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Source: www.analuisacid.com
Date: 01.31.08
MEXICO: Luminous UFO Lands at Cerro Pie de Minas.
*** A report by Ana Luisa Cid and Jesus Martinez Castro ***
See Pictures: 1, 2, 3
The city of Chilpancingo (state of Guerrero’s) La Cronica Vespertina newspaper reported the sighting of an unknown light that landed at Cerro Pie de Minas, emitting flashes for over 30 hours and causing alarm among the locals.
The event took place in the early morning hours of December 31, 2007 in the town of Mezcala, Guerrero. According to the news report from journalist Francisco Rangel, dated January 10, 2008, the phenomenon was observed by the entire town, cutting across all ages ranging from children to senior citizens and including mining engineers and laborers at the Los Filos gold mine.
Eyewitness accounts suggest that drivers halted their vehicles all the way to the Federal Highway in order to take a look at the intense light source that traveled across various parts of the locality at an estimated altitude of 300 meters. They describe a saucer-shaped craft that passed over the town square slowly and silently before landing on a hill known as Pie de Minas, where it emitted flashes for over 30 hours.
According to the newspaper story, witnesses to the phenomenon complained of eye irritation despite the fact that they saw it at a considerable distance. Not only that, but there is also talk of fluctuations in the level of electric power in spite of the fact that no voltage changes were detected at the electric substation belonging to the Comision Federal de Electricidad.
Many people took photos and videos with their cameras and cellphones, but their recordings were affected and distorted by an alleged magnetic force. They added that even the pictures taken with analog cameras were overexposed.
According to the newspaper article: “The object was seen by most of the population, ranging from small children to the elderly and entire families, seen at considerable distances by the luminosity that affected the eyes of many residents and the fact that the electric levels of all the homes dropped whenever the light’s intensity increased, ranging from a soft shade of light blue to a white and phosphorescent blue, acquiring yellow, orange and soft red tones....”
Many video recordings exist in spite of this, taken by people who managed to record it from their homes at a distance of 4 or 6 kilometers away. The footage shows a round light, whether white or light blue, with strange figures at its core that were described-- by those who peered at the object through binoculars – as something resembling a cat or a being with horns, causing the greatest degree of fear among the locals, rendering them unable to sleep for the two following nights. The sighting was not made known beyond the confines of the town until the first days of this week, although reports of alleged meteorite activity had been received from Amojileca and Xochipala on January 1st. Residents of Mezcala say that the inclement weather – strong, cold winds – could have been caused by the luminous UFO which appeared to have landed on the hill known as Pie de Mina in the wilderness known as “La V”, from where it was filmed by many locals with their diminutive Handycams and who were clearly afraid that something awful would happen, or that the vehicle’s crew would harm them.
Alfonso Ramirez Maya, 35, a farmer and board-layer, had a chance to film the UFO with his video camera and his daughter’s cell phone. He showed us the images taken, and those in which the light can be seen moving, but with deformations of the images on the cellphone. The white light resembles a balloon that changes shape, despite their best efforts at remaining steady. The images were obtained from their house on Calle Francisco Villa n/n, Colonia Cabeza de Culebra, 5 km from the sighting one kilometer distant from the Mexico City – Acapulco Federal Highway that passes through Mezcala.
Another person who had the opportunity to record a video was Jesus Santana Hernandez, who filmed the UFO as it flew over the community, but sent the video to Houston so that a relative could make it known through a local TV station, since some thought they could profit from selling the images. However, the majority of the locals who have the evidence are hesitant to disclose it, as they do not wish to earn themselves a poor reputation or be dismissed as lunatics.
However, they are all willing to discuss the experience after being told that an effort is underway to document the sighting, and even willing to accompany a research group to the site, as it is a rugged terrain filled with rattlesnakes and scorpions. Many of the people interviewed, among whom were serious individuals of all ages, youths and even children, offered interpretations of the story that agreed with one another's regarding the sighting of the light on the hill and its transit over the community of Mezcala, further agreeing with the fear and consternation they experienced for the 30-hour span in which the “flying saucer” was present.
Many residents of this community stated that there were several occasions in which some people tried to reach the place where the UFO touched down. In the night and evening of January first, when up to 20 or 30 pickup trucks laden with people tried to reach the sight were the light could be seen, the light simply went dark. There exists, however, the report of a group that came within fifty meters of the vessel described as a flying saucer, whose color was similar to that of brilliant, galvanized sheet metal, with a whitish or light blue light. These people brought with them video and still cameras, but their vehicles were left without power, with no electricity and stalled engines. Furthermore, camera batteries were inexplicably drained despite having been charged, and returned to normal operating conditions later on.
Bold youths who dared approach the UFO clearly heard two dry, metallic sounds emerging from the interior of the alleged craft. This spooked them into hiding under their pickup trucks and even made them weep like children, as they believed the occupants would emerge to seize them. This fear prompted them to flee the site as best they could, and they refuse to talk about it.
Closer images were obtained from videos taken from the slopes of Pie de Mina – one kilometer distant – where the object can be seen as larger, resembling a large white circle of encapsulated light. Symbols can be made out, and even the shape of a face drawn on a card by another witness, having the shape of a feline or a horned being that appears to be at the center of the light.
To many businessmen in downtown Mezcala, and food vendors who witnessed the phenomenon from the early hours of December 31, also saw the gathering of people who had set out to see the UFO phenomenon and who offered their versions about what it could be. There were many who recorded videos or took photos, but after the novelty wore off, they became disaffected after making the trip in groups of pickup trucks – accompanied by two local sheriffs – without finding anything. To calm the populace down, they said [the sighting ] had been caused by the clash of high voltage wires that entwined in the strong wind.
