UFOs spotted soaring over an oil rig off the coast of Mexico, where the locals claim it hosts a secret underwater alien base.

A crew member on the vessel near Tampico snapped two images – one showing a flying saucer-shaped vessel with bright lights surrounding the base, and the other with a triangular pattern and three lights at the bottom.

The witness said these “stayed for 10 minutes and then “just went away in an instant”.

The locals of Tampico believe that the underwater alien base has protected them from typhoons for over 50 years.

The images were taken in October 2023 but have only just now been released online.

DailyMail.com spoke to employee ‘Pat’, who took the photos and related information from a colleague at another rig located in Tampico.

“My contact told me that the UFOs appeared as they were putting the legs of the oil rig on the seabed,” Pat said.

The rig, known as a ‘jack-up’, is a barge fitted with three long support legs that can be raised or lowered.

One of the images shows the flying saucer-shaped craft in the sky rising above the oil rig.

A close look at the object shows at least 10 round lights circling the bottom – the only part that is actually visible in the photo.

While the employee said the other UFO was triangular, the only clue to its design is how the three lights at its base are positioned.

An X platform user, told DailyMail.com that a member of the intelligence community told her the triangular craft was the ‘Aurora’ craft rumored to have been developed by the US government in the mid-1980s.

However, there is no evidence that the military plane was ever built or flown – suggesting the image taken above the oil rig could not be the top-secret warplane.

The sunken base is said to be located a few miles off Miramar Beach, and nearby communities believe that their extraterrestrial visitors have settled below the surface, protecting them from natural disasters.

And no typhoon hit the area during this time.

The legend began in 1967 when the local newspaper El Sol de Tampico published a story entitled Platillos Voladores Sobre Tampico or “Flying Discs over Tampico”.

The article reported that “thousands of residents” saw objects in the sky, citing a local airport control tower officer who reportedly counted “nine unidentified objects.”