Our city, Monterrey, N.L. was visited again last Sunday by a strange-shaped UFO and this time was filmed not only by a TV crew but also by severa otherl people. This is a major sighting involving multiple witnesses, media people, commercial airplanes and air traffic controllers in an unprecedent situation here in Mexico. This is the complete report of the case.

On Sunday, September12 at 7:00 PM, a big V-shaped unknown object appeared on the sky over Monterrey, N.L., a large, industrial Mexican city located on the northern side of the country, not far from the border with Laredo, Texas.

 

The UFO was very big in size and was static in the sky at low altitude. It had an inverted V-shape with a certain device or sphere floating on the upper side. The sphere seemed to be emiting white light of some kind. However, the object changed shape continously from boomberang to triangle to a splitting body in a movement like rotating on its axis.

At that moment, a large number of people who were in the parking lots of the two main supermarkets in the Garza Garcia area became aware of the strange presence and the big excitement began. Everybody was looking and pointing to the sky which attracted the attention of the cars passing by and in seconds the streets were filled with more people trying to find out what was going on and looking to the sky in excitement.

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At 7:15 PM, the first call was received at the local TV channel 12 by witness Sandra Gonzalez who reported the event and requested the TV people to go outside and tape the UFO. " Please film it, it's something extraordinary. We are seeing a UFO, it's like a saucer. All the people in the San Pedro Auditorium are in the parking lot watching it. In the street the cars are stopping and the people are getting out to make better observations. Please, you've got to film it." claimed Sandra by phone.

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By this time Arq. Hector Benavides host of TeleDiario news service by channel 12, was informed of the situation and ordered to cover the event. At 7:30 PM the news spreaded like wildfire and several newspapers also went to the streets to cover the event.

 

On a "live" broadcast of TeleDiario monday 13, Martha Zamarripa co/host declared: " I saw the UFO between 7:30 and 7:45 PM in Colonia del Valle. It was amazing to see that in all the avenues the cars were stopping and the people were looking and pointing up above. It was almost imposible to be unaware that something unusual was present in the sky."

 

An important testimony came also on Monday's edition of Telediario by channel 12. Mr. Joel Sampayo, TV journalist who does "live" suburban reports aboard channel 12 helicopter on a daily schedule, declared that a comercial airplane was also present on the sighting scene. A boeing 737 was descending at about 10,000 feet in a pre-landing operation when they received a request from the Aereopuerto Internacional Mariano Escobedo Air Traffic Control Tower.

 

They were instructed to be alert about something they may encounter along the landing route that may risk the maneuver. The airplane crew inquired what could be the problem and Control Tower replied that they received numerous calls reporting the presence of a big object static in the sky and they wanted to take some precautions to avoid any possible risk. Unfortunately, and as usual, the air traffic controllers declined to make any comments about this event in a subsequent interview by a channel 12 crew. According to Joel Sampayo's source, the airplane pilot once alerted, made visual contact with the UFO at his left side and at the same altitude, that is about 3 kilometers from the ground to finally losing sight of it. Another airplane was also approaching the scene and was alerted by the traffic controllers but the crew could not see the UFO.

By Monday morning, the strange-shaped UFO appeared in the main newspapers in different color photos taken by the reporters and the general opinion among the media was that it was an unexplained event.

 

At 7:00 PM, the Monday edition of TeleDiario channel 12 began with a report of Sunday's amazing UFO sighting including footage and eyewitness interviews.

 

Hector Benavides and Marha Zamarripa, hosts of the newscast, invited the people to send their videos of the sighting to be presented during the show. The response of the people was instantaneous and five videos arrived, each one showing very clear a big triangular to V-shaped object stationary in the sky and rotating in a strange behavior. Hector Benavides questioned the origin of this unknown and received a call fron a scientist who suggested it may be the American-Russian space station (Mir) but that explanation was quickly discarded since the space station flys at about 360 kilometers altitude making it impossible to be seen in plain sight. Also the ballon theory was inmediately discarded since the UFO remained static for almost one hour at the same point.

 

CLICK HERE TO SEE AN ANIMATION SHOWING THE MORPH BETWEEN ONE IMAGE AND ANOTHER

 

 

An interesting testimony was also presented on TeleDiario that accurately describes the whole sighting. It was given by Mr. Antonio Arriaga, a main witness who also videotaped the UFO. He declared: "I could clearly see the shape of the object. It was like a sphere over a semicircle in the lower section; it looked like and earring. But later it rotated to one side and looked like a letter "J" and when it rotated backwards it looked like a "J" reversed and then it returned to it's original semicircle shape. It remained static in the sky for almost one hour and then it began moving south to the Sierra Madre area. All this time the object looked luminous changing from metalic to bluish and when the sun went behind the mountain the object looked solid black. At no time did I become nervous; I really feel this was an exciting and different experience."

 

The dynamics of these UFO events certainly has made a significant change in the attitude of the media and the people. Monterrey's September 12th UFO sighting was a major experience for the community and the results were very encouraging. There was no alarm, no panic...just excitement, emotion and perhaps a wish to encounter a new form of life (?) I wonder...could this attitude be the answer to what the UFO mystery is all about...? We'll see...

 

September 14, 1999

Santiago Yturria

¥ OVNI Investigaciones

Mexico

Reprinted with permission from Santiago