El Indio, Texas
El Indio is a small community in Maverick County, Texas, located on the Rio Grande approximately 75 miles southeast of Del Rio, Texas. Across the river lies Guerrero, Mexico (Coahuila state). The area is the reported location of a December 6, 1950 UAP crash retrieval referenced in the alleged Majestic 12 Eisenhower Briefing Document, one of two incidents collectively referred to as the "Del Rio cases."
The 1950 Crash
According to the Eisenhower Briefing Document, a UFO of similar origin to the 1947 Roswell Incident impacted the Earth at high speed on December 6, 1950 in the area between El Indio and Guerrero, Mexico. The craft struck at sufficient velocity to be described as nearly obliterated on impact, significantly distinguishing this incident from the nearby 1955 Langtry, Texas crash in which three substantial pieces of wreckage remained intact. The recovered materials were reportedly transported to the Atomic Energy Commission's facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Journalist Dennis Stacy, writing in Omni magazine in 1995, documented a decade-long investigation (1990–1994) into the El Indio claim. Stacy located a local resident, Senor Flores, who had been working on his family's land north of El Indio on the river when a ball of fire fell from the sky and crashed on an adjoining ranch, igniting a grass fire. A day or two later, a military contingent arrived from Piedras Negras, blocked off the location, and hauled something away by truck. Flores could not confirm whether the military vehicles were American, Mexican, or a mix.
Contextual Evidence
On December 6, 1950 — the same date cited in the MJ-12 document — a nationwide US military alert was called at 10:30 AM Eastern Time describing "a large number of unidentified aircraft approaching northeastern US at high altitude" with interceptors dispatched. General Ramey cancelled the alert at 1:16 PM. On December 8, 1950, a confidential memo was directed to J. Edgar Hoover placing Army intelligence on high alert for any data on "flying discs."
Distinction from the Langtry/Willingham Case
Four evidentiary points separate the El Indio 1950 incident from the 1955 crash witnessed by Colonel Robert Willingham near Langtry, Texas:
- The MJ-12 document describes the craft as nearly incinerated; Willingham observed three large intact sections.
- Willingham was serving in the Korean War in December 1950 and could not have been the witness.
- El Indio is 75 miles southeast of Del Rio; Langtry is 60 miles northwest — opposite directions.
- Willingham's account references DEW (Distant Early Warning) radar systems not implemented until 1952.