Advenedizo. México

Date: July 22 1978
Location: Perote, Veracruz, Mexico
Time: 2000
Summary: On July 22, 1978, Rosendo Hernandez Garcia, 33 years old, and Sergio Perdomo, drove from the town of Perote towards Martinez de la Torre, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. They were in a truck of a bottling company, Perdomo was driving. According to Hernandez, when they arrived at a junction of the way with directions towards Valsequillo or Pueblo, Perdomo stopped the truck and “instantaneously fell asleep.” Hernandez said that himself had “felt compelled to get out or the truck” and to walk in a certain direction. Soon, he reportedly found himself confronted to “a very intense light of fluorescent appearance” described later as a “spaceship” in the shape of two plates stuck together and approximately 5 meters in diameter. In the “light” were “shining beings”, humanoids according to some sources, approximately 1.5 meters tall, in front of whom he felt much fear and a very intense feeling of cold. At this moment, two beings took him by the arms and carried him inside the “spaceship” , where the beings sat down in “anatomic seats” and installed Hernandez in another identical seat between the two others. Hernandez said he then felt like “having floated and having wandered between the stars”, he would also say that the experience “had the characteristics of an illusion.” In the ship, there were only the armchairs and on their right, a lever which, actuated, made the craft take off with a noise “similar to that of a cat’s purr.” Suddenly, without remembering anything more, and after a period of time he could not specify, he found himself on the ground and blinded by the intensity of the external lights of the spaceship. In panic, he ran towards the road again, where he succeeded in stopping a taxi which brought him to the town of Perote, where he was jailed for public disorder. Released, he returned home, feeling “disgust” and a strong headache. Later, the taxi driver who had brought him to Perote, Benigno Sanchez Brito, stated he had found Hernandez in the middle of a nervous breakdown; which was confirmed by the chief of the police force of the city, Leobardo Balderas Perez. According to Sanchez Brito, Hernandez yelled that “they” had carried him inside a spaceship, he shouted so that the taxi driver took him along and he finally threatened the if he did not want to obey. Alarmed, Sanchez made a statement to the police force when he arrived at Perote, this prompted Hernandez’ arrest. Local ufologists Hector Chavarria and Fernando Tellez investigated the case, and revealed serious discrepancies between the story by Hernandez and what had really happened. According to Perdomo, Hernandez and him had drunk beer and had stopped the truck in order to rest a while because he started to drowse and he thought it would be very dangerous to go on driving in these circumstances. Hernandez did not remember any more where the alleged “spaceship” had landed, and no trace of the latter was found during an examination of the ground. Tellez and Chavarria thus thought that Hernandez’ story was a possible fraud, with not very clear intentions. Later, Hernandez claimed to receive a series of messages from the space beings, he apparently went into the contactees business, with little success. In spite of the negative opinion of the two local investigators, the case entered without any reserve and in form of a short summary in at least two ufology catalogues, letting think that it was at the time of his close encounter that the beings communicated to him by telepathy that he was to inform mankind about future disasters, whose nature is not specified.
Source: Denys Breysse, Project Becassine