On July 22, 1978, Rosendo Hernandez Garcia, 33 years old, and Sergio Perdomo, drove from the town of Perote towards Martinez de la Torre, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. They were in a truck of a bottling company, Perdomo was driving.
According to Hernandez, when they arrived at a junction of the way with directions towards Valsequillo or Pueblo, Perdomo stopped the truck and "instantaneously fell asleep." Hernandez said that himself had "felt compelled to get out or the truck" and to walk in a certain direction.
Soon, he reportedly found himself confronted to "a very intense light of fluorescent appearance" described later as a "spaceship" in the shape of two plates stuck together and approximately 5 meters in diameter.
In the "light" were "shining beings", humanoids according to some sources, approximately 1.5 meters tall, in front of whom he felt much fear and a very intense feeling of cold. At this moment, two beings took him by the arms and carried him inside the "spaceship" , where the beings sat down in "anatomic seats" and installed Hernandez in another identical seat between the two others.
Hernandez said he then felt like "having floated and having wandered between the stars", he would also say that the experience "had the characteristics of an illusion."
In the ship, there were only the armchairs and on their right, a lever which, actuated, made the craft take off with a noise "similar to that of a cat's purr."
Suddenly, without remembering anything more, and after a period of time he could not specify, he found himself on the ground and blinded by the intensity of the external lights of the spaceship.
In panic, he ran towards the road again, where he succeeded in stopping a taxi which brought him to the town of Perote, where he was jailed for public disorder. Released, he returned home, feeling "disgust" and a strong headache.
Later, the taxi driver who had brought him to Perote, Benigno Sanchez Brito, stated he had found Hernandez in the middle of a nervous breakdown; which was confirmed by the chief of the police force of the city, Leobardo Balderas Perez. According to Sanchez Brito, Hernandez yelled that "they" had carried him inside a spaceship, he shouted so that the taxi driver took him along and he finally threatened the if he did not want to obey. Alarmed, Sanchez made a statement to the police force when he arrived at Perote, this prompted Hernandez' arrest.
Local ufologists Hector Chavarria and Fernando Tellez investigated the case, and revealed serious discrepancies between the story by Hernandez and what had really happened. According to Perdomo, Hernandez and him had drunk beer and had stopped the truck in order to rest a while because he started to drowse and he thought it would be very dangerous to go on driving in these circumstances. Hernandez did not remember any more where the alleged "spaceship" had landed, and no trace of the latter was found during an examination of the ground. Tellez and Chavarria thus thought that Hernandez' story was a possible fraud, with not very clear intentions.
Later, Hernandez claimed to receive a series of messages from the space beings, he apparently went into the contactees business, with little success. In spite of the negative opinion of the two local investigators, the case entered without any reserve and in form of a short summary in at least two ufology catalogues, letting think that it was at the time of his close encounter that the beings communicated to him by telepathy that he was to inform mankind about future disasters, whose nature is not specified.
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[Ref. pa1:] BLOG "LAS PATILLAS DE ASIMOV":
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Ideas emerge. Luis Ruiz, for example, proposes that the evidence of extraterrestrial visits would not be in testimonys nor photographs, but in what he called the continuous topic of ufology: the ship with its crew. In 1978, the first Mexican abductee appeared (who will become a contactee later): Rosendo Hernández García. Fernando J. Téllez and Héctor Chavarría went on the spot: the town of Perote, in the State of Veracruz. Those and other researchers could apply for Hector that "No statement of a contactee exceeds our knowledge level"... For these researchers is more difficult to support the "extraterrestrial assumption." |
[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Perote, Veracruz, Mexico, on July 22, 1978, at 2000, 33-year old cab driver Rosendo Hernandez Garcia, feeling an inner urge drove to an isolated field, there he lost consciousness as he saw a luminous oval shaped object hovering over the field. He remembered floating up into the object and encountering 3 luminous humanoid figures. The figures communicated by using telepathy and told him to warn humanity about coming future catastrophes. Later he was deposited back in his cab.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Denys Breysse, Project Becassine."
[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website says that on 22 July 1978 at 20:00 in Perote, Veracruz, Mexico, "33-year old cab driver Rosendo Hernandez Garcia, feeling an inner urge drove to an isolated field, there he lost consciousness as he saw a luminous oval shaped object hovering over the field. He remembered floating up into the object and encountering 3 luminous humanoid figures. The figures communicated by using telepathy and told him to warn humanity about coming future catastrophes. Later he was deposited back in his cab."
