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New UFO secrets surface in Brazil
Over 1,300 pages of former secret UFO documents surface in Brazil and was given to the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers
Hundreds of papers from the Brazilian Air Force’s official System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon have surfaced and demonstrate how Nation’s military authorities dealt with the UFO Phenomena in the 60s and 70s.
The Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) has just received a massive lot of new UFO-related documents from the Brazilian government, which disclose in detail the inner workings of the official body created by the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) in 1969, during the dictatorship years, to investigate the presence and activity of aliens in the country: the System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (SIOANI). This time, however, the newly disclosed documents have not come from the government, as a result of the campaign “UFOs: Freedom of Information Now!”, which has so far produced three official disclosures, the largest and most important of which was on May 4th, largely announced worldwidely.
The new former secret material was handed over to CBU by civilian researcher Edison Boaventura, from Grupo Ufológico do Guarujá (GUG), who has kept such material away from the Brazilian UFO community for over 10 years. Boaventura was given the referred documents by a retired Brazilian Air Force military source in the 90s and has kept it secret since then. At the recent III World UFO Forum, held in June 2009 in Curitiba (PR), Brazil, however, he was formally requested by the members of CBU and decided to hand over the whole lot of documents on behalf of the freedom of information campaign. “I decided to contribute to this endeavor, so I’m sending these documents to be published by the Brazilian UFO Magazine”, he declared.
Last week, Boaventura gave to the Brazilian UFO Magazine editor A. J. Gevaerd, coordinator of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU), over 1,300 pages of previously unseen documents from SIOANI, besides 28 colored sketches and 64 photos taken by the Air Force in the 1960’s. Along with them, there came 137 pages of color files with 3 sketches and 17 photos, all official. He has been asked by many other Brazilian UFO researchers why he had kept all such material far from the UFO Community for so long.
Previously unreleased material
This vastly important and significant material was not part of the official Brazilian UFO disclosure. The Brazilian UFO Magazine website [www.ufo.com. br] has already made available in the last months over 1,200 pages of documents, besides 200 photos of SIOANI’s activities as well as Operation Saucer, carried out in the Amazonian region in 1977. But none of the documents received by CBU from the Brazilian Government contained anything such as the colored drawings of UFOs made by the military personnel who used to work for SIOANI, nor pictures of witnesses, such as that of nurse Maria Cintra, who had a close encounter with an extraterrestrial being on the early hours of August 25th 1968, in Lins (SP), one of the classical UFO incidents in Brazilian Ufology that was secretly investigated by the militaries.
Included in the newly revealed documents are the detailed research proceedings carried out in dozens of UFO-related incidents, which had not been made public so far. Some of the colored sketches of UFO incidents investigated by SIOANI are here:
All the material handed over to the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers CBU) was additionally sent to the Nation`s National Archives in the Federal Capital, Brasilia, whose reception was officially communicated to the Nation president’s Civil Office, and now became an integral part of the process headed by CBU. “This will no doubt add to the pressure exerted upon the Government for the release of new folders containing data pertaining to UFOs and the military activity in the ongoing Brazilian UFO research”, said geographer Fernando Ramalho, one of CBU’s members. This material now made public through the Brazilian UFO Magazine should be released just when it was given to a civilian researcher, over 10 years ago.
Download the new files in PDF or JPG formats (total is over 360 Mb) from this address:
Other documents can be found here:
Please note: Download, print, publicize and otherwise share these documents around, but not fail to mention the source, Brazilian UFO Magazine, and emphasize that this material is coming to public thanks to the efforts of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU).
What was the SIOANI
The System for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (SIOANI) was unprecedented in Brazil and in the world. It was created in 1969, under the inspiration and guidance of Air Force major-brigadier José Vaz da Silva, head of the Committee for the Investigation of Flying Saucers. In its early stages, SIOANI had high-ranked propositions and it operated exemplarily. Its conceptualization demonstrates so: “SIOANI is the collective resources of personnel and materiel dedicated to the investigation and research of the so-called Unidentified Aerial Objects (UAO) phenomenon”. The closure of the USAF’s Project Blue Book in 1969 may have contributed for the shutting down of SIOANI in 1972. Unfortunately, over 90% of FAB personnel nowadays have absolutely no knowledge of this amazing endeavor. However, as far as we know, the percentage of laypeople involved in the issue tends to increase quickly. The SIOANI was organically constituted by:
(a) Center for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects (CIOANI) – A central body of the System.
(b) Investigation Zone of Unidentified Aerial (ZIOANI) – A geographical area which comprised the Offices for the Investigations of Unidentified Aerial Objects (NIOANI). There were six of those offices.
(c) Office for the Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects (NIOANI) – A bureau that was in charge of observing, investigating and collecting materials for research into the Unidentified Aerial Objects (UAO). Its function could be executed by a military agency, a public institution or individuals. The NIOANI was attached to its corresponding ZIOANI.
(d) Research and Analysis Laboratories (LIOANI) – Supporting agencies for the accomplishment of research tasks and material analysis related to UAO.
(e) Personnel and materiel transport (TIOANI) – Means of transportation that was first provided by official agencies, military or civilian, upon request by CIOANI, ZIOANI or NIOANI. When official transport was not available, the commercial transportation could be used. The transport had to be appropriate, efficient and fast. A quick arrival to the spot where a UFO incident had occurred was basic, so that there would be no alteration of traces or distortion of facts. For that purpose there were five small-sized aircraft, two twin-engine craft and three single-engine craft, based on the Park for Aeronautical Materiel in São Paulo, and were run by the 4th Air Zone. Those aircraft were used for the Organization’ s normal services, as well by those demanded by SIOANI.
(f) Communication network (RIOANI) – Comprised of a web that involved the now-extinct FAB’s communication networks, and further Singular Forces (Brazilian Army and Navy), Police Forces and the amateur-radio network, aiming at rapid transmission of phenomenological occurrences or the information flow between the several links in the system. SIOANI reported to the Ministry of the Aeronautics, but the results of its work was forwarded to the Air Force’s Chiefs-of-Staff. Within the 4th Air Zone, it was outside the frame of its Chiefs-of-Staff, but its chief was also responsible for the 2nd Section (Information) , encompassing CIOANI, which confirmed that the UFO issue was handled by an Information (nowadays Intelligence) officer.
Considering that SIOANI wasn’t a top secret agency and that even civilian researchers took part of its procedures, all this structure proves that Brazil was the first country in the world ever to officially and publicly admit the reality of the UFO Phenomena, and the first one to investigate it openly, in a not secret manner.
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
Coordinator, Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU)
National Director, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
PS. Many thanks to Marcos Malvezzi Leal for helping in the translation.
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Source: Periodismo en Linea – Peru
Perú: More About the Jungle Saucer
An alleged unidentified flying object was captured on videotape by local resident Wiler Cumpa in July 2009 in the town of Juanjuí, San Martín Region.
To judge by the images, the alleged object moves, changes colors and makes no noise. This impressed Cumpa and his daughter as they observed it.
