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SOURCE: INFOBAE.COM
DATE: Monday, August 30, 2004
INCREDIBLE HUMANOID SIGHTING LEAVES WITNESSES SPEECHLESS
Mysterious creatures were seen by numerous witnesses in an area near the city of Coquimbo, Chile. According to their reports, they resemble small humans that float through the air without making a sound.
Francisco Vega, a laborer at the "El Pelambre" mine, was in the company of his brother and two other laborers of the Argandoña ceramics company in the Planicie de Panul sector, a location adjacent to La Herradura de Coquimbo, where he owns a plot of property whose borders required demarcation.
At a distance of some 20 meters, Francisco witnessed what appeared to be a small "monkey" that was approaching them, walking along the plain. Upon looking at it closely, he saw that it was a human-like creature, but red in color.
"It had a very bulky head, was no taller than 80 centimeters and looked like a gas bag, because it was so fat. My initial impression was that it resembled a rugby player," said the witness, according to the Chilean press.
"Only a few seconds went by and I shouted very loud son that my brother and the workers would realize what I was looking at," he added.
The surpriese among experienced by the four men was even more complex when they noticed the strange being levitate over the plain, remaining in the air for several minutes.
Later, they said the creature began heading toward the sea at low speed, finally vanishing. The event occured in July of this year.
A similar event befell a group of five youths who were spending the night at that lookout point. They saw strange entities emerge from the sea, gradually coming closer.
They were unable to make out any details at first, but later added that they were diminutive humanoids surrounded by something like an aura of light. After remaining motionless in mid-air, the beings began to disappear.
The entire group was able to see these strange entities, and all members coincided in their descriptions and the details of the visitors that emerged from the sea.
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Translation (c) Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Alicia Rossi and Liliana Núnez.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
September 2, 2004
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SOURCE: Diario la Región de Coquimbo
DATE: September 1, 2004
CHILE: EYEWITNESS DESCRIBES ENCOUNTER WITH STRANGE CREATURE
** Eduardo Vega told Diario La Region of the experience he underwent with his brother in the month of July**
LA SERENA -- In its Wedensday, September 1 edition, Diario La Region de Coquimbo published an interview with Eduardo Vega, one of the witnesses to the mysterious appartion of a creature with non-human characteristics in the El Panul de Coquimbo (4th Region of Chile). Part of this interview is reproduced below.
- So, what were you fellows doing in that place?
- We own property and whenever we can we visit it to do some work. In this case, along with my brother Francisco, who is the shift supervisor at the Pelambres Mine (Electrical) we had gone out to receive ad install slabs on the property.
- And then what happened?
- It was around 10:00 a.m. when my brother Francisco, who was some 20 meters away from the three of us, shouted desperately: "Come, come!" ... I got scared and we ran over. He pointed toward a spot and that's when we saw this humanoid figure, which I can't describe otherwise.
- Don Eduardo, what did that figure look like?
- It stood some 80 cm tall. Shiny, red. Its head was large but we couldn't make out any eyes or mouth. The figure looked like a small person, a child perhaps wearing a diver's outfit, with its arms close to the trunk and its legs together.
- How could you estimate its height?
- I told you, I'm a master welder...
- Where was the figure? How far away from you?
- Some 20 meters from us and some 20 meters of the ground. My brother Francisco says he saw it walking and then it took off some 20 meters [into the air].
- How much time went by?
- Like I told you, some 12 to 15 minutes. Out of that time the figure was motionless some seven minutes. It didn't move at all.
- And you just looked at it...
- Of course, we didn't even move. Some words were exchanged among the gentlemen who were with us, who were just as surprised. They noticed that some sort of sparks or lights were coming out of the head this image or person or I-don't-know-what. I would say that the they were like the sparks that come out of certain exhaust pipes when they're very hot.
- How many figures were there?
Only one. It was only ever one.
- Do you know if someone [else] could have seen it?
- No. In fact, we even thought it might be the infamous Chupacabras, because there's a henhouse nearby. But no, nothing happened.
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Translation (c) 2004. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Liliana Núñez.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
October 6, 2004
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SOURCE: Cadena 3 (Television)
DATE: October 6, 2004
ARGENTINA: STRANGE CREATURE IN ENTRE RIOS
A farmer from Argentina's Entre Rios province reported that "a strange animal having quasi-human characteristics" caused damage to his henhouse and had been seen prowling the farm-- located in the rural department of Colonia Elía-- on several occasions.
The complaint was made at the Colonia Elía sheriffs' office by Oscar Resteinor, who claimed having witnessed the strange creature's presence around his home for some twenty days.
According to the "El Diario" newspaper in Paraná, the alleged creature had yellowish hair of considerable length, claw-like hands and left very large footprints.
Criminalistics personnel from the Uruguay Departmental Precinct collected samples at the site from one footprint -- between human and animal -- which included hair and other elements that would lend credibility to the claim made by the rural producer.
