Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico
Coyame is a small town in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, located in a barren and sparsely populated area approximately 40 miles southwest of the US-Mexico border near Presidio, Texas. The town is the namesake location for the 1974 Coyame, Mexico UFO Crash Retrieval, one of the most extensively documented alleged UAP crash retrieval cases outside the United States.
The 1974 Incident
On August 25, 1974, an unidentified object tracked by US Air Defense radar at 2,200 knots and 75,000 feet altitude disappeared from radar screens near Coyame after apparently colliding mid-air with a civilian aircraft. According to the Denb Report, Mexican military forces located both crash sites in the barren region near the town but died under mysterious circumstances before they could return with the recovered disc. A CIA-coordinated recovery team staged at Fort Bliss, Texas then covertly entered Mexican airspace, retrieved a 16-foot silver disc from the stopped Mexican convoy, destroyed the site and bodies with high explosives, and transported the object to Atlanta, Georgia.
The area's remoteness—over 500 miles from the point where the object was first detected over the Gulf of Mexico, and approximately 60 miles from the nearest populated area—made it an ideal location for a covert cross-border recovery operation. The Denb Report notes the crash site was "over a barren and sparsely populated area of northern Mexico," which facilitated the US recovery team's ability to operate without civilian witnesses.
Field Investigation
UAP researchers Noah Torres and Ruben Uriarte conducted field investigations in the Coyame region and reported finding alleged aircraft debris near the supposed crash site. In 2012, at a festival in nearby Presidio, Texas, witnesses including school teacher Johnny Chambers reported seeing a strange fireball—a "big explosion in the sky"—on the Mexican side of the border near the Coyame area in summer 1974, followed by military helicopters returning to the US from Mexico within a day.
Geographic Context
Coyame's location near the US-Mexico border and its proximity to Fort Bliss—a major US Army installation in El Paso, Texas—positioned it within the operational range of rapid response teams. The town is also referenced in MJ-12 Documents research contexts and listed by the UAP Caucus as a location of interest for congressional investigation into crash retrieval cases.