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19.43 N, 99.13 WView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
4 events here, 1975 to 2023, in date order.
Mexican private pilot Carlos Antonio de los Santos radioed Mexico City airport's control tower that three unidentified objects were flying around his light Piper aircraft and that his controls moved on their own. He landed safely. A recording said to be his call circulated widely in 2023.
During the total solar eclipse over Mexico City, a number of residents reported seeing a strange hovering craft, in what has been called one of the largest mass UFO sightings; reports also came from other Mexican cities. A skeptic suggested viewers without eye protection were seeing spots.
At Mexico's first congressional UAP hearing, journalist Jaime Maussan displayed two small mummified bodies he claimed were non-human. UNAM said its lab had only carbon-dated samples and drew no conclusions about origin; scientists widely called the bodies a hoax.
Journalist Jaime Maussan returned to Mexico's Congress with doctors and Peruvian researchers who said the three-fingered bodies were once-living organisms. None would certify them as extraterrestrial, and the bodies were not shown this time.
