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INEXPLICATA
The Journal of Hispanic
Ufology
May 15, 2007
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MEXICO: FORMER PRESIDENT´S NEPHEW
PHOTOGRAPHED UFO IN 1973
By Ana Luisa Cid
5-12-07
In March
2007 I received several clippings from the "Novedades" newspaper,
dated October 26, 1973, from Ing. Hector Pérez
Rodríguez, making reference
to a sighting by Mr. Juan David Mateos Chanfreau,
the nephew of (deceased) former Mexican president Lic. Adolfo Lopez
Mateos.
According to the publication, the witness gave his story to the press and
provided them with a copy of the photo he took with his Polaroid camera. The snapshot
was taken while he travelled aboard his car
along the road from Ciudad Camargo to Chihuahua (1973).
Ing. Pérez, who kindly provided me a copy of the clippings
he has kept for 30 years, believes that it is
possible that Mr. Mateos Chanfreau's experience is possibly related to the Coyame
Case, which occurred in the same geographic
region and on a date relatively close to that
of the alleged crash of a spacecraft in the Chihuahua desert (1974).
In another news item from "Novedades"
it is said
that six UFOs were seen
in the USA, witnessed by over 50 people, among them then-deputy sheriff Jim Taylor of Surrey County.
Transcript of the news item
from Novedades, 26 October
1973:
"Mexican Tells How He Saw and
Photographed a Flying Saucer"
The existence of flying saucers no longer appears to be a mere invention of
people with excessive imagination or feverish minds. When mechanical
means - such as photography - are brought into play to determine their reality, only one question
remains: where do they come from?
Juan David Mateos Chanfreau, nephew of the deceased
former president Adolfo Lopez mateos, has asked himself this question in vain for two
months. But the issue of
their provenance is secondary, because there is something more important: he knows that they exist,
he has seen one of them and
has photographed it.
The account he gives NOVEDADES shows the emotion the
event produced in him; his satisfaction
at the experience surpasses all limits.
Juan David was traveling from Ciudad Camargo to
Chihuahua a little over
60 days ago. The day was somewhat
hazy but precisely due to the lack
of solar reflection, the landscape was clear and
placid.
Upon reaching the desert area
between Villanueva and the city of
Chihuahua, he began to hear a strange sound coming from his car
radio. He suddenly looked
upward and saw an object
suspended in mid-air.
He hit the brakes at once. He was invaded
by a stupor and cannot remember if he turned off the radio, but he fully recalls the rigidity
that took over his limbs
for some seconds. He was afraid that something
bad would happen to him.
However, curiosity won
out over prudence and his arm,
guided as if by an electric shock,
reached for the glove comaprtment
where his photo camera rested.
"Before taking it, I had the
sensation that someone was keeping
me from doing so,"
he says, "and I grabbed it cautiosly.
I felt afraid again, but the
anxiety of having proof of what I was
seeing won out, and I stepped out of the car."
The craft, which produced a very slight vibration,
rotated displaying its colors of
orange, purple and red. Parapeted behing his vehicle, he was about to
press the shutter. The artifact, which was to the
right of the highway at
a distance of some 60 meters and an altitude
of 20, did not move. And
the photo was taken.
He immediately felt the urge to flee,
but some internal sense advised him not
to move. Some minutes went by, which seemed like centuries to Juan David. Suddenly the craft began
to move. Rising, it tilted
until it remained sideways, rising vertically, and taking off
at a fantastic speed. He saw no smoke; he was only able to
hear an intense vibration that became more painful as the intensity grew. The metal turned into a multitude of dats that rose,
blinding his riveted eyes. In a matter of seconds,
the saucer was lost to
the immensity of space.
Reality took hold and thosands
of questions spilled into his mind: where
did it come from? Was it
terrestrial or not? But among
the lack of answers there
stood an unquestionable fact: something remarkable had happened and none other
than he had witnessed and photographed it. The amazement of the event
would suffice - perhaps some day he would find out the rest.
 
* Source: www.analuisacid.com
Special thanks to Hector Perez Rodriguez
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(Translation (c) 2007, Scott
Corrales, IHU.
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