Hundreds of people in Mexico City witness the same UFO. ![]() Actual video of the Mexican UFO ![]() Comparison of 2 different videotapes CASE DETAILS On July 11, 1991, the last total eclipse of the century occurred. For the residents of Mexico City, the eclipse prompted a festive celebration. Thousands took to the streets as one of the world’s largest cities was plunged into total darkness in the middle of broad daylight. No one imagined that the entire country was about to be swept into a wave of UFO hysteria. ![]() Similar UFO seen 2 months later That afternoon, a television executive named Guillermo Arragin, was videotaping the eclipse from a rooftop when he noticed an unusual object overhead. Jaime Maussan, a respected television journalist in Mexico, recalled his initial reaction after viewing the footage:
Jaime Maussan produced, directed and hosted Mexico’s edition of “Sixty Minutes” or “Sesenta Minutos”. Eight days after the eclipse, Jaime presented the Arragin footage as part of a special UFO broadcast. According to Jaime, the network was inundated with phone calls:
![]() Schoolchildren made drawings of the UFO Erick Aguilar, a 19-year old student at a university in Mexico sent in one of the many videos. He was setting up to film the eclipse from a rooftop when he spotted something unusual in the sky:
At about the same time, 60 miles from Mexico City, a businessman named Luis Lara videotaped a similar object:
Another video was shot by the Breton family in Puebla, a city 80 miles east of Mexico City. Magnifying the Breton video revealed an odd, wave-like disturbance behind the pulsating disc, perhaps, some kind of energy trail. Jaime Maussan enhanced the Arragin footage and compared it to the Breton tape. The objects were photographed nearly 100 miles apart, yet according to Jaime, they were amazingly similar:
The videos caused a sensation throughout Mexico. But the UFO craze was just beginning. Two months later, an engineer named Vincente Sanchez took his video camera to a military air show in Mexico City:
A year later, a similar object was videotaped at the same air show. This time the disc descended rapidly and mysteriously disappeared. Alejandro Leal shot amateur video of the flying disc:
Since the eclipse in July of 1991, there have been thousands of sightings throughout Mexico. There is no clear pattern, although the majority have occurred in and around Mexico City. The witnesses range from pilots to doctors to bus drivers and even, school children. But are the UFOs real? It’s hard to deny the images captured on videotape. A skeptic would suspect a hoax. But for those who have witnessed the mysterious objects in the skies over Mexico, “seeing is believing.” Watch this case now on Amazon Prime in season seven with Robert Stack and in season one with Dennis Farina. Also available on YouTube with Dennis Farina. Various seasons available now on Hulu. |
Sprout
I saw an unidentifiable aerial phenomena when I was a teenager in Seattle in about 1982-1983. It was fairly simple, but noteworthy. I was walking my dog in a suburban neighborhood at about 11:30 pm and I hear this very low hum, and I look up and can see a large triangular pitch black shape going across the sky very slow. First thing I ruled out was the Good-Year blimp because it wasn’t. As I was watching this thing slowly disappearing because of the trees, a guy came out of his house adjacent to where I was with my dog, and looked up and said, what is that? He and I connected visually and to gesture to each other we had seen it, but it drifted away and was gone. The next day, I called Boring Field and asked them if the had seen anything unusual on radar or anything. Not much to report. I almost forgot about that experience until I heard a similar report and it all came back.
MsMcMo
My father saw a similar thing in African in December of 1986. It was hovering a the trees in a rubber plantation. He stopped and tried to come out of his pickup truck to have a closer look. But my Uncle who was riding in the car with him freaked and screamed at him to drive off fast. And so they did. He said it was hovering slowly over the trees and made a humming sound.
Sprout
Seems a while since anyone left a post. Need to get Age of Disclosure released. Need to remain focused and be content that the best evidence can be brought to bear and the actual reality accepted, ah right. Now let’s try and understand it better! The only reason we don’t have answers is because we aren’t important on this subject. Not any of the current U.S. cabinetry and even into the joint chiefs — beyond DOGE, these guys are holding these secrets and most if not all don’t even know it. I don’t know the how and why but I wouldn’t for a second rule out that some or all of our UAP encounter origins are here on the planet, most likely in the ocean. If not, then they probably cruise outside the atmosphere, because otherwise, we’d see them on radar all the time. Hmm, guessing they’ve been navigating our deep oceans for some time.
Hannah
I could be crazy, not saying people who experience things are, but maybe I just wasn’t seeing right. Today, I was driving to the store my parents are driving to Ohio… so i figured I’d get some food and snacks I like. I was on the phone with my cousin whilst driving.. I seen something silver in the sky but it was so high up I thought it could’ve been a plane… etc. but it was like hovering then kinda went sideways it looked like then literally took tf off. I tried looking for it in the sky and didn’t seeing anything
MexicoSightings
It wasn’t Luis Lara, funny how the author’s name is right there, on the picture you posted, and you chose not to use it.
Amado
Cerca de mi casa hay un cerro o monte, han sido varias veces las que se ve una luz por encima de la punta, por que yo he comparado la altura del monte en el día y la altura de esa luz por la noche, además de eso, la luz siempre señala hacia mi y de vez en cuando se ve que llega una mas e interactùan. Guiándome con la luz de la luna se ve la sombra de este objeto como si fuera un auto pero la luz la tiene encima y no por delante como todos, además de que la luz aveces parece ser de color rojo.
Nelson Soileau
It’s the planets Jupiter mars and Venus. These bright planets show up in low light. And a eclipse allows that same condition as dusk and dawn
Tom Fly
. Yeah they’re planets for sure.
John
That would make sense if there wasn’t footage in this episode of the UFO this side of some clouds, making your planet theory impossible
Beatrice Torres
I saw a few times a UFO twice once caught pic but Hollowman Aurforce Base never returned my call no government did no media. Second time me & an ex encountered one we promised not to tell anyone we neglected to get video. 3rd time an experience so real I will never forget who would believe me anyways right?
Anonymous
Dang
Manny guzman
It can be a weather ballon and the childern did’nt know what it is