“See the color. It’s red in the middle, yellow, green...it moves. It’s an unidentified flying object,” say both, in the audio picked up by the camera.
The alleged contact occurred on July 29 11:30 p.m. and has caused a sensation in its community, to the extent that [the witness] has been invited to appear on various media opportunities.
Liz Cumpa, the contactee’s daughter, also attests to the site and even said that they “summoned” the UFO so that it would appeared before their eyes.
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
August 7, 2009
Date: August 6, 2009
Argentina: Schoolteachers see, photograph UFO
The teachers staid that it was “an orange half-moon that turned into a huge sphere.”
De la Garma, Argentina – Four schoolteachers from Neuquén reported having seen an alleged UFO yesterday as they headed to a school in the De la Garma region.
“We started to see an orange half-moon that turned into a huge sphere, and we took some photos of it with our cellphones,” said María Inés Martos, the principal of the local school, in a radio interview with Radio LU24.
According to Martos, the UFO sighting took place at around 7:30 before it “vanished swiftly into the horizon”.
According to the diariodenecochea. com website, the event occurred as the instructors headed to the De la Garma school. At that time, the stopped at Monte Chueco to look at the inexplicable phenomenon and take pictures of the object.
Link:
(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Grupo G.A.B.I.E and Planeta UFO)
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INEXPLICATA This Week
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
August 7, 2009
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Argentina: Schoolteachers See, Photograph UFO
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News on the Brazilian UFO Disclosure
Dear colleagues:
It is a pleasure to inform that the Brazilian UFO Disclosure is going better than expected.
After two small and a medium size release of documents, respectively last year and last May 04, that I informed here before, we at the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) -- which promoted the campaign that resulted in this opening of files -- have been officially informed that the government has now decided to disclose all documents produced in the 80s and kept secret so far. The release should be at the National Archives in 10 days.
The Brazilian government has been gradually releasing a considerable amount of secret UFO documents, and doing so by decade. So far we have material from the 60s and 70s, most of these last ones released on May 04, specially 195 pages and about 180 photos of the Operation Saucer (including previous leakages we now have over 500 pages of a total presumed in 2,000 pages), conducted in the Amazon by the Brazilian Air Force from September to December 1977, that is certainly the biggest _known_ official innitiative to military investigate UFOs in the world.
So far, over 1,400 pages of Brazilian previously classified UFO documents have been released thanks to the efforts of the Brazilian UFO Researchers Committee (CBU), through the campaign UFOs: Freedom of Information Now, started in 2004 and articulated by the Brazilian UFO Magazine. This last one has been the biggest disclosure ever in Brazil, but the one expected for August should be really big.
This last weekend the Brazilian UFO Disclosure finally reached the general public as the second largest circulation magazine in Brazil, ISTOÉ, published a nice cover and an article with 8 long pages dedicated to the opening of the files. No other general publication has devoted so much space to the subject so far. The reactions are considerable and the article is being republished in hundreds of local papers and websites, potentializing the response from the people.
As for the documents already released, last month I have assembled a team of 30 volunteer translators to get at least the 500 pages already known (through the disclosures and previously leakages) in English to general knowledge. It should be ready in a couple of weeks to be published here and elsewhere. We expect to get the rest of the papers, of other military missions, very soon as well. It takes a lot of work.
The PDF files of 12 envelopes or folders released last May can be can be downloaded from:
Pay special attention to this one: Folder 10 - 1978, with 195 pages of Operation Saucer material, downloadable at:
As said before, Brazilian UFO researchers are very excited about these new disclosures, that unquestionably prove that our efforts have been profitable for the entire Brazilian UFO Community. We also consider the Brazilian UFO Disclosure to be a solid, though painful response to the skepticism in Ufology in Brazil.
Download more official disclosed documents at the Brazilian UFO Magazine FTP areas:
Feel free to use and republish this material in your website, but please mention its origin as credits.
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
Coordinator, Brazilian UFO Researchers Committee
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
July 7, 2009
Argentina: Five Cows Mutilated in Crucesita Tercera, Nogoyá
** An on-site report by VISION OVNI ***
A report by Silvia Pérez Simondini, Andrea Pérez Simondini and Nestor Gaioli
Crucesita Tercera in the department of Nogoyá is located some 50 kilometers from the provincial capital. Its habitual peace and quiet were disrupted by reports from a livestock owner involving the apparition of mutilated animals on his property and neighboring ones as well.
Another situation that added further mystery to the event was the total emptying of a nearby lagoon.
News of these events reached Diario UNO in the city of Paraná, which attracted the locals’ curiosity.
VISION OVNI traveled immediately to the area, contacting Juan Carlos Vergara, head of the cattle theft office. He very kindly gave us not only details of the case, but also put us in touch with veterinarian Pablo Seeling, who has great experience in these cases.
We know that only [mutilation cases] reported as of 2002 have been catalogued in our country, and the reported number is trebled by the reports that were not made known to the authorities. We quickly agreed with Dr. Seeling in this matter, confirming that he personally believes to have dealt with 50 such cases in Nogoyá, and that they were really in excess of 200.
The Cases
Police officers located the cows, which featured the same affected organs characteristic in these cases: absence of reproductive organs, ocular organs and tongue. The verdict rendered by veterinarians in these cases has always been the same – no explanation.
The anmals’ owner, retired bank officer Gustavo Cabañas, says that the field was under his care and that he had left behind a herd of cows and calves. A few days earlier, he had toured the entire field, finding that everything was in order and corect (we should remark that Cabañas visits the field every day from very early in the morning until mid-afternoon) , incuding the water level of a lagoon, which contained a considerable amount of water, despite the predominant drought. When he found this body of water to be dry only hours later, the cattleman was shocked. This new state of affairs prompted him to relocate the livestock to another field, and it was in this process that he found the dead animals. He promptly contacted the cattle theft authorities and the sheriff of Crucesita Tercera. The sheriff was stunned to find that a new mutilation case had occured only a few meters away from his office. Vision Ovni carried out the initial research work in this case.
Mr. Firpo, the property’s owner, allowed us to enter the premises to see the animal for the first time. It was in the woods, and displayed partial injuries, such as the removal of the left eye, incisions to the anus and vulva, partial incisions to the tongue. We found curious that the charateristic incision of the jaw, with exposed bone, was not present.
Fly larvae were begining to develop in its mouth and flies were found on the wounds. No samples were taken, as the animal had been dead for more than 72 hours. A distended abdomen was also observed. Also curious was the absence of rigor mortis, with natural flexibility of the extremities.
As for the vegetation: a survey of the area did not turn up footsteps or broken branches in the vicinity nor up above. There was no evidence of carrion animal activity. The dead animal showed signs of a struggle, as evidence of kicking and an attempt to cause injury with its horns were detected. An issue of blood from its nose was also evident, suggesting that the animal died during the process of receiving the wounds. No signs of electric conductivity in the ground were noticed, a variable that has been present in toher cases.
