65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_220
- Date
- 19 Mar 1950
- Place
- Veracruz and Durango, Mexico
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
Translated correspondence forwarded from Mexico. The bulk is a rambling March 1950 letter from Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a self-described 'ideographic inventor' in Veracruz, to a (non-existent or misaddressed) 'Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States,' claiming credit for various uncredited inventions and offering a pseudo-scientific theory of 'stratospheric aerostats' (flying saucers) powered by 'Nuclear-Atomic force' and comparable in power only to 'THOUGHT.' Attached is a translated Mexican newspaper clipping and diagram captioned 'The First Photographs of a Flying Saucer, Obtained in Durango at an Altitude of 9000 Feet,' crediting engineering student German Horacio Robles Jr. with photographing a double-truncated-cone object over Durango.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- No: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- Yes: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- Yes: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating The Durango photo claim reaches the FBI file only as a translated newspaper reprint with no photograph, negative, or witness interview attached; the accompanying letter is unsourced pseudo-scientific speculation from a self-identified inventor, not an eyewitness account.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- German Horacio Robles Jr. (Durango photo, reported via newspaper only)
- Sensors
- Still camera
- Shape
- Double truncated cone joined at the bases, per the newspaper caption
- Motion
- Described as jet-propelled, changing position to redirect its motive force
- Altitude or range
- 8,000-9,000 feet above Durango
Pentagon files
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_220
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What the file claims
- Unverified
Garcia Macias claimed his 'stratospheric aerostat' apparatus could develop a force comparable only to thought, since thought has no physical barriers.
- Unverified
A Durango newspaper reported German Horacio Robles Jr. photographed a flying saucer at 8,000-9,000 feet over the city.