Reme Baca and Jose Padilla were young boys living in San Antonio, New Mexico in August 1945 when, they say, they literally stumbled across the remains of what they believe to have been an alien spacecraft. Their personal account of the case displays many of the key ingredients of crashed UFO lore. Jose described what he saw through his binoculars: three strange looking creatures, moving fast, seemingly under stress, shadowy, almost as if they could will themselves from one position to another. They seemed not to be able to hold their balance. We were 100 to 200 feet from them. Sounds were coming out of the object, like a jackrabbit in pain, or like a baby crying. Jose wanted to get closer; I wanted no part of it. Jose wasn't afraid of much, but I told him we should get out of there.

Baca and Padilla say they are planning an expedition to investigate and unearth the remains of whatever crashed in the desert near San Antonio in August 1945. Was it a clandestine military operation undertaken to recover a weather balloon? Or was something more mysterious involved? Baca and Padilla intend to prove that it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft.