La Zona Del Silencio por Benjamín Palacios

La Zona Del Silencio por Benjamín Palacios

The enigmatic Zone of Silence by Benjamín Palacios. Well, we’re going to have the great pleasure of sharing with you all the 11 chapters of the 11 great songs that have given worldwide fame to this magical and enigmatic Zone of Silence. Let’s begin. Welcome to the channel. My name is Isaac Ramos. Thank you for being here and explore the Zone of Silence. [Music] I’m meeting with Benjamín Palacios in this place known as the Zone of Silence ecotourism complex. Benjamín, taking advantage of this opportunity, thanking you for your invitation, let’s talk about this enigmatic region. What does the Zone of Silence geographically comprise? Well, the Zone of Silence covers approximately 55,000 hectares in its core area, and the buffer zone includes parts of the municipalities of López, Allende, Coronado, and the entire municipality of Jiménez in the state of Chihuahua. In the state of Durango, it includes the municipalities of Mapimí and Tlahualilo, and in Coahuila, Francisco y Madero and Sierra Mojada, Coahuila. It’s a fairly large area. In its origins, we’ve seen vestiges of what the seabed was like during our surveys . It’s said that this was the Tethys Seabed. What do you know? What can you tell us about this, Benjamín? Well, the Tethys Sea was here, what we know today as the Mapimí basin. It was a very large expanse of sea and was known by that name, the Tethys Sea. There’s even a version from scientists that 60 million years ago there was a very intense meteor shower that fell here in this region and that many of those celestial stones sank into the mud, into the ooze of what was the Tethys Sea. That theory is what supports the magnetism that exists in this region, right? Well, they have come to the conclusion that the elements contained in those celestial rocks, in those meteorites, combined with many minerals that exist in the subsoil of this entire valley known as the Zone of Silence, are what produce an electromagnetism effect that hinders the propagation of radio and television waves and also acts as a powerful magnet that attracts celestial bodies, attracts meteorites. The Zone of Silence is known worldwide as a mysterious, mystical place, full of enigmas, of events that science itself cannot explain. What does this place have to do with the aforementioned 27th parallel? Can you tell us something about this? Well, this region is located precisely between the 26th and 28th parallels, precisely on the 27th parallel, which if we travel across the globe toward the Atlantic, passing through the Gulf of Mexico, we reach the Atlantic and we’ll find the location of the Bermuda Triangle. And if we continue advancing along the same 27th parallel, we’ll reach the pyramids of Giza, there in Egypt. And if we follow that parallel, we’ll reach precisely those sacred sites of the Himalayas. Yes, the Himalayas. And if we advance further, much deeper into the China Sea, we’ll come across the Dragon Triangle on the same 27th parallel. And if we advance further and turn around to come back through what is the Pacific Ocean, we’ll come across something also mysterious and extraordinary, such as the living volcanoes, the active volcanoes in Hawaii. And we continue advancing further and we’ll come across the immense salt mines in Guerrero Negro, Baja California. And if we skip the Baja California Peninsula, we reach the Sea of ​​Cortez, where it’s well known that this is where whales gather to give birth to their vallenatos. We advance further and once again reach the Zone of Silence. It’s a passionate, very interesting journey along the 27th parallel, home to extraordinary cultures of humanity, marvelous civilizations of humanity, and also a place where there are many monuments that humanity itself has left as a heritage for future generations. This place is famous for the fall of large meteorites. There are some on display in Mexico City. What can you tell us about this? Benjamin: Well, at the end of the 19th century and on the instructions of the then President of the Republic, The meteorites on display at the entrance to the Mining College were brought from here, from this region internationally known as the Zone of Silence . Since this project was to be inaugurated during the Porfirio Díaz administration, the Chupaderos meteorite , weighing 14,114 kg, was placed there . There’s Chupaderos 2, weighing around 10 tons. There’s the Morito de Allende, also weighing 12 tons, and the Zacatecas meteorite, weighing 3.5 tons. But it’s not just these; there are also many meteorite samples, like the one at the top of the entrance to the Astronomy Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the La Concepción meteorite, also weighing approximately 3.5 tons. All of these meteorites have been brought from this region for display in Mexico, at the Mining College. It’s precisely the largest collection of meteorites ever displayed to the public in a single space. Something very interesting and it’s all from here, from this region to there, precisely the contribution of the Zone of Silence. [Music] [ Music] [Music] [Music] There’s a very famous case about an event involving