Deep in the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico is an area known as The Zone of Silence. It’s a place where radio signals and communications are said to fail and compasses spin out of control. But local legends also say it had properties that draw in meteors, attract UFOs – and may be home to some unearthly creatures.
Sign in the Zone of Silence. Courtesy of St. Francis High School College Preparatory and Reuters
The rare Nopal Cactus in the Zone of Silence courtesy of Gaia.com
Image of the Chihuahuan Desert, Photograph by Deb Snelson courtesy of Getty Images and Discovery.com
The Zone of Silence courtesy of AmusingPlanet.com
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- The Zone of Silence: An Ancient Mystery of Old Mexico. (website) By Gaia Staff.
- Mexico’s “Zone of Silence” Where Radios Die Could be the glitch in the Matrix. (website) by Karla Montalvan.
- Zone of Silence UFO Landing Site (website) City of Mexico.
- Mapimi Biosphere Reserve. By Wikipedia.
- Mapimí Biosphere Reserve: A Desert Sanctuary in Northern Mexico (website)
- The Zone of Silence – The Bizarre Bermuda Triangle of Northern Mexico (website) by April Holloway.
- Francisco Sarabia’s “Conquistador del Cielo,” a long-distance Gee-Bee airplane (website) by Lent B. Styles and the New York Times.
- Exploring Mexico’s Zone of Silence, Where Radio Signals Fail and Meteorites Crash (website) by T.E. Wilson.
- In 1970, An Athena Missile Went Deep Into Mexico (website) by Jim Eckles and Jenn Jett.
- Declassified Kissinger Memorandum for the President. (PDF)
- Scientists Can’t Explain the Mysterious Zone of Silence (youtube video) by Bright Side.
- Exploring Mexico’s Zone of Silence: The Bermuda Triangle of the Desert (website) by Discovery UK.
- What Precious Metals Are Found in Meteorites? (website) by Specialty Metals sMelters and Refiners and Barry Lenson.
- New minerals discovered in massive meteorite may reveal clues to asteroid formation (website) by Adrianna Macpherson.
- They are building an ecotourism complex for the observation of extraterrestrial life in the Zone of Silence in Chihuahua (website) by Norma Ponce.
- Alien Encounters: Investigating the Phenomenon of Missing Time (website) by Wayne J. Gardner.
- Psychological aspects of the alien contact experience (website) by Christopher French, Julia Santomauro, Victoria Hamilton, Rachel Fox, Michael A Thalbourne. Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK. c.french@gold.ac.uk.
- The Effect of Desert Climate and Mental Health and Addiction (website) by Nicki Lugo.
- What Are the Interferences to Radio Waves? (website) by Antesky.com.
- Magnetite (website) by Wikipedia.org.