Police elements found, upon reaching the sight, several large-size prints measuring between 6 and 10 cm long, and including a "claw-nail" stuck to a tree trunk.
Resteinor stated that relatives and neighbors stood nightly guard around the house after having ascertained that the strange creature had ripped through the henhouse roof and killed several birds. Some locals claimed having seen an allegedly "light brown animal" of considerable size fleeing from the site.
Last Saturday, around 20:30 hours, one of Resteinor's children saw the creature prowling around the henhouse again. Accompanied by a group of neighbors, the boy pursued the intruder, but the strange creature got away.
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Translation (C) 2004. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO.
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Study delves into Siassi sighting
10/13/04
COULD humble Siassi Islands in Morobe Province hold the answer to studies into prehistoric times?
Many in the scientific community would like to know the answer to this question.
Among them is Jonathan Whitcomb, an American forensic videographer, who arrived on Siassi to investigate the Ropen perhaps the only surviving pre-historic animal to be found in the world.
Mr Whitcomb has been on Umboi Island, the main island of the Siassi Islands, trying to capture on film the creature.
He joins a long line of scientists who have visited the island over the years since sightings were reported on what experts believe is a rhamphorhynchus (pronounced ram-for-ink-us), a type of animal under the family name of pterosaur found during the times when dinosaurs walked the earth.
"Ropen" is the local Kowai (Siassi) name for the creature and is also the name known for the animal among the paleolontogy and the general scientific communities.
About seven years ago, another group of experts from an American university were on the island researching the animal.
Yesterday, Mr Whitcomb and his local guide showed up at the Post Courier office in Lae to tell of his study.
He said the stories were not just myth but actual sightings of a real animal and he was there to try to capture it on film.
Mr Whitcomb said the creature had features of a giant flying fox, with a mouth like that of a crocodile and wings that span up to 7m. It has been sighted by many of the islanders, he said, and he had travelled there after hearing about it.
Locals have told of how the luminous creature comes out in the night, flies toward the coast for feeding and how it liked feeding on the dead.
The website, genesispark.org dedicated to the study of pre-historic animals also mentions the Ropen and says the descriptions fit perfectly of a pterosaur.
The website also says a Carl E. Baugh, of the Creation Evidence Museum, had conducted two Ropen expeditions to New Guinea and had observed the creature through a monocular night scope as well as snapping a strange print in the sand the next morning.
"The Ropen is one of the most likely living pterosaurs," says another website, angelfire.com as it ran an artist impression of the creature based on the Siassi reports (pictured on right).
The website BBC.co.uk says rhamphorhynchus fossils have been recovered from marine clays in southern England but the finest specimens come from a quarry in Bavaria, in southern Germany.
Fact box
Name: Rhamphorhynchus
Meaning: "Beak Snout"
Animal Type: Pterosaur
Lived: Late Jurassic period
Dietary Type: Carnivore: fish, insects
Size: Up to 2m wingspan
Up to 1m body length
Weight: Up to 20kg
Fossil Finds: United Kingdom, Ger- many and Tanzania
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Dutch sailors hear of little hairy people
28oct04
A FORTNIGHT ago University of Wollongong scientist Bert Roberts was on the Indonesian island of Flores with stegodon expert Gert van den Bergh. It was in this home of the new-found human species, Homo floresiensis, that they heard a strange tale of little hairy people called Ebu Gogo.
In Indonesian, van den Bergh says, Ebu translates as "grandmother" and Gogo as "he who eats anything".
And apparently they were a problem on Flores until the Dutch settled on the island in the 19th century, Roberts says.
"A village elder told us that the Ebu Gogo ate everything raw, including vegetables, fruits, meat and, if they got the chance, even human meat," Roberts reports.
"When food was served to them they also ate the plates, made of pumpkin. [They're] the original guests from hell."
According to Roberts, the villagers claimed their ancestors endured the Ebu Gogo's habits until the short, long-haired, long-armed, pot-bellied creatures snatched a baby, taking it back to their cave. The villagers retrieved the baby by offering the Ebu Gogo bales of dry grass.
"A few days later, the villagers said they went back with a burning bale of grass, which they tossed into the cave. Out ran the Ebu Gogo, singed but not fried, and were last seen heading due west, in the direction of Liang Bua cave [where Homo floresiensis was first discovered]," according to Roberts.
Could the Ebu Gogo be a relic of Homo floresiensis? Possibly, argues a sceptical Roberts. He says local legend has it that the Ebu Gogo were capable of limited language and able to mimic Indonesian phrases verbatim.
They are supposed to have been seen climbing trees, but never carrying tools. "That's the inconsistency with the Liang Bua evidence," Roberts notes.
"Interestingly, we did find lumps of dirt with black hair in the cave this year," he says. "We're getting some DNA testing done which we hope will be instructive."