The cattleman’s dog, who was coming into contact with the mutilated animal for the first time, refused to come any closer. The carcass was found in a north-to-south position.
This case in Crucesita Tercera makes clear that the phenomenon has not ceased occurring in Argenina, and that it is a source of great concern to livestock farmers and the authorities, as there is an abundance of hypotheses and a dearth of answers. It is perhaps time for the authorities to make experts and resources available to researchers in order to make headway in this subject. The experts exist, so do the resources. All that is needed is the will to implement them. Admitting that the subject is unknown is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is a way of reaching the truth.
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
July 7, 2009
Source: Diario UNO
Date: July 6, 2009
Argentina: Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogia (FAO) Schedules Meeting in Mendoza
This province was chosen by the number of sightings reported in 2008. Most of the reports issued from the Mendoza, Malargue, San Rafael and Tupungato.
Throughout 2008 and up to mid-March ’09, Fundacion Argentina de Ovnilogia (FAO) was made aware of, or received and analyzed, 13 UFO reports from various parts of Mendoza.
Between mid-January and late December 2008, FAO recorded 11 events of that nature plus two more in the first quarter of 2009.
Faced with this “preponderance” of reports, as described by Luis Burgos, leader of the organization, it was decided that the Primeras Jornadas Mendocinas de Ovnilogía (First Mendozan UFO Conference) should be held in Mendoza in October or November with a series of activities linked to the subject, to include a skywatch aimed at detecting any mysterious objects, in hopes of stimulating locals to report any sightings.
Several of the cases from Mendoza, aside from eyewitness accounts, were accompanied by photos of the experiences themselves, taken with either digital or cellphone cameras. Some of these images can be seen at www.visionovni. com.ar and www.codigoovni.com.ar.
Regardless, Burgos has told UNO from La Plata that “some of these images were classified as questionable by Jorge Figueiras, our analyst.” This is due to the fact that they could have been mistaken observations caused by sunlight.
The city of Mendoza, Malargue, San Rafael and Tupungato are the places that gave rise to the greatest number of reports, averaging two and three each. But reports also came from Maipu, Potrerillos and Palmira. These cases increased to 685, as recorded by FAO over a 15-month period in the country – a level of activity that can be classified as a “wave” -- and some of these experiences involved “phantom UFOs” plus a disquieting bedroom visitation reported by one woman.
Local eyewitness accounts form part of two reports: La Oleada Ovni 2008 and Los Tiempos Han Venido: Sigue La Oleada Ovni 2009, drafted by Burgos, who stresses that the events ended with the summer [Editors’s Note: meaning the end of our winter in the northern hemisphere].
The majority of the reported sightings – some identified as “questionable” by FAO – occurred in the afternoon and in regions adjacent to the Cordilleran foothills.
The objects allegedly photographed, according to accounts, are disk-shaped, spindle-shaped, classic saucers and lights (at night).
One of the constants is that they flew from east to west. To Burgos, this is among many mysteries, but he does not dismiss the possibility of “an air corridor, something like a virtual road” that is set in motion cyclically. “There were waves in 1968 and 1978,” he notes.
Among the many sightings mentioned by Burgos there is one dated April 3, 2008 in Malargue. It involves the photo taken at 18:50 by Felix Fernandez of the Dirección Provincial de Vialidad with his cellphopne. It was taken as the witness and his friends returned from La Punta, says the ufologist.
Suddenly, a strange object began flying over the region for 15 minutes up to the Chacay region. It stood still for a moment and then vanished westward. Fernandez managed to take some photos, which he submitted to FAO. After analysis, the case was described as questionable, says Burgos.
Another published report dates from December 22. “Norberto Luna (a FAO correspondent) tells us of a sighting witnessed by Jose Schiaffino at 20:00 hrs. He saw a strange silvery object heading westward toward the Cordilleran, gaining speed as it did so.”
(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales. Special thanks to Grupo GABIE)
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Inexplicata
Source: Ana Luisa Cid
Date: July 6, 2009
Mexico: Tubular Objects over Tlatelolco
[The following is an interview conducted by Ana Luisa Cid as a result of the sighting of 7 tubular objects over Mexico City]
A Video by Nadia Alarcón
Mr. Ramón Alarcón Quintero reported the sighting of 7 tubular objects over Mexico City. He saw them while driving back from a shopping center in Tlatelolco. He then phoned his daughter Nadia, 16, and asked her to record the event. This occurred on June 14, 2009
How did you come to notice the objects?
That morning I was on my way back from Mega Comercial Mexicana in Tlatelolco and in the vicinity of the Convention Center, I looked up and noticed two orange, elongated objects. One was twisting spectacularly (like an earthworm). I got off the sidewalk to have a better visual angle and managed to see five more objects, but whitish in color. Then I phoned my daughter to ask her to record them. The time was 8:30 a.m.
What direction were they flying in?
North by northwest
What district do you live in?
San Simón Tolnáhuac
What do you do for a living?
I’m an accountant
Were there any celebrations on that date?
None. Besides, it was very early – 8:30 a.m. (summer time)
Could the objects have been garlands of balloons?
I don’t think so. They were too big, measuring about 100 meters long. Furthermore, as I indicated earlier, they contorted in a spectacular manner. I saw them shrink and form triangles with straight angles. I don’t think balloons are able to do that.
What impressed you the most about them?
The fact that they traveled in a group, and the maneuvers they made.
What do you think they could be?
Biological entities that live in the stratosphere and are affected by exceptionally powerful solar activity, causing them to descend and seek protection.
What did your daughter remark?
That they looked like worms courting.
Would you like to add something?
Yes. I had seen this phenomenon earlier, in 2005. At that time there were only two, heading from Azcapotzalco to Tlatelolco, also in the morning at 9:00 a.m.
Video can be seen at www.analuisacid.com and at www.inexplicata.blogspot.com
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
July 3, 2009
Date: July 1, 2009
Argentina: “No Rational Explanation” Found for Cattle Mutes
The police found four cows whose eyes, uteruses and tongues had been removed. The animals were found dead in the rural area of Nogoyá. The absence of water in a nearby lagoon also drew their attention.
Residents of the rural area known as Crucesita Tercera, in the Department of Nogoyá, are shaken by the strange death of four cows in the interior of two fields and the unforeseen draining of a lagoon. Personnel of the Office of Cattle Theft and the Nogoyá Police ascertained that the cows had succumbed to a mysterious mutilation, but also noted that a nearby lagoon, which a day earlier had been full of water, was now empty.
Once more, fantasy, myth and mystery began to weave themselves over the deaths of these animals. Apparitions of the so-called “Chupacabras” and even a UFO sighting are now part of the comments being made in the heart of the province.
The cows found by police officers were missing their reproductive organs, tongues and eyes. For this reason, the veterinarian attached to the Office of Cattle Theft, a part of the Nogoyá Police force, stated that there is no rational explanation for the animals’ deaths and much less for their strange mutilations.
