exico’s. strange

‘Tone of Silence’

Mexico has many | well
trodden tourist paths. but
‘there are still some areas
that few visitors yet. know
about. —

altel

One such very interesting
place is the Sierra del
Silencio (Zone of Silence) in
. the Mopimi ‘Desert which,.
besides containing several

mysterious phenomena, is an
area for many UFO
sightings.

The Sierra del Silencio
gets its name from the fact
' that in certain areas it is
impossible to receive radio

signals ‘with either high or .

low frequency receivers.

An engineer from
Torreon, in the state of
Coahuila, Harry de la Pena,
has made a long study of the
‘gene and he reports that
- besides the strange radio
malfunctions, the area has

frequent falls of meteorites_

and that there is an abun-~
dance of fossils, some of
which are more than 60
million years old.

These fossils, he says, can.

be picked up from the
surface .of the ground in
sharply defined areas where
crystallized minerals with
strange shapes can also be
found.

The area also produces
small desert plants with
abnormal’ characteristics
while all over the region
animals are subject to
strange behaviour and often

lose their sense of direction.

Dogs have fits of terror for

no apparent reason and
turtles that wander into the
centre of the region turn
over on their backs. Even if
they are placed ‘right side
up’, they will roll over again
and remain in that position
until they die.

An unusual incident took
place on July 11, 1970, when
an American Athena rocket
fell in the centre of this
desert area.

Prior to this, on March 27,
1970, the famous rocket
expert Werner von. Braun
visited Mexico to ask per-
mission from the Mexican

government to build an

observation base at
Ceballos, near to the Zone
of Silence.

According to Robert
Charroux, the French in-

vestigator of world-wide
mysteries, Ceballos has been
described as an ideal place
for extraterrestrial visitors to
land on our planet as it is an
area which would provide
them with almost total
security.

Werner von Braun’s.
request to build his base was
turned down by the
government ... but official
interest in the zorie per-
sisted.

The Athens - rocket,
launched from Utah. and
supposedly headed . for

.. White Sands, New. Mexico,

rather strangely went ‘off
course’ and landed (surprise,
surprise) in the Zone of
Silence. The rocket was also
supposedly carrying
capsule of radioactive cobalt
and naturally this had to be
recovered.

An .American military

recovery team went over the ©

area for 24 days gathering—
various samples and taking

-both ordinary and infrared

photographs. The team
finally located their missing
rocket and away they went
taking with them, according
to Charroux, 200,000 tons of
earth and sample from
adjacent areas.

Rosendo Aguilera, who
lives in. Ceballos, has often
gone with his brother into
the mystery zone collecting
stones which are too
strangely shaped to be
natural; a screw head, a
knotted steel cable, a high
tension cable perforated
from one end to the other,
and common tools.

So far, no one has come
forward with an explanation
for all this varied
phenomena but sights of
UFO’s are apparently almost
a daily occurrence and they
always disappear towards
the Zone of Silence. .

The thing that intrigues
me about the Mopimi Desert
is its location. If you go
directly east along the 30
degree line you will pass
right through the Bermuda
Triangle.

Continue east across the
ocean (right over the area
where Atlantis is thought to
have been) and you will
arrive at another desert, the
formidable Sahara, and
further along still you will

pass’ by the mysterious
Pyramids. .

Keep going, through more
desert regions, still on the 30
degree line, and you will
come to Lhasa, the
mysterious holy city of
Tibet.

Further on still you will
come to the Japanese sea ...
the Orient’s equivalent to the

Bermuda: Triangle. Zoom

over the vast and empty
expanse of the pacific and
you are back at the Zone of
Silence.

Hope ‘you enjoyed the

Unicef Canada ©

1979
International Year
of the Child

(~) BOTEL

CANADIAN WHISKY CANADIEN
Thomas Adams Distillers ftd.

TORONTO pNt

Page 57, May 23, 1979 - North Shore News

VANCOUVER, BC

our mysterious world

b y George Cunningham: Tee

INTRIGUING “ZONE OF SILENCE” surrounds the 30 degree latitude line.

CANADA