The zone of silence (zone of silence, "The Tethys Sea") is an anomalous desert zone on the border of the states of Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila, 400 miles south of the American city of El Paso. In this mysterious territory, radio receivers are deafened, televisions do not receive broadcasts, the compass does not work, and even the clock stops.
The "Zone of Silence" is a flat, dull plain, where frail thorny bushes and cacti are found only occasionally, but poisonous snakes are found in abundance. Nevertheless, people have settled here since prehistoric times, settling around a few springs. Some sources have not dried up to this day.
According to Dr. Santiago Garcia, people knew about the oddities in this area back in the middle of the 19th century. Already in those days, farmers often observed "hot stones" falling to the ground from a clear sky …
In the 1930s, Francisco Sarabia, a pilot of the Mexican state of Coahuila, stopped working the radio station during a flight over the zone for no apparent reason. He told his superiors about this and became the first officially recognized victim of the strange anomalous zone.
In 1964, chemical engineer Harry de la Peña carried out geophysical exploration in this deserted area near the San Ignacio hill. The discovery of the "Zone of Silence" was helped by pure chance - the engineer's radio suddenly failed. He returned to the base to repair the apparatus, but the radio was intact. At the next visit to the mysterious place, history repeated itself.
The researchers expressed the opinion that a secret military base may be located underground and that it is its frequencies that block the entire broadcast. People have not invented equipment of such power to this day, and in 1964 such a technique was out of the question.
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But both the authorities and the public became really interested in the anomalous territory only in the 1970s, when the American experimental ballistic missile "Athena", launched from the White Sands test site, suddenly deviated from the course and, rushing to this zone, crashed to the ground … A few years later, one of the stages of the Saturn rocket exploded over the zone.
After that, according to media reports, the US military sent a special team to study the mysterious features of the ill-fated lands. One of the first scientists to investigate the "Zone of Silence" and its strange properties was Harry de la Peña. It was his group who discovered that in this place communication with the help of portable radio stations was impossible. It has been argued that there is some kind of "magnetic force that suppresses radio waves" in the region.
Since then, experts from all over the world have been visiting the area, using as a base camp a town built in the heart of the area by the Mexican government. Scientists working in the town began to call the zone "The Tethys Sea" (after the name of the ancient ocean that flooded these places millions of years ago), and the research laboratory in the center of the town, designed to study the unusual forms of biological life and anomalous phenomena occurring here, was dubbed " Biosphere ".
On October 3, 1975, a strange meeting in the zone occurred between the spouses Ernesto and Josephine Diaz. These entrepreneurs and amateur archaeologists drove into the area in their pickup truck, intent on collecting unusual rocks and fossilized remains of ancient animals.
Carried away by the search, they did not immediately notice the impending thunderstorm. A few minutes later, the couple hastily packed their finds into the car and rushed away; however, the storm nevertheless overtook them, and the dirt road turned into a swamp. The pickup truck stalled, Ernesto and Josephine tried to prevent the car from getting completely bogged down in the mud.
Suddenly, 2 human figures appeared nearby, who walked towards the car through the streams of rain and waved their hands affably. Two very tall guys in yellow raincoats and hats offered their help to desperate travelers.
The strangers' trusting faces were unusual. The guys asked the spouses to sit back in the pickup cab, while they themselves moved to the back of the body. And before Ernesto and Josephine realized what was happening, their car literally flew out of a huge swamp on solid ground! When Ernesto came to his senses came out of the cab to thank the rescuers, they were nowhere to be seen …
Travelers regularly crossing the area report strange lights or fireballs moving above the ground at night, leaving scorched bushes and scorched grass in place of their arrival. For a while, they hang motionless in the air, changing their color, and then suddenly take off and disappear with the speed of lightning …
Two farmers returning home from a party said that they saw a huge UFO in the form of a brightly glowing ball, which fell from the dark sky to the ground, and humanoids came out of it, glowing with the same strange light. The humanoids went to the stunned farmers, but they came to their senses and fled.
In 1976, the first photographs of a UFO were taken in this area, landing near a local topographic landmark - Magnetic Mountain. The pictures clearly show a sparkling silvery object that looks like a huge roast patch. The reporter managed to take several pictures and during the takeoff of the UFO, when it soared up with a loud roar, rushed to the west and quickly disappeared from sight.
In the 1990s, a small ranch near the border of the zone was regularly visited by 3 tall, long-haired, blond personalities - two men and one woman, whom the owners of the estate describe as extremely polite, very handsome, but strangely dressed people. And although they spoke flawlessly in Spanish, there was an unusual musical ringing in the timbre of their voices. Mysterious visitors came solely to replenish water supplies. They politely asked permission to fill the flasks they brought with them with water from the well and never asked for food or anything other than water at all. When they were cautiously asked where they came from, they smiled and replied: "From above."
Meteorites are falling in the zone before and now in large numbers. In the late 1950s, a meteorite that fell near Chihuahua, according to media reports, contained "crystalline structures much older than our solar system!" According to Professor Luis Maeda Villalobos, “the material of this meteorite is as ancient as the universe itself. The solar system is 5 billion years old, and this meteorite is as much as 7 billion years older."
There are also mysterious ruins of an ancient complex of gigantic stone structures in the "Sea of Tethys", most likely, an astronomical observatory, built several millennia ago. Some archaeologists believe that this observatory could not have been created by the local primitive primitive tribes.
In the following rare photographs, you can see some of the "wonders" of the mysterious "Zone of Silence": a meteorite fall (1), a strange light phenomenon (2) and an unidentified flying object (3).