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URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

SEPTEMBER 10, 1965, COLONIA NAVARRETE, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, ESPERANZA M. DE MEDINA, SARA ROSA M. DE MEDINA, ELENA:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Press reports indicated that in Colonia Navarrete, in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 10, 1965, at an unspecified hour, Esperanza M. de Medina, her daughter Sara Rosa, and a friend, Elena, saw three tall beings standing motionless on the corner of Xola and Universidad.

The woman or the women thought at first they were "Judas" figures, burned at Easter in Mexico.

The beings were 10 feet tall and shaped like humans, the only noticeable facial features were their enormous and brilliant red eyes, which "shone with an intense red glow." They lacked nose, mouths, and ears. They had gray hair on their heads and wore leotard-like suits of shiny gray, with boots on their feet.

The women fled in terror, although the figures made no move toward them. They later returned to the scene to look for traces, finding none.

Basic information table:

Case number: URECAT-000798
Date of event: September 10, 1965?
Earliest report of event: October 4, 1965
Delay of report: Day, weeks?
Witness reported via: Not known.
First alleged record by: Newspaper.
First certain record by: Foreign newspaper.
First alleged record type: Newspaper.
First certain record type: Foreign newspaper.
This file created on: August 1, 2008
This file last updated on: August 1, 2008
Country of event: Mexico
State/Department: Mexico City
Type of location: Street.
Lighting conditions: Not reported.
UFO observed: No
UFO arrival observed: No
UFO departure observed: No
UFO/Entity Relation: Uncertain
Witnesses numbers: 1 to 3
Witnesses ages: Nor reported. Adult or aged, 1 younger, other not reported.
Witnesses types: Not reported. Women, mother and daughter and friend.
Photograph(s): No.
Witnesses drawing: No.
Witnesses-approved drawing: No.
Number of entities: 3
Type of entities: Humanoid
Entities height: 3.0 meters
Entities outfit type: Leotard-like suits, boots.
Entities outfit color: Grey.
Entities skin color: Not reported.
Entities body: Not reported.
Entities head: Not reported. No ears.
Entities eyes: Yes, shining with a red glow.
Entities mouth: None.
Entities nose: None.
Entities feet: Not reported. In boots.
Entities arms: Not reported.
Entities fingers: Not reported.
Entities fingers number: Not reported.
Entities hair: Gray hair on their heads.
Entities voice: None heard.
Entities actions: Are in the street.
Entities/witness interactions: None.
Witness(es) reactions: Observed, fled, went back.
Witness(es) feelings: Frightened.
Witness(es) interpretation: Not reported.
Explanation category: Extraterrestrial visitors.
Explanation certainty: Low.

Narratives:

[Ref. yp1:] THE YORKSHIRE POST:

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Flying Saucers over Mexico

Public debate in Mexico on flying saucers has received a new lease of life as thousands of reports pour in to the authorities.

REPORTS of sightings of "Flying saucers" continue to pour in to Mexican newspapers, radio and TV offices, sometimes accompanied by hair-raising stories of "mysterious visitors from outers space."

A group of "beings" ten feet tall, with brilliant red eyes but neither mouths nor noses, were described by three women who claimed to have seen them during a stroll through a southern suburb of Mexico City.

The creatures were said to be wearing shiny grey shirts and "boots like spacemen wear in the comic strips". Interviewed by reporters, the women said that they ran away in panic, and when they eventually packed up courage to return to the scene, the "beings" had vanished.

Glowing objects

Reports of glowing objects in the sky coincided with this "visitation". Sightings of "unidentified flying objects," mostly reported at dusk or before dawn, varied from luminous "saucers" with a red glow to shapes like spinning tops with winking lights.

Some hovered, others darted across the sky "faster than any aircraft," and some performed complicated gyrations.

About a dozen people claimed to have seen two objects zigzagging round the dome and turrets of the capital's Fine Arts Palace at about half past seven one evening. Described as "huge luminous things with intermittent flashing lights," they eventually soared vertically up into the sky until they became "merely tiny dots of light."

