Near Mexico City
A plane barely avoids... a flying saucer
MEXICO (A.F.P.). -- An airliner just missed to hit in full flight, before landing in Mexico
City, what is believed to be a flying saucer, the evening paper
"Ultimas Noticias" reported.
The plane of the Guatemala company "Aviateca" flew over the State of Oaxaca,
400 kilometers in the South-east of the capital, when the crew and some of
the passengers saw a round object which moved at high speed in opposite direction,
passing very close to the airplane.
The pilot, colonel Alfredo Castaneda, and the copilot, captain
Carlos Samoya, stated that the object had the shape of a silver
plated spinning top and was surmounted by a kind of red ball. Its
diameter was ten meters.
"We observed it during 10 seconds, added colonel Castaneda, who has
flown for twenty years. I had never seen anything similar and it
caused me quite an impression."
The stewardesses stated that the object had passed less than
twenty meters of the fuselage.
The crew informed the airport of Mexico City of this incident. The airport
claimed that it cannot be a matter of a weather-balloon, given the position
and the altitude of the plane at the time of the "encounter."
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