The dead bovines, according to police, were the property of Gustavo Cabañas, an employee of the Banco de Entre Rios, Nogoyá branch. The man owned the field and the herd of cows and calves within it.
A few days later, Cabañas had surveyed the farm and found that everything was in good order. Even the volume of water of nearby lagoon presented a generous quantity of the vital fluid, considering the drought. But for reasons that remain unclear, the lagoon dried up in a few hours, forcing the field’s owner to transfer the animals. He found the dead animals as he performed the transfer.
Nogoyá’s cattle rustling authorities and agents of the Sheriff’s office confirmed their investigation and the mysteries that surround it. The events cannot be explained scientifically.
Crucesita Tercera is some 50 kilometers from the departmental capital. Due to this event, the Cattle Theft officers spoke to local residents, who gave scant details on elements that could help explain the deaths of these animals.
The subject expanded yesterday when it was learned that Police found another mutilated bovine in an adjacent field. The carcass displayed the same characteristics: it was missing both eyes, its tongue and uterus. The cow belonged to a woman surnamed Sanchez and the incident was discovered only a short distance from the Sheriff’s office.
The Cattle Theft office noted that they had reported the mutilations on the three cows found over the weekend, but that the bones near the mutilated parts were clean, as if death had occurred some time ago, and not a matter of days, either. Furthermore, surgical incisions were confirmed, some of them without scarring or blood on the grass of the animals’ hides.
Three years earlier, a pair of bovines was found lifeless and mutilated only a short distance from this last discovery.
Veterinarian Esteban Puntín, who investigated the events a while ago explained, “while he is aware of these last cases from remarks, he believes that [all of this] is the result of natural action.”
Puntín noted:“due to uncontrolled deforestation, predators began looking for food in smaller and cleaner fields. With the onset of cold weather and the drought, there is very little grass. Therefore, animals are hungry. Bovines look for grass, and they may end up eating “yuyos” (brambles) which are poisonous, such as the Mio Mio. When the animal dies, foxes, weasels, vultures and even mice report to the site, eating the softer parts of the carcass, which are generally the anus or vulva, the udders and the tongue. Carrion animals also eat the eyes. These animals are great feeders, and only stop at bones and harder tissue.”
He added, “If there is no blood to be found, it is due to the cold weather, which dries up all manner of fluids.”
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
June 29,2009
Source: El Faro de Vigo (Spain)
Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009
Spain: Marcelino Requejo’s New Opus
Agatha de Santos – Vigo (Galicia). Marcelino Requejo has spent over 30 years researching the UFO phenomenon, talking to those who claim having seen the phenomenon, and compiling information, a passion that began barely 15 years ago. In that time, he has learned some startling cases, now collected in the book OVNIS: Alto Secreto, with a foreword by journalist and writer J.J. Benitez, author of the Caballo de Troya series of books.
Among the 35 cases featured in this book, and one of the most interesting ones recalled by the Galician ufologist, was an event that took place in Vigo. The extraordinary detail of this September 1999 case was that the witness was only 8 years old. The girl and her father were treated to the sight of a strange vehicle flying over their roof: it was the color of lead and shaped like a rugby ball with numerous portholes through which a number of figures could be seen. Moreover, the girl would later see two large-headed, diminutive entities in her bedroom. She described them as having very large heads and eyes, with no ears or mouth, and they gazed at her fixedly.
What Requejo finds most amazing about this narrative was the clarity with which the girl drew the strange flying machine the next day, without omitting even the shadows that were visible behind the portholes. “Even today, ten years later, she remembers it all in great detail,” notes the ufologist, who claims that this book is a tribute to all those who have seen strange flying objects and have not been afraid to share their experience.
“It is very strange today for someone to acknowledge seeing a UFO outside their immediate context,” acknowledges the Galician researcher, who has collaborated with such shows as Milenio, La Rosa de los Vientos and Milenio 3.
According to Requejo, Galicia is a community that registers a significant number of UFO cases, while cautioning that the phenomenon is of a cyclical nature. “There are times in which they occur with greater or lesser intensity, which also happens elsewhere in the world.”
Requejo also describes the surprising experiences recounted by other Galicians who claim having been “abducted” by UFOs, whisked away from the roads upon which they drove to find themselves on other roadways – strange episodes that have been repeated elsewhere and remain a mystery.
(Translation (c) 2009 S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez)
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Inexplicata
Contributing editor Guillermo Gimenez draws our attention to an article by Luis Burgos of Argentina's FAO organization regarding the possible presence of "humanoids" in the Province of Buenos Aires in the early 1940s, before Kenneth Arnold's legendary sighting over Mount Rainier:
The First Humanoids in Argentina
By Luis Burgos (FAO)
Tres Arroyos, located over 600 km south of Buenos Aires, shall henceforth no longer be known as “Argentina’s Wheat Capital” but as also as the place where the first humanoid encounter of the country took place.
In early 1971, in mid-summer, I had the chance to spend the season in Orense, a lovely beach resort, which together with Reta and Claromecó represent the main tourist attractions of the season. Logically, and given the fact that I was taking my very first steps in field research, my conversations had mostly to do with the subject [ufology]. Thus, my mind was stirred by anecdotes and remembrances. The cause of this was Mr. Vicente Pedone, who was my host at the time.
According to Don Vicente, in the early 1940s, he was a Sergeant of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police, and his beat covered such locations as Orense, San Cayetano, Copetonas, Oriente, Cristiano Muerto, etc. These towns were well known to him.
One night, while in the company of an officer surnamed Gitani in a field warehouse, a local boy came running over to them, breathlessly, saying that he had witnessed “a plane crash to the ground in flames”, deep in the fields. Faced with this story, Don Vicente and his subordinate reported to the alleged crash site, accompanied by the young man (whom I shall call NN, given his anonymous status). After covering a good distance in the police car, the guide pointed out the possible crash site: there, two hundred meters away from the group, near a hill, was a very strange disk-shaped luminous object that remained still in their sight. Around the object, an undetermined number of “figures” could be seen “coming and going”
At a distance, the beings seemed very tall and were clad in luminous, metallic outfits. Their movements were sluggish and they carried what appeared to be mugs (“tarros”) in their hands.
Evidently, this sight impressed the witnesses to such an extent that they made a prudent retreat. But their astonishment and nervousness increased when Don Vicente tried to get the vehicle going, he was unable to do so. He tried one, two, three and more times to no avail. Therefore, rather than running away across the field, they all agreed to remain in the vehicle to see what developed. “We were abandoned to the outcome of the events,” remarked the protagonist of this episode.
Several minutes later, they noticed that what they took for an airplane began to move backward with a slow, even motion and speed, always at ground level. This action caused Don Vicente to try to get his police car going once more, since time had become endless to them. Finally he managed to turn the engine over and make an abrupt departure. This brought an end to this reminiscence, and it’s a shame that they didn’t stay long enough to witness the final phase of the phenomenon. The next morning, Don Vicente obtained confirmation from NN, that the landing site in Oriente betrayed signs of burned grass. Unfortunately, the police did not verify this on-site. Therefore, only the story told by NN remains the proof of such physical evidence.
