American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

16 Alien Bodies Crashed HERE… And We Just Found Evidence

September 29, 2026

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The Crash at Aztec: A Case That Refuses to Stay Buried

On March 25, 1948, something crashed in the New Mexico desert—a hundred-foot flying saucer, complete with 16 charred alien bodies, seen by multiple eyewitnesses from different vantage points. This is the story of Aztec, New Mexico—Roswell's younger, weirder, scarlet-lettered sister. While Roswell built an alien empire with its own gravitational pull—a UFO museum, gift shops, street lights with alien eyes—Aztec has done practically nothing. The Wikipedia page literally calls it the "Aztec crashed saucer hoax." But what if the hoax was manufactured?

What the Witnesses Actually Saw

The account comes from multiple direct witnesses that researcher Scott Ramsey has interviewed over decades. A part-time cop named Manuel Sandoval had been tracking strange lights across the sky for weeks. On the night of March 24, he chased a wobbling disc north from Cuba, New Mexico. The next morning, rancher Valentine Archeletta walked out before sunrise and heard a "swoosh, like a vacuum imploding," then a sonic boom. The disc clipped the mesa across from his ranch, throwing sparks down the cliff face—a scar still visible today—then re-stabilized temporarily before dropping toward Hart Canyon.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 16 Alien Bodies Crashed HERE… And We Just Found Evidence
  • 2 American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
  • 3 (00:30) **The Aztec Crash Introduction** - Jesse sets up the March 25, 1948 crash of a 100-foot flying saucer with 16 charred alien bodies in New Mexico, calling it Roswell's "younger, weirder, scarlet lettered sister"
  • 4 (06:00) **The Ramsey's Origin Story** - Scott and Suzanne Ramsey have spent over half a million dollars of their own money investigating Aztec for decades
  • 5 (09:08) **The Town of Aztec vs. Roswell** - Aztec has done nothing to capitalize on its UFO story while Roswell built an alien empire
  • 6 (12:51) **The Night of the Crash** - The full witness account of what happened on March 24-25, 1948
  • 7 (16:56) **The Craft on the Mesa** - Eyewitnesses describe the flying saucer resting on Hart Canyon

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Guests on this episode

Jesse Michels

Show Notes

Our American Alchemists this week are Scott and Suzanne Ramsey, the husband-and-wife research team who have spent decades chasing the truth behind the Aztec, New Mexico UFO crash.

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Scott and Suzanne have interviewed dozens of firsthand witnesses, tracked down FBI files, and traced a decades-long smear campaign that got Aztec branded a "hoax" — even though it may be one of the most thoroughly documented UFO crash retrievals on record. In this episode, we take the Ramseys' research directly to Hart Canyon, where witnesses described a 100-foot craft, 16 alien bodies, and a Baptist minister called in to pray over the dead. We dig into the FBI documents, the CIA-linked debunker who tried to bury the story, and the string of researchers who died just as they got close to the truth.


Learn more about Scott and Suzanne Ramsey's research and get their new book, It Came to Earth at Aztec, New Mexico Revealed: The Recovery of a UFO - https://www.theaztecincident.com/


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