The Mexico City Eclipse UFO (1991)
On 11 July 1991 a total solar eclipse crossed Mexico and millions of people pointed their cameras at the sky. Guillermo Arreguín filmed a motionless metallic object near the covered Sun from a rooftop in Mexico City. Broadcast eight days later by journalist Jaime Maussan, the sequence set off a flood of tapes sent in by strangers who said they had filmed the same thing.
Witnesses
hundreds of people filming the eclipse
Why it endures
It is one of the rare cases where hundreds of independent cameras point at the same sky at the same moment, which rules out an isolated hoax. The episode launched a Mexican wave that lasted years and turned ufology into prime-time material across Latin America.
Official version (contested)
Civilian astronomers identified the object as the planet Venus, exceptionally visible during totality: an expedition of the Johnson Space Center astronomical society recorded it at magnitude -4.8 that day, exactly where the cameras were pointing. A few secondary clips have never been examined one by one.