The rocket was supposed to come down near White Sands, New Mexico. air force base in Green River, Utah, as part of a scientific mission to study the upper atmosphere.
That was when an Athena rocket was launched from a U.S. However, on July, 11, 1970, the Zone made headlines. This turned the area into something of a curiosity. The leader, Augusto Harry de la Peña, was frustrated by the problems he was having with his radio. The name Zone of Silence was not given until 1966 when Pemex, the national oil company, sent an expedition to explore the area. It attracted the attention of scientists from around the world.” “People for miles saw the light and heard the tremendous noise, which broke windows. “It woke me, and I saw the firmament alight,” Palacios says of that meteorite. A third fell in 1969 in the Allende Valley, just to the west. Throughout the 20th century large meteorites landed in southern Chihuahua near the Zone, with two even falling on the same ranch-one in 1938, and another in 1954.
The Zone’s overall effects (and even its location) are disputed, but there’s no doubt that the area, which sits on the borders of the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango, and Coahuila, has an abundance of celestial activity-including, some say, visits from UFOs and extraterrestrials. The disruption is believed to be caused by subterranean deposits of magnetite, as well as debris from meteorites. Benjamin Palacios at a salt mining operation, Zone of Silence. Now, he hits ‘search’ and it endlessly scans. Back on the main road, only a few miles away, the radio came in loud and clear. Palacios, 61, grew up in the village of Escalón, Chihuahua, on the edge of the Zone, and now has his own UFO-themed ranch on the area’s periphery.Īs we head into the heart of the Zone, Palacios, a charismatic man with a deep tan and a full beard, veers his truck onto a desert track. “The Zone is my passion,” Benjamin Palacios says as we bounce through the area in his 4-wheel drive Suburban, surrounded by mesquite, cactus, and guamis-brilliant yellow flowers resembling buttercups. It measures only 50 kilometers across, and it is located in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, a huge, mostly uninhabited expanse of almost 400,000 hectares, where the flat and desolate terrain is interspersed with lonely mountain outcrops. There’s an area in the Chihuahuan desert in northern Mexico where radio signals don’t work, and compasses spin out of control when placed near stones on the ground. Looking east across the Chihuahua desert, near the Zona del Silencio.
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