La zona del silencio Patch#

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Guia Roji, México Tourist Atlas 2002, p. 70.'USAF Accidentally Launched Rocket into Mexico's Mapimi Desert 45 Years Ago'. ^ a b c d Barclay, Michael (July 13, 2015).'Exploring Mexico's Zone of Silence, Where Radio Signals Fail and Meteorites Crash'. 'The Zone Of Silence of northern Mexico: scientific marvel or just fiction?'. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Legends include 'strange magnetic anomalies that prevent radio transmission', mutations of flora and fauna, and extraterrestrial visitations, which have been used by locals to promote tourism in the region. Reportedly, a local resident hired to guard the crash debris during recovery operations helped spread these rumors.

Īs a result of the US Air Force recovery operation, a number of myths and legends relating to the area arose. Īs part of the cleanup effort, hundreds of tons of soil were removed from the impact site. When the rocket went off course, it was carrying two small containers of cobalt 57, an isotope used in ' salted bombs' to intentionally contaminate large areas of land. In July 1970, an Athena RTV test rocket launched from the Green River Launch Complex in Utah towards the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico lost control and fell in the Mapimí Desert region. The area was once an ancient seabed in the Tethys Ocean, which left marine fossils and large salt deposits which are mined today. The first incident here occurred in the 1930’s when a pilot Francisco Sarabia was flying over the area and claimed his instruments went wild and his radio stopped working.

La zona del silencio Patch#

It is the subject of an urban legend that claims it is an area where radio signals and any type of communications cannot be received. La Zona Del Silencio, or the Zone of Silence, is a patch of desert in a place known as the Trino Vertex. The Mapimí Silent Zone ( Spanish: La Zona del Silencio) is the popular name for a desert patch near the Bolsón de Mapimí in Durango, Mexico, overlapping the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve. Este lugar esta lleno de historias y mitos que lo. En tiempos prehistóricos este territorio estuvo sumergido bajo las aguas del llamado Mar de Thetis, es por eso que actualmente se pueden encontrar una gran diversidad de fósiles.

Se ubica en la parte central del Bolsón de Mapimí, en Durango.