraterrestrial" event was replaced with more conservative
comments about "Soviet-era space junk", "meteorites"
and even "an explosion in a local mine"
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- News items received today read thus: "Meteorite
allegedly left a hole 30 meters in diameter and caused houses and buildings
to shake in five municipalities of Hidalgo and Puebla.
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- At 18:30 hours on Wednesday, [February 10, 2010] a light
accompanied by a powerful rport caused homes and buildings to shake throughout
five municipalities in [the states of] Puebla and Hidalgo. The event was
attributed to a meteorite impact.
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- The thunderous impact was heard in Ahuazotepec and Huachinango,
communities in Puebla, as well as in Tulancingo, Cuautepec and Metepec,
in the state of Hidalgo.
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- According to latest reports, the meteorite caused a bridge
to collapse in the municipality of Cuautepec (Hidalgo) without any material
or human losses reported.
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- State Civil protection reported that emergency phone
lines collapsed due to the number of frightened citizens asking for an
explanation about what was going on, after the detonation caused windows
to shatter.
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- The agency's director, Miguel Garcia Conde, said that
flight logs were checked at airports when the report was received, out
of concern for an airplane crash, however "there was no report regarding
a loss of communication with any airliner."
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- Military units cordoned off the area where the 30-meter
hole was found - produced by the meteor impact - as oil pipelines belonging
to PEMEX cross the area.
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- (Translation (c) 2010, S. Corrales. Special thanks to
Ana Luisa Cid and El Economista.com.mx)
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- Of course, only minutes after posting this news item
to the site, a message rejecting the "meteorite" theory was received
- and rejecting the affirmations that a 30-meter hole was proof of the
impact.
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- The following was reported by Publicaciones NorOeste
- México (http://www.noroeste.com.mx/publicaciones.php?id=556316)
and reads thus:
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- Intrigue Over "Space Junk"
- What fell in Hidalgo was neither a UFO nor a meteorite
(02.12.2010)
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- MÉXICO (UNIV) -- Scientists consider that it was
either a bolide or the remains of a satellite. To many, it was a smokescreen
employed by the government to levy new taxes, or even a crashed UFO that
is now in the hands of NASA. Ufologist Jaime Maussán took it all
very seriously and sent a reporter to the area to commence "an investigation"
to be presented on his Sunday "Tercer Milenio" program.
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- The stories agree that the "fireball" allegedly
witnessed by residents of municipalities in Hidalgo and Puebla had a cosmic
origin. However, it was impossible to record it or photograph it. The bolide
crossed the atmosphere in fractions of a second. A loud sound was heard
first, followed by a reddish light. Thousandths of seconds later, no one
knew what became of it.
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- When advised of these reports, Daniel Flores, a researcher
for the UNAM Astronomical Institute and an expert in space debris and meteoritics,
said that the so-called "fireball" has all the traits of a bolide,
that is to say, a mass of cosmic matter than, as it moves between the planets,
eventually crosses the atmosphere in a matter of seconds without reaching
the ground, unlike meterorites that do crash.
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- News of the fireball sighting, followed by an explosion
recorded on Wednesday afternoon in Tulancingo del Valle, Hidalgo, y Ahuazatepec,
Puebla caused elements of the fire departments and Civil Protection agencies
to mobilize. The rumor caused Miguel Garcia Conde, Director of Civil Protection
in Hidalgo, to complain about having spent 24 sleepless hours over what
he qualified as a "very serious error by the media" since the
object was dubbed a meteorite.
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- The so-called "fireball" gave rise to all manner
of speculation on the Internet. 24 hours after residents saw the bolide,
the news item already had 140,000 links on the Google search engine.
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- Speculation was rife: that it had left a crater 30 meters
in diameter and that the army was unable to find the enormous hole produced.
Others concluded that it was a rumor similar to that of the "Chupacabras"
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- (Translation (c) 2010, S. Corrales. Special thanks to
Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO Publicaciones NorOeste)
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