![]() "Skeptoid #323: 8 Spooky Places, and Why They're Like That". 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).Este enigmtico sitio se ubica exactamente en el Bolsn de Mapim, a unos 180 km al noroeste de Torren-Gmez. Al norte de Mxico existe una zona rodeada de leyendas, misterios y algo ms: la Zona del Silencio. "Exploring Mexico's Zone of Silence, Where Radio Signals Fail and Meteorites Crash". La Zona del Silencio tiene la peculiaridad de hacer que las brjulas dejen de funcionar o que las seales de radio se pierdan. Even so, some view these odd reports as deliberately invented to generate tourism and sold to the world via the mass media. "The Zone Of Silence of northern Mexico: scientific marvel or just fiction?". El Zona del Silencio is an electromagnetic void an anomaly, where compasses spin like dervishes and cell phone and radio signals are the definition of hit-and-miss. 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. 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. 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.
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