The source indication is a broken link.
[Ref. hs1:] HOCTOR ESOBAR S.:
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E.C. informs us in their issue 52 of a spectacular case in an article entitled Kidnapping in Perote! signed by Héctor Chavarría and Fernando Téllez. The supposed case occurred on July 22, 1978 and had as a protagonist Mr. Rosendo Hernández García (13). That day, Mr. Hernández in company of Mr. Sergio Perdomo, moved from the town of Perote towards Martínez de la Torre, both in the state of Veracruz. Both travelled in a deilevry truck of a bottling company, the one who was driving was Mr Perdomo. According to Hernández, while arriving at a junction of the way with directions towards Valsequillo, Pueblo, Mr. Perdomo stopped the truck and "he instantaneously fell drowsy", Hernández says that at this time "he felt urged to get out of the truck", and to go in a certain direction, soon, he was vis-a-vis a very intense light of fluorescent aspect. In this light there were brilliant beings, in front of which he felt much fear and a very intense feeling of cold. At this time, two beings took him by the arms and they carried him inside the ship. Inside the latter, the beings sat down in anatomical seats (sic) and they installed Rosendo in another seat of same characteristics located between the two others. Hernández indicates that at this time he felt "the feeling to have floated and to have wandered between the stars". According to the witness, the ship had form of two coupled plates and it measured some 5 meters in diameter, while the beings would measure roughly 1.5 meter in height. In the ship, only the armchairs were standing out, and at the right side of those there was a lever which, when pulled produced the takeoff with a noise similar to that of a cat's purr. For Hernández, this experience had the characteristics of an illusion. Suddenly, without remembering anything more, and after a period of time that he cannot specify, he found himself on the ground and he felt dazzled by the intensity of the external lights of the ship. At this time, in prey of a panic he ran back to the road where he managed to stop a cab which drove him to the town of Perote, at his home he was arrested for disturbance of public order. Once freed it went to his home and complained about being sick and about a strong headache. Subsequently, the taxi driver which had brought him to Perote, Mr. Benigno Sánchez Brito, stated he had found Hernández in the middle of a nervous breakdown, something that was confirmed by the chief of the police officer of the city Mr. Leobardo Balderas Pérez. According to Sánchez Brito, Hernández yelled that they had carried it to a spaceship, he shouted so much so the taxi would take him and he finally threatened the driver if he would not want to obey to him. Alarmed, while arriving at Perote, Sánchez made a statement with the police force; which prompted Hernández's arrest. The investigation into the occurrence conducted by Téllez and Chavarría revealed serious divergences between the story by Hernández and what apparently happened. Firstly, like Perdomo said, Hernández and him had been drinking beer and had stopped the truck in order to rest for a while he started to drowse and that he thought that it would be very dangerous to go on driving in these circumstances. The fact that Hernández could not recall where the object had been, as well as an examination of the ground which did not reveal the least proof of the possible presence of the object, made Téllez and Chavarría suspect a possible fraud, with not very clear intentions. Subsequently, Hernández claimed to receive a series of messages from the space beings, i.e. he apparently indulged in the world of the contactees, with little success. An alternative assumption could be a temporary upheaval of the hallucinatory type perhaps caused by the alcohol or a certain state of anxiety. Anyway, the investigators who worked on the case consider unanimously that it is a false case (14). (13) Chavarría, H. Secuestro en Perote. Perspectivas Ufológicas. 2. pp 31-33. (14) Avec son style habituel, Chavarría se référait à ce cas comme celui du "Pedote de Perote". Au Mexique appelle les ivrognes "pedotes". (Note de LRN) |
Though it is said the two men had drunk beer, I do not buy that it could have been an "hallucination". Beer, alcohol in general, only very rarely result in such vivid hallucinations, whereas "contactee" stories are numerous and of the same sort. Also, the "messages" Hernandez apparently told about apparently came up after the experience, not during the time he was supposedly drunk, so the entire think was probably made up rather than caused by alcohol. It takes massive alcohol consumption to enter an hallucinatory state, to the point that the chances of getting in a truck, then walking out, taking a cab etc., seems unlikely.
I have some puzzlement about the fact that no trace of the UFO landing was found when the place was checked, while at the same time we are told Hernandez claimed not to remember the place of the landing.
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"Contactee"-type tall tale.
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