The owner of a budget store says that sales declined because people became frightened, and that Mezcala looked “like a ghost town” as many of its residents fled out of fear, believing that harm would befall them because the vehicle remained on the hillside, emitting powerful flashes skyward even in broad daylight. There are even those who say that another light above appeared to blink, as if communicating the one below. This made them fear the worst, and contributed to restless sleep for two nights.
There is much more evidence of the extraordinary event, known as a Close Encounter of the 2nd Kind (CE-2), a variety of eyewitness accounts from an entire community stricken with terror by the tremendous light that lit all of the nearby hills, and even caused the city’s own electric lights to dwindle, all of this amid strong winds and the cold nights of early 2008.
In order to reach the landing site of the luminous UFO, it is necessary to walk for several hours or reach the site on all-terrain vehicles, since there could be evidence of some sort to be found where the UFO remained for 30 hours, all the while flashing its lights.
It should be noted that the area has various mineral and metal deposits, such as uranium, cobalt, gold, silver and copper. [...] A more thorough investigation of what appears to be a genuine UFO case must be performed, verifying if there were any traces left behind at Pie de Minas hill, in the “La V” wilderness of the community of Mezcala, Municipality of Zumpango del Rio, state of Guerrero. Other reports involving strange phenomena have been received from other municipalities early this year.
(Text submitted by reporter Javier Francisco Reyes)
Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU - Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 29, 2008
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Source: Diaro El Mañana de Valles (newspaper)
Date: 01.28.08
Mexico: UFO Reported in the Huasteca Region
[And before anyone asks - No, the copy of the photo in question has not been provided to us- Ed.]
According to a news article by reporter Dario Almazan, three technicians witnessed the descent of a UFO in the hills of Tepemiche in the early hours of Friday, January 25. The witnesses are Esau Zuniga, Omar Jair Zavala and Efrain Martinez.
They said that attended a party in Tanquian de Escobedo and upon their return to San Martin in a pickup truck, the saw a very bright light that crossed the heavens at high speed.
"It was a large object with a powerful light. We first thought it was a shooting star, but halted over the hills of Tepemiche, where we saw it descend," explained Esau Zuniga.
He added that all three shouted in unison that it was a UFO and approached the site along a breach in the ground. When they came to within 300 meters of it, they clealry saw that it was a rather large object.
"We saw a very strange flying artifact. As we got closer, we could see it was round, like a highly polished metal ball, with three potent lights in its lower section. It was still suspended only a few meters over the ground, very still. Some small porthole-like openings could be seen in the upper section, emitting light," he added.
He explained that no engine sounds could be heard. It was suspended in the air and turned its lights on and off intermittently. It suddenly took off at an impressive speed toward the Gulf of Mexico.
He added that this was the first time that he and his friends saw a UFO. They allegedly shouted: "We're friendly, take us with you!". Esau even managed to take photos of it with his cell phone, in which the object can be seen.
"Look, UFOs are real. The three of us here have seen one, so we have no question about it," the interviewee concluded.
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 28, 2008
[A curious synchronicity - Prof. Cid provides us with this photo just as we're looking into reports of possible "airship" activity in Puerto Rico in the early 20th century -- Ed.]
Source: www.analuisacid.com
Date: 01.28.08
Mexico: Interesting Photo from 1927
By Ana Luisa Cid
Mr. Jesus Martinez Castro sent me this photo taken in the year 1927. ( See Picture )
It was given to him by Santiago Barrios, who told him that the image was taken at the entrance to Acatlan de Juarez in the state of Guerrero, near a cave containing Olmec remains.
Mr. Barrios visits the town of Chilapa frequently and in last december, found this photo (which is on exhibit in a local restaurant).
According to the restaurant's owner, the photo was taken by her grandfather and she said that 10 years later, in 1937, it was learned that an unknown object had landed near Preparatoria 26, adding that a burned surface area was even found.
The woman does not want her name disclosed. However, she authorized Santiago Barrios to take photos of it for subsequent enlargement and dissemination.
Jesus Martinez Castro and Santiago Barrios work at the Instituto de Investigación Científica of the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero.
Note: A whitish area can be seen over the object. It is unknown if it is a spot on the photo or if it has an different origin. The Guerrero-based researchers dismiss the possibility of a photographic fraud.
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 28, 2008
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Source: Caracol
Date: 01.28.2008
Colombia: Seven UFOs Reported over Cundinamarca
Colombian ufologist William Chavez, during an interview with Caracol Radio, noted that several UFO sightings had been reported in the municipalities of Tabio and Tenjo.
The expert explained that a total of seven objects were seen in the sky. "Truly, they have been appearing constantly since the beginning of January."
Chavez explained that between 50 and 60 people were camped out on Saturday night and were able to see the first object. "We were there with our video cameras when a craft landed very near a farm. The image was so clear that it was even possible to see the portholes."
According to the specialist, six other objects came into view. "For example, one of them was octopus-shaped. It spun and was blue in color. And as if to confirm that we weren't insane, one of them flew directly over us and people started screaming."
To William Chavez, the constant presence of Unidentified Flying Objects is related to the concern exhibited by other intelligences over global warming, and over the reactivation of volcanic activity in Colombia, as these vehicles reportedly avail themselves of the energy released from silicon found in the craters of these geological formations.
