Further reading for the Coyame UFO Crash
Mexico’s Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash by Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte
Coyame is a town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, on the border of Texas. In 1974, the Mexican military responded to a mid-air collision between a single engine Cesna airplane and an unidentified flying object. The resulting Coyame UFO crash has come to be known in UFO circles as Mexico’s Roswell.
The story is based almost entirely on anecdotal evidence, with elements pulled straight out of an episode of the X-Files. Conspiracy theories allege that after a first disastrous recovery attempt left an entire unit of Mexican soldiers dead from exposure to some dangerous quality of the crashed spacecraft, a second attempt was made quietly but not before the American military, dispatched from a nearby Texas base, swooped in, recovered all otherworldly materials and sent them to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, where the legendary Hangar 18 is said to be. Hangar 18 being the secret location of the vast bulk of America’s recovered alien technology.
The popular alternative theory to the crash tale is that Mexican authorities responded to the crash of a small smugglers plane that scattered both drugs and money over the Coyame desert region but of course that’s what they want you to believe. Unfortunately, little about this story moves the needle for popular UFO mythology but some of it, mostly the parts about United States military sweeping in and stealing the wreckage have done a bit to inform the public of how the US operates when recovering downed spacecraft.
