Incident · 4 March 1992 – November 1994 · Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City airport radar contacts
Also known as Mexico City UFOs 1992–1994, Toluca radar 1992
Between 1992 and 1994 air traffic controllers at Mexico City's international airport recorded a series of unidentified radar contacts and near-collision reports. Enrique Kolbeck, one of the airport's radar controllers, described them at the Disclosure Project press conference in Washington in 2001: fifteen objects detected west of Toluca airport on 4 March 1992; two near-collisions reported by domestic airliners in July and August 1994, one of them briefly seen on radar; and on 15 September 1994 a single, apparently stationary contact held for about five hours, which technicians confirmed was not a radar fault.
He said a new radar system entered service in November 1994 and gave more exact data matching pilots' reports, and that his country considered the situation a danger to aviation. The account is his testimony; no Mexican aviation records of these contacts are on file.
Sources: Disclosure Project press conference (2001)
Facts and claims
- claimed Enrique Kolbeck, a radar controller at Mexico City International Airport, said that on 4 March 1992 “we detect 15 objects” west of Toluca airport. — Enrique Kolbeck Source: Disclosure Project press conference, National Press Club (May 9, 2001), full event at 26:12
- claimed He said that on 28 July 1994 a domestic flight had “almost a collision” with an unknown object, that a week later another flight reported a near-collision at 11:30 in the morning while the object briefly appeared on radar, and that pilots then reported bright lights for weeks. — Enrique Kolbeck Source: Disclosure Project press conference, National Press Club (May 9, 2001), full event at 26:29
- claimed On 15 September 1994, he said, the radar held one apparently motionless object for about five hours; radar technicians confirmed the system was working, and the next day people southeast of the airport reported a large disc. — Enrique Kolbeck Source: Disclosure Project press conference, National Press Club (May 9, 2001), full event at 28:14
Connected files
Events
- Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club (discussed at) — Kolbeck described the contacts at the 2001 Disclosure Project press conference
People
- Enrique Kolbeck (witnesses)
Mentioned in this file
- The Disclosure Project (Organization)