Section A · Newspaper-archive ufology (Mexico)

Alfonso Salazar Mendoza

Aviation technician · newspaper-archive UFO researcher · member of CIFEEEAC

Biography

Aviation technician —he worked at Mexico City International Airport— and Mexican UFO researcher. Over more than four decades he assembled one of the largest newspaper-archive ufology collections in Latin America: more than 2,000 cases documented in the press since 1890, including the first sighting recorded in Mexico (an 1897 article found in the National Newspaper Archive). He reviewed the thousands of CIA-declassified UFO documents searching for Mexican cases and advocates for declassification in Mexico. He collaborates with Jaime Maussan on historical archive investigations.

Why they're here · 2 pieces

  1. 2001

    Los OVNIs y la Aviación Mexicana

    Compilation of UFO cases in Mexican aviation (with Carlos A. Guzmán)

  2. 2019

    Ovnis vistos en México: hacia una clasificación de tipología OVNI

    Typological classification of Mexican sightings, based on the press (with Guzmán and Aviña)

Sources

Associated cases (1)

Mexico.

The Great Mexican UFO Wave (1965)· 1965

Throughout 1965 Mexico experienced a massive wave of UFO sightings, fueled by an intense press campaign (1,000+ articles) and a collective expectation of extraterrestrial contact. Its climax was social, not aerial: on 1 October 1965, around 20,000 people gathered at the Ángel de la Independencia awaiting a 'parade' of interplanetary craft announced in the press. Nothing appeared. It is the corpus's case study of how a wave is manufactured by media and expectation, with a public prediction that failed in front of thousands.

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Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-F).