HISTORICAL

Mexico City UFO — During the total solar eclipse over Mexico City, dozens of witnesses recorded a metallic disc on amateur video. The footage triggered a national UFO wave covered by Jaime Maussan.

On July 11, 1991, during the total solar eclipse that crossed central Mexico, dozens of independent witnesses across Mexico City captured amateur video footage of a metallic disc-shaped object hanging in the daytime sky. The mass sighting kicked off what became known as the "Mexican UFO wave" of the 1990s, an extraordinarily prolonged period of reported sightings that was extensively documented by television journalist Jaime Maussan. 【Background】 The eclipse drew millions of people outdoors with cameras across Mexico, creating one of the largest spontaneous photographic surveys of the sky in history. Within days, more than fifteen separate videos shot from different locations in the city, all showing what appeared to be the same silver disc, had been collected and broadcast on Mexican national television. 【The Encounter】 The object was described as roughly disc-shaped, metallic, and stationary or slowly moving against the eclipse-darkened sky. Some videos showed the object near the corona of the eclipsed sun. Witnesses across various neighborhoods reported the same object simultaneously, ruling out a localized phenomenon such as a balloon viewed from a single angle. 【Investigation】 Jaime Maussan, then a popular environmental journalist, collected and broadcast the footage on his TV program. Independent analysts proposed Venus as the most likely explanation — the planet would have been visible against the darkened sky during the eclipse near the position of the object in many videos. The Venus hypothesis was contested by witnesses who described an apparent shape and movement inconsistent with a point of light. 【Modern Assessment】 The 1991 eclipse footage marked the beginning of a decade of intense Mexican UFO reporting, including the 1993 Tlaxcala lights, 1997 Mexico City formation videos, and many other widely circulated cases. Skeptics consider Venus, Maussan's promotional role, and confirmation bias as adequate explanations for much of the wave, while researchers point to the genuine quantity and geographic spread of independent recordings. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Mexico

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