For more information: http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/540175.asp
and http://www.caracol.com.co/
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 28, 2008
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Source: www.analuisacid.com
Date: 01.28.08
Mexico: Black Objects Surround Japanese Airliner
*** A report from Ana Luisa Cid ***
An Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 was surrounded by 20 spherical objects in the San Mateo Air Corridor in the vicinity of the Satellite Towers in the state of Mexico. This report was provided to researcher Alfonso Salazar by technical personnel of the MCIA who had direct access to crew information. The airliner's registration number is JA-880.
The sighting took place on January 24, 2008 at 6:30 in the evening, when the Japanese airliner flew the Vancouver-Mexico City route.
The witnesses specified that the flying objects were black-colored and divided into two groups.
It should be noted multiple encounters between UFOs and airliners have been reported in this air corridor.
MCIA - Mexico City International Airport
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid)
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 27, 2008
ATLANTIS RISING
By Brad Steiger
Galde Press, 2007
193 pages, $14.95
Inexplicata gives this book five stars (* * *)
About thirty years ago, a schoolboy walked into a local bookstore and noticed a misplaced book: a paperback with a Frank Frazetta cover had been inadvertently placed in the science fiction section when it should have been in the esoterica aisle (as it was called back then). Intrigued, he leafed through it and found himself spending at least half an hour reading at the store, too irresistible to put down. After buying it, he continued perusing its contents on the bus back home; the next day, the book accompanied him to school, where he read it during class time, keeping it from the watchful, restless eyes of Sister Lewis Marie.
The book with the Frazetta cover was called Atlantis Rising, its author was Brad Steiger, and the inquisitive schoolboy was me.
Atlantis was always a name to charm anyone with an interest in antiquity, real or legendary. Comic books like Korg: 70,000 BC pitted cavemen against red-tunicked Atlanteans with high technology, Robert E. Howard’s Conan The Barbarian was set in the centuries after the fall of Atlantis. Movies about Atlantis and its lethal death rays filled the afternoon hours: Captain Nemo found Atlantis; James Bond destroyed it in The Spy Who Loved Me. In the 19th century, supporters of the lost continent rioted in the streets for love of their idealized paradise. But all of these references were clearly framed in the realm of fiction. Atlantis Rising was the first book in paperback form to reach an audience who knew about Atlantis, but not nearly enough. A book that reach deep into the bag of mystery to give its readers a feel for the multiple and marvelous theories regarding the lost continent in what we tentatively refer to as the “real world”.
It took Brad Steiger’s gift of making the arcane accessible to the unspecialized reader, supporting his texts with facts, figures and dates, to make the drowned continent emerge from its watery grave on paper. A reader who might have heard of Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World was now treated to the prophecies of Edgar Cayce, the underwater research of Dr. Manson Valentine, the possibility of Atlantis still surviving in our day and age as an undersea civilization responsible for UFO phenomena, and the possibility that certain mystics among us were in touch – through what later became known as “channeling” – with entities from the lost continent. No longer was Atlantis confined to the sword-and-sandal world of Harryhausen’s Atlantis: The Lost Continent (and its convincing ray gun) but a place, or at least a concept, approached by these multiple theories.
Particularly stunning was a chapter whose title still carries a distinctive ring in later years – “An Inner Earth Empire of Masters and Monsters.” It is quite possible that to many readers, this was their first taste of the writings of Richard Shaver and theories involving the Elder Race and their descendants: the Apollonian Teros and the insanely Dionysian Deros, misguidedly using the “mech” of the Elder Race to cause mayhem among surface dwellers and further debase themselves. No concept or image could be further from the concept of a pseudo-Grecian Atlantis whose towers, brave warriors and fair ladies slipped into the drink after a storm that forever changed the world and made the Atlantic Ocean supposedly unnavigable for generations.
It’s difficult to render an objective opinion on a work that has meant so much to so many over the past three decades, and is now available to a whole new readership thanks to Galde Press. My own reading of Atlantis Rising was set against the background of Puerto Rico’s nearly constant UFO activity in the 1970s and the belief that the island was one of the remnants of the lost continent, a notion bolstered by the presence of the enigmatic mountain rainforest of El Yunque and the affirmations of many sensitives and mystics of its affiliation to the sunken continent. Human disappearances at this site, and the reports of impish beings, could easily feed into a belief of Dero mischief. The contemporary reader will be treated to theories and cases that go beyond the routine paranormal fare of ghosts and Roswell, and those who read it in the past may find themselves remembering concepts that faded from memory over the years under the weight of new information and insights.
The bottom line: if you are a student of the paranormal, read Atlantis Rising. If you are interested in the possibility of a pre-human civilization whose legacy surrounds us in the shape of inexplicable works of architecture and strange artifacts, read Atlantis Rising. If you are an enthusiast of the Atlantis of fiction, expand your horizons by reading this book and you may never think about comics, movies or boardgames the same way again. I can only hope that thirty years from now, some other young person sets aside whatever electronic entertainment the future has in store for them and comes across a copy of this seminal work. Read it and be enlightened!
-- Scott Corrales, INEXPLICATA
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 25, 2008
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Source: Argus-PR
Date: Saturday, January 19, 2008
PUERTO RICO: FOLLOW-UP on the Guánica UFO
A Report from Jose A. Martinez
We are continuing our report on the sightings of strange lights over the town of Guanica which have been taking place since last Friday. The sightings are ongoing. The day after having reported on the huge, classical saucer-shaped UFO, more detailed information was received from another district near the previous one (Vivones).This time the report came from Puig, near the town of Guanica. Behind this district we find the notorious Lajas Valley. Several witnesses reported seeing a strange light, bright orange in color, appear out of nowhere at low altitude close to them. This luminous phenomenon did not make any noise or perceptible sounds. This incident took place at an early time -- 8:10 p.m. -- and the objects maneuvers were a zig-zag in the same location very low altitude before taking off toward Lajas at an incredible speed. Jose Hernandez is not a believer in UFOs and says that he had never seen one in his life until that evening, and cannot explain what he saw with his own eyes. His brother in law added that he nad never seen anything like it either, and that he was impressed to see this object such a short distance away from them.