Two of five people who lent their names to this report insisted: "We could not have invented this, and we were not drunk. But we just do not know how to explain it. A foreign diplomat was reported to have witnessed this display but to have declined to give his name.

From Jalapa and Villahermosa, near the Gulf of Mexico, and from Tepotzlan, 30 miles from Mexico city, came further reports, including a basketball-sized object emitting blue sparks which appeared to land and take off again, a hovering object which discharged yellow, blue and orange lights from slits in its circumference, and a "black-clad being with eyes gleaming like a cat's, holding a gleaming metal rod."

The last-named visitor vanished suddenly after being spotted in a Jalapa street by a local reporter, two taxi drivers and a bull fighter.

Not to be outdone, Mexico City taxi drivers next claimed a sighting just before dawn - a "saucer" which changed colour as it rotated and flew slowly from west to east across the city. Officials at the city's airport control tower said they had seen only "a very pretty bright star" that morning.

Dramatic display

Next came the dramatic display of "flying saucers" which caused an hour-long traffic jam in one of the capital's main boulevards in the midst of Mexico City's Independence Day festivities.

Passing motorists, seeing crows of pedestrians staring upwards, screeched to a halt and climbed out, ignoring the hooting of drivers behind them. While lines of cars lengthened, excited citizens craned their necks to look at half a dozen luminous orbs, or saucer shapes, hovering silently in the clear evening sky, sliding towards each other, and finally soaring upwards at what people described as "dizzy speeds."

At the same time, over a western suburb, a luminous object with a pulsating internal light hung motionless for half an hour before mysteriously disappearing. One reliable witness described it as "four or five times the size of Venus" (Which was in the sky at the same time) and said that there would could be no confusion with the "conventional" fireworks bursting in the city skies from Independence parties.

For the first time since "saucer sightings" became a commonplace here, officials at Mexico City airport conceded that "something" had been seen.

Senor José Luis Enrique, airport supervisor, said that he had studied two glowing objects through binoculars. One maintained a fixed course, and he told reporters that he thought it could have been one of the many satellites frequently seen in orbit round the world after sunset or before sunrise.

'Mere fantaisies'

But, he added, the second object "appeared to change its course, accelerated in flight, disappeared and reappeared in another direction." He declined to suggest any explanation.

Dr. Ignacio Elias, director of Tacubaya Observatory in the west of the city, dismissed the sightings as "mere fantasies." People, he said, had been seeing the weather surveys balloons sent up regularly from his station.

He did not explain why the balloons, released every day two hours before sunset, have not given rise to "saucer" reports in the past, not how the unlit gas-filled balloons trailing two small instrument boxes, rising steadily and drifting with the wind, could be mistaken for rapidly darting lights.

The observatory, newspapers, radio and TV stations were swamped with anxious telephone calls from the public on this occasion. One newspaper alone reported over a hundred calls.

John Bland

[Ref. gj1:] THE GUARDIAN-JOURNAL:

Scan
 

Mexican now 'see' flying saucers

By John Bland

REPORTS of sightings of "Flying saucers" continue to pour out into Mexican newspaper, radio and television offices, sometimes accompanied by hair-raising stories of mysterious "visitors from outer space."

A group of "beings" ten feet tall, with brilliant red eyes, but neither mouths nor noses, were described by three women, who claimed to have seen them during a stroll through a southern suburb of Mexico City.

The creatures were said to be wearing shiny grey suits and boots "like spacemen wear in the comic strips."

Reports of glowing objects in the sky coincided with this "visitation."

Varying forms

Sightings of unidentified flying objects, mostly reported at dusk or before dawn, varied from luminous "saucers" with a red glow to shapes like spinning tops with winking lights.

Some hovered, others darted across the sky "faster than any aircraft," and some performed complicated girations.

About a dozen people claimed to have seen two objects zig-zagging round the dome and turrets of the capital's Fine Arts Palace at about half past seven one evening.

