Mexico City: Dubious UFOs & Marshall story
A questionable report emerged in 1956 claiming three UFOs appeared over Mexico City Airport during a supposed visit by US Defense Secretary George C. Marshall in summer 1951, where he allegedly revealed UFOs as friendly interplanetary craft with three prior crashes. The informant, Rolf Alexander, was later exposed as a fraudulent figure with a criminal past.
Background
Background
A story is said to have arisen in the summer of 1951 that only became public in 1956. Three unidentified objects were said to have appeared over Mexico City International Airport at the same time as a visit by US Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall. In fact there is no record of any such official visit; Marshall's first known stay in Mexico was a holiday in Cuernavaca in February 1952.
The Claim
Marshall was said to have told a senior American and a respected physician that UFOs came from other planets, were friendly in disposition, but had crashed accidentally three times. In 1965 the American informant was identified as Rolf Alexander, whose real name was Allan Alexander Stirling — a New Zealand sailor who had deserted in 1920 and entered the USA illegally.
Exposure of the Informant
Stirling supported himself through questionable healing methods and invented a false biography. He served prison time for mail fraud and embezzlement. Between 1954 and 1960 he boasted of psychokinetic abilities to dissolve clouds. The story is regarded as highly doubtful, without any evidence whatever.