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
December 26, 2004
Source: El Centro (Talca, Chile)
Date: December 24, 2004
Chile: Lightning Bolt Terrifies Family, Kills Animals
A woman, two girls and three farm workers were injured as a result of the surprise electric storm that was unleashed in the region yesterday.
A family from the La Puntilla sector, in the Longaví Commune, experienced moments of terror after a lighting bolt blasted all of the electrical facilities of their dwelling. The energy then extended itself to a warehouse and pig-farming area.
The electrical storm took place at around 16:00 hours within the framework of a surprise atmospheric phenomenon that brought intense precipitation, thunder and lightining to this section of the Maule Region.
The affected family will hardly forget the terror it experienced on Thursday, when the lightning bolt caused images to three of its occupants, among them two young children. Three farmworkers harvesting raspberries were also injured at the time that the incident occurred.
Householder Luisa Orellana remarked that "it was a complete surprise. I don't know if the sensation is the same as an earthquake or tremor. It was a tremendous blast that caused the electric shock to hit the house and then go on to adjacent structures."
Orellana is shaken because the utility company responsible for restoring the service advised her that she must replace her entire electrical system, since the existing one was completely burned out. "My family was saved by sheer miracle. You can see the injuries they sustained. We're going to spend Christmas on alert."
Maria Orellana was the most affected by the lightning bolt. This 40 year-old woman was engaged in homemaking duties when she felt the blast. "The stroke of lightining was such that it burned my lips. The doctor told me that I had to rest and heal myself."
Estefanía and Yasmin Muñoz, ages 10 and 8 respectively, were also injured. The first child received injuries on her left leg while the other received an unusual burn on her back that resembles a sunburst.
"I was stepping out of the house when I felt a blow to my back. I fell down and felt pain. Then I told my mom what had happened to me," said the youngest girl.
Three farmworkers suffered minor injuries.
Most curious of all is that the lightning bolt extended throughout the entire house and later travelled to a pigpen and a warehouse. The lightning stroke was so powerful that a pig -- about to be slaughtered for the New Years festivities -- was killed immediately along with a considerable number of hens. Despite warnings to the contrary by health authorities, the pig was being butchered for consumption within hours of this reporter reaching the scene, 10 kilometers west of the Miraflores crossing on Route 5 South.
A survey of the home's interior revealed the sheer power of the lightning bolt that caused the light sockets and power outlets to explode, as well as all of the internal wiring required to provide power to bedrooms and living rooms. The phenomenon also damaged the agricultural warehouses of the "El Sauquito" farm.
Translation (c) 2004 IHU. Special thanks to Liliana Núñez.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 16, 2005
Date: 01.14.05
Ghosts of Tsunami Dead Frighten Survivors
Thailand (RCN) - Residents of the Phi Phi islands and the Khao Lak coastal region were drawn to the beach by the laughter and songs of tourists, only to find silence and darkness.
One cab driver claimed having taken a tourist and his Thai girlfriend to the airport and later, upon looking in the rear-view mirror, realized there was no one sitting in the back seat.
The people telling such stories -- compiled by the AFP news agency -- agree that they are more frightened by the ghosts of the thousands killed by the tsunami than by the notion of a new tidal wave.
A security guard at a small shopping center in Patong quit his job after having heard a foreign woman crying for help all night.
Such tales of wandering souls have multiplied, such as the one of the foreign woman who wanders the beach at night, calling out for her missing son.
The Thai population is on the superstitious side. They believe, for instance, that large trees harbor spirits.
They also have a "spirit house" in some corner of their homes or gardens, believing tha daily offerings of food and beverage keep all paranormal manifestations at bay.
Mental health experts have explained that the appearance of this cultural factor among tsunami survivors shows the exent to which they were traumatized by the event.
"It is a sort of mass hallucination that shows the extent to which the population was traumatized as they continue sarching for the missing, after having seen so many corpses, and after talking about nothing but death," said psychologist Wallop Piyamanotham.
Added to this is the fact that untrained individuals suddenly found themselves collecting horribly mutilated bodies from the beaches, or handling decomposing cadavers in the immense makeshift morgues.
The trauma, explained Dr. Wallop, began to manifest itself more or less four days after the Decemebr 26 tragedy.
Many claim being unable to rid themselves of the stench of death, or eliminate from their minds the unbearable images they witnessed.
Like many others, Napaporn Phroyungthong, manager of a Patong bar, says that he is "very scared" after having been in the Baan Muang temple, where hundreds of corpses were placed.
"I believe in ghosts. The tsunami arrived so quickly that the foreigners didn't understand what happened to them. They still think they're on vacation and on the beach," he said.