Described as "huge, luminous things with intermittent flashing lights," they eventually soared vertically up into the sky until they became "merely tiny dots of light."

'Artificial'

Señor José Luis Enriquez, airport supervisor, said that he had studied two glowing objects through binoculars. One maintained a fixed course, and he told reporters that he thought it could have been one of the many artificial satellites frequently seen in orbit round the world after sunset or before sunrise.

[Ref. jv1:] JACQUES VALLEE:

September 10, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico, three women were said to have observed a group of beings, 3 meters tall, without noses or mouths, with red, bright eyes, wearing gray clothing and boots. No object was described.

Vallée notes that the date is approximate and his source "159."

[Ref. go1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:

The ufologist indicates that in September 1965 in Mexico in Jalapa, one saw a hovering object whose circumference was bored of luminous slits and one saw a being dressed in black, with brilliant eyes like those of a cat, who held a kind of metal rod which shone. The entity disappeared suddenly whereas in the street, a local journalist, two cab drivers and a bullfighter observed it.

Godelieve van Overmeire indicates that the source is Jacques Vallée, "Chroniques des apparitions E.T.", Denoel, 1972, J'Ai Lu collection, p. 104, 105.

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Colonia Navarrete Mexico, on September 10, 1965, at an unknown time, Esperanza M de Medina, her daughter Sara Rosa, and a friend, Elena saw three tall beings standing motionless on the corner of Xola and Universidad. The woman thought at first they were "Judas" figures (burned at Easter in Mexico). The beings were 10 ft tall and shaped like humans, but the only noticeable facial features were their enormous and brilliant red eyes. They lacked nose, mouths, and ears. They had gray hair on their heads and wore leotard-like suits of shiny gray, with boots on their feet. The most impressive features were their eyes, which "shone with an intense red glow." The women fled in terror, although the figures made no move toward them. They later returned to the scene to look for traces, finding none. The same day other residents in the area reported that a UFO had been seen, and the incident occurred during a wave of reports throughout Mexico.

Albert Rosales indicates as source "Humcat quoting Newspaper source."

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on September 10, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico, three women in a Mexico City suburb saw a group of 10 feet tall beings, with brilliant red eyes, no noses or mouths, shiny grey suits and boots. This was a close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants.

An unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by three female witnesses on a farm for five minutes (De Medina). A 10-foot-tall red-eyed monster, wearing a shiny gray suit, was seen.

The sources are indicated as Webb, David, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports; Vallee, Jacques, A Century of Landings (N = 923), (in JVallee04), Chicago, 1969; Schoenherr, Luis, Computerized Catalog (N = 3173); Vallee, Jacques, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1988, ISBN:0-8092-4586-8; Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.

[Ref. ud2:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on September 10, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico, three women were said to have observed a group of beings, three meters tall, without noses or mouths with red, bright eyes, wearing gray clothing and boots. No object was described. Approximate date. One red object was observed.

The source is indicated as "Vallee Magonia Database".

Points to consider:

Colonia Navarrete is a district of Mexico City. Jalapa or Xalapa is the capital of the state of Veracruz, hundreds miles from Mexico City.

List of issues:

Id: Topic: Severity: Date noted: Raised by: Noted by: Description: Proposal: Status:
1 Data Severe August 1, 2008 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Missing the primary source and missing full references of the primary source. Help needed. Opened.
2 Ufology Severe August 1, 2008 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross No sign of ufological investigation. Help needed. Opened.
3 Ufology Severe August 1, 2008 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Date uncertain and hour not indicated. Help needed. Opened.

Evaluation:

Extraterrestrial visitors.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author: Patrick Gross
Contributors: None
Reviewers: None
Editor: Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version: Created/Changed By: Date: Change Description:
0.1 Patrick Gross August 1, 2008 Creation, [yp1], [gj1], [jv1], [go1], [ar1], [ud1], [ud2].
1.0 Patrick Gross August 1, 2008 First published.

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