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UFO. Mexico

ID #1528899714
Added Wed, 13/06/2018
Author July N.
Sources
Phenomena
Status
Fact

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
30.03.1967
Location: 
Хочилапа GRO
Mexico

30 March 1967, began to spread stories about the collision of a spindle (or cigar-shaped) object with the hill near Mascali (Guerrero state).

Reporter Ultima Hora pointed out that, at least a thousand villagers Hochelaga (Xochilapa) seen as the object fell to the ground and heard a deafening explosion. Many villagers agreed that the object was roughly cigar-shaped and emitted a blinding light, "so it cannot be confused with a meteorite".

It is reported that the infantry of the Mexican army was sent to collect the remains of the object, but on the further development of events is not reported.

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Original news

Stories began to circulate on March 30, 1967 regarding the collision of a spindle-shaped object against a hillside near Mezcala, state of Guerrero. A reporter for Ultima Hora indicated that at least a thousand residents of the village of Xochilapa had seen the object plummet earthward and heard the deafening explosion which inevitably followed. Many of the villagers agreed that the heavenly bullet had been roughly cigar-shaped and emitted a blinding light, "making it impossible to confuse with a meteorite." An infantry unit of the Mexican Army was allegedly dispatched to collect the object's remains, but nothing else was heard about the event.

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