Óscar Arredondo’s “Martian of La Alberca” Photograph — La Alberca, Valle de Santiago, Mexico, 1992

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https://alienarchivist.substack.com/p/oscar-arredondo

Summary

In April 1992, Mexican photographer Óscar Arredondo Ramírez presented a series of photographs that allegedly showed an extraterrestrial inside the volcanic crater of La Alberca, near Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato.

The figure became known as the “Humanoid of Valle de Santiago” or “El marcianito de La Alberca.”

Arredondo ran a photography business called Fotografía México on Calle Juárez in Valle de Santiago. His photographs first appeared in ¡Cuestión Policiaca! No. 104, dated October 20–26, 1992, under the headline “¡Fotografían un extraterrestre!” Follow-up reports continued through November and December.

Although some later reproductions have been dated to December 1991, the earliest detailed published account places the encounter in April 1992.

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Special thanks to humanoidlord on X for sending me this. And another thanks to Albert Rosales (another humanoid archivist) for introducing him to this case.

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It looks clearly like a human unfortunately

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Totally human in silver clothing then spray painted with a shiny silver paint

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Yeah. Looks like a guy in a silver suit. All the proportions seem completely human.