Translation (c) 2004. Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Planeta UFO.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 8, 2005
Source: El Mundo
Date: 02.05.05
SATANISTS VANDALIZE CHURCH IN SPAIN
by Jose Manuel Vidal
A satanic cult steals consecrated wafers from church in San Fernando de Henares to hold a "black mass"
On Wednesday morning (02.02.05) unknown assailants shattered a window and penetrated the church of Saints John and Paul in San Fernando de Henares, Alcalá Diocese, to defile the sanctuary and steal the chalice containing the sacred forms. Both the bishopric and experts consulted by M2 suspect that a satanic cult operating in Madrid and its environs needed the communion wafers for its sacrilegious black masses.
"Around three or four a.m. Wednesday, a group of unknown assailants shattered a window at the church with a metal bar and cut themselves, since they left blood stains. They entered, forced the door of the tabernacle and took the chalice and the monstrance with all of the consecrated wafers it contained. Nothing was broken, nor did they take money from the alms boxes or the lampadaries." This was the statement of the facts given by César Arzola, the parish priest, still visibly disturbed.
The priest made everything known to the police forensics unit, which is studying the case. But everything points toward a satanic cult. The chancellor-secretary of the Alcalá Bishopric, Jose Ignacio Figueroa, is adamant in this regard: "This is the customary practice of satanic groups. In fact, they weren't after money or valuable objects."
Not far from the site, at the parish of Our Lady of Zulema, Father José Antonio Fortea, one of Spain's leading exorcists, coincides with this appraisal: "When the tabernacle door in a church is found broken loose, and there's nothing else missing, then a satanic group is involved. Nor did they splatter paint or excrement on the walls. This leads one to believe that they had a very specific purpose in mind."
In his opinion, consecrated forms "can only be employed for black masses, to desecrate them in their rituals." Sacrilegious desecration is what pains Church hierarchy the most, and hurts the faithful of the parish and the entire Alcalá Diocese. "It is the holiest thing we have. These are not images. It's going after God himself. It is for this reason that persons of faith are shaken," explained the chancellor-secretary of the Alcalá Bishopric. José Ignacio Figueroa has announced that a mass of purification will be held at the diocese, to be presided by Monsignor Jesús Cátala.
César Arzola, 41, priest of the violated church, has led the parish of Saints John and Paul for seven years and is greatly saddened by the sacrilegious desecration. His parish - some 20,000 strong -- shares his sorrow. "We have prayed greatly for the conversion of the perpetrators."
This is not the first time that such an event has taken place. In the diocese of Alcalá alone, this is the third church that has been broken into with the aim of desecrating the sacred forms. But sacrilegious theft is not exclusive to Alcalá or even Spain. In fact, experts claim that the number of satanic cults and adepts is growing throughout the world. A clandestine market of sacrilege has emerged to supply its rites: the theft and sale of consecrated wafers and liturgical ornaments, with prices ranging from 80 to 500 Euros per wafer. Consecrated wafers for black masses held by former priests -- the apex of satanic ritual.
This is not science fiction or esoteric literature: Catholic demonologists have denounced the existence of this growing sacrilegious traffic. Father Fortea, the author of Demoniacum, confirms the existence of cases involving the violation of tabernacles and communion wavers, stating that the number of satanic cults is on the rise. "Youngsters are initiated at a very early age sometimes, spurred by morbidity and curiosity. At times they start out through spiritism. Later on they become involved in occultism or esotericism, and finally reach Satanism."
According to Fortea, there is no easier way to contact a satanic cult than through the Internet. Young people can download information on how to sign an pact with the devil, celebrate a black mass, make contact, have a get-together with cult members and step into the realm of Satanism and black masses.
Obtaining a wafer consecrated by the Pope is priceless, and if it comes from the Basilica of St. Peter, even though consecrated by any other cardinal, it commands the highest prices. In Spain, the most sought after are the ones consecrated by Cardinal Rouco Varela at La Almudena Cathedral, by Cardinal Amigo in Seville or by any of the bishops of the Spanish Levant. Wafers consecrated by the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela or the Archbishop of Zaragoza in El Pilar also command a high price.
The ones stolen from a church like San Fernando are less valuable, but perform their sacrilegious function just as well. According to experts, there are at least 2000 people in Spain fully integrated into some 100 satanic cults. They proliferate along the Madrid-Barcelona-Valencia-Murcia axis. The causes of this proliferation are varied, ranging from morbidity, curiosity, sexual appetite, thirst for power or a loss of belief in the sacred. It is easy to join one, but far more difficult to leave one. In fact, the few who have severed their ties to them must go into concealment to avoid being killed. According to experts, many unexplained suicides are tied to the proliferation of these sons of Satan.
Translation (c) 2005 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Revista Investigación.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 11, 2005
Source: Diario "El Tribuno" (Salta, Argentina)
Date: February 6, 2005
*** Found by a teacher hiking through the hills ***
STRANGE IMRPESSIONS FOUND ON CERRO PARAPENTE
A strange cylindrical impression measuring approximately 4.25 meters in diameter was found at the summit of one of the hills adjacent to the San Bernardo. This is the one known as Cerro Parapente ("Hanglider Hill") because it was customarily used by practitioners of the sport. It is also the western limit of the "Martin Miguel de Guemes" raceway.
