Strange UFO Incident Near El Paso Still A Mystery

Everyone's heard about the UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, about 205 miles north of El Paso. Another one happened about 300 miles south of us ...

In July, 1947, a UFO supposedly crashed during a thunderstorm near Roswell. The military investigated and identified wreckage as being from a "UFO" but then changed their story, claiming it was actually a weather balloon.

Something similar happened in 1974 not far from Presidio, Texas in Coyame, Mexico. It's also shrouded in mystery and resulted in the death of several humans. Not sure about aliens ...

August 25, 1974, a small plane took off from El Paso International Airport, headed for Mexico City. Meanwhile, United States Air Defense Radar was tracking a UFO over the Gulf of Mexico ... errrr, America, sorry ... heading toward Corpus Christi at about 2,000 mph. It disappeared somewhere near Coyame, Mexico.

The next day, a "high speed" plane crash was announced involving the flight that had left El Paso and a second, "disc shaped" aircraft. The US Army offered to help recover the aircraft and Mexico said no thanks but a team from Fort Bliss decided to go over anyway.

They found the Mexican convoy stopped and all the soldiers dead along with the plane wreckage and a disc about 16 feet across. Worrying that a biological hazard of some kind killed the Mexicans, the Americans destroyed everything. Except the UFO.

They hooked it to a helicopter and sent it to an unknown destination in the USA. Today only rumors about what happened exist and both Mexico and the USA deny this ever happened.

An article in the “El Heraldo de Chihuahua” dated Oct. 27, 1974 mentions a group of Mexican soldiers dying "during a military transport". A Texas woman and her son have also given their account.

Residents who lived there at the time told tales of soldiers running all around the small town of Coyame and some claim to remember the plane burning in the desert. With all the evidence gone or destroyed, the soldiers dead and witnesses dying off; I guess we'll never know what really happened out there.