Mexico City 1991
During a historic total solar eclipse, 17 independent photogs record an extraordinary UFO
The sun was high overhead on July 11, 1991 when darkness fell upon the largest metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere. The total eclipse of the sun lasted nearly six and a half minutes over Mexico City.
At the time, the event was called the most photographed and videotaped celestial happening in human history. It also represented one of the most thoroughly recorded UFO events of all time. At least 17 independent videographers and photographers filmed an unidentified object (or very similar objects) from 17 locations throughout the federal district and neighboring states.
Videos taken by observers from locations as far as 80 miles apart on the ground during the eclipse seem to show a solid metallic object with a dark base hovering in the sky, just under the cloud layer. One extraordinary video seems to show the teleportation of the object from one point in space to another — visible as a streak (including sun reflection off of what seems like a metallic surface) quickly moving from one point to another across the screen (sensor).
See for yourself in the following compilation of various images and tapes, including interviews, news and archival footage from numerous and sundry sources, compiled and shared by “Eyes On Cinema”:
Journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan helped bring the event to the attention of the people of Mexico via the national television program, “60 Minutos.” While the case gained much notice around the world, the story did not garner the attention it merited in the United States among ufologists.
In the decades since, Mr. Maussan has continued to follow the UFO phenomenon. He has gained notoriety among some journalists and many skeptics for, way back in the 1970s proposing the photographs and encounters reported by Swiss contactee Billy Meier could be legitimate; and in 2023 proposing to the Mexican government that odd mummified remains from Peru could be extraterrestrial in origin. Going from what has happened to many prominent investigators and proponents of UAP in the USA, let alone the absurd nature of the phenomena itself, a talented investigator may have hoodwinked by professional-quality disinformation.
It is my hope that more people will discover and share this report about the UFOs over Mexico City during the total solar eclipse of 1991. Despite its near-total absence from memory in the United States, the tapes and photographs captured that amazing day contain mountains of data.
The image above and at the top of the page show the solar prominences revealed during totality and the “diamond ring effect” near the end of totality during the total solar eclipse of 2017. Taken by the author and members of his family from a mountainside in the western USA, the image captured some of the first rays of sunlight as they shot through the valleys and lowlands along the lunar rim.