Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the Edinburgh, Texas UFO
incident. That's correct, the Edinburgh,
Texas UFO incident. Now, this happened back in 1966
in southern Texas in the Rio Grande Valley area.
Some people might even call this a UFO attack based on some of
the crazy stuff that happened. The first article I found here
is from krgv.com krgv.com. It's got a short little video.
It's from April 11th, 2000 seventeenth and it has an
article here. It says that Dateline north of
Edinburgh, the annual UFO festival, has closed in
Edinburgh. Some said the Rio Grande Valley
had its own unexplainable incident back in 1966.
It's a perfect night and the location is just north of
Edinburgh. In 1966, there was a strange
incident that happened right here, Noah Torres said.
Believers and non believers gathered at the site to see it
for themselves and listen to the stories. 8 construction workers
from the Dallas area suddenly saw this beam of light or fire
come down out of the sky and it totally destroyed their
construction site. It burned to a crisp, their
pickup trucks, their construction machinery towards,
said Torres, a McAllen native, is considered a UFO expert and
has written several books on the subject.
For Joe Ponce, it was his father who brought him to the location
in 1966. He was a deputy sheriff.
He was the one who came out here to investigate.
It was the following day that I came out here with my dad and I
saw what happened, what had taken place, Ponce said.
He was 18 and the burned area was big, he said.
And it was all in this location. I'm skeptical, but what I saw, I
saw upon said besides Hwy. 490, the old Moore Air Base is about
8 to 10 miles down the road, and years later we're still finding
little pieces of metal that we think were related to what
happened that night, Torres said.
We can still find some of the debris from the mobile home that
was incinerated by the UFO that according to the story that the
men saw, Edinburgh Library director LED Leisure said the
Edinburgh The Edinburgh library sponsored the out of this world
event and it drew a big crowd. Most definitely it's one of the
biggest festivals and it attracts people from all over.
Soledad Munez What the library said One of the attendees said
they've seen hovering lights and other things.
I believe we're not alone. I think it's kind of ignorant to
think that we're the only ones in this universe. 2 girls said
the event happened more than 50 years ago, but there are still
some obscurities and then we also have rocks like this one
that shows signs of being totally blackened and you can
see that in the video there. So this is an unexplained
incident that happened here in Edinburgh back in 1966, Torres
said. But it does beg the question, do
you believe we're going to get in this a little bit here?
Like I said, I'll have this link over the Kofi website.
Now we'll go ahead and move on to this next article and so this
next article is from the cityofedinburgh.com
cityofedinburgh.com It looks like the library here has done a
pretty decent job of trying to record this incident as best
they can and they've got some real good details the location.
As such the article says the Edinburgh UFO incident,
Edinburgh 1966 UFO incident, Number of witnesses 8.
Location of Farm to Market Rd. 490, approximately 4 miles West
of US Hwy. 281, just north of Edinburg, TX.
Date October or November 1966. Time approximately midnight in
October or November of 1966 Jr. Milo Ponce, a deputy sheriff
with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department, received a
phone call at around midnight from the Sheriff's Department
dispatcher, George Rapp. The dispatcher stated that
someone had called in to report a group of disturbed men
standing alongside Farm to Market Hwy. 490 N of Edinburg,
TX near Laguna Seca Rd. The eight men, who were digging
a gravel pit in the area for a company out of North Texas, were
greatly agitated. They were yelling and screaming
for help alongside the road. A motorist must have seen them
and then driven them to a nearby truck stop from where they call
the Sheriff's Department. So you can just imagine that
site back in 1966, probably pretty dark out there on that
road. Someone's driving along and they
see 1/2 of those and these guys are eight of them, I guess,
standing there and screaming and yelling.
They're agitated, scared half out of their mind.
I suppose in this day and age, they'd be lucky to get anybody
to stop. But they drive them down to this
truck stop. Of course, truck stops back then
weren't what they are today, and they're able to call the
Sheriff's Department. No cell phones back then,
according to Joe. When my father received a phone
call from the Sheriff's Department, I heard him asking
George Rapp, the dispatcher, if it was serious or if it was a
prank call. Rapp told him that the men were
seen along Hwy. 490 and they appeared to be very frightened
about something they had seen, and they also said they needed
help putting out a fire. My father got dressed, got in
his vehicle, and responded to the call.