The hill stands approximately 1200 meters high and lacks vehicular access, since the road constructed by an association of hang glider enthusiasts has fallen into disrepair.
The find was made by primary school instructor Omar Ruiz, 48, and his son Armando,13, who had ascended the hill to practice sports.
Ruiz teaches at the "De La Patria" school in the distant community of Los Toldos and spent the last day of his vacation in Salta, since he is returning to work tomorrow.
"I was startled to see those strange prints, almost a perfect circle," he said. "But I was more startled by the curious drawings," stressed the educator after making his discovery known to El Tribuno. A team of reporters was immediately sent to the site.
A reporter and a photographer ascended the hill in the company of Ruiz elder and junior, attesting to the veracity of their report: the mark was on the hard, rocky summit of the hill, which is flat and chosen for that reason as a takeoff point for hang glider pilots: a perfect circle that left three types of grooves at different depths, a continuous inscription of notches equidistant to each other and in a diagonal position, similar to the drawings on certain types of special vehicles.
But that wasn't all. At the center of the shape was a rhomboidal form with a curious formation of straight lines, pressured into the rocky surface. Some salient rocks could be seen around the circumference, showing signs of having been polished by the effect of powerful friction.
A tourist from Santiago, vacationing with a large group of relatives who were engaged in rock climing, reached the summit along with the El Tribuno team and the imprint's discoverers. They all expressed their amazement. "I don't know what could have made those marks. It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen," said businessman Marcelo Ruiz, absorbed in contemplation of the peculiar inscriptions.
Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Mercedes Casas.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 11, 2005
SOURCE: La Capital (Buenos Aires)
DATE: 02.11.05
ARGENTINA: MYSTERY PRINTS FOUND AT INDUSTRIAL PARK
More circles on grass wer found at a potato processing plant on Route 88. The circle is completely closed and is monitored. No explanation for this strange phenomenon has been found.
Mysterious circular marks were found yesterday on the grass in several local areas, similar to the ones found at "El Paraiso" at the 20 km marker of Route 226.
This time, one of the cases -- linked by many with UFO sightings -- took place at the Fernandez Hermanos potato processing plant, located on Rt. 88 and Hernandarias, some 6 km away from El Paraiso.
The discovery was made on Wednesday morning but was reported yesterday by company managers.
"While it did seem something strange to us we gave it little importance. When we read in the papers that something similar had happened on Rt. 226 we reported the case," explained a company employee to LA CAPITAL.
The circles at the Fernandez Hermanos plant were allegedly created between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, at the same time that an identical phenomenon took place on Rt. 226.
This time the marks -- around 10 in number -- appeared in a broad lot in the middle of the establishment, next to a greenhouse and a truck loading and unloading area.
The premises are fenced in and monitored, thus dismissing the possibility that a stranger could have broken in during the night.
One of the first to become aware of the situation was Hugo Giovannangelo, who performs maintenance duties at the company. "I arrived at 7 am and when I went out to the lot, I saw some very strange rings. I was accompanied by a co-worker, with whom I jested that UFOs might be involved."
According to management, no activity was carried out in that part of the premises which could account for the strange phenomenon. "We only mow the grass there. No chemical products are dumped there and trucks aren't allowed to park on it."
Giovannangelo was startled by another fact. He stated that the guard dog on the premises was "very nervous and aggressive" when he went to feed it.
Oddly enough, at El Paraiso, where a local resident claimed having seen a light in the night, something similar happened to the animals. "We couldn't sleep all night because the dogs were restless and the pigs were squealing," said one woman.
There were no witnesses on hand to explain what happened Wednesday morning in the case recorded in the potato plant. All of the personnel left Tuesday at 22:30 after having eaten a meal. Only a watchman was left on site, who claims having seen nothing at all.
Company management was trying to locate a trucker who slept aboard his vehicle during the time at which the marks were created, but could not locate him. Should the driver have been awake at the time, he would have clearly seen what caused the impression, since his vehicle was parked only meters away. "But the man loaded up, went off to Rosario and we still haven't found him."
Phylopathologist Alberto Escande of the School of Agricultural Science and the INTA took photos of the grass to analyze them at his lab in Balcarce.
Escande, who has a broad knowledge of grass illnesses, did not conceal his astonishment. He explained that the grass "shows no signs of being burned" but rather shows some kind of dust on its surface, similar to a fungus. But what has intrigued the researcher was the way in which the marks were distributed -- in the shape of rings -- and the fact that the phenomenon has affected all grasses equally. "Generally funguses affect a single species, and in this case we can see that even clovers and weeds are affected. However, no explanation can be put forth until a lab analysis has been performed," he said.
