Antonio Apodaca's ranch in Jalisco, Mexico, where a landed craft led to a reported four-day journey to another world, October 9, 1953.
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1953: Antonio Apodaca‘s Four-Day Journey — Jalisco, Mexico
Antonio Apodaca was an engineer who’d turned to farming when a round, shining object landed on his Jalisco ranch in front of him and his work hands. What followed, by his own account, was four days spent on another world entirely — motorcycle-like vehicles, plants grown in open air with no soil, two Frenchmen who’d somehow ended up living there permanently, and a language he described as harsher than German. He asked, when it was over, to be left alone. Almost nobody granted that wish.
Date: October 9, 1953 (initial landing; the four-day journey followed)
Sighting Time: Unknown
Day/Night: Unknown
Location: Antonio Apodaca’s ranch, Jalisco State, Mexico
Urban or Rural: Rural
No. of Entity(‘s): Multiple — described as a full inhabited world, including short-statured occupants (the majority described), taller individuals, and other body types, described as living harmoniously together
Entity Type: Humanoid, of varying statures; claimed extraterrestrial origin
Entity Description: Mostly short in stature, though tall and other-shaped entities were also present on the alien world; no individual ownership of property was observed; their natural speech was described by Apodaca as harshly guttural, more so than German, though they communicated with him in Spanish, which they had reportedly learned by monitoring Earth radio broadcasts
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter, Third Kind — entity present, extended voluntary contact; classified here rather than as an abduction given the account’s consistently voluntary, invited framing)
Duration: A four-day journey; a later, separate four-day visit by the entities to Apodaca’s own ranch
No. of Object(s): 1 (the landed craft on Apodaca’s ranch; camouflaged during its later visit to avoid detection from passing aircraft)
Description of the Object(s): Round, shining object; further construction details were reportedly explained to Apodaca during his visit but are not preserved in detail in the surviving summary
Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): Round, shining; precise dimensions not specified
Distance to Object(s): Landed directly on Apodaca’s ranch
Height & Speed: Not specified
Number of Witnesses: Multiple — Apodaca and his work hands witnessed the initial landing; Apodaca alone made the four-day journey
Special Features/Characteristics: Apodaca reported seeing motorcycle-like conveyances, plants grown in open air without soil, advanced computers and large reference systems, and an absence of individual property ownership among the inhabitants; the alien world reportedly had no day, night, or seasons, and its inhabitants had no apparent concept of time as understood on Earth; two Frenchmen were reportedly encountered living permanently on the alien world; following his return, Apodaca arranged a second meeting during which the entities visited his ranch for four days, their craft camouflaged against aerial detection, and he gave them seeds and breeding pairs of domestic animals and fowl at their request; Apodaca subsequently requested no publicity and sought to be left alone
Case Status: Unresolved — an extensive, single-witness contactee narrative, widely circulated in Mexican and broader UFO contactee literature
Source: Bernard Delair
Summary/Description: On or around October 9, 1953, Antonio Apodaca, a former engineer turned farmer in Jalisco State, Mexico, watched a round, shining object land on his ranch alongside his work hands. He was subsequently taken by small occupants on a four-day trip to what he described as an alien world, where he observed motorcycle-like vehicles, plants grown without soil, and two Frenchmen living permanently among the inhabitants, who were mostly short in stature but included taller and differently-shaped beings living harmoniously with no apparent individual property. The inhabitants communicated with him in Spanish, learned by monitoring Earth radio broadcasts; their own natural speech he described as more guttural than German. After returning to Mexico, Apodaca met with the entities again by prior arrangement; they stayed with him and his family for four days, their craft camouflaged from aerial detection, and he provided them with seeds and breeding pairs of animals at their request. Afterward, Apodaca sought total privacy and requested no publicity.
Related Cases: None known
Detailed Report
Antonio Apodaca’s account begins in the most grounded way possible for a case this extraordinary: an engineer by training who had turned to farming, working his ranch in Jalisco State, Mexico, alongside hired hands, on or around October 9, 1953. What interrupted that ordinary day was a round, shining object descending and landing directly on his property, visible to Apodaca and his workers alike.
What followed, by Apodaca’s own telling, was a four-day journey — he and small occupants from the craft, traveling to a world he described in careful, almost inventory-like detail. He recalled motorcycle-like conveyances used for transportation, and plants cultivated not in soil but somehow in open air. Computers and what he called gigantic reference systems featured prominently in his account, suggesting a civilization organized around information and technology in ways he clearly found remarkable enough to describe at length.
The inhabitants, he said, were mostly short in stature, though he also encountered taller individuals and beings of other shapes entirely, all coexisting without apparent friction. Nothing on the world seemed to be individually owned. Strikingly, Apodaca reported meeting two Frenchmen who were living there permanently — a detail that, whatever one makes of it, adds an unusual specificity rarely found in contactee accounts of this kind. Communication happened in Spanish, which the inhabitants had reportedly picked up by monitoring Earth’s own radio broadcasts; their native speech, Apodaca said, was more harshly guttural than German. He also noted the absence of day, night, or seasons on the world — and, tied to that, an apparent absence of any concept of time as humans understand it.
Back on Earth, the story didn’t end with his return. Apodaca met with the entities again, this time by prior arrangement, and they came to stay with him and his family for four days at his own ranch — their craft camouflaged, he said, specifically to avoid being noticed by aircraft passing overhead. During this visit, he provided them, at their request, with a variety of seeds and breeding pairs of domestic animals and fowl from his own farm.
After this second encounter, Apodaca’s own wishes are recorded plainly in the source material: he wanted total privacy and asked that nothing further be publicized about what had happened to him.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
Apodaca — 1953 and One of the Era’s Most Detailed Contactee Narratives
- Unusual specificity across an entire narrative arc: Most contactee accounts of the era describe a single encounter. Apodaca’s account spans an extended alien-world visit and a follow-up Earth-side visit from the same entities — a two-part structure with internal consistency that sets it apart from simpler single-scene contactee claims.
- A witnessed initial landing: Unlike many contactee narratives that begin and end with a single uncorroborated witness, the initial landing on Apodaca’s ranch was reportedly seen by his work hands as well — though the extended alien-world journey itself rests on Apodaca’s testimony alone.
- The “two Frenchmen” detail: This is among the stranger and more specific claims in the account — humans, of a specific stated nationality, already living on the alien world. It doesn’t obviously serve any narrative purpose that would make it an easy detail to invent, which cuts in favor of it being a genuinely recalled (if unverifiable) element of Apodaca’s account rather than embellishment for effect.
- A witness who wanted to disappear: Apodaca’s explicit request for privacy and no publicity, following an account this elaborate, is a notable departure from the self-promotional pattern seen in some other contactee cases from the same era (compare George Van Tassel’s very public embrace of his own August 1953 contact) — worth noting without drawing a firm conclusion about what it implies for credibility.
- No physical trace or independent corroboration of the journey itself: While the initial landing had multiple witnesses, nothing about the four-day alien-world visit or the animals-and-seeds exchange is independently documented beyond Apodaca’s own account as relayed by researcher Bernard Delair.
This is one of the most extensive and internally detailed contactee narratives documented in this archive, resting almost entirely on a single witness’s account for its most extraordinary claims. The initial landing’s multiple witnesses lend some corroborative weight to that first moment; everything that follows — the alien world itself, the two Frenchmen, the return visit — depends entirely on Apodaca’s own word, delivered by a witness who, notably, wanted no attention for having told it.
“He noted and reported numerous interesting details about UFO construction, flight effects, and everyday life on the alien world, where he met two Frenchmen who were living there.”
— Bernard Delair
