- A report by Ana Luisa Cid and Jesus Martinez Castro
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- The city of Chilpancingo (state of Guerrero's) La Cronica
Vespertina newspaper reported the sighting of an unknown light that landed
at Cerro Pie de Minas, emitting flashes for over 30 hours and causing
alarm among the locals.
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- The event took place in the early morning hours of December
31, 2007 in the town of Mezcala, Guerrero. According to the news report
from journalist Francisco Rangel, dated January 10, 2008, the phenomenon
was observed by the entire town, cutting across all ages ranging from
children to senior citizens and including mining engineers and laborers
at the Los Filos gold mine.
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- Eyewitness accounts suggest that drivers halted their
vehicles all the way to the Federal Highway in order to take a look at
the intense light source that traveled across various parts of the locality
at an estimated altitude of 300 meters. They describe a saucer-shaped
craft that passed over the town square slowly and silently before landing
on a hill known as Pie de Minas, where it emitted flashes for over 30
hours.
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- According to the newspaper story, witnesses to the phenomenon
complained of eye irritation despite the fact that they saw it at a considerable
distance. Not only that, but there is also talk of fluctuations in the
level of electric power in spite of the fact that no voltage changes were
detected at the electric substation belonging to the Comision Federal
de Electricidad.
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- Many people took photos and videos with their cameras
and cellphones, but their recordings were affected and distorted by an
alleged magnetic force. They added that even the pictures taken with
analog cameras were overexposed.
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- According to the newspaper article: "The object
was seen by most of the population, ranging from small children to the
elderly and entire families, seen at considerable distances by the luminosity
that affected the eyes of many residents and the fact that the electric
levels of all the homes dropped whenever the light's intensity increased,
ranging from a soft shade of light blue to a white and phosphorescent
blue, acquiring yellow, orange and soft red tones...."
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- Many video recordings exist in spite of this, taken by
people who managed to record it from their homes at a distance of 4 or
6 kilometers away. The footage shows a round light, whether white or
light blue, with strange figures at its core that were described-- by
those who peered at the object through binoculars as something resembling
a cat or a being with horns, causing the greatest degree of fear among
the locals, rendering them unable to sleep for the two following nights.
The sighting was not made known beyond the confines of the town until
the first days of this week, although reports of alleged meteorite activity
had been received from Amojileca and Xochipala on January 1st. Residents
of Mezcala say that the inclement weather strong, cold winds
could have been caused by the luminous UFO which appeared to have landed
on the hill known as Pie de Mina in the wilderness known as "La V",
from where it was filmed by many locals with their diminutive Handycams
and who were clearly afraid that something awful would happen, or that
the vehicle's crew would harm them.
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- Alfonso Ramirez Maya, 35, a farmer and board-layer, had
a chance to film the UFO with his video camera and his daughter's cell
phone. He showed us the images taken, and those in which the light can
be seen moving, but with deformations of the images on the cellphone.
The white light resembles a balloon that changes shape, despite their
best efforts at remaining steady. The images were obtained from their
house on Calle Francisco Villa n/n, Colonia Cabeza de Culebra, 5 km from
the sighting one kilometer distant from the Mexico City Acapulco
Federal Highway that passes through Mezcala.
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- Another person who had the opportunity to record a video
was Jesus Santana Hernandez, who filmed the UFO as it flew over the community,
but sent the video to Houston so that a relative could make it known through
a local TV station, since some thought they could profit from selling
the images. However, the majority of the locals who have the evidence
are hesitant to disclose it, as they do not wish to earn themselves a
poor reputation or be dismissed as lunatics.
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- However, they are all willing to discuss the experience
after being told that an effort is underway to document the sighting,
and even willing to accompany a research group to the site, as it is a
rugged terrain filled with rattlesnakes and scorpions. Many of the people
interviewed, among whom were serious individuals of all ages, youths and
even children, offered interpretations of the story that agreed with one
another's regarding the sighting of the light on the hill and its transit
over the community of Mezcala, further agreeing with the fear and consternation
they experienced for the 30-hour span in which the "flying saucer"
was present.
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- Many residents of this community stated that there were
several occasions in which some people tried to reach the place where
the UFO touched down. In the night and evening of January first, when
up to 20 or 30 pickup trucks laden with people tried to reach the sight
were the light could be seen, the light simply went dark. There exists,
however, the report of a group that came within fifty meters of the vessel
described as a flying saucer, whose color was similar to that of brilliant,
galvanized sheet metal, with a whitish or light blue light. These people
brought with them video and still cameras, but their vehicles were left
without power, with no electricity and stalled engines. Furthermore, camera
batteries were inexplicably drained despite having been charged, and returned
to normal operating conditions later on.
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- Bold youths who dared approach the UFO clearly heard
two dry, metallic sounds emerging from the interior of the alleged craft.
This spooked them into hiding under their pickup trucks and even made
them weep like children, as they believed the occupants would emerge to
seize them. This fear prompted them to flee the site as best they could,
and they refuse to talk about it.
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- Closer images were obtained from videos taken from the
slopes of Pie de Mina one kilometer distant where the object
can be seen as larger, resembling a large white circle of encapsulated
light. Symbols can be made out, and even the shape of a face drawn on
a card by another witness, having the shape of a feline or a horned being
that appears to be at the center of the light.
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- To many businessmen in downtown Mezcala, and food vendors
who witnessed the phenomenon from the early hours of December 31, also
saw the gathering of people who had set out to see the UFO phenomenon
and who offered their versions about what it could be. There were many
who recorded videos or took photos, but after the novelty wore off, they
became disaffected after making the trip in groups of pickup trucks
accompanied by two local sheriffs without finding anything. To calm
the populace down, they said [the sighting ] had been caused by the clash
of high voltage wires that entwined in the strong wind.
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- The owner of a budget store says that sales declined
because people became frightened, and that Mezcala looked "like a
ghost town" as many of its residents fled out of fear, believing
that harm would befall them because the vehicle remained on the hillside,
emitting powerful flashes skyward even in broad daylight. There are even
those who say that another light above appeared to blink, as if communicating
the one below. This made them fear the worst, and contributed to restless
sleep for two nights.
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- There is much more evidence of the extraordinary event,
known as a Close Encounter of the 2nd Kind (CE-2), a variety of eyewitness
accounts from an entire community stricken with terror by the tremendous
light that lit all of the nearby hills, and even caused the city's own
electric lights to dwindle, all of this amid strong winds and the cold
nights of early 2008.
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- In order to reach the landing site of the luminous UFO,
it is necessary to walk for several hours or reach the site on all- terrain
vehicles, since there could be evidence of some sort to be found where
the UFO remained for 30 hours, all the while flashing its lights.
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- It should be noted that the area has various mineral
and metal deposits, such as uranium, cobalt, gold, silver and copper.
[...] A more thorough investigation of what appears to be a genuine UFO
case must be performed, verifying if there were any traces left behind
at Pie de Minas hill, in the "La V" wilderness of the community
of Mezcala, Municipality of Zumpango del Rio, state of Guerrero. Other
reports involving strange phenomena have been received from other municipalities
early this year.
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- (Text submitted by reporter Javier Francisco Reyes)
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- Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU - Special thanks
to Ana Luisa Cid)
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