Man Claims to Have Captured Flying Saucer on Camera in Tamaulipas, Mexico

An enlarged image of the object in one of Sanchez’s photos. *(Juan Manuel Sanchez)*

A series of photographs reportedly taken by car mechanic Juan Manuel Sanchez appear to show a disclike metallic object hovering in the air above his workshop in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, Mexico, before flying away.

Sanchez said the photos were taken on August 17th following the sudden formation of storm clouds to the north.

He noticed the unidentified flying object—estimated by Sanchez to be between 30 and 50 feet in diameter—when he looked towards the dark clouds, and said that at first, it simply hovered in the air.

Sanchez excitedly brought his phone up to record a video, but since it was in photo mode, opted to take several photographs, instead. While he is disappointed that he wasn’t able to record a video, Sanchez said that his intention was to capture what he could of the object before it disappeared.

Although the object was stationary at the beginning of his sighting, Sanchez said that once he started taking photographs, it began to move upwards.

The three photos of the object from Sanchez, shown from left to right in the order they were reportedly taken. (*Juan Manuel Sanchez)*

Following his encounter, Sanchez was interviewed by controversial UFO journalist Jaime Maussan for both RDTV and Maussan’s YouTube show, No Humano con Jaime Maussan.

"It was right there above that house above the cables," Sanchez said during the interview for RDTV. “I got my mobile phone to film it because it was always a dream to see something like this, this close.”

We were working here outside at the workshop when we saw some very dark clouds—it was cloudy like it is now, a bit more.
I wanted to film a video, but my phone was on photo mode, and I got the first picture.
When we started watching it, it was in one place it wasn’t moving and then as I got the second and third photo it started moving upwards.
When I changed my phone to video mode it wasn’t possible. As it was going away, I could see it more, the [object] the shape of a disc.

“It’s sad I wasn’t able to get a video,” he added.

Sanchez’s wife and one of his coworkers also claim to have witnessed the object.

Sanchez said that he saw strange lights in the sky the night following his encounter, and that other residents have approached him with their own stories of similar sightings in the area.

The photographs shared by Sanchez don’t show any obvious signs of digital tampering, but there are still plenty of people who remain skeptical of what exactly is shown in them.

“There are people who don’t believe,” he said. “They say it was a lid from a car or a pan of tamales."

Regardless, Sanchez said he remains convinced that he saw something unusual that day.

“They’re interesting,” Singular Fortean Society photo and video analyst Emily Wayland said of the images. “That definitely seems to be a physical object. There is no evidence that it was digitally inserted into the photographs, and the way it reflects light is indicative of an authentic physical object.”

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