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SUMMER 1951, MEXICO, A MAN:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

In 1956, British ufologist Gordon Creighton reported in his magazine the Flying Saucer Review that according to J. Gonzalez Sanchez, FSR correspondant in Mexico, "at Cuernavaco in Mexico later in the summer of 1951, flying saucers came up in a conversation between our Special Correspondent and a group of Mexican professional men. One of them, an engineer engaged in highway construction, said that he had actually helped to load a flying saucer and its dead crew into an American 'Flying Box-Car' aeroplane down in an uninhabited valley in the Sierra Madre, near where his crew were working."

"'Ah, Senor,' he said, 'they were handsome, those little men, with fine features and beautifully formed tiny hands. But there must have been an explosion in their craft, for they were burnt black, and when I touched the face of one of them the skin came off under my finger as though it had been cooked!"

Nothing else is known.

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Narratives:

[Ref. gc1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Gordon Creighton indicates that according to J. Gonzalez Sanchez, FSR correspondant in Mexico, "at Cuernavaco in Mexico later in the summer of 1951, flying saucers came up in a conversation between our Special Correspondent and a group of Mexican professional men. One of them, an engineer engaged in highway construction, said that he had actually helped to load a flying saucer and its dead crew into an American 'Flying Box-Car' aeroplane down in an uninhabited valley in the Sierra Madre, near where his crew were working."

"'Ah, Senor,' he said, 'they were handsome, those little men, with fine features and beautifully formed tiny hands. But there must have been an explosion in their craft, for they were burnt black, and when I touched the face of one of them the skin came off under my finger as though it had been cooked!"

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Valle De La Sierra Madre, Cuernavaca, Mexico, on Summer 1951, at an unknown time, two anonymous engineers reported the crash of a UFO in the area, numerous dead and apparently carbonized humanoids were found inside. The humanoids apparently had beautiful features (!) and very delicate hands. Apparently the remains of the object and its dead occupants were flown to the U.S.

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is J. Gonzalez Sanchez FSR, Project Becassine

[Ref. lr1:] LUIS RUIZ NOGUEZ:

The Mexican zetetician discusses the rumors of UF crashes in Mexico, noting that "several ufologists" claim that at the summer of 1951 (some authors saying that it was in June) another UFO fell on the town of Mexico City. He indicates that this resulted from the mixture of two ufological legends: that of Ray Dimmick (of 1950) and that of the hypothetical UFO which fell into a valley from the Madre Sierra, about which Ruiz says that he discusses in another article indicated in footnote.

In the relevant footnote is however only indicated that its article on the case, "La 'Oleada' of 1950 in México", is not published.

[Ref. lr2:] LUIS RUIZ NOGUEZ:

The Mexican zetetician indicates that according to the English ufological magazine Flying Saucer Review, two Mexican engineers residents of Cuernavaca, Morelos, reported to a correspondent of the magazine that in the summer of 1951, they had found the corpses of the crew of a UFO which had crashed in a Valley of the Sierra Madre.

The engineers indicated that the beings had human characteristics, with beautiful faces and fine hands, but their skin was tarnished apparently by the heat that destroyed with the crashed UFO, because when one of them touched the face of one of the bodies, the skin came off under his fingers, "as if it had been cooked".

According to the correspondent, the witnesses were professionals, completely worthy of faith, and they told him that by reporting with the authorities they had many problems. They moreover said that they were present at the moment when the beings and the remainders of the ship were loaded on an aircraft of the United States Air Force, with unknown destination.

Luis Ruiz Noguez indicates in footnote the following remarks:

• The Englishmen do not specify if it was in the Oriental Sierra Madre or the Occidental Sierra Madre, and moreover, do not mention the name of the place of the impact, and that this points to an invented story.
• If the skin had been cooked by the heat produced by the UFO crash, these extraterrestrials would hardly have maintained their "nice faces."
• It is the only case that he knows in which the American military allow that the witnesses quietly observe the recovery operations.

Points to consider:

Left:: Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar", transport plane of the US Air Force and US Navy, made its first flight in 1947 and was built until 1955.

Cuernavaca is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico, and it is actually not near any of the three "Sierra Madre" mountain range that surround the coasts of Mexico but rather right between them. The location of the alleged crash is thus indeed not correctly indicated.

The story in FSR is of course much too anecdotal to make a good case of UFO crash.

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Evaluation:

Sources references:

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

• [gc1] * Article by Gordon Creighton in the ufology magazine Flying Saucer Review (FSR), U-K., Volume 2, #1, page 6, January/February 1956.
• [---] ? "Projet Becassine", catalogue compiled by Denys Breysse, with participation of Eric Maillot et al., unpublished, France, 1985-1995.
• [ar1] * "1967 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1967.shtml
• [lr1] * "Ovnis En Mexico. Decada De Los 50 (6)", web page by Luis Ruiz Noguez, Mexico, 2007, at marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2007/06/page/6
• [lr2] * "Ovnis en México. Década de los 50 (2)", web page by Luis Ruiz Noguez, Mexico, 2007, at marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2007/06/ovnis-en-mxico-dcada-de-los-50-2
• [---] ? "La 'Oleada' de 1950 en Mexico", article by Luis Ruiz Noguez, Mexico, unreleased.

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