Two Police Officers from Guanica Report UFO on Guanica Back Road Toward Lajas
Source: Argus PR
Date: Sunday, January 20, 2008
Two municipal policemen on their day off were spending time with their families at La Parguera, Lajas. (The officers' names will not be disclosed at their request). When both families departed the La Parguera district, they made ready to return to Guanica using a back road known as Los Hornos, a lonely road that runs from Ensenada de Guanica to Parguera -- deserted and without electric lighting except for some intersections and the odd house.
Taking advantage of the darkness, one of the officer pulled over to urinate. When this physiological imperative was nearly over, he noticed that there was on object nearby -- hovering at low altitude and perfectly dark. Frightened, he ran back to his car. The object suddenly turned on its lights and followed them all the way back to Ensenada de Guanica. The object stopped following them once they reached the area that has good public lighting.
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Jose A. Martinez)
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Mas avistamientos de luces extrañas en Guánica
Sabado 19 de enero 2008
Nuevamente aquí continuando con las información relacionado a los avistamientos de extrañas luces en el pueblo de Guánica que han ocurrido desde el viernes pasado en la noche los avistamientos continuan, al dia siguiente de haber informado los hechos del enorme ovni con la forma clasica de plato volador, en otro barrio cercano al antes mencionado(Vivones) tenemos mas informacion detallada de otro avistamiento al dia siguiente, pero esta vez en el barrio Fuig que se encuentra cerca del Pueblo de Guónica y detrás de este barrio se encuentra el afamado valle de Lajas, en la cual varios testigos vieron como de la nada logran observar una extraña luz de color anaranjado intenso y a baja altura cerca de estos, el fenómeno luminico no hemitia ruido o sonido alguno perceptible, la hora de incidente fue muy temprano en la noche 8:10pm. la evoluciones del objeto fueron zig zag en el mismo lugar por varios minutos a muy baja altura y se disparó a una velocidad increible hacia Lajas, dos de los testigos Jose Hernadez no cree en esas cosas de los ovnis e indica que nunca habia visto uno en su vida , hasta esa noche que no puede explicar lo que vio con sus propios ojos, su cuñado hizo el mismo comentario al respecto que nunca habia visto una cosa asi en su vida y que fue impresionante al ver ese ahi sin ruido alguno y a poca distancia.
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Dos policias Municipales de Guanica avistan ovni en carretera secundaria de Guanica hacia la Parguera Lajas.
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Domingo 20 de enero 2008
Dos policias municipales que disfrutaban de sus dias libres estaban compartiendo con su familia en la Parguera en Lajas. (Los Nombre de ambos oficiales no seran expuesto a peticion de ambos) Cuando ambas familias salieron muy tarde del sector La Parguera de Lajas se dispusieron a regresar a su Pueblo Guánica usando una vía secundaria llamada los Hornos , es una carretera estatal que va desde el Poblado Ensenada de Guanica hasta la Parguera, la misma es solitaria y es costera en otras palabras la carretera queda al lado de la playas del sur de esta zona hasta La Parguera, no tiene alumbrado electrico ecepto en agunas intercepciones y una que otra casa que encuentras en el camino. Uno de los oficiales aprovechando que la calle es obsecura tuvo la necesidad de ir a orinar y se estacionó y fue hacer su necesidad fisiologica, cuando ya esta casi terminando se percata que muy cerca de el se encontraba un objeto extraño a baja altura y apagado, sin luces alguna, salio corriendo asustado al ver el objeto que tan pronto entro a su auto el objeto que estaba en el aire encendio sus luces y los siguio todo el trayecto hasta llegar hasta encenada que ya habia luces de tendido electrico, ya el objeto habia dejado de seguirlos.
José A. Martínez E.
Puerto Rican Experimental Research Group, Inc
Brightlights Ufologist Digest
Historias Ufologicas de Puerto Rico y Exterior
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 21, 2008
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Source: http://www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/argentina/080115.shtml
Date: 01.15.2008
January 15th 2008 : Santa Fe, Santa Fe Provincia
UFOINFO Sighting Form Report
Location: Santa Fe, Santa Fe Provincia, Argentina
Date: 15/01/2008
Time: 00:25 Morning
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: 3 amber lights in a triangle shape
Weather Conditions: warm & clear
Description: A friend and I were sitting on the roof/terrace of my house in the city center when we saw 3 amber lights in a perfect triangle shape moving rapidly in the sky (from the north toward south). The lights did not seems to flash and remain in perfect triangle shape the whole time. The sighting lasted 10/15 sec before the lights disapeared in the distance. In comparason to a plane that flew across the sky 20min later, the lights seem to be much lower than the plane and about 5 time faster.
TV/Radio: n/a
(Information courtesy of John Hayes,UFOINFO: - http://www.ufoinfo.com/ )
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 19 2008
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Source: Project Argus - Puerto Rican Experimental Research Group
Date: January 19, 2008
PUERTO RICO: Giant UFO Over Guanica
*** A report from Jose A. Martinez ***
Last night, January 18 2008 at 10:15 p.m. on the coastal sector of Guanica (southwestern Puerto Rico) an enormous classic "flying saucer" object was reported, with hundreds of rows of red lights surroudning it. Before the sighting, the witnesses alleged -- and I confirm what they said -- having heard an airplane flying overhead at exactly that time, as I was watching television at that hour. The witnesses were more numerous in the upper area of Vivones when they observed the transit of the airplane, followed by this round, enormous flying artifact with red lights.