(Translation (c)2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Luis Burgos and Guillermo Giménez)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
June 23, 2009
Fifty two years ago, on June 24th, 1947, Kenneth Arnold saw five objects that he described as "skipping like saucers over water" in the skies over Washington State. The rest is history.
Let us not forget that UFO activity was already beginning to occur elsewhere in the world, and this newspaper article from Chile, courtesy of our friend Raul Núñez at the IIEE, is a good example:
A FLYING DISK OVER SANTIAGO: SEEN FLYING OVER LOS CERRILLOS
Mr. Gillermo de la Cerda Simonot, a former civilian officer of the Fleet, states that a shining, silvery and oval-shaped object" appeared before his eyes for ten minutes at noon yesterday.
A flying disk remained stationary for at least ten minutes over the Los Cerrillos airport, at least ten kilometers from the Plaza de Armas, at the very same time that the population of Santiago left its offices and workshops to go off to lunch. The object was seen by Guillermo de la Cerda Simonot, master mechanic of a small bus line, and whose background as a former civilian officer of the Fleet for 30 years, knowledgeable about machinery and vehicles, is a serene, creditworthy individual with good eyesight.
LIGHT REFLECTED AT NOON
It was noon when Guillermo de la Cerda, son of the known racehorse owner of the same name, was returning along the Maipú road after having made repairs to a damaged bus. He was wearing sunglasses, which allowed him to face the sun. Suddenly, only a few centimeters over the horizon, he saw something that shined "like the reflection of an airplane's wings when the sun strikes them". He said nothing to his escort, an assistant mechanic of the same bus line, and he continued looking at the object, which remained stationary.
A SILVERY, SHINING DISK
Finally, convinced that it could not be an airplane, he stopped the bus and got off t for a better look. It was an oval, silvery object, similar to the ones described in newswires regarding "flying saucers". He believed that he could see portholes along its edges, but was uncertain. "I don't want to say something that I didn't say with certainty," he added. His companion saw the same thing as he.
A fiew minutes later, the oval, silvery and brilliant object vanished behind the trees and out of sight.
A "flying disk"? A hallucination? Everything suggests the former. Chile appears to have been visited by the same extraordinary messengers from space that have already appeared in so many parts of the world.
(Translation (c) 2009, S.Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Raul Núñez, IIEE-Chile)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
June 18, 2009
Argentina: Abduction - Interrupted?
This report comes to us from one of the most trusted sources in the country - journalist and UFO researcher Quique Mario of the CEUFO group - but we cannot provide our readers at this time with the exact date of these events or the names of the parties involved. Inquiries have already been made and more information shall be provided as soon as it is received.
According to Quique Mario, the incident is one of several that have "continued to occur" in UFO and cattle mutilation-prone La Pampa. The experiencers have requested anonymity although several external sources have confirmed these events. A woman from an undisclosed location in this Argentinean province claims having witnessed the maneuvers of one or several UFOs in the vicinity over the past four years. Moreover, "she managed to discover that the occupants were tall (some 2 meters) and in some cases no taller than 1.60," writes the journalist. Interestingly, the woman states that this height difference resulted in different behaviors on the part of the alleged ufonauts: the taller ones gave the witness "the impression that they were like robots, judging by their movments" -- echoes of the mind-bending Cisco Grove, California event of the early 1960s.
Ten days ago, states the CEUFO report, one of the two unidentified objects descended to ground level but without landing, and an effort was made to abduct the witness, who was holding on to her five year-old son at the time. "Her husband's presence kept the beings from carrying out their goal, as he reacted by hanging on to her legs and pulling her downward, even as she was being transported towrd the strange object against her will." CEUFO adds that the incident caused a commotion in the area and that a radio journalist visited the scene of the events.
"This event can be added to a series of occurences that have been taking place in a vast region of the province, without any official explanation having been given to these phenomena," reads the text. "Restlessness prevails in some areas and fear has caused some rural workers to stop working at night."
We are waiting for an update on this report from INEXPLICATA contributing editor Guillermo Gimenez.
If events are indeed as described in the report, we are looking at what could be a "classic" 60s and '70s abduction scenario, lacking any manner of paranormal overtones or bedroom visitations, orchestrated by humanoid-type occupants and their "robotic" minions.
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Date: June 07, 2009
Mexico: UFO Reported by Airliner Crew
Aviation technician Alfonso Salazar reports that on Saturday, June 2009 at 16:10 hours, the crew of a Fokker 110 (Click de Mexicana) reported "spherical traffic" which, according to eyewitnesses was a shining sphere resembling burnished platinum and reflecting the sun's rays."
The Fokker 100 was flying at an approximate altitude of 10,000 meters on the Juliet 21 air corridor. The unknown object, measuring some 10 meters in diameter), crossed the airliner's path and was seen at it's 8 o'clock position (lower left).
This sighting was recorded over the southern area of Cerro de la Estrella (to the east of Mexico City). Weather conditions were clear, sunny and cloudless. The crew calculated that the UFO was at an altitude of 8000 meters.
For some time now, encounters between these flying objects and airliners have increased, as they arrive or take off from the Mexican capital's airport.
(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Prof. Ana Luisa Cid)
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Dear colleagues of the World UFO Community:
As of May 04th, Brazilian Government has disclosed over 600 new pages of previously classified documents, covering UFO reports and military investigations from 1970 to 1979, including photos and films, for the first time.
The content of this material has now been examined and proved to be very interesting and revelatory of Brazilian official strategy to cover UFO cases, often openly regarded as "from external sources" in these new documents, meaning from outside Earth. The cases covered and the methods used to investigate them by the military are also very significant.
On my oppinion, the most important material contained in this new declasification are 195 new pages of documents resulted from the Operation Saucer, conducted in the Amazon by the Brazilian Air Force from September to December 1977, that is certainly the biggest *known* official innitiative to military investigate UFOs in the world.
As I also reported, so far, over 1,400 pages of Brazilian previously classified UFO documents have been released thanks to the efforts of the Brazilian UFO Researchers Committee (CBU), through the campaign UFOs: Freedom of Information Now, started in 2004 and articulated by the Brazilian UFO Magazine. This last one has been the biggest disclosure ever in Brazil.
Brazilian UFO researchers are very excited about these new disclosures, that inquestionably prove that our efforts have been profitable for the entire Brazilian UFO Community.
Download more official disclosed documents at the Brazilian UFO Magazine FTP areas:
FEEL FREE TO USE AND REPUBLISH THIS MATERIAL IN YOUR WEBSITE, BUT PLEASE MENTION ITS ORIGIN AS CREDITS.