The site in question is a ranch located approximately 4 miles
West of Hwy. 281, owned at the time by Samuel Gonzalez, now
deceased and now owned by Mary Moya.
The charred and burned area was about 1/4 mile into the ranch,
next to some very large gravel pits.
So they get there and they just find this area that's been
incinerated. The pits were being dug out by a
crew of eight men from North Texas.
The men, who were all Anglo and whose identities are not known,
were roughneck types. All of them told the same story
of that eerie night. One of the men had been so
frightened that he urinated in his pants.
The men were later taken to the Sheriff's Office, where they
were interviewed and then allowed to spend the night.
They told sheriff's deputies that they would never return to
the site of the incident and they reportedly left town the
next day happy to escape with their lives, Milo Ponce's son
Joe Ponce says. Quote Although I did not witness
this incident, I heard several different people give the same
details about it at separate times.
There was a police report filed, but I don't know if it would
still be around. I will tell the story as I have
heard it from my father. Then it goes on and says the
workers told deputies of having seen bright lights in the sky
and of hearing a loud humming or throbbing sound.
They also experienced sudden, strong winds on an otherwise
calm night and they saw flames shoot down out of the sky,
presumably from one of the UFOs that had been previously seen
hovering in the area. The beam of fire set ablaze all
the surrounding area, including their vehicles and their mobile
home. The local resident known as
Minito, who lived near the the Calais pit reported seeing a
cigar shaped object that hovered over the field that night.
Menito had seen this and other bright lights hovering over the
surrounding fields prior to the night of this incident.
So we have this UFO situation happen, but you'll also have a
witness there telling you that hey UFOs are here all the time
I've seen this large cigar shaped UFO and here it was this
night. The gravel pit workers
themselves stated that they had seen strange lights hovering
around the area on other occasions prior to the night of
the fire. Spanish speaking people who
lived near the area called these Erie Night Lights La Luz del
Lano, which in English means in the the lights in the fields.
According to Joe Ponce, this area has been known for years as
the site of strange phenomena. Firefighters eventually arrived
at the scene of the fire, but by the time they got there the
flames had mostly died out. Ponce's dad said that on the
following morning he and another deputy returned to the scene and
found everything, including the crews, sleeping, corridors,
destroyed by fire. So this thing really did a job
on the whole site. Among what was damaged or
destroyed by the fire was a 12 by 60 foot mobile home that the
crew was using as sleeping corridors, a couple of pickup
trucks, a bobtail truck and an excavating machine.
It was all charged upon, she remembers.
All that stuff had been burned. So you wonder if these things
were if this UFO was just upset about these guys digging these
gravel pits or what. But because it just did a
complete number on this whole site, Pawn says.
Years later, after I returned from the army in 1972, I visited
the area with my father. He pointed out the location and
you could still see an oddly shaped area where nothing would
grow. The sides of the pit appeared to
have been burned all the way to the top, 25 to 30 feet high.
Imagine that is quite a fire that That's gravel pit 2530 feet
deep and this thing just incinerated it.
Joe Ponce says that Sheriff EE Vickers told his dad that he had
been approached by two men dressed in military uniforms
asking to see the report about the incident.
Vickers, a resident of Dallas, TX, was the County Sheriff from
1955 to 1969. Apparently, Vickers thought the
men might have come from More Air Base, which is located about
6 miles southwest of the site where the incident happened.
But the base had been closed by the Air Force in 1961 and was no
longer a military institution at the time of the incident.
No more was ever said of the incident, and my father never
spoke about it anymore. Ponce.
Well, you kind of got to wonder if this guy didn't get a visit
from the MIB. His father had later become
captain of the Highway Patrol and then ran for office and was
elected county commissioner for three terms.
He is still remembered for his many years of service and the
county honored him by naming a park.
After his retirement and death. The park, called Jr.
Milo Ponce Memorial Park, is located 8 miles east on Hwy.
2812 in the Hargel area. Now that is fascinating stuff.
So you have these guys out here, you know, in this sounds like
somewhat remote area in Texas. They see this giant UFO sounds
like it was cigar shaped. These beams of lights come down
just incinerate the the campsite, the the, the, the
trailer house you're living in. There are trucks, the excavating
equipment and leave burden marks 25 feet up the walls of the
gravel pit man. And the whole thing happens
within a few miles of a former military base.