The object rested for several minutes on a nearby hill, at very low altitude, nearly treetop level, blinding witnesses with its red lights. Among them were Roberto Garcia and wife Patricia, who tried to photograph the object with their cell phone but didn't manage to obtain an image. Other local residents were frightened and unable to sleep that night after the object took off toward Lajas at high spped. The witnesses told me that this is not the first case that they've seen in the at this hour of the night.
The object made no sound whatsoever, the night was clear and full of stars, and the aerostat could be seen at low altitude and in the distance. It is impossible to mistake the Lajas Aerostat with the object reported by the witnesses.
We will be on the lookout for more witnesses to this interesting event.
Sincerely,
Jose Martinez
Translation (c) 2008. S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Jose A. Martinez and Project Argus.
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ENORME OVNI TIPO PLATO VOLADOR SURCA LOS CIELOS DE GUANICA
Anoche dia 18 de enero del 2008 a las 10:17pm en el litoral costero de Guánica en uno de sus barrios fue avistado un enorme objeto clasico palto volador con ciento de hilera de luces rojas al su alrededor. Antes del avistamiento los testigos alegan y confirmo lo dicho por ellos porque yo tambien lo escuche el paso de un avion en la misma hora que el suceso ya que me encontraba viendo tv a esa hora, los testigos que fueron numerosos en la zona mas alta de Vivones observaron cuando pasó el avión y dentras de este venia este artefacto volador redondo y enorme con luces rojas, el objeto se poso varios minutos en el monte cercano a muy muy pero muy baja altura a ras de la copas de lo arboles y deslumbrado con su brillantes de color rojizo el objeto a los numerosos testigos, entre estos Roberto Garcia y su esposa Patricia trataron de fotografiar el objeto con su celular, pero no lograron una imagen ya que no salia bien por el gran resplador. Otros residentes del lugar estaban atemorizados que no pudieron dormir bien después que el objeto salio disparado hacia Lajas a gran velocidad. Los testigos me indicaron que no es el primer caso que ellos ven, a tempranas hora de la noche. El objeto no emitia ruido alguno, la noche estaba clara y estrellada, el aerostato se veia a las distancia a baja altura y es imposible confundir el aerostato de lajas con sus luces rojas con la distancia comparada de los testigos vieron el ovni.
Estaremos pendiente a mas testigos de este avistamiento tan interesante.
att:
José A. Martínez E.
Puerto Rican Experimental Research Group, Inc
Brightlights Ufologist Digest
Historias Ufologicas de Puerto Rico y Exterior
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 17, 2008
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Source: http://www.ovnicor.blogspot.com/
Date: 01.16.08
Argentina: Air Force Debunks Rio Cuarto Sighting?
The following was received this morning from Mario Bracamonte of the Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense (COR) in Argentina;
"Commodore Juan Carlos Bernascono, Chief of the Rio Cuarto Material Area, vehemently denied that any UFO sighting took place from the Control Tower of that important air force base in the vicinity of Rio Cuarto.
"He called into question the unfortunate statements made by the public relations chief. An internal inquiry has been undertaken to assign responsibility for this act.
"More information will be available this afternoon."
INEXPLICATA thanks Mario Bracamonte and the members of COR for this information.
Scott Corrales
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 17, 2008
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Source: Planeta UFO
Date: January 16, 2008
Argentina: New UFO Sighting Over Necochea
And while the Argentinean Air Force issues denials and chastises members of the high command, we have received the following from our Contributing Editor Guillermo Gimenez:
"At 23:05 on Wednesday, January 16, a new anomalous manifestation appeared over the city of Necochea, Province of Buenos Aires, on the Argentinean coast.
"Mr. Alberto Gabilan witnessed a large light in the starry sky. It had an intense blue color that lit part of the sky in a matter of seconds before vanishing without a trace. Shortly after, and as the witness continued his observations, he became aware of another, smaller light that "flashed" as it went, losing itself toward the sea. It should be clarified that weather conditions were good, the skies were clear, without any clouds whatsoever.
There was also another witness last night to an object that flew over the city as it issued a potent white light. These events can be added to the sightings occurring in other parts of the country."
Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 17, 2008
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Source: INFOBAE and Fundacion Cosmos AC
Date: January 17, 2008
Argentina: NASA To Look Into Rio Cuarto UFO?
The phenomenon was seen by residents of that locality and an official air traffic controler. The Air Force is willing to ask help from that U.S. agency in order to clear up the matter. These are the first images taken of the strange object.
See Picture.
The Argentinean Air Force is looking into a UFO sighting reported by an air traffic controller and hudnreds of residents of Rio Cuarto in the Province of Cordoba (central Argentina), military sources told the EFE news agency.
They indicated that cooperation has been requested from the Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) and if necessary, from the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) of the U.S. government.
Spokesmen confirmed that the AAF does not have records of the UFO sighted on Monday night by anb operator of the Rio Cuarto airport and seen by hundreds of residents of that city, located 700 km from Buenos Aires.
The traffic controller saw a strange object that did not reply to his request for identification and later vanished after flying over the airport.
