Aztec, New Mexico: The Other UFO Crash

Almost a year after the Roswell UFO Incident, another purported UFO crash took place near Aztec, New Mexico.

This one allegedly occurred on or about March 25, 1948 on a mesa near the town. Some say this incident was a hoax, while others aren't so sure of that. The crashed UFO was allegedly 100 feet in diameter and contained 16 alien bodies.

From the Albuquerque Journal:

Aztec, New Mexico, with a population of about 6,500, is a tidy community a few miles east of Farmington.

The nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument stands monumentally still. The Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village features such century-ago items as a historic barbershop, antique telephone equipment, various fossils and minerals.

Something else, something much darker, draws tourists to here.

On the night of March 25, 1948, a flying saucer allegedly crash-landed on a lonely mesa in Hart Canyon, four miles distant. There’s a plaque where it put down.

Folks as far away as those who lived in Cedar Hill, 10 miles northeast of Aztec, were said to have heard the crash. But that fact was never verified.

As the above states, there is a plaque at the location of the crash. There is a website with a photo of the crash site and the plaque's text. To access it, go here. 

Back in 2018, I attended the annual Gallup UFO Film Festival and the festival's founder, Chuck Wade, discussed the Aztec incident. To see my blog post on this, go here.

If anyone hasn't heard of the Aztec UFO crash, here's an except from a 1998 Los Angeles Times article:

Turns out that, compared to Aztec, Roswell was small potatoes. Whereas that mother of all crash cover-ups “produced” only a couple of alien bodies, this one involved 16. Aside from that difference, the tale follows the classic pattern of UFO-conspiracy folklore: A disc-shaped craft was recovered intact; security was ratcheted to tourniquet level; debris and corpses were removed by the military and all evidence of the crash eradicated; the bodies were autopsied; a top-secret program was created to study and duplicate the craft’s technology. Sound familiar?

 To read the full Albuquerque Journal article, go here.

2019 Gallup UFO Film Festival

Above, Gallup UFO Film Festival founder Chuck Wade
 giving his presentation. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

What better things to do than going to a UFO film festival in a small town?

Last night, I headed into Gallup (population 21,000) for the annual Gallup UFO Film Festival. I attended it last year and found it interesting.

Above, a slide on a UFO crash near San Antonio, New Mexico. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It was better attended this year since there were no rumors that it was cancelled as there was last year. Besides the evening program, they had free coffee, hot dogs and chips & salsa. The film festival runs through tonight.

Above, a slide of found UFO crash debris. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A film started the evening on different UFO incidents in New Mexico. One incident it covered caught my interest. It was of an "armada" of UFOs over Farmington, New Mexico in March 1950. Farmington is about 120 miles north of Gallup, New Mexico.

According to DGO:

According to decades-old information, the story goes like this: For three days in March 1950, hundreds of flying saucer-like objects floated over Farmington. The Farmington Daily Times newspaper was flooded with calls from citizens who witnessed the UFOs. They ran a giant headline, which screamed, “Huge ‘Saucer’ Armada Jolts Farmington,” across the top of the paper in bold, all-caps letters. “Crafts Seen By Hundreds,” another headline read. 

“Fully half of this town’s population still is certain today that it saw space ships or some strange aircraft — hundreds of them zooming through the skies yesterday. Estimates of the number ranged from ‘several’ to more that (sic) 500. Whatever they were, they caused a major sensation in this community, which lies only 110 air miles northwest of the huge Los Alamos Atomic installation.” 

The article went on to claim that the objects, which one witness estimated to be about the size of a B-29 airplane, seemed “to play tag high in the air,” and raced across the sky at speeds estimated to be about 1,000 miles an hour.

Above, a map of 7 New Mexico UFO crash sites. Phot by Armand Vaquer.

Following the film, a presentation about seven (that's right, seven) UFO crashes in New
Mexico was presented by the founder of the Gallus UFO Film Festival, Chuck Wade. The presentation included slides.

Above, a statement from one who saw alien bodies in a crashed UFO. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A photo of "honeycomb" crash debris was interesting. Wade said that each "honeycomb" was filled with tiny wiring. He said nobody knows what the material was used for.

Above, Zuni elder Clifford Mahooty gives his presentation. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

After Wade, Clifford Mahooty, elder of the Zuni Pueblo, spoke on UFOs and Southwest Indigenous Culture.

For ten bucks admission, the Gallup UFO Film Festival was an enjoyable diversion for a Friday night. 

15th Annual Gallup UFO Film Festival

Above, an inflatable alien greeted guests. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Tonight, I attended the 15th Annual Gallup UFO Film Festival at the Gallup Down Town Conference Center. It was a good way to spend a Friday evening.

Above, there were plenty of munchies (at reasonable prices) at the film festival. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It was an interesting and enjoyable event as I have never heard of the secret underground military base in Dolce, New Mexico until tonight. Supposedly, there is some sort of "treaty" between aliens and the U.S. which includes abductions and mutual research. A video on the facility was shown which included footage of an alleged UFO landing at the facility and the mysterious death of Phil Schneider, a government geologist. This was the second video shown this evening.

Above, Chuck Wade gives his presentation on seven
UFO crash sites in New Mexico. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The first video was a documentary on crop circles in England. This was also very interesting, which also included footage of an actual crop circle being formed by balls of light (the size of soccer balls, they said).

I stayed for the presentation by Chuck Wade, the founder of the Gallup UFO Film Festival 15 years ago. He spoke on the seven UFO crash sites in New Mexico. One of them is controversial as some claimed that the crash site at Hart Canyon near Aztec, New Mexico was a hoax. But tonight, it as treated as a real crash site as the ones near Roswell.

Above, Chuck Wade begins his presentation. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Wade also brought along a display box of what he claims are crash debris from some of the crash sites that he and others dug up. After Wade's presentation, I decided to head on home as I was getting drowsy (I've been up since 4:00 in the morning).

Above, UFO crash debris artifacts brought to the film festival by Chuck Wade. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The Gallup UFO Film Festival continues tomorrow evening. I will most likely go to it.

Now, I am listening to the Game 6 of the National League Championship Series.