Crazy stuff. Now I want to take a look at
this next article talks about this a little bit more.
This is from abovetopsecret.com. I like this site.
It's it says UFO shoots beam of fire at men and their equipment
in Edinburg, TX in 1966. Now this is dated April 30th,
2020. Shaman from Shaman from New York
I guess is the guys or the person's handle.
On this article it says I just located an interesting story
that perhaps not many you have heard about.
It's about a UFO sighting that occurred in 1966 just north of
Edinburg, TX. There's a lot of documentation
on this incident, yet I couldn't locate a patch thread on ATS
that's above top secret. We'll have the link over there
at the Kofi site. Edinburgh, Texas is located in
South Central Hidalgo County, which is part of the Rio Grande
Valley. Edinburgh is also located 8
miles from more air base, which in 1963 had been transferred
from the US Air Force to the US Department of Agriculture, which
used the base to eradicate the screw worm fly.
Now maybe? Or would that perhaps be a cover
for something else, I wonder? It goes on here.
It says more air bases in an inactive United States Air Force
Base he initially located 14 miles northwest of Mission, TX.
It was deactivated on the 1st of February 1961.
The installation was sold to private concerns and partially
transferred to the Department of Agriculture on July on the 15th
of July 1963. So while this whole thing was
going on with this UFO sitting down, sending down beams of
light or laser beams or whatever, lighting up the whole
neighborhood down there burning stuff up, it was just within a
few miles, I think within about 6 miles of this former air base,
which was now an AG base or so we're told, and has a.
They've got a really good Google Earth map here shows you the
location of the UFO base. And then to the most I suppose,
I'm assuming here, this is the southwest, this is location of
more air base, and then it shows you the city of Edinburg, TX.
So you get a really good idea of where this thing was located at
in relation to everything else, it says.
On the day of the incident, 8 construction workers were
working at a gravel pit around midnight when they witnessed
several bright UFOs in the night sky.
One of the men later told sheriff's deputies that he was
so frightened that he urinated his pants.
According to the workers, one of the UFOs, which was a cigar
shaped object, shot a beam of fire at them.
Eight construction workers from the Dallas area suddenly saw
this beam of light or fire come down out of the sky and it
totally destroyed the construction site.
It burned it to a crisp. Their pickup trucks, their
construction machinery towards said firefighters eventually
arrived at the scene, but by the time they got there the flames
had mostly died out. Among what was damaged or
destroyed by the fire was a 12 foot by 60 foot mobile home that
the crew were using as sleeping hoarders, a couple of pickup
trucks, a bobtail truck and and and an excavating machine.
Now that is wild. I mean this thing really did do
a number on these guys. I mean just just just
incinerating stuff. It sounds like then it kind of
goes down here and gives us some of the same information we had
before. It says that there were eight
witnesses that this is was on a farm to market Rd.
So I guess a secondary Rd. approximately 4 miles West of
Hwy. 281, just north of Edinburg, TX.
You can see that on the map. It happened around midnight and
they still don't have the date. On October or November it says.
And then it talks about how they received this phone call.
It says the eight men who were digging Graalopod in the area
for a company out of North Texas were greatly agitated.
They were yelling and screaming for help alongside the road and
then they were picked up by someone taken to this truck stop
where they were able to call the police.
It just almost seems to me like the police did a cursory
investigation. We're told that they they went
out there and they took a look at things.
Then somebody gets a, then the sheriff actually gets a visit
from a couple of officers who must not identify themselves.
He thinks that they're from this Moore Air Force Base or whatever
it was, but it's it's been closed down.
So what he has here essentially is a couple of MI BS show up and
they want to see the police report and then mysteriously the
deputy who investigated the whole thing, he quits talking
about it. You just have to wonder what
happened, it says here, a local resident known as Menito who
lived near the Kalishpit reported seeing a cigar shaped
object that hovered over the field that night.
Menito had seen this and other bright lights hovering over the
surrounding fields prior to the night of this incident.
