Coyame UFO Incident

The Coyame UFO Incident was an alleged crash between a UFO and an aircraft that happened on August 25, 1974 near the town of Coyame, Chihuahua, close to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The event is believed to have involved the separate responses of both the government of the United States and of Mexico. The United States reportedly tracked the disk after it appeared off the Texas Gulf Coast and then entered Mexican air space, after which it collided with a small civilian airplane and disappeared from radar. The Mexican government is alleged to have sent a team to recover the crashed disk, but for some unknown reason the recovery team died while transporting the recovered wreckage. Afterward, a U.S. recovery team arrived at the scene and recovered the wreckage, eventually taking it to Atlanta, Georgia, possibly for analysis by the Centers for Disease Control.

In 1991, an account of this incident was first disclosed in an anonymous letter sent to a number of prominent UFO researchers in the U.S. and Europe, including Elaine Douglass of Operation Right to Know in Washington, D.C. In the 2007 book, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, written by Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, Douglass states, "This document appears to have originated from a group of government employees lacking a need-to-know about E.T. [extraterrestrial] related government activities, but who are attempting to find out what is going on."

The document, which has come to be known to UFO researchers as the Deneb report, states that on August 25, 1974, shortly after 10 p.m. local time, near the Texas seaport town of Corpus Christi, military radar detected that an unidentified aircraft had suddenly dropped out of earth orbit and was vectoring toward the Texas coast on an intercept course. Fearing a Soviet intercontinental missile strike, the U.S. military sounded an air defense alert, and fighter jets were prepped for take-off and intercept.

Traveling at a speed of 2,500 miles per hour at an altitude of 75,000 feet, the UFO was first spotted over the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles east of Corpus Christi. After going through a series of maneuvers suggesting intelligent control, the object turned south along the Texas coast, avoiding entry over land, and seemed headed toward the southernmost tip of Texas, near the city of Brownsville.

The object had descended from 75,000 feet to about 45,000 feet by the time it crossed over land into Northern Mexico, about 40 miles south of Brownsville. Its speed was down to 2,000 miles per hour and was still slowing very gradually. The streaking UFO traced a path along some of the more desolate and sparsely populated areas of northern Mexico, seemingly avoiding both the Texas border and the larger Mexican population centers such as Monterrey, Nuevo León.

The UFO then entered the Mexican state of Chihuahua, characterized by tall, rugged mountains and vast stretches of desert, nearing the general area of Coyame, approximately 30 miles from the Texas border town of Presidio. Moving past several mountain peaks over 5,000 feet in height, the UFO continued gradually descending and slowing down, although its speed was still near 2,000 miles per hour at the time that it suddenly encountered a small plane.

According to the Deneb report, a mid-air collision occurred between the disk-shaped object and the small plane, which was flying from El Paso, Texas, to Mexico City. Because of the extreme isolation of the crash site, Mexican authorities waited until after dawn the next day to launch a rescue effort to recover what they first believed to be merely the crash of a small civilian plane.

Supposedly, U.S. military personnel in Texas were monitoring radio traffic from the Mexican recovery effort, when they heard the Mexicans say that they had found, near where the airplane fell, a second crash site. The second crashed object, which was nearly intact, was a shiny, silvery disk unlike anything the Mexicans had ever seen.

The UFO is described as sixteen feet, five inches in diameter, and equally convex on both upper and lower surfaces. There was an outer “rim” around the central circumference of the disk. The height of the object was slightly less than five feet. The Mexican soldiers saw no visible portholes, doors, or markings. In addition, no lights of any kind were apparent. There was also no obvious mechanism for propulsion. The external surface of the disk was like silvery polished steel.

After recovering the disk and heading back toward their base, the Mexican soldiers all died suddenly of an unknown cause. Some UFO researchers believe that the soldiers were exposed to a lethal biological or chemical substance eminating from the crashed UFO.

When U.S. satellite surveillance and jet flyovers showed that the Mexicans had died, the U.S. recovery team went in, recovered the UFO, and took the object back into the U.S.

This incident has been the basis for two television documentaries: "Mexico's Roswell" produced in 2005 for the History Channel's "UFO Files" series, and "Crash and Retrieval," produced in 2008 for the History Channel's "UFO Hunters" series. It was also the basis for a 2007 book by UFO researchers Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, called Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, of which a second edition was published in 2008.

External links

* [http://www.textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/3000/3263.ufo Full text of the Deneb report.]
* [http://www.mexicosroswell.com Web page for the book Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash.]
* [http://www.ufocasebook.com/chihuahuamexico1974.html An article about the incident on Ufocasebook.com]