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
Coordinator, Brazilian UFO Researchers Committee
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UFO DISCLOSURE IN BRAZIL CONTINUES
Contents of 12 folders disclosed by the Brazilian Ministry of Defense confirm activities of unidentified flying objects in Brazilian territory. Moreover, it shows that Brazilian military authorities have always monitored such activities of other species in the country's environment.
Folder 01 - 1970
This folder contains statements delivered at a police station in the city of
Bauru (SP). The office was linked to the extinct DOPS, an acronym to name
the feared Brazilian Department of Political and Social Order during
military dictatorship. There are also reports of numerous UFO sightings
occurred in many cities of the state of Sao Paulo. Such reports highlight
the good reputation with which police officers regard the witnesses. There
are also occurrences from the state of Rio Grande do Sul involving an
unsuccessful attempt of an official car to chase a UFO - the object exploded
in the air without leaving a trace.
Folder 02 - 1971
Military reports addressed to Brig. Gervasio Duncan and Gen. Moacyr Uchoa
describing UFOs flight and landing in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and
Rio de Janeiro, including a UFO chasing aircraft and sightings of 2-meter
tall beings beside their spacecraft in the city of Belo Horizonte (MG).
Report from the Division of Security Information of the 2nd Air Zone Command
on the spotting of UFOs by radars in the region of Varginha (MG). It also
contains an official report sent to the Air Force Command on the sighting of
a large flying saucer with several windows over Presidente Dutra highway.
Folder 03 - 1972
Newspaper clippings reporting UFO sightings followed up by military and
police forces at the time. One case describes how two UFOs chased a bus
carrying 34 students onboard. Military telegrams including one from the Air
Base in Rio de Janeiro informing a UFO sighting at Morro da Onsa - the
landing site was spotted by a FAB aircraft. A document from the Division for
Flight Protection on the 3rd Air Zone describing UFO sightings in June 1972
as a "swarm of fish". Letters and instructions.
Folder 04 - 1973
DOPS report containing statements delivered by Sao Paulo city teachers on
UFO sightings occurred between municipalities of Ubirajara and Galia in
August-October 1972. UFOs there seen had the ability to split and rejoin
their pieces which illustrates their intelligent behavior towards the
witnesses. Bulletins from the Sociedade Pelotense de Investigação e Pesquisa
de Discos Voadores, from April to October 1973 containing articles on the
Brazilian cases emphasizing several occurrences registered in the state of
Rio Grande do Sul. The fact suggests that Brazilian researchers had been
monitored by the Air Force.
Folder 05 - 1974
This folder contains memos from the Office of Public Security of the State
of Sao Paulo addressed to the commander of the 4th Air Zone - investigations
carried out by Sorocaba and Votorantin police stations on UFO sightings in
those municipalities were altogether forwarded. There are also materials
from civil ufologists. Letter from the Canadian UFO Research to the 4th Air
Zone requesting information on the ufological occurrence in the city of
Arasariguama (SP) which resulted in a certified death of witness. Copies of
the report from Centro de Investigação Civil de Objetos Aéreos Não
Identificados on the UFO spotted and registered in Belo Horizonte plus
details of the case.
Folder 06 - 1975
This one contains documents generated by several civil associations
throughout the country which clearly indicates the government surveillance
on researchers' activities. Among those pages are bulletins from Sociedade
Pelotense containing researches on animal mutilations, correspondence
exchanged by the Air Force and Gen. Moacyr Uchoa, and also a summary of
David Jacobs' book, The UFO Controversy in America. Strangely enough, it
also contains an Italian citizen's statement reporting a UFO occurrence
caught by movie camera in 1975 - the movie would have been sent to the USA.
Folder 07 - 1976
Memo from the minister of aeronautics' chief of staff to the head of the Air
Force regarding the release of reports on Caso Ilha da Trindade, occurred in
1958. Both response and letter from requestor are attached including a brief
on the Center For UFO Studies which was directed by ufologist J. Allen
Hynek. There are also correspondence exchanged among Brazilian ufologists
and the military concerning a cooperation for sharing of materials such as
UFO case studies and bulletins. Also a letter dated 25 May 1976 from
Brazilian Air Force representative in Washington requesting the Air Force
Command for information to the US researcher.
Folder 08 - 1977
Includes a protocol by Salvador Air Base undersigned by several brigadiers
reporting occurrences in which military reported sightings of large UFOs
followed by smaller ones. Air traffic controller and other seven witnesses
claim to have seen a large UFO that would be the "mother ship". Also letters
exchanged by Brazilian and foreign civil ufologists with Air Force military.
Among these, there is one request from researcher Bob Pratt concerning UFO
incidents in USA territory. There are also reports on sightings that
triggered Operacao Prato.
Folder 09 - 1978
Assorted materials including issues of research bulletins and the case of
abduction of Australian pilot Frederich Valentich. This folder contains a
protocol by the Ministry of Aeronautics describing UFO sightings at the
country's capital including reports of witnesses being chased by flying
saucers. Also a letter from the 5th Regional Air Command, in Canoas (RS),
containing illegible registers on a UFO case, and the investigation of the
4th Regional Air Command on the UFO that hovered over a plot of land at low
altitude beside a family's residence in Sao Paulo.
Folder 10 - 1978
This is the folder which contains more information including reports on
several sightings all over the country. Reports from Operacao Prato account
for most of the material in the folder amounting to 170 report pages and 126
mission pictures. The most important cases are there and include maps,
diagrams and other sketches of varied UFOs and mother ships. Materials
describe UFO trajectories, geographical coordinates, view angles, time, and
physical effects caused by UFOs on soil and people when there were direct
contacts.
Folder 11 - 1978
Reports from a serious occurrence registered by the I Integrate Center for
Air Defense and Air Traffic Control (Cindacta) on the night of June 20th,
1978. A multicolored UFO performed maneuvers at high speed causing panic.
The object showed intelligent behavior and ability to vanish from one spot
to reappear in another. The chief of police and 20 of his men were witnesses
to that. There is also a transcription of talks between radar operators and
three civilian aircraft over a UFO sighting among Campinas, Marilia,
Pirasununga and Brasilia cities.
Folder 12 - 1979
This folder contains interesting material on civil UFO investigation both in
Brazil and abroad. The 2nd Regional Air Command (COMAR) forwards tens of
articles published by US magazine International UFO Reporter and also
newspapers. There is also a letter from an attorney of Banco do Brazil on
his experience with a UFO on 26 February 1979 and an enquiry from Comitê
Nacional de Investigacoa de Fenômenos Aéreos to the governments of Brazil
and US. These contains parameters for the scientific research of UFOs and
other enquiries.
Report by A. J. Gevaerd, editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
Translated by Eduardo Rado, volunteer, Brazilian UFO Magazine
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Source: Los Andes On-Line
Date: May 31, 2009
Argentina: “Invasores” (Invaders) - Alejandro Agostinelli’s New Book
By Mariana Guzzante
Journalist Alejandro Agostinelli has published a book that reopens the legendary UFO case that bewildered Mendoza in 1968. It is being displayed today in our province. This documentary history is a review of Argentinean sightings that involve Chupacabras, little green dwarves and spiritism. There is a revival of alien culture: “V” is returning to television, and the Star Trek remake is on top of the box office. The invaders are among us once more.