The gravel pit workers themselves stated they had seen
strange lights hovering around the area on other occasions
prior to the night of the fire. It's almost like this saying was
showing up. Maybe this was this way of
presenting some kind of a warning, telling these guys to
leave and they just, whatever they whatever this UFO, this UFO
phenomenon was, it just doesn't seem like it was communicating
itself thoroughly enough to these people because they stuck
around and the next thing you know we have this attack, this
very suddenly you see actual UFOs attack like this where they
do so much damage where it burned up the house that these
guys have been living in, this little trailer house that burned
up their pickup trucks. It burned up, it burned up the
construction equipment, this bobcat and the excavator.
And like I said, the fire was so thorough that they say that
there were burn marks 25 foot up into the gravel pit.
Now somebody might say these guys were they got on drugs or
maybe they got drunk or whatever and they just burnt down the
camp. But how would that account for
the actual excavating site itself having burn marks 25 to
30 feet up the sides of these walls, these rock walls?
Something really weird happened here.
And what I what I find cool about this whole report is that
these are the kind of sightings that don't really get a lot of
attention. The the kind of sightings were
obviously this UFO didn't show up to sing Kumbaya with these
guys. It seems like this thing was
agitated over something whether it was because these guys were
were doing this excavating work here, whether it was had some
kind of connection to this abandoned converted military
base which supposedly was now being used by the Ag department
to eradicate screw worm. I mean, anytime I hear about the
government having a program to eradicate something, it makes me
wonder how well it's going, because sometimes they're all
things to get eradicated. Maybe there was some kind of
technology being used there, some kind of environmental
damage being done that this thing was concerned with.
Who knows, maybe this UFO came here not to attack these gravel
pit miners, but maybe their actual target had been this
base. That would make more sense to
me. But for or maybe these guys
having their stuff blown up, maybe that was just a warning.
So maybe, maybe there wasn't some kind of communication going
on between this UFO phenomena that did this thorough damage.
You notice nobody got killed. That's the thing that that
really interests me. It's at midnight.
They could very well have been in bed sleeping inside that
trailer house and been burned up inside that trailer house.
But whatever this thing was, it's almost as if it waited
until they were all outside. It made itself seen by them.
It starts firing down this beam of light or fire or whatever.
So it's as if it's giving them ample warning.
Get out of the way, and then it just totally destroys this camp.
It's like it's making a statement without actually
taking the life of anybody. So that's the connection that
I'm curious about. What was the connection between
this UFO that showed up down there in in South Texas and this
abandoned military base which was now reportedly doing work to
eradicate this screw worm? So many times I think when we
see these stories when they're in or near military bases, we're
just getting the tip of the iceberg.
To me, this is the kind of story that has a lot more to it.
The fact that you had this this work site for a gravel pit seems
pretty innocuous to me. But it happens to be located
near a former military base, which happens to have been
converted into this Agriculture Department installation where
they're trying to eradicate screw worm, I think they called
it. So you got all that going on.
You have this, you have this little work camp burned up
thoroughly. Trailer house is gone, pickup
trucks are gone, the Bobcats gone.
Excavation equipment's gone. It's making a statement, but
nobody gets killed at all. That destruction at midnight, it
would have been so easy for those guys to be inside that
trailer house. But whatever.
Whatever did this, this U, this UFO, this phenomenon, it waited
until these guys were outside. It's like it warned them.
It wanted them to be OK, but it wanted the area that they were
at to be destroyed as some sort of AI think a warning sign,
because what happens after that? Well, they come out, they do a
crystal reinvestigation the next day that the County Sheriff
does. And then later on, the County
Sheriff is, he's approached by a couple of military type, but he
doesn't know where they're from, doesn't know what their names
are, doesn't know what their ranks are.
Maybe they weren't wearing black, maybe they were wearing
green uniforms, but they were essentially men in black.
And what happens after that? Well, people could, people
apparently quit talking about it, or at least this deputy who
investigated it quits talking about it.
So you have to assume, well, these guys wanted to keep their
mouth shut. Something so strange we hardly
ever hear about these UFOs actually doing property damage
or attacking something. At least not this was an
intentional act. That's clear.
So there's definitely a story here that we don't know about,
but at least they have it on record of what happened back in
1966 down there in Texas. Until next time, this is UFO
Warning Over now.