1997: Puerto Rico's "Alien Foetus"

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Hence, given the excitement of a claims of an alien baby on the Internet, I'm taking the liberty of reprinting the full text of the alien foetus story that we ran in SAMZIDAT, Inexplicata's forerunner, in September 1997:

In mid-September of this year, the Internet crackled with the astounding piece of information that an alien foetus contained in a small bottle had been found on the body of a man shot under mysterious circumstances in San Juan, P.R.. According to reports received from Lucy Plá of the Puerto Rican Research Group and Federico Alvarez of UFOSCIPR, the television news departments of two major channels (the NBC and CBS affiliates, respectively) kept the entire island on tenterhooks for 48 hours while deciding if a genuine extraterrestrial corpse had finally been found on the island. The result was predictable: a news conference was held in which each journalist present showed a tiny keychain made up of a vial containing what appears to be a small, shriveled Grey alien.

The following appeared in local newspaper EL VOCERO:
Young Man Shot at Drug Hotspot
by Miguel Rivera Puig, Staff Writer -- EL VOCERO

A small test tube containing a foetus described by some who saw it as being a highly unusual creature -- leading many to believe that it may be an extraterrestrial or even a chupacabras-- was found Wednesday (September 18) in Santurce's La Colectora section. The tantalizing foetus turned out to be made of plastic.

The murder of Fred Acevedo Martínez, 31, is the second nonresident death to occur in Santurce this month. Fred, who lived in VIllas de Río Grande and his family at Luquillo's Sandy Hills Condominium, was seen at 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday by patrolmen from the Santurce Headquarters who drove down San Rafael Street.

The young man was behind the wheel of a 1981 Honda Accord, parked by a nameless eatery at the corner of Progreso alley, close to the now-vanished Corona brewery. A loud report was heard ten minutes later. A bullet had hit Fred in the left clavicle. He started the car immediately and promply crashed into two junked vehicles which had been abandoned in Progreso alley.



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