It isn’t hard to picture Alejandro Agostinelli – an interesting journalist, a tracker of mysteries – scouring through the X-Files of this part of the world.
His book is somewhere between the pleasure of the chronicle and the flashback of an archive. That’s how this project should have started. Editorial Sudamericana has recently published it under the name “Invasores”, and that’s how it ended. Over 300 pages written with the perfect excuse of narrating Argentina’s most startling extraterrestrial sightings, including the famous case involving “little green men” that caused an uproar in local ufology in ’68.
A journalist may delight in sleuthing across the paranormal landscape; for he protagonists of these events – the contactees – it is an exhumation of an extreme experience.
For that reason, both Agostinelli and the voices of the protagonists of the close encounter that shook the region in the late ‘60s will be here tonight, journalist Miguel Titiro among them.
A Contactee Event In the Heartland
A couple vanishes in Chascomús and appears instantaneously in Mexico, as though written in the script for the movie “Jumper”. Two employees of the Casino de Mendoza encounter little green men and have a telepathic experience with them; a team of Buenos Aires spiritists makes contact with an “engineer” from Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter. A woman named Silvia Perez founds the “Museo del Ovni” in Victoria, Entre Rios.
The stories told in “Invasores” appear to avoid falling into ufological fervor, but nonetheless insert a disquieting description: “true stories”, as stated on the cover. You mean they’re real? “Yes,” says the author, “because these are documented stories. The reader may enjoy the recollections and experiences of their protagonists while having solid historical data at hand. None of the stories is unreal. All of these have appeared in the press, in newscasts and eventually in books on the subject.”
Thus, with several first-person accounts that are sheer narrative gold, Agostinelli chose 11 invasions. What will be the outcome of reading this book, now that the subject of aliens feels slightly retro? “No idea, that’s another mystery,” says the author. It may be, perhaps, a fine opportunity for taking out the folding chair and watching the skies again.
Che Ovni
It is clear that this is a work charged with comparative paranoia, hallucination and longing.
Furthermore, these accounts include the Chupacabras, [the subterranean city of] Erks, tours of Mount Uritorco and strange abductions like that of Zulma Fayad. There is even a translation of “Martin Fierro” (Argentina’s national epic – ed.) into “Varkulets”, an unusual alien lingo. And a constant appears. Unlike other countries, which point to Mars or Venus as the alien homeland, Argentineans connect more closely with visitors from Ganymede, one of the Jovian satellites.
“UFOs, the stories woven around them, and their effect upon culture. Those are the subjects to which I devoted the greatest time and passion throughout my life, “ Agostinelli says frankly.
And how did you come to choose the cases? How did you know that these were the stories, and not others?
”These were the ones that had the greatest impact on me while I studied the subject of UFOs. Furthermore, by having worked on TV documentaries, I have a rather visual training. I know which stories are the most attractive, involving and suggestive. My criteria for selection were double. Moreover, all of the stories had to reveal unknown aspects in the lives of their protagonists. On the other hand, each story should be worthy of a motion picture. If for any reason (a lack of information, the inability to access direct witnesses, that sort of thing) they didn’t click, they went right back to the inkwell.”
It’s hard not to ask what case affected you the most.
“There are two open-ended adventures that contain the hardest mysteries to digest. One of them is the so-called Vidal Case, which began with a news item published in June 1968. It told the story of a couple driving along the road from Chascomus, Province of Buenos Aires, when they drove into a fog bank and lost consciousness. Later, the couple and their car reappeared in Mexico City. In this case I learned that the motion picture “Che Ovni” had been shot almost a year earlier. This film, directed by Anibal Uset, starts with a couple teleported by a flying saucer from Buenos Aires to Madrid, car and all. It opened two months after the Vidal Case. This couple was never found and it’s unlikely they ever existed. But as with all legends, the controversy endures. Anibal uset cannot categorically prove that he created the case to promote his movie. In any event, my book contains hints that support his claim. It is followed, no doubt by the Mendozan question involving the Casino workers.
How did you trace the route to be followed?
“Like I said, once I chose the stories, I arranged them in a more or less chronological order. At other times, I added stories according to geographic proximity. I went to Mendoza in an effort to locate Juan Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando Villegas, the Casino workers, but also other possible protagonists of what appears to have been a prank, based on a clue I was given in Mar del Plata.
Then I visited Chile, where I interviewed physicist and mathematician Pablo Kittl Duclout, the nephew of brothers Jorge and Napy Duclout, who is the only surviving relative of the first Argentinean contactees.
“In the early Fifties, Jorge and Napy were spiritists. During their séances, a spirit they identified as a “talented engineer” would talk to them about life on Ganymede, the planet Jupiter’s largest satellite. I was delighted to find out who was the engineer who contacted them, but I won’t tell you. That’s the end of the story and it would ruin it. The first trip involved climbing to the roof of the Kavanagh Building, where they were summoned to appear by the commander of a saucer that was supposed to arrive from Jupiter. I also visited Santa Rosa, because La Pampa is the homeland of the wave of cattle mutilations that unleashed in 2002, and the city of Victoria, Entre Rios, where Siliva Pérez Simondini’s Museo OVNI operates.”
The fact is that Alejandro found the Earthlings to be infinitely more complex and fascinating than the aliens.
Parenthesis one: “Aníbal Uset was the first Argentinean filmmaker who toured the world to shoot a comedy based on the extraterrestrial rumors of the Sixties, and even more with Martin Rappalini, who was a the time a young writer accused of “concealing the truth” about the legendary marital abduction. These stories merited another chapter.
El Muñeco Mateyko, Pipo Mancera, Javier Portales, Cuchuflito, Jorge Sobral, Marcela López Rey, Erika Wallner and Perla Caron starred in the movie version of the story. A relic? Yes indeed. The odyssey had a musty smell to it until I learned that Catherine Fulop had starred in a Nineties remake of the movie. In Spain, she was also convinced that she’d been transported by aliens.”
Parenthesis two: Pablo Kittl Duclout, the physicist from the Andean foothills, informed the researcher to the fascinating destiny that awaited his uncles, the protagonists of the first announced UFO sighting from the rooftop of the Kavanagh Bulding in 1954). Apparently, an advanced spirit had revealed to them the existence of a higher technology. “Those disclosures were so extraordinary that they inspired Napy to film Argentina’s first 3D motion picture, “Buenos Aires en Relieve (1954),” notes Alejandro.
Three: “I also visited the nursing home where Martha Green now lives. A lovely old lady who was whisked away from Earth in the 1950s by Enis, her interdimensional lover, while her husband, a military man in the Perón regime, was embattled by the Aramburu dictatorship.”
How distant is “Invasores” from ufology?