Hundreds of local residents phoned radio and TV stations to report the UFO sighting. Carlos Oyola, spokesman for the Air Force in Rio Cuarto, stated that there was no record of any civillian or military flights at the time of the sighting.
Oyola told the Rio Cuarto press that the object did not correspond to a conventional aircraft "nor one of the satellites that are often seen" over the area.
But Air Force sources told EFE today that Oyola's statements do not imply official admission of the appearance of a UFO because the event has yet to be investigated.
In this regard, the stated that the object could be a weather balloon or an atmospheric phenomenon, and for this reason, cooperation was requested from CONAE and eventually from NASA.
For more information: http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/359635-100796-0-La-NASA-va-investigar-el-ovni-Río-Cuarto
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 16, 2007
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SOURCE:INFOBAE
DATE: January 15, 2007
Argentina: Locals Claim Seeing UFO in Rio Cuarto
Hundreds of local residents reported a strange flying object that traveled over the area in an unusual manner. They contacted a radio station to report on the luminous form that was visible in the sky.
Carlos Oyola, a spokesman for the Argentinean Air Force, said in a radio presentation that at the time that the undefined flying object was reported there were no flights scheduled, neither private, nor commercial, nor military.
Officially the Argentinean Air Force had no record of civil or military training flights at night, but the operator of the base's control tower saw an unidentified object that he was unable to identify.
In fact, the operator investigated the information on the object and attempted to communicate with it to request the altitude, registration, aircraft type and advise it of the corresponding air route, but there was no reply.
The object was sighted at 22:30 hours on Monday. According to those who saw it, it was a large object "with a more intensely yellow light than a satellite." It moved at high speed and flew from east to west in an elliptical manner.
For more information: http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/359300-100439-0-R%C3Do-Cuarto-vecinos-aseguran-que-vieron-un-OVNI
(Translation (c) 2007 S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Leopoldo Zambrano, Fundacion Cosmos, A.C.)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 16, 2007
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Source: Noticias UFO
Date: January 15, 2007
Argentina: UFO Over Santa Rosa - La Pampa
Date: 14 January 2008
Time: 22:30
Temperature: 30 degrees Centigrade
Skies: Clear
Number of Witnesses: 4
Sighting Duration: 25 seconds
Sounds During Sighting: None
The evening of Monday, January 14 was completely clear and as is normal for this time of year, the temperature was steady at 30 degrees C. Four people identified as MM, SS, OM and ED were in Zona Quinta in the southwest of Santa Rosa, enjoying a wading pool. One of the witnesses (SS) was lying at the edge of the pool and saw a light to the southwest that immediately drew his attention. It was far larger than any star.
The witness (SS) makes the others aware of the strange light and OM, who was nearest to the house, grabbed his binoculars and went to the front of the property in order to follow the object. Once he was able to locate the target with his field glasses, he was startled to see not one light but several (a total of four, which looked like a single light without binoculars).
From MM's story, satellites can always been cleary seen traveling in all directions. In his opinion, and that of the other witnesses, it wasn't a satellite, since he could tell the object was a low altitude (some 600 meters, "it passed right over our heads").
A noteworthy fact of his testimony was the halo of light that surrounded the object, an additional source of light that all of the witnesses noticed.
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Lucas Grossi, Noticias UFO).
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 15, 2008
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Source: http://www.ovni.net/
Date: 14 January '08
Puerto Rico: Strange Lights in Late 2007
On December 22, 2007, Wilmar and Frank were heading back toward Bayamon from the city of Ponce. Upon reaching Av. Los Filtros around 6:10 p.m., they watched the sunset and the arrival of twilight. Suddenly Wilma looked at the sky and saw what she at first thought was a jet. She quickly realized this was not the case, and that it could be a shooting star, but dismissed the possibility as the object remained in view and grew larger in size. She then thought it was a meteorite or something that had broken away and was falling toward the ground. That's when she asked Frank to look up, thinking that it was a meteorite or something similar. Frank told her it was a jet airplane. Wanda replied that those airplane left smoke in their wake, and this one had light. She added that it wasn't a normal aircraft, as it was flying forward and not the customary route followed by commercial planes.
Frank agreed with this assessment, and continued driving as they kept their eyes on the object. When they passed the Military Academy, the object stopped. Judging by the way the light came down, [the object] appeared cone-shaped. Suddenly, Wanda realized that another light of the same size pulled up beside it and then over the object. Unlike the first one, Wanda did not see a descending shaft of light from this craft. It only hung above the first one for some seconds. Then the cone-shaped object made a right turn (as if heading toward San Juan) making an "L" turn. It did not turn like a commercial airliner would, rather in a perfect turn that startled the onlookers. Both objects moved in unison and the lights suddenly disappeared.
Translation (c) S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Lucy Guzman, Ovni.net.
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 15, 2008
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Source: http://www.ovni.net/
Date: 14 January 2008
Puerto Rico: UFO over Lares
Mr. Blacky and his mother were watching the Moon on Saturday, January 12, 2008 when they suddenly became aware of 3 lights in motion. These lights were engaged in a circular movement, with the trio of light sources forming a circle and joining into a single light. All of this occurred in front of their house around 9:57 p.m.
Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, Special thanks to Lucy Guzman, Ovni.net
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An Interview With Inexplicata Contributors
Separated by distances that span both the wide Atlantic and continental landmasses, it isn't often that INEXPLICATA' s contributors get to exchange views with each other or with our readers. Here's what some of our contributing editors and writers had to say in response to our questions. Participating in this interview are Contributing Editor Lucy Guzman (LG) from Puerto Rico; Contributing Editor Manuel Carballal (MC) from Spain; researcher Andrea Pérez Simondini (APS) from Argentina, "Desclasificado" editor Javier Garcia Blanco (JGB) from Spain; Luis Eduardo Pacheco, editor of "Informe Alfa" (LEP) from Argentina; Inexplicata Contributing Editor Willie Durand Urbina (WDU) from Puerto Rico and Josep Guijarro (JB), editor of "Karma-7" magazine.
