The Mexican Roswell

August 25, 1974, El Paso, Texas. A small civilian plane takes off a dusty airstrip, heading for Mexico City. Its journey would be cut short over the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico by a mid-air collision with -you guessed it- a UFO.

Unbeknownst to the small plane’s pilot, the U.S. Air Defense Radar had been tracking what they thought was a meteor traveling at a speed of over 2,000 mph (3,200 km/h+) over the Gulf of Mexico. When the speeding object suddenly changed course, the authorities realized it was no mere meteor and went one level higher on the alert scale.

As the UFO descended over the Mexican town of Coyame, population 2,500, it disappeared off the radar. Shortly after, a civilian radio station announced the crash of an aircraft in the area.

During the course of the following morning, Mexican authorities’ recovery teams had identified the crash site and the military was dispatched at approximately 10:35 a.m. A second crash site was discovered only a few miles away. The U.S. authorities offered their assistance in dealing with the situation, like a helpful neighbor is wont to. They were declined.

Not wanting to miss out on any of the fun involving the recovery of a presumably alien craft, the U.S. had already assembled its own recovery team at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, TX.

According to researchers Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, authors of the book The Mexican Roswell, the Mexican Army had loaded the plane wreck on a truck and the UFO on another one and started heading south when things suddenly went south.

Sources say that growing impatient, the U.S. authorities ordered a low altitude fly-by in order to assess the situation over the border. The pilots reported that the Mexican military convoy had stopped smack in the middle of the desert and no signs of activity could be observed. The team at Fort Bliss got the green light to step in and take over.

American forces in hazmat suits arrived a little over 4 p.m. and were met by a very unusual sight.

The Mexican recovery team members were all dead, quite possibly due to the flying saucer they had hauled on a flatbed truck. The UFO was about 16 feet in diameter and had the color of polished steel. It was quickly attached to a helicopter and covertly transported to the U.S. Everything else was blown up using high explosives. There was no sense in preserving whatever alien pathogens killed off the Mexican forces.

The Coyame UFO incident is denied by both governments and there are no Coyame newspaper records from Agust 1974. The only press mention comes from the October 27th edition of El Heraldo de Chihuahua, which makes a passing reference of a group of Mexican soldiers dying during a military transport.

However, the event is recalled by some of the older residents of Coyame who remember a day in which soldiers passed through the town and the wreck of a small plane going up in flames.