Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – A PROBLEM OF CONTACT
Ben became aware of a buzzing sound, like motors of some sort, though he could not see the source of the noise. With the opened doorway now before him, he took his chance. Stepping out of the craft, he found himself back in the desert. He walked away and was not stopped.
On returning to the car and his companion, Ben learned that an hour and a half had passed since he began looking for fossils. ‘He wrote down what happened to him within one hour of returning,’ said McNeil. ‘During his interview he was constantly referring to these notes. He was mostly disturbed about the children. ‘Did this happen? I believe it is possible that it did, due to the emotion and detail supplied by Ben,’ commented McNeil. ‘It is, unfortunately, to be expected that the sceptics and “professional” UFO debunkers should jump up and down pouring scorn and vitriolic hyperbole on the alleged witness to close contact activity.’
UFOs are constantly ignoring scientific protestations of their non-existence and are continually returning, from wherever they come from, to the earth we know and think we understand . . . objective, scientific investigation could enhance Man’s knowledge of himself, his world, and the universe he lives
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MAYDAY!
‘Mexico Centre from X-Ray Alpha Uniform. Mayday! Mayday!’
The young pilot’s voice was desperate as he contacted Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport control tower. It was 12.15 on 3 May 1975. ‘Come in, X-Ray Alpha Uniform.’ ‘My aircraft is out of control . . . I have three unidentified objects flying around me; one came under my aircraft and hit it. The landing gear is locked in and the controls won’t release them. My position — I am on the Radial 004 from the VOR [VHF Omnidirectional Range] Tequesquitengo — I am not controlling the plane — Mexico Centre, can you hear me?’ ‘Taken note, X-Ray Alpha Uniform . . . We are contacting [appropriate] authorities.’
Carlos de los Santos Montiel, the 23-year-old pilot, was flying in his Piper PA- 24 Comanche (registration XB-XAU) from Zihuatenajo, State of Guerrero, to Mexico City, a distance of some 180 miles, when, he claims, an object, about 10 feet in diameter, shaped like two plates joined together with a small cupola on top (see Fig. 23), positioned itself just above his starboard wing. A glance to the left revealed another object just above the port wing.
‘I was petrified, after I saw a third object which seemed about to collide head- on with the windshield,’ Carlos told airport officials. ‘But it went beneath the aircraft and I heard a strange noise from below as though it had collided with the underside of the plane.’
The Piper’s airspeed dropped from 140 to 120 nautical miles per hour. Carlos tried banking to the left in an attempt to ‘bump’ the object away from his plane, but the controls were frozen. He then tried lowering the landing gear, though to no avail. The Mexico control tower contacted Ignacio Silva la Mora, Carlos’s uncle, an aircraft expert, who talked with Carlos on the radio to analyse the problem and assist with landing preparations.
By the time Carlos had reached the Ajusco radio beacon, he found that his aircraft had risen from 15,000 to 15,800 feet. At this point, the objects left, one by one, heading in the direction of the Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl volcanoes.
Control of the aircraft was regained. Meanwhile, at Mexico City International Airport, runways were closed and preparations made for an emergency landing. After 40 minutes of circling, Carlos managed to lower the undercarriage after adjustments to the control lever with a screwdriver, and the plane landed safely on a grassy area between two runways. Immediately, Carlos was taken to the airport clinic, where he was examined and pronounced fit.
Three days later the airport’s chief of the Aviation Medicine Department, Dr Luis Amezcua, completing neurological, physical and psychiatric tests, inferred that Carlos might have been hallucinating as a result of low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia), because he had not eaten prior to the incident since 20.00 the previous night. It was also inferred, by a chief inspector from the Civil Aviation Directorate, that Carlos may have hallucinated because he had been flying too high without oxygen. The latter hypothesis fails to account for the radar evidence.