Does alien-crazed Tampico, home of the Martian Fest, have a UFO museum in its future?

Plans for a UFO depository are gaining traction successful Tampico, Tamaulipas — a northeastern Mexican metropolis connected the Gulf of Mexico wherever alien-themed tourism has grown from a section curiosity into a craze.

Vendors successful municipal markets and astatine Miramar Beach person for a portion been reporting beardown income of greenish alien hats, plush toys and T-shirts, often outpacing accepted souvenirs tied to formation activities and section wildlife.

👽 Desde historias de avistamientos ovnis, musica de otro mundo, hasta lucha libre galáctica. Todo eso y más se vivió en el Marciano Fest 2025 en Ciudad Madero 🛸

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— Fórmula Noticias Tampico (@formula_tampico) October 31, 2025

Tourists from Mexico and overseas often permission with UFO merchandise and photos from spots associated with alleged sightings.

And immoderate travel to the country expressly successful hunt of those things — specified arsenic the estimated 20,000 radical who successful precocious October attended Marciano Fest, a weeklong UFO- and extraterrestrial-themed festival that concluded with 947 radical dressing up arsenic aliens.

Meanwhile, researcher Nembra del Carmen Jiménez is reviving a task she archetypal presented successful 2012: to found a UFO Museum successful Tampico built astir her archive of images and materials.

She has documented alleged spacecraft and mysterious spheres implicit Tampico and neighboring municipalities since the 1980s, on with objects she says amusement unusual electromagnetic behavior.

Her worldly besides includes coordinates tied to a expected underwater, magnetic, extraterrestrial basal disconnected Miramar Beach, which section fable credits with deflecting hurricanes for the past 70 years (as seen successful play 1, occurrence 3 of the Netflix docuseries “Investigation Alien”).

City officials accidental they are unfastened to adding a UFO-focused venue; the tourism manager has said authorities are consenting to perceive proposals and presumption imaginable exhibits, noting increasing nationalist involvement successful extraterrestrial themes.

Separately, backstage investors person projected an alien-themed depository on the Cortadura Canal, arsenic good arsenic a sportfishing museum, arsenic portion of a broader propulsion to redevelop larboard and customs areas for tourism.

Tampico already hosts UFO-related conferences and wide events specified arsenic Marciano Fest successful October, which included an effort to acceptable a Guinness World Record erstwhile 947 radical dressed up arsenic aliens.

Participants successful these events person included renowned Ufologists specified arsenic Mexican Jaime Maussan and Giorgio Tsoukalos, big of “Ancient Aliens” connected the History Channel. In 2023, Maussan presented to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies 2 bodies that he claimed were 1,000-year-old corpses of extraterrestrials.

The astir caller Marciano Fest was centered astatine Playa Miramar successful Ciudad Madero, which is portion of the Tampico metropolitan area.

Moreover, the country is location to the Mexican UFO Reporting Center (CROM), a caller integer level that gathers cases, videos, photos and world explanations “to supply certainty, recognize the events, marque the information disposable to experts and grow its scope beyond Tampico.”

Given each this, it’s nary astonishment that earlier this year, the paper Milenio ran a headline: “Tampico seeks to go the UFO superior of the world.”

With reports from Milenio and Posta