Translation (c) 2005, Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Christian Quintero.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
March 3, 2005
SOURCE: CIUFOSLAPAMPA
DATE: 03.02.05
ARGENTINA: Strange Lagoon Entity Reported
Two women walking around the edge of the "Don Tomás" Lagoon in the western side of Santa Rosa, La Pampa (*) reported seeing a strange creature on March 2, 2005.
Upon being interviewed the witnesses -- described as respected, eminently credible individuals -- explained that they had seen "...an aquatic animal resembling a reptile, not an ophidian, measuring approximately a meter and a half long and of considerable size" for a matter of minutes.
This sensational event occured during early morning hours at one of the lagoon's reaches, specifically located on its northern shore, by the "Republica de los Niños" complex.
The circumstance becomes even stranger when the sector in question, of smaller size, represents only a fraction of the lagoon, more aptly described as a marshland and a bird sanctuary. The news was echoed by the local media and the witnesses requested that their identities be kept strictly confidential.
(*) Santa Rosa is famous for its UFO related events and the still-unexplained draining of a number of swimming and wading pools in the summer of 2002.
Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Raúl Oscar Chaves.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
March 3, 2005
SOURCE: Infobae.com
DATE: 03.03.05
Tomb "perspires" with the death of a Pope and is now dry
The cenotaph of Pope Sylvester II in Rome's Lateran Basilica is a center of attraction for tourists and curiosity-seekers. All of them run their hands over it to ascertain if there has been a change in the level of humidity.
Much like the coagulation of the blood of San Gennaro in Naples indicates a victory for the soccer team Maradona played for, Rome's Lateran Basilica of St. John is filled with tourists and curiosity-seekers stealthily touching a tombstone at its entrance. When it exudates water, they say, a Pope is sure to die. When it merely becomes damp, it heralds the death of a bishop or cardinal.
Two elderly Italian nuns in gray habits said that the monument's power of prophecy is well documented: "It perspires when the death of a Pope is at hand," said one of them. "The stone weeps. It's true, it has happened. There are those who have seen it," added the other.
All of them notice without staring, and if someone sees them touching it, they laugh at themselves. Not very cinematographic, the tomb is neither strange nor awe-inspiring. It is a cenotaph, a funeral monument that does not contain any mortal remains. However, there is disparaging talk about the sound of rattling bones being heard in the vicinity.
Sylvester II was Gerbert d'Aurillac, the Pope who presided the year 1000, and ruled between 999 and 1003 -- a man with a background in mathematics and astronomy, whose fame was surrounded by a halo of magic. It was said that he learned the art of divination in Spain from an Arab wizard, a character reminiscent of Melchiades in Garcia Marques's 100 Years of Solitude, from whom he inherited a book of secrets. According to legend, Sylvester II made a pact with the devil and even built a golem -- a statue in which he imprisoned the devil, who would answer questions "yes" and "no" by nodding its head, like an oracle.
The truth is that he was a good Pope, according to the chronicles. He created the Polish and Hungarian churches. For some reason, three years before the ascension of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtla to the Holy See, the Polish Lady of Czestochowa was placed in the parish where St. Sylvester is venerated. All believe it was a premonition from beyond.
Sylvester died while performing Mass at the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, next to the Lateran Basilica. His body was intact during an exhumation in 1684. However, it turned to dust the moment it came into contact with the air.
Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
March 6, 2005
DATE: 03.04.05
ARGENTINA: A Mysterious Character Harasses Santa Fe Residents
Local residents say it jumps from house to house, is dressed in black and has red eyes. After hundreds of complaints, police is looking for it. Listen to the Sheriff's story on Radio 10.
Santa Fe is jumping. Residents of the southern area are frightened by the appearance of a strange entity they've dubbed "the rooftop madman" and who -- according to their accounts -- leaps from roof to roof engaging in acrobatics.
Witness claim it stands two meters tall, is entirely clad in black and wears a balaclava; it sports a cape and its eyes shine red according to the information received by researchers. This character is able to cross the streets by leaping from one rooftop to the next, taking acrobatic leaps that can be of up to five meters high and ten meters long.
"He looks like the cat man," say some locals. "His outline is barely visible, his figure. He never showed his face, but they say they've seen his eyes and that they have a reddish cast."
In an interview with Radio 10, Sheriff Gabriel Legstra acknowledged that "there is a widespread psychosis. In recent days we have received hundred of reports at our radio command center."
"On Tuesday I dispatched 18 units to assuage people's fears. But ultimately there is no other crime than tresspassing here. The character goes from one roof to the next, appears inside a house, has pressed his face against a window but hasn't attacked anyone."
The psychosis is growing among residents of southern Santa Fe in spite of having never been attacked. Police confirm that in recent days calls have multiplied, reporting a man leaping from one rooftop to the next "like a madman".
According to Diario La Capital, he first appeared in Barrio Centenario, only meters from the Colon Stadium, but they say he was seen closer to town, such as in El Arenal, San Lorenzo, Chalet and Santa Rosa de Lima. This is the area most affected by the 2003 floods.
