McHi librarian to be featured on History Channel
McALLEN — Noe Torres is scheduled to make history Wednesday night.
The McAllen High School librarian is set to be featured in The History Channel’s UFO Hunters show, which airs at 9 p.m. on cable Channel 31. (Learn more about "UFO Hunters" here)
Torres said he hasn’t seen the episode yet, but as it is aired he will broadcast live on a paranormal radio show based in Seattle. (Click here to listen to WPRT Radio)
“It’s a topic that interests me a great deal and there aren’t too many people investigating UFO cases in South Texas and Mexico,” he said. “I just feel privileged that we happened to hit upon a topic that nobody had done anything with.”
Torres co-authored Mexico’s Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, which details a mysterious 1974 crash across the US.-Mexico border from Presidio, Texas, and a quick recovery attempt from the two nations.
“We are very excited about it because the process took about two years to finish our book, and then since then there has been a lot of excitement about this event,” he said.
Torres and his writing and research partner, Ruben Uriarte of California, took the show’s documentary crew to the site and introduced them to area residents to whom Torres and Uriarte had spoken during their research. The show will be based on that visit.
Three similar shows that already aired as part of the same series have been quite straightforward in the way they have dealt with the subject of UFOs.
“We knew that it was going to be presented in a very straightforward and scientific manner,” Torres said. “Not sensationalism. (It) could or could not be something that is not of the Earth.
“They leave it open-ended. We are looking forward to our show. We know that it will be presented in the same vein. A very rational and scientific approach in an attempt to solve a mysterious event that people say happened in 1974.”
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Jackie Leatherman covers Hidalgo County government and general assignments at The Monitor. She can be reached at (956) 683-4424.