Click here to read.
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Carlos Murciano: "Something Floats Over Our World"
by Bruno Cardeñosa
In 1968, Carlos Murciano was assigned the UFO beat. Just like that, thanks to the good offices of the legendary Torcuato Luca de Tena, director of Spain's ABC newspaper. He went all over the world in search of evidence proving the existence of unidentified flying objects. Today, with the benefit of age and the time elapsed since his original assignment, the journalist reflects upon that singular quest and the ills afflicting 21st century ufology.
"This one of the key points," says Murciano. "The UFO phenomenon was deprived of its humanity. There was once upon a time a series of young people, researchers who projected the problem into statistics. They could have cared less about the character who had seen the strange object--only the percentages, the cold hard data, and the numbers, and they started publishing books with these statistics, which interested no one, since the enigma's human aspect had been eliminated."
Carlos Murciano, a native of Arcos de la Frontera near Cádiz, represents a historic moment in Spanish ufology. This poet and novelist, a award winner, and with ninety books under his belt, saw his life change before him in early September 1968. He was 37 years old at the time, with six children and an upper management position at a Madrid-based multinational. His literary prowess was becoming well-known and he was collecting his first prizes when Spanish society began to face an enigma which had hitherto concerned only a few people: unidentified flying objects.
That same year, according to the statistics he so disapproves of, UFOs were seen more than 400 times over the Iberian Peninsula, and society was beginning to wonder just what were those artifacts. Even he pondered over the subject in an article published in ABC on September 12, 1968. Seven days earlier, one of those strange objects had flown over Madrid, and he was unable to resist the temptation to write a piece that would modify the course of his entire life:
"Something floats over the World, over this old world of ours, weary of rolling through infinite space. Something (but what?) arrives (but from where?) to roam its skies (but how?) stopping sometimes (but why?) and later escaping (to where?). Something (or someone?) that we ignore and can only intuit is observing, stalking and monitoring the creatures of the Earth who, curious and confused, try to answer that great question which is made up of so many other lesser ones. It is hard, truly, to give credit to what we cannot verify without a doubt, but it is no easier to deny what thousands of people of all walks of life and in the most unequal parts of our planet are seeing every day; that which many men of science, who are cautious when it comes to drawing conclusions, are seriously studying and considering. "
Hours after writing these lines, Torcuato Luca de Tena, ABC's legendary editor, phoned him with a one-of-a-kind offer: to go around the world in search of UFOs. Carlos Murciano hesitated. I'm not a journalist, he told him. If I wanted a journalist, Luca de Tena replied, I could snap my fingers and have hundreds of them. But this mission called for a man of polished prose who was able to endow the mystery with a human dimension. And who could be better than a poet?
And so it was that Carlos Murciano temporarily set aside his business suit and donned his newspaperman garb, touring Spain and the world at large for almost a year, talking to and interviewing dozens of wise men who analyzed the enigma as well as witnesses of all different social and economic backgrounds who had seen the strange objects. The UFO correspondent does not recall having been home two days in a row after setting out on his journey.
He traveled extensively in Spain and overseas: Chile, Argentina, the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. His assignment was to write a daily chronicle for the newspaper, and the work grew to such proportions that the would write in hotels and aboard airplanes, but fortunately his reports created a great deal of interest: the man on the street wanted to know what it was all about and his articles sated the desire. In 1969, under the title "Something Floats Over the World", the Prensa Española publishing house released choice selections of his writings, which despite having sold out completely, was never reprinted. It remains today a holy grail item for anyone wishing to have a perspective of the UFO enigma in its moment of greatest splendor. His book remains one of the true classics in the small, great history of this enigma.
After those years there came an initial drought, followed by a new and prolonged wave of sightings between 1974 and 1980, and subsequently a void in which we are still floating, from a certain point of view. Public interest in the subject that Carlos Murciano experienced so closely was lost. There was a period in which there appeared to be a change in fortune, but finally, everything would revert to the irritating, cloying darkness.
When I sat facing Carlos Murciano in his Madrid residence, surrounded by the 20,000 books which form part of his extensive library, what interested me the most about this man--a journalist, who lived through those historic years like no other--was to learn what was the perspective he had gleaned over the years, and the judgement offered by a well-furnished intellect: his opinion on the subject in the light of the apparent lack of interest evinced by Spanish society, and the scarce regard felt toward those who research and study the subject. In the late 1960's, Murciano witnessed the birth of the split between UFO researchers, and that is the crux of the question, in his opinion.
"The problem was the purists who paid more importance to numbers than to witnesses. This contributed to the UFO phenomenon's deflation. The man who reads the papers, watches TV, or listens to the radio, isn't interested in that, and much like a balloon, the subject of UFOs deflated. Added to this was the reduction in sightings," observed Murciano.
"And I suppose that the lack of answers didn't help."
"Because there were no substantial development. No matter how well-informed you become and how much you study, the years go by and everything stays the same."
"After all those years of frantic searching, are you still involved with UFOs?
"Yes. Among the people I interviewed were researchers like Manuel Osuna and Antonio Ribera, who were enchanting, and with whom I stayed in touch. But there was that other group..."
