inexplicata journal of hispanic ufology

12/20/2019 INEXPLICATA 08
Guadalupe and a supporting cast of lesser-known saints.
It was noon in Villa Cardel and she was returning home from
school for the midday meal when she noticed people screaming and
pointing to the heavens as a "white ball of fire" bore down on
the town. Shouts of "the world is ending" rang from people's
throats, but the bolide never struck the earth...it continued on
its path out to sea.
Paulina retold the story a number of times, but it would
not be until many years later that I would come upon a similar
account highlighting the state of Veracruz's proclivity toward
these phenomena in John Keel's Operation Trojan Horse: residents
of the city of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico were wakened by
the a loud rumbling sound in the early morning hours of March
27, 1968. One witness to this terrifying event remarked that the
source of light and its attendant noise made her feel cool at
first and then cold, as night was turned into a frightening
semblance of a daytime that was still many hours away. The light
intensified and the ground shook as if in resonance. Again,
before the world ended on that occasion, the "bolide" appeared
to rise again and vanish. Keel notes that corroboration for the
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event was made by the crew of a Mexican warship and an oil
tanker some twenty-five miles away from Veracruz. These distant
onlookers were able to describe it as "two or three objects in
the center of a bright ball of fire."
But we would be mistaken to limit these bizarre near-misses
(if they in fact are) to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
Little over a year after the still-unexplained incident over
Veracruz, a colossal bolide appeared in the early morning skies
over the northern Mexican desert. February 8, 1969 could have
been a date every bit as memorable as Tunguska--written in
letters of fire--as residents of Ceballos, Durango woke up to
the blinding light of a fiery sphere that headed straight for
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