Aztec, New Mexico crash claim
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Hart Canyon, near Aztec, New Mexico
Hart Canyon north-east of Aztec, the mesa country named as the 1948 crash site in Frank Scully's book — a story traced to two con men. Location photograph · context.
Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · 2014 ↗CC0Licence terms ↗American Alchemy · 0:15:07
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedWriter Frank Scully reported in 1949–1950 that a 99-foot disc had landed intact near Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 and that sixteen small bodies were recovered. His sources were later exposed as confidence men. In the corpus a guest names researchers who still investigate the case, and the host calls it an interesting alternative to Roswell.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 36.8200, -107.9900 approximate · United States |
| Official response | No official body has confirmed the event; a 1952 True magazine investigation identified Scully's sources as fraudsters convicted of an unrelated confidence scheme. |
Reported by
- frank scully journalist Variety columnist; book "Behind the Flying Saucers"
Investigated by
- scott ramsey researcher
Who spoke about it later
- Jesse Michels 0:15:07 Jeffrey Epstein & Aliens: The Global Satanic Cabal (ft. Jay Anderson & Kurt… ▶ 2025
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Aztec, New Mexico crash claim, Roswell incident. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 0:15:07 Jeffrey Epstein & Aliens: The Global Satanic Cabal (ft. Jay Anderson & Kurt… ▶
they're the deepest on the Aztec crash in 1948. >> Aztec crash. I thought that would be an interesting one to investigate, you know, as opposed to Roswell, which is obviously extremely
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