In the vast blue above Mexico, on June 21, 1976, a student pilot named Rafael Pacheco Pérez embarked on what should have been a brief flight from Mexico City to Chimalhuacán. But soon after takeoff, he vanished from radar—only to reappear mysteriously over Acapulco, a feat impossible in the given time and aircraft specifications. Then came the chilling twist: his voice crackled over the radio, not in his own words, but as a conduit for alien entities declaring “We are using him as if he were… a microphone.”
The transmission continued with bizarre assurances: these beings were like us, from the same universe, watching humanity with a cosmic concern. His memory was wiped clean, his career ended suddenly, and to this day, authorities remain baffled by the full story
This case file, join the Theorists as we climb into the cockpit and tune in to the alien airwaves with…The Rafael Pacheco Perez E.T. Encounter.
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