a very famous Mexican pilot, with a long career, that is a bit similar to what happens in the Bermuda Triangle. When flying over this, uh, the Zone of Silence, he is affected by the magnetism that occurs in this region. What can you tell us about the pilot Francisco Sarabia Tinoco? Well, Francisco Sarabia Tinoco, originally from Lerdo, Durango, comments that while crossing this region in his small plane, his air navigation instruments began to fail. They began to behave in an atypical manner, so much so that after this behavior they began to fail until they even caused the need to make an emergency landing that destroyed his valuable aircraft, his small plane. It was in 1936 when he was crossing this valley and that event happened in an interview with this Francisco Sarabia there in the lagoon, precisely in Torreón, when they finished commenting on this event, they asked him why he arrived on crutches, he arrived bandaged, he had this uh an ankle, the ankle of his right leg and this left clavicle injured and they asked him if it hurt a lot and he answered yes, that it hurt a lot because it was unlikely he would get his plane back. The physical ailments did not matter to him, what mattered to him was his plane. He was strong, his life was totally at risk and his plane was seriously destroyed. Later he recovered it and achieved the marvelous feat of flying nonstop from Mexico to New York, which is what gave him international fame. But that is another story. [Music] [Applause] [Music] We arrive at 1966. That year definitively marks what is Zone of Silence. Enter the stage, a well-known engineer named Harry Augusto de la Peña. What can you tell us about this engineer’s relationship with the Zone of Silence? Well, engineer Harry Augusto de la Peña is the one who discovered the phenomenon that prevails here, which we already talked about, that electromagnetism effect, which operates like a powerful magnet. And it was Harry de la Peña himself who discovered this. He led a Mexican oil brigade whose mission was to explore for oil, crude oil, and gas reserves. They settled in the town of Escalón. They camped there for many months in 1966. He commanded various brigades in various directions, to the west, to the south, to the east. and the brigade that was in charge of the east under the command of Carlos Olivera Rincón, well, it was even called the disobedient brigade because by Pemex security protocol they had to report at noon every day to transmit a partial report of activities and this one well he never passed it on and he would say to Juanito, Mr. Juan Fernández López who was in charge of the radio at the base platform of the camp that he didn’t answer, but he would defend himself and say, “The one who doesn’t answer is Juanito.” So there they would say, “The one who doesn’t, the one who doesn’t answer is this one, the one who doesn’t answer is the other one.” And so they took her for many weeks, several months, until engineer Harry de la Peña, who was an academic, very well-prepared man, a graduate of UNAM and also with advanced studies from the National Polytechnic Institute, a very serious, very formal scientist, decided to go look for that brigade, that brigade heading east, heading towards the Tetas de Juana hill, heading towards what is known as the Carrillo station, heading towards where Las Glorias is, the Liberación ejido, the eastern ejido, the Liberation ejido, Las Glorias and the ranches, for example, of Jesús María, all those towns, communities, agricultural and livestock ranches, but also ejido communities, to see where that brigade was. He managed to reach the point where they were. They were stationed there doing their work. Before that, he narrates that they were seeing some animal remains, eh animal bones, right? And so that brought about his saying, “I’m going to arrive and I’m going to surprise them and I’m going to show them that they have the radio off.” But he himself recounts in his work log that he was even more surprised when he arrived and made sure the radio was on. It was then that he realized there was a problem with the transmission, with the propagation of the Hertzian waves. They did a series of practices moving the vehicles, placing them at a certain distance, in a certain direction, others at another distance, others in another direction and he was able to verify at noon what was on August 6, 1966, he was able to verify this phenomenon and it was when he first pronounced it was noon on the day of the date of the log, when for the first time I pronounced, “This is a zone of silence,” a term with which the region was baptized and which was popularized by the press, radio and television media of the time, who granted him many interviews when he was able to socialize the subject he had discovered. [Music] The zone of silence never ceases to surprise us. In February of 1969 an astronomical event occurs again, a celestial object comes and impacts again in this region. What can you tell us about the Allende meteorite? Well, how good that you mention it, it is one of the most important meteorites internationally. It is the most studied meteorite in the history of humanity. And In a masterful way, the