In any event, despite the intense combing of the area by dozens of officers, police were unable to find the character, but advised the public to remain calm, since there are reports within the force that some local residents directly tried to shoot the entity to death.
Mystery grew when several witnesses said that "bullets won't do anything to it. Its eyes gleam red when it it mocks those who try to hunt it."
A resident of El Arenal claimed having fired 17 times against it without bullets having the least effect, while the ghost did nothing but provoke it, howl like a beast or cry like a child, making dance steps on the rooftops over which it treads like a cat.
"People are afraid of being attacked, beaten and robbed by this man. They fear he will break into their property and are defending themselves," say those in Regional Unit 1 who in turn describe the locals as "expectant and armed with knives and sticks."
Most locals describe a being that appears to have sprung froma comic book: large in stature, who not only wanders the rooftops but also crosses the streets in a single bound and can climb smooth walls up to six meters high. "It's the Devil," say the bolder or more imaginative ones.
Sheriff Legstra said that a woman told him that "the entity pointed at her with its finger and left her paralyzed."
Another local woman said that last Monday, during an intense rain, the phantom managed to jam the car doors of a vehicle with 7 passengers aboard, who were armed and ready to hunt it down in spite of police warnings.
Others decided to stand guard 24 hours by the doors to their homes, armed and vigilant. But it has not been possible to capture it up to now.
Residents of the southern section interrutped traffic, claiming greater lighting for the area, since may are afraid to leave their homes alone.
Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Liliana Núñez.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
March 6, 2005
SOURCE: Bulldog edition of "Diario El Litoral"
DATE: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
ARGENTINA: WITH THE DEVIL AT THE WINDOW..
Commotion in Barrio San Lorenzo over accounts of a ghostly entity
Residents of Santa Fe neighborhoods like Centenario and San Lorenzo are in an uproar over the insistent stories concerning the appearance of a ghoslty entity.
It is for this reason that many--at nightfall--lock themselves and bolt the door. In all fairnes, it must also be said that others pluck up their courage and go out in search of the ghost, armed with sticks, machetes and dark intentions.
This same scene has repeated itself day after day over the past two weeks, but last night's chapter was, without a doubt, the one that reached the greatest dramatic intensity.
Until yesterday, the mysterious entity only leaped from one rooftop to another and vanished as quickly as it had appeared. Last night was different: it dared invade a family home.
Around 22:00 hours, Elsa let out a scream that was heard all along Entre Rios Street and gave everyone goosebumps -- so much that even the hardend boys of the El Pasillo gang were alarmed.
Elsa, a hairstylist whose salon is located in the heart of San Lorenzo, took to the street --surrounded by nephews--to tell anyone willing to listen that while she bathed the youngest one, the ghost pressed its face against the bathroom window, showing its claws menacingly and fixing a menacing stare on her.
Everyone remained in suspense after this new story, but immediately, those who were standing guard appeared in vast numbers, wielding heavy clubs, sharp machetes, stilettos, penknives and even humble kitchen knives.
Thus armed and willing to settle the score, they went out after the apparition while various police patrols reached the site with the intention of avoiding a possible lynching or a tragic mistake among the vigilantes themselves.
That's when we heard, amidst the tumult, some frightening stories. Ruben agreed with Elsa when she said that the phantom has red eyes like fire and added that the horrifying personage dresses in black from head to toe.
Ruben also said -- while everyone around him nodded -- that the character being sought is a tall man with a long, wavy mane of ahir. Aside from that, our interviewee sworn having seen it -- together with other neighbors -- as it escaped from Elsa's house, leaping from rootop to rooftop.
"How do you explain," he replied to a question we asked, "how this guy can climb a smooth wall six meters tall? How can you explain that it can leap across the street in a single bound, like it crossed Entre Rios street tonight, unless it was the Devil himself?"
When a respectful silence had settled around Rubén -- a silence that would only be interrupted by the appearance of a police officer, who asked in turn: "How can you explain how we couldn't catch him, when we shot him three times and hit him twice?"
Believe it or bust. But the mystery, the night watch and the risk of a fatal mistake were still latent in the southern area neighborhoods when we returned to the newsroom. To tell the tuth, where and when the next chapter will be written is something we still do not know.
Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Liliana Núñez.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
March 6, 2005
SOURCE: Bulldog edition of Diario Litoral del Día
DATE: Friday, March 04, 2005
ARGENTINA: POLICE CHASE "THE ROOFTOP MADMAN"
The head of the URI asked local residents to remain calm. Until the moment, no one has been attacked or injured, claimed Sheriff Legstra. The official asked that his men be allowed to do their jobs.
Sheriff Gabriel Legstra of the La Capital Police Department, told the press of his department's actions due to claims made by numerous residents of Barrio Centenario and San Lorenzo -- all of them alarmed by the escapades of "The Rooftop Madman", a strange character to which ghostly characteristics have been ascribed.
