From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:30:34 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:37:01 -0500
Subject: Hesemann's Mexico-City UFO Write-Up, Part I


In looking for writeups on witnesses' reports of the Aug. 6,
1997, Mexico City UFO, I was unable to locate any in my files.
But when I queried Michael Hesemann, he offered me his, which he
wrote up a couple years ago. The only trouble is, it's in
German. So I've started translating it, with Michael's e-mail
help on sentences I had trouble with. Although he would be able
to translate it all much faster than I, I'm retired and he
isn't.

In case others on this List also don't have any files on what
the witnesses to the Mexico City sighting reported, but are
interested, I'll start sending sections of the translation,
beginning with Part I below.

In this first Part, Michael just reports on Jaime Maussan's
findings. He gets into his own findings later.


  A Translation of Michael Hesemann's Mexican City UFO Writeup
  Part I

...For a half year he [Jaime Maussan] has, to that end,
moderated a unique program, "Tercer Milenio" (Third Millennium),
which deals with the fringe sciences and explorations of the
future.

On Sept. 26, 1997, Jaime Maussan received a very special
package. Someone had sent him a video tape, in itself nothing
remarkable. But when he played the tape on his video recorder,
it took his breath away. For the anonymously sent recording
showed nothing but points of light and sky - except for a large,
metallic, structured, rotating disk, which maneuvered in broad
daylight over Mexico City, with a dateline of 6 August 1997 -
and disappeared behind a high-rise building and reappeared,
which speaks clearly for it being a large object. Enclosed with
it was only a note, which read, "We know what happens to
witnesses, if they go public with something like this."
Maussan's first reaction was, "This is a fake; it can't be
real!" Yet, on the advice of his colleague he viewed it
carefully, again and again, and started wondering. Who had taken
this segment of video tape? And where was it taken? Maussan knew
that there was only one way to find out: He broadcast the video
segment over the air and asked viewers to help him with the
investigation of the case. "Are the houses, the buildings, real?
Whoever knows, please call us!", he asked in his broadcast of
Sept. 27th, which was repeated on the 28th. A woman called in,
saying, "I know the place, I lived there. It is the section of
the city called "Bosque de las Lomas."

A day later Maussan and his colleague were at the spot. He found
two witnesses to the identical event. He asked one man, who sold
tacos on the street in a little stand, whether he had seen a UFO
at that place. He answered in the affirmative, "My daughter saw
a UFO here a couple months ago." The daughter, named Cassandra,
was twelve years old. She described that sometime between 4 and
6 pm this grey disk flew over the houses. Everyone in her family
thought she was crazy, even her father, who went to take a look
only after the object had disappeared. She explained that she
had never seen the video, yet despite this her description was
consistent with what was to be seen on it. "This little girl has
convinced me more than anyone else that there is something to
it," he said later.

Then Maussan identified the building from which the video
segment had been taken. Yet when he inquired there, no one would
speak to him. Everyone that he asked - the renter, the
doorkeeper, the security person - seemed to want to defend the
person who shot the film. Only one person admitted that he had
seen the five-minute video film after it was taken. That witness
swore he was being truthful, and insisted he was aware of the
film. [But] he came from one of the Central American states and
would be detained as illegal in Mexico. His wife and two
daughters thought he was still in their own country.

Finally, Maussan and his team found further witnesses. Annie
Lash, a young photographer, had just prepared for a photo
session, though the camera had not been cocked, when she saw the
UFO for a second. Her model confirmed the event. [Hesemann adds
that this took place at a pool area in front of one of the
skyscrapers.] The photographer [Annie] was wearing a
short-sleeved smock and on the next day had a sunburn on the
arms and face, which lasted a month. She saw the object from
below, close-up, from the location of the high-rise complex. She
described the round underside of the UFO and pale yellow lights
that surrounded it in rapid rotation. At first she saw a very
heavy, very dark cloud, which did not surprise her because it
was a cloudy day. But then the underside of the object appeared
in the middle of the cloud. She heard a noise as of escaping
gas, a hissing, and felt "something like a force, which pushed
on my body." She quickly ran to fetch her camera, but by the
time she got hold of it, the UFO had disappeared.


End of Part I