engineer Harry de la Peña himself describes it in a very interesting interview that he gave to the very famous writer JJ Benítez and the director of the Spanish magazine Enigmas, Fernando Jiménez del Oso. Right in the very heart of the Zone of Silence they did this interview and he mentions that the Allende meteorite of February 8, 1969, which impacted precisely in the Almoloya mountain range in the small town of Allende, in the municipality of Allende, very close to Parral, very close to Jiménez, 27 km in a straight line from where we are at this moment here in the town of Escalón. Then he describes Harry de la Peña, which is the Allende meteorite or reasoning meteorite and he mentions that when it was coming on its way as a meteoroid heading to impact the Earth, there was also, by chance, a ship from the Soviet Union on an exploratory mission headed to Venus and they warned from the United Kingdom that there was a possibility, that there was a risk that they could impact, that they could collide, that they could meet. So, from the ground, the Soviet Union began maneuvering to get it out like a vehicle going around another, but to the surprise of the international scientific community, that object did the same. They pulled out like two cars, one to the right and the other to the other side to avoid colliding, and then they resumed their original trajectory. Then, to reach Earth, it has an atypical entry into the atmosphere. It makes a kind of orbit, one-third of the way around, as if looking for where to fall, and when it’s already two-thirds of the way around, it decides to fall precisely, pulled by that strange force produced by the zone of silence. Uh, and to impact very, very close to here is the Allende meteorite of 1969. It’s worth going into detail later on regarding this very important event, which, as you know, has many publications about it, of published scientific research, 16, 17,000 publications, right? Very good. It’s even when it reaches a point of International attention to this place, right? With the flood of print media, radio, and television coverage. Yes, it came for the second time. First, when Harry de la Peña revealed the phenomenon prevailing here in this valley known internationally as the enigmatic Zone of Silence. Then, three years later, on February 8, 1969, with the fall of the Allende meteorite, people from all over the world came to try to get a piece of the meteorite. It’s worth noting that, according to NASA, that meteorite, when it was in transit as a meteoroid, was the size of a German car. We deduce that a bug, a bug, a bug, right? Because back then there were no BMWs, no Mercedes-Benzes, no other brands, and they don’t even mention a minivan. But anyway, when it hits the atmosphere, it fragments, and around 7.5 tons of fragmented cosmic rocks fall. It fragmented, and that allowed pieces of the Allende meteorite to be found all over the world, in many research centers, in many public and private universities, both national and foreign. And for that reason, it was the second time that the town of Escalón, the Zone of Silence, was on the lips of the international scientific community. [Music] A year later, 1970, the world was surprised by the news that a military-style missile deviated from its original trajectory and fell right in the heart of the Zone of Silence. What can you tell us, Benjamin, about the Athens rocket? Well, NASA announced with great fanfare that it would send one of those so-called Athens rockets from Green River, Utah, bound for White Sands, New Mexico. But despite the fact that a year earlier, in July, on July 20 , 1969, NASA had placed Apollo 11 on the eastern surface of the moon, exactly at the point where it had announced. Here, by chance, it was diverted approximately 1,200 km after they released that device, which was 18 meters high by 85 cm in diameter, with stabilizing bars in the center and at the base, but also with a cobalt-57 capsule in the nose of the rocket. That’s when they announced that they had lost control, that they had lost control, that they were very worried because that capsule was extremely radioactive. But this reassured the countries of the world by saying, wherever it falls, we are committed to cleaning up the region and collecting the remains of our Atena rocket. Well, it happened to fall here at 3:15 in the morning on July 11, 1970, in the La Soledad ejido in the Escalón section of the municipality of Jiménez in the state of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. Mr. Abel Landeros fell there. He was the only eyewitness. He woke up that morning when he heard the impact. He mounted a black steed and came to report the incident, to inform the authorities, to the municipal president, who was my father, Raimundo Palacios Carlos. And that’s how the town learned that something had fallen in the La Soledad ejido. However, two helicopters quickly flew over the town of Escalón, one larger with the flags and insignia of the United States, and another smaller one from Sedena, the Ministry of Defense of our country. They were already searching for the remains. Five days later, there were other, more interesting surprises, but that morning we woke