How are police responding to the state of commotion visible among the neighbors?
At first we were greatly concerned over so much movement in the neighborhood, basically behind Centenario, were many people took to the streets armed with sticks, machetes, knives and even gomeras. All of this started last week, but fortunately, the area was calm last night and there were less calls about this character's apparitions. Tuesday was the peak. We had 18 police units in the area to keep the peace and above all to convince people to stay in their homes. This was the message we wanted to convey on acount of the psychosis unleashed in the area. The fact is that we do not have any record of people attacked by this personage. Neither attacked nor beaten. There were only some frightened individuals. Yes, we do have records of people claiming to have seen it and who describe it in a variety of ways, but with some similarities.
Like which, for example?
They describe it as clad in black, with red eyes. They say it can leap five meters into the air or ten meters in length. That it can cross streets in a single bound, from one rooftop to the next.
Have any police agents seen something similar?
I have no official reports that any agent has seen something similar. I was in the area yesterday and, as has occurred on the four preceding nights, I heard reports of people claiming to have seen it. On Tuesday we had three reports at once. In other words, it was being seen in three different locations at the same time. Police units were dispatched, but nothing was found.
Is there any formal report on these apparitions?
There is none. We are working on a preliminary report as from the interruption of traffic on the perimeter road made by neighbors demanding lights in the area, lights that the Municipality has already installed. Also, one involving stories of persons who claim having seen a prowler in their backyards or on the roofs of their homes.
There was talk of an exhibitionist at first...
The initial stories were many, but the statements taken from people who claimed having seen something do not yield anyting aside from a character that appears at windows or on rooftops.
What about the gunshots that shattered the windows at the Itati School, how do you explain them?
As part of the same psychosis. That an episode such as this should repeat itself is somehting we fear, which is why we are advising people not to go out, to let police do their job, to stay home. Police are in the area. In fact, the situation calmed down a lot last night. There were less people on the street, but I still ask everyone to let us do our job to avoid problems, to avoid any injuries, since there are many people armed with sticks and machetes looking for this character.
This state of collective suggestion may have a real "trigger", such as the case of La Llorona, a fantastic account that ended with the capture of a flesh and blood man. Would this be the case?
To hazard an explanation would be a groundless hypothesis. We're only working on the fact of resident phone calls who claim seeing what they're seeing. What we're trying to do is calm down the area, investigate and try to apprehend it, if there is in fact an individual behind all of this.
Translation (C) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Liliana Núñez.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
March 11, 2005
DATE: 11 March 2005
ARGENTINA: LOBIZON TERRORIZES WOMEN IN LA PLAYOSA
*** Entity tries to get into homes, especially those where it knows men are absent, in this small town in the Province of Cordoba ***
Since January, residents of La Playosa, a small city in Córdoba, are restless over the presence of a man who, like the legendary Lobizón, attempts to break into homes while issuing powerful howls. Several women have brought complaints to the local sheriff's office and to the fire department, but until now it has been impossible to apprehend the strange character who has the town up in arms.
"Generally speaking, it attacks dwellings in which no men are known to live, or happen to be away for various causes. It tries to break in through back yards and alleyways, knowing that only women or children happen to be present. Fortunately it has been unable to break into homes because the doors were locked," explained Ana, one of the women attacked by the Lobizón to the Cordoba newspaper La Mañana.
This woman's eyewitness account coincides with others who were able to see it through their windows. Ana adds: "It's a young person, thin and tall, wiry and very agile. It's eyes are bloodshot and is clad in black, I suppose with the intention of frightening the families of the homes it's trying to break into."
Investigators believe that the "lobizón" of La Playosa would be a deranged young man trying to break into the homes of some women he has studied previously and who, for some reason or another, have caused him to develop an interest or attraction. In any event, the town's peace has been disrupted and no one dares sleep with open windows, or to leave their doors unlocked, as used to be their custom.
Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales (IHU), special thanks to Proyecto Catent.
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
March 11, 2005
Date: 10 March 2005
ARGENTINA: THE ROOFTOP MADMAN STILL AT LARGE
***Stories of apparitions will not cease in Barrio San Lorenzo. Psychologists are working with local residents***
Residents of Barrio San Lorenzo remain frightened and agitated by the apparitions of the ghostly character dubbed "Rooftop Madman" (Loco de los Techos). Given prevailing state of nervous tension, two psychologists began working with the population through the health assistance center located in the area.
As part of the plan, periodic meetings have been held with local residents. The next one is slated for this afternoon at 18:00 hours. Interested parties have been invited -- by means of handbills -- to seek individual interviews with the mental health professionals.
Meanwhile, the ghostly characters' "visits" continue taking place according to numerous stories that are heard daily in the streets of San Lorenzo. This morning, a 60 year-old man told El Litoral that he saw the "Madman" in a hallway in his own home, while another woman from the
