I witnessed a UFO crash and aliens fleeing the ship – and I have a piece of the ship to prove it

A Los Angeles man claims he saw aliens fleeing a UFO after it crashed in the desert. He has a piece of the craft to prove it.

Jose Padilla was only nine years old and growing up in San Antonio, New Mexico, when he and his friend discovered the UFO in the shape of an avocado.

To this day he swears that what he saw was real.

The meeting took place while the two boys were horseback riding in the desert, just 13 miles from the Trinity nuclear test site, where Robert Oppenheimer and other members of the Manhattan Project detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in 1945.

The meeting occurred that same year and Padilla initially thought the sound of the crash was just another bomb test, he told CBS News Los Angeles.

“I said to my friend, ‘This must be another test of the bomb,’ and he said, ‘No, it’s not a bomb. Look at the smoke coming out of the ground,'” Padilla said.

Upon closer inspection, the smoke turned out to be from a crashed plane.

Then suddenly three aliens emerged from the plane and started “running around and waving,” he said.

But Padilla was not afraid of these creatures.

“They were stranded on my father’s ranch and needed help,” he said.

Over the next ten days, the military cleared the wreckage as Padilla and his friend watched from a nearby ridge, despite warnings to stay away.

A rendering of the crashed spacecraft that Padilla claims to have discovered in San Antonio, New Mexico, in 1945.

“We hid behind cacti,” he said.

While the soldiers took a break from clearing the wreckage, Padilla and his friends boarded the plane.

The “aliens” had disappeared, giving Padilla the perfect opportunity to retrieve a souvenir from the treasure.

He removed a small “clock face” from the wall, took it home and hid it in his garage.

Frontier Analysis, a chemical testing lab in Ohio, analyzed the artifact in 2015. Their report revealed it was made of aluminum mixed with silicon and copper, CBS Los Angeles reported.

This mix of metals is often found in engine parts. The report stated that the isotopic ratios were earth-like.

A rendering of the “dial” that Padilla removed from the inner wall of the crashed spacecraft.

But an extraterrestrial source for the metals cannot be ruled out, the report said.

“Nobody knows what it is,” Padilla said.

As the years passed, Padilla moved from San Antonio to Rowland Heights, an unaffiliated area of ​​Los Angeles, California, where she quietly started a family.

But he always kept that strange object from his childhood.

Padilla has kept the strange metal object all these years, claiming it is evidence of his encounter with aliens.

In 2012, Padilla and the friend who was with him when he witnessed the UFO were interviewed by investigative journalist and UFO researcher Paola Harris.

Harris was investigating a claim at the time from the son of World War II Army pilot William Brophy.

Brophy’s son told Harris that one of his father’s last missions was to fly over the area where Padilla claims the UFO crashed. During one of those flights, he saw two young boys on horses, Harris told CBS Los Angeles.

She thinks those two boys were Padilla and his friend.