Mexican Pilot Possessed by Aliens and the Case of Maria Soledad Morales

Rafael Pacheco Perez was a student pilot on his first solo flight when he encountered something in the skies that changed his life forever.

In this episode, Carmen shares the bizarre UFO case of Rafael Pacheco Perez and Cristina shares a true crime case from Argentina that changed the town of Catamarca forever.

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Rafael Pacheco Perez: 

Rafael Pacheco Perez was an aspiring pilot, but that changed forever after the events of June 21st, 1976. 

He was a bright and dedicated student. His instructors had no doubt in his skills, he was known as one of the best students in his class. He was always on time and very responsible.

It was his first practice solo flight. Before this, his only experience was flying with another pilot from Mexico city to Guanajuato. He took off from la Escuela de Avacion “mexico” on an XB-ZOX plane. This solo flight was not scheduled to be as long. He was supposed to go from the Mexico city airport to the las pistas de Chimalhuacan, these empty fields by lake Texcoco. He was supposed to just go there and practice landing. The weather wasn’t ideal, it was more cloudy than usual, but this was a less than an hour flight. So it wasn’t a big deal. He took off like normal, when he got to 900 feet in the air, not long after take off, his plane disappeared from all radars. He never arrived in Chimalhuacan. No one had seen him.

Everyone was confused and that confusion grew, when one hour later, Rafael Pacheco Perez finally resurfaced, a whole three hours away in Acapulco. The issue was that this training plane wasn’t made to travel that far. It had enough fuel for the trip to Chimalhuacan, not for 3 hours away. The other issue, he was 3 hours away, but only one hour had gone by. He also didn't have the experience to make it over the giant mountains on that flight path. 

Then things got weirder. 

The radio tower asked Rafael to identify himself and he replied asking for a private channel to talk to them. When they gave  him the new channel, they asked him again to identify himself and what his location was. Rafael replied,  “He is speaking because he is ordered to do so, that is, this is his voice, he is speaking but not of his own free will. We are using him as if he were… yes, we are using him as a microphone. We don’t matter much, nor where we come from, nor where we’re going, just know that we are beings from this universe to which you belong. Our planet is many light-years away, but I’ll repeat that before it becomes confusing: we are physically the same as you, I repeat that all races in the universe are physically the same.”

It also said they had always been here, and that compared to them, humans were primitive. That they were watching humanity from the skies and that humanity had to change or an irreversible global catastrophe would occur. They also said they meant no harm to the pilot and that when he woke up, he would not remember how he ended up here or anything having to do with them. 

The air traffic controller asked if they were so advanced, why were they speaking Spanish and they replied that they could speak any language. Then that air traffic controller, who happened to be trilingual, started speaking German, then English and the aliens speaking through Rafael replied in both languages. Rafael himself only spoke Spanish.

Then it said, “You are not alone in the universe, and there are other races that we are keeping away from you, but we are watching you”. And the transmission ended at 11:29 AM.

Another pilot who had been given the number of the same channel contacted Mexico city and asked if they were missing a pilot, because if they were, he was down here in Acapulco. 

Then the frequency changed and it was him again, calling out, “Help, I’m Rafael Pacheco Perez, Student 82 from the Aviation school of Mexico city, whoever is out there, please reply”. He said this a few more times, but his voice sounded very different. Air traffic control called back to him, asking him where he was. Freaked out, he said he didn't know, he was 7000 feet in the air and he could only see water. Air traffic control told him to find any piece of land until he saw some buildings, finally, Rafael found somewhere to land. He noticed that he had 0 fuel. 

When he landed at the Acapulco airport, he asked, where am I? How did I land? On the ground, they told him, well if you don’t know and you were the one flying, we know even less. He was arrested, because you can’t just fly randomly, like was this a hijacking, it had to be investigated. They looked through the plane, everything looked normal. One person said it was full of fuel but someone else verified it was empty. 

Rafael was interrogated and screened for any type of intoxication. He was found in perfect health and no drugs or alcohol in his system. He declared that he took off at 8:25 like normal, it was a regular flight for him, not far. As he flew toward Chimalhuacan, suddenly, the controls on the plane felt difficult to navigate, as if something else was in charge, not him. The plane kept going up and then suddenly went into a cloud. Suddenly, he couldn't see anything and he felt super drowsy. HE fell asleep. When he woke up, he was begging for help on the radio, 7000 feet in the air, over the Acapulco oceans. 

After the investigation, heh was let go and sent back to Mexico City on a bus. A different pilot was set to fly the plane back to Mexico city. Once he was released, reporters would not leave him alone. He was unable to answer their questions, he didn’t know how he got to Acapulco. 

Rafael Pacheco Perez claimed the alien beings that possessed him were evil. They ruined his career and he never piloted a plane again.