up, we had breakfast on July 11, 1970, and found that a NASA rocket had fallen here. And once again, the eyes of the world focused on Escalón, on the Zone of Silence, due to this unprecedented event of how a train with highly renowned NASA scientists entered to recover the remains of the lost missile. During that time, how was the arrival of the press and the coverage of the mobilization and all the actions to recover this missile? Well, it was a moment when journalists, reporters, and correspondents from media outlets all over the country, but also from abroad, began arriving immediately. The BBC came from London, Infinito came from Argentina, the press from the United Kingdom came, of course the closest ones, of course, the United States, Canada, the New York Times. This Los Angeles Times, Univision, Galavision, many, many television channels. The Italian press came, the French press, even the Egyptian press. Of course, the Chinese, the Japanese, because it was a very important event, right? So important that a few days later, uh, we came across another very interesting development. But before that, I’d like to add that five days after the Athena rocket fell, a train loaded with scientists arrived, led by Warnher Von Braun. No more and no less than the father of NASA, right? That German scientist led a group of approximately 50 scientists who arrived in the town of Escalón aboard a very colorful, aluminum-colored train with NASA logos, um, with the flags of the United States. They spent the night there for several days, two days, and three days, two nights, and then they advanced along the branch line that runs from Mexico City to Sierra Mojada to the town of Laguna de Palomas, Carrillo station, where they completed a section of track to approach the wreckage of the Atena rocket with that train in the La Soledad ejido. They were there for 28 days conducting a series of studies, a series of experiments. They brought a lot of the most sophisticated equipment for that time. Laptops and computers didn’t exist yet, but they brought Geiger counters, radioactivity meters, a lot of devices that they could use in very important ways. 28 days later, they left for Houston, Texas. [Music] [Applause] Benjamín, what is the region like, its flora, its fauna, the wildlife in the Zone of Silence? Tell us. You were born in this region, and all your life you’ve had contact with and continue to promote the Zone of Silence. What is wildlife like in this region? Well, look, it’s very important. As Warnher Von Braun commented, this is a kind of window to the universe, right? This is a kind of hole through which cosmic dust constantly enters, derived from meteorites that are pulverized upon contact with the atmosphere or materially, like all those we mentioned a moment ago. So, if the planet is protected from the cosmic neutrinos that emanate from the sun, but nevertheless this is a window, it’s a vortex, then some percentage of those rays get in, are introduced here and affect, uh, what is flora and fauna, right? There are mutations in flora, there are mutations in fauna, for example, uh, that ancient turtle known as the Bolson turtle, which was originally the sea turtle of the Tethys Sea and which over the course of 60 million years has been mutating to transform its fins into very powerful claws. And the shell hardened even further , and even its eyes, which are its eyes painted yellow, the sclera of its eyes to be able to adapt and withstand the intense rays of the sun, which is very important here in the summer. Likewise, the lizard of this region has a longer tail, the dune lizard, and the chameleon, the horns, the horned chameleon , the horns of that chameleon are also different from the chameleon of other parts of the same Chihuahuan Desert, but outside of the area of ​​influence of the Zone of Silence. Likewise, in the flora, what is this Gobernadora, which is the Guamis, the leaves are different, the coloration of its flowers is different, and so each plant, each thing has some difference. You have to make a very, very professional comparison to be able to find the differences. At first glance, it seems that everything is the same. Right? There are many reddish-purple prickly pear cactus, and the longer the drought, the more reddish they become. It’s something very interesting for visitors who come to this region during their tours, during their observations, because it’s very interesting to go around checking out all these kinds of things. [Music] Benjamín, years after engineer Harry de la Peña discovered and named the region the Zone of Silence, it was established or decreed by the federal government as a biosphere reserve, and it’s an area that covers a large part of this Zone of Silence. What can you tell me about this? Well, yes, indeed, as you rightly point out, Isaac, here on your YouTube channel, already very attractive, already very popular, already highly sought after by many people. I do share with you that, indeed, in 1966, Harry Augusto de la Peña discovered the phenomenon and named the region the Zone of Silence. Ten years later, in 1976, the federal government, in coordination with UNESCO, decreed a large part of what is the