“I wouldn’t say “light years away” because that would be a wisecrack. But I don’t think that I could’ve written a book like this while I was an ufologist. Or when I was a militant skeptic. I believe that the right distance is having realized that the protagonists were the people I was interviewing. And I chose the first person to take over my own subjective approach.
What about Fabio Zerpa?
Zerpa is convinced that the ones that appear in his stories are aliens. I’m convinced of the existence of human beings, and some of them claim having had experiences involving extraterrestrials.
So, do you or don’t you believe in alien life?
It’s not whether I believe or don’t. It may exist. But in that case, I imagine them as being too smart. To the extent that I doubt they’d bother visiting Earth. Perhaps, if they read “Invasores” they’ll find we’re a very interesting species.
(Translation (c) 2009, Scott Corrales IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
May 8, 2009
Source: El Diaro de Aysen (Chile)
Date: May 4, 2009
Chile: A Vidcap from the April 12 Footage
Aviation experts inspected images.
"This is very strange and there's really no explanation for it." These were the first words spoken by renowned pilots from the Aysen Region after watching one minute of video showing a strange and unknown formation of lights.
The lights were filmed by a group of young professionals whose sighting occurred from a hill located on the side of Route 7, some 20 minutes from Coyhaique.
They were on their way back to the regional capital on a Jeep when around 19:30 hours on April 12, one of them became aware of the presence of three lights over a hill, noting that they vanished a few seconds later. Pulling over to get a better view, and being unable to, they decided to continue with their drive.
Having covered approximately two kilometers, with their eyes glued to the same location, they suddenly saw the luminous spheres emerge, changing sizes as though merging, while not betraying any horizontal movement.
"The time was now around seven thirty p.m. and it was dark. There were four people in the vehicle and one of them alerted the others to the lights over on our left, toward the mountain area. We all looked. [The phenomenon] involved three very powerful white lights, and the middle one was larger," said journalist Jose Miguel de Pujadas, who made the recording.
Moreover, Sergio Pérez, a music instructor and the vehicle's driver, stated that one of the lights was somewhat higher than the other two. "I asked two people who know the area if there were houses or roads in that area, as it could be a car, and they told me that there are neither dwellings nor highways in the zone."
He added that they continued their drive to Coyhaique. Two kilometers later, they came to a curve from which they saw the phenomenon again. The young men said that the video was recorded with a digital camera and that no sounds were heard. All they could hear was the noise made by passing vehicles on the road.
"When we saw this, we were astounded, because none of us had ever seen anything like this," the instructor pointed out. "Generally, when things like this occur, witnesses tend to claim seeing what they would like to believe, without keeping an objective, neutral stance that is sufficiently skeptical to allow some room for rational analysis. For this reason I'm in no position to make sweeping statements. I can only tell you what I and 3 others saw, and I'm making this video available so everyone can draw his or her own conclusions."
The subject is nonetheless strange for renowned commercial pilot Carlos Martinez from Coyhaique, with 8000 flight hours over the region to his name. "It's not that one's being skeptical, or that I'm saying everything we see is true, but that [the lights] does not correspond to the lights of an airplane."
Martinez, with 42 years as a commercial pilot, said that he believed at first that it could be a commercial airliner taking off from Balmaceda. However, he swiftly dismissed the possibility. "Two white lights and a reddish one are not found on an airplane. Landing lights are white," he said, adding that navigation lights on the wingtips were green and red. "Nor is the altitude proper for the area, as it would be flying under 7000 feet. That is to say, we would've heard about a crash immediately. The Cordillera is right there to the west and it's below the safety level, but I don't think it's an airliner at all." The pilot added that the lights are too large and not stroboscopic.
After seeing the images, Alejandro Galilea, a pilot with 400 flight hours, also dismissed the possibility that the lights belonged to an airplane due to their colors and shape, and much less to those of a wheeled vehicle.
"Airplanes have a red tail light and a characteristic flash, as well as strobes that alternately turn on and off," he explained. Carlos Hein, another of the region's noted pilots, with 18,000 flight hours to his name and forty years of experience, stated: "It's something strange and hard to explain at this time. I saw some very large spheres years ago over Cochrane that were very impressive, but the fact is that I have no explanation for this. It is inexplicable. It is not compatible with an airliner or helicopter, because the movements are different. They're not fixed and they move from one side to another. They're above ground level. Truly this has no explanation. "
Martinez, who in spite of his thousands of hours of flight time claims having never seen anything strange in the air, nonetheless remarked that some 15 or 18 years ago, he saw a phenomenon moving at high speed toward the Las Bandurrias sector, witnessed by a large part of the population of Coyhaique, one summer day between 5 and 6 p.m.
There is also the experience of Pedro Finlez, who said that some 2 years ago, while flying with pilot Alejandro Galilea, but in separate vehicles, two identical lights flew by horizontally as they descended from the Andean Range. Much later, and before the current Balmaceda airport was built, he said that he had another experience: "I saw a light fly over my car and vanish into the woods. It lit up my car's interior. I don't know what kind of a light it was, but it vanished into the brush. It was so powerful that I almost drove off the road."
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
May 4, 2009
Argentina: A One Million-Signature Goal
By Scott Corrales
INEXPLICATA contributing editor Guillermo Gimenez sent us an e-mail this morning with regard to a news item in El Popular On-Line (www.popular online.com.ar) about the one million signatures to be collected by Argentina’s UFO research community, asking President Christina Kirchner to declassify the nation’s voluminous UFO holdings. The researchers involved in this gargantuan effort are known to readers of this publication: Silvia Perez Simondini of the VISION OVNI group, Elias Kolev, Quique Mario of the defunct CEUFO organization, Carlos Iurchuk, Salvatore Carta and many, many others.
The article – written by Patxi LaFata and dated 05.03.09 – states that this meeting was held at Perez Simondini’s headquarters, the Museo OVNI in the city of Victoria. “It was marvelous,” LaFata quotes Simondini as saying, “we were all in the same frequency, there was no discord, and quite the contrary, everyone supported the initiative and voted positively. It was an unforgettable experience with first rank professionals from all parts of the country, who gathered under the idea of meeting, exchanging ideas and creating something new.” Through her museum and Internet-based radio show, Simondini is doing her level best to insure that matters concerning UFOs and ufology are made known to all Argentineans and researchers around the world.
The new organization formed as a result of this gathering is to be known as CEFORA and will lobby for the declassification of UFO materials.
The project will require a minimum of one hundred thousand citizen signatures – the amount needed to attract the attention of a legislator or political figure interested in sponsoring the endeavor. “Subsequently,” adds Simondini, “the amount of one million signatures will be needed for the matter to be discussed” in the Argentinean Congress. Not an easy task.
CEFORA’s resolutions calls for “requesting those in charge of the National Ministry of Defense, the National Presidency and the Chamber of Deputies to declassify all information pursuant to the UFO phenomenon in Argentina regardless of any regional initiatives that may be underway.”
We wish this new organization the best of luck in securing this goal, and will continue to apprise our readers of its progress.
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