core of that enormous valley known internationally as the Zone of Silence. The core was decreed the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve. Starting in 1976, under the then President of the Republic, José López Portillo, this was named, it was decreed the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, with all the observations, with all the rules that should prevail in a biosphere reserve like this. Not just anyone can enter. To do so, you first need to obtain a permit from the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas through the MAPMI Biosphere Reserve offices. You can do this online, but to enter, authorities require you to be accompanied by a certified and federally authorized CONANP guide, who is authorized to follow established trails and routes and who will not cause any environmental crimes. You must not litter, light fires, leave biological waste, or even throw away a cigarette butt, which is highly polluting. All of this must be observed and entered and exited. You cannot spend the night inside the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, just as you cannot spend the night or participate in any other biosphere reserve in the world. It is a sacred and highly protected place. It’s worth noting that among the legally protected wildlife assets is the Bolsón giant tortoise, which is endemic to the Zone of Silence and is at the top of the list of endangered animals . That’s why we must observe them if we’re lucky enough to find one, and respect their environment immensely. We must also respect others like the long-tailed lizard, the roadrunner, the horned chameleon, and many other species of wildlife that exist in this region, and which we must protect with great care, not just the wildlife but also the flora. There are some special cacti; we must admire them, we must photograph them. Don’t even think about looting anything because that constitutes an ecological crime. We must respect that. We can’t run over a cactus, we can’t stone an animal, nothing. We must go admire it, photograph it, and carry it in our hearts, in our minds, and in a photograph. [Music] Benjamín, the Zone of Silence, with all its history, myths, and legends, has earned it a worldwide reputation as an enigmatic and mysterious place. What can you tell us about this? Well, look, a lot over 30 years, since we’re celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Zona del Silencio Ecotourism Complex Foundation. And during all this time we have collected many myths, many legends, many experiences and above all we have investigated in depth the history, the development of many events that have been real, such as the time when engineer Harry de la Peña was working here with his brigade from Petróleos Mexicanos and who by chance discovered these phenomena that occur in this region, the fall of the Allende meteorite in 1969, the fall of the Athena rocket, which was diverted by NASA in 1970, the arrival of the train of scientists headed by Warnher Von Braun here to the region, precisely with the pretext of collecting all those remains of the Athena rocket that fell in the solitude of the Escalón section, here where we are in the municipality of Jiménez, Chihuahua. All that and all the legends and myths that you so well mention, Isaac, the constant fall of meteorites, the strange lights in the sky, stones that drive compasses crazy, the cemetery of the reces that science never ends to explain to us why, the absolute silence of the communication radios, the beings of the white brotherhood that helps those in need, Everything, All of this, and you’ve shared it here on your YouTube channel, fills us with a wonderful attraction to spend time together around the campfire at night, sharing with great enjoyment and joy all these kinds of stories, some true, others mere myths, others already legends, but all very entertaining, all highly, highly recommended to learn about, enjoy, discuss, understand, and be able to continue enjoying this mysterious, magical, and enigmatic tourist destination, the Zone of Silence in the municipality of Jiménez, Chihuahua. It’s worth mentioning that this wonderful valley is shared with the states of Durango and Coahuila. We are located in the Escalonia section. From here, we will tour the very heart of the Zone of Silence, sharing all these comments as you have experienced them. Thank you, Isaac, for your concern and for sharing this important YouTube channel, which already has so many followers. Greetings to all of you. [Music] Thank you so much, Benjamin, for supporting the channel here. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and activate the bell. If you have any comments or contributions, please leave them below and I’ll read them. We’ll keep in touch. Thanks, and see you next time. [Music]

La misteriosa y sorprendente Zona Del Silencio platicada por Benjamín Palacios Perches. El es el mayor promotor de esta enigmática región. Además ha sido testigo de los principales acontecimientos que le dieron fama internacional a esta zona. Disfruten del video y de este canal que es especializado en la reconocida Zona Del Silencio.
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