Carlos Murciano, as a noted poet and winner of the Premio Nacional de Poesía in 1972, clashed head-on with the excessively cold trend of the scientists. Because, as he was able to attest after interviewing dozens of witnesses, the UFO enigma attacked a human being's emotional aspect directly. This was one of the things he learned in his journeys. "I had a contract signed with Planeta for a new book, but I got tired. The world of Literature, which was my world, was a world of constant struggle, filled with squabbles, contempt, and rejection, and it was necessary to always be at the forefront of the battle. I didn't want to open a second front. There was no need whatsoever for me to face the sector which thought that it had discovered it all, and even though Planeta insisted, I refused. I took a step backward and told myself: you guys can have it. Because UFOs," concludes Murciano, referring to ufology's so-called critical or scientific sector, known today as skeptical ufology, "cannot be studied in the abstract."
"Therefore, your reaction was a product of the face-off which came about between both sectors of ufology."
"It's just that I couldn't echo that perspective, " Carlos pauses and then states: "No echo and no future. And time proved me right."
One of the cases which best portrayed the showdown between ufology's two factions was the one experienced by IBERIA pilot Jaime Ordovs on February 25, 1969, when flying over the Mediterranean coast, he witnessed a giant triangular artifact engaged in impossible maneuvers.
Carlos Murciano recalls, as though the interview had taken place yesterday, the testimony of the pilot and its crew. "Whey saw did not appear to correspond to anything known," he points out. But by then, that other faction of ufology which he mentions was classifying Venus as a possible cause for the sighting. "Venus, Venus, it always pops up as a possible explanation, " he laments.
As years went by, he was able to ascertain that these ufologists upheld the explanation, which was also set forth in the Spanish Air Force's declassified reports, of which he learned thanks to the follow-up on the subject conducted by J.J. Benítez, the man who from his position in journalism collected the testimony of Murciano's eyewitness.
Much has changed since the days when Carlos Murciano carried out his research. A fundamental factor is the that interest in the UFO phenomenon has become factionalized due to errors of one party or the other. Nor does it give rise to social debate on the street, as it did then. Has this been a cause for the number of sightings to decline? In part, yes. Is there a guilty party? Murciano summarized it in a single sentence: This enigma cannot be studied in the abstract. But as this veteran man of letters knows, the Unidentified exist and allow us to see them every so often, while those of us who research and popularize the subject decades later, are obligated to lay down the grounds which will aid scientists in emerging from the fatigue generated by the enigma, and who knows, perhaps spur the quest to find an answer to the mystery.
"Do you think that the option of humanizing the enigma, resurrecting it, still exists?"
"It would be necessary to start from a pool of new sightings. It is necessary to have a new wave that acts as the trigger. There's no doubt that this phenomenon is cyclical, and it has always been so. But this latest silence is highly significant and has already lasted many years."
"But it seems impossible nowadays that the daily press would renew its permanent treatment of the subject, as it was done then. There is a great deal of rejection."
"There was always rejection, but what has indeed changed is the mindset. Before, scientists and intellectuals were always at loggerheads; now it's not so much. I don't think that a newspaper like El País or El Mundo would be criticized for retaking an interest in the subject. If the subject is approached from a modern perspective and seriously, it would be interesting! "
"What's your hypothesis about the UFO phenomenon?"
"That UFOs exist as such and that other worlds are inhabitable, " replies Carlos Murciano. "There is enough evidence for the former, but what are they. The latter I can't prove, but I'm convinced that there is life on other worlds. Intelligent life? I don't know. Or let me put it this way--something floats over the world and it comes from elsewhere, why not? I interviewed, " he continues, "diplomats, clergymen, scientists, military, pilots, technicians, academics, people of all types and backgrounds. "
"And out of all of them, whose account impressed you the most?"
"So much time's gone by," Carlos reflects, sighing and recalling an episode which took place in Sanlucar de Barrameda (Seville) in 1969. "A nine year-old girl had gone out of her house into the back yard, where there was an olive tree, and saw an object hovering over it. She went back into her house to tell her grandmother, who also saw it. The girl never went out of her house and into the back yard again at night, and she wasn't a liar. I don't know what she saw, but something strange stood in front of her."
Translation (c) 1999 S. Corrales, special thanks to Bruno Cardeñosa.
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Inexplicata
To our Readers: In view of the resurgence of the phenomenon of "mystery fireballs" over the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, we are reprinting a feature by Lucy Guzman (who almost ten years later is still researching the confounded things!)about the wave of enigmatic bolides that occurred during the last decade. We hope that this may provide a context in which to understand the current spate of sightings over the city of Ponce -- Scott Corrales.
Fireballs Over Puerto Rico: UFOs or Military Devices?
by Lucy Guzmán de Pla
Late 1997 and early 1998 represented a period of considerable activity in Puerto Rico: The U.S. Navy was conducting maneuvers as a prelude to operations in the Middle East, while floating missiles washed up on the beaches of Loíza, Yabucoa and Humacao. If tests were being conducted 200 miles off shore, why would these missiles wash up on beaches? An armed forces communique distributed to the media simply stated that the missiles were harmless and that "currents" had caused them to drift toward the island.
Simultaneously, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was preparing its Coquí II Project and the launching of 11 rockets from February 12 to April 9th from the former U.S. military base at Camp Tortuguero. This project was met with strong opposition by the Comité Contra los Experimentos Ambientales, the mayor and municipal assembly of Vega Baja, and other ecological, civic and religious organizations protesting the absence of information on the project. They were fearful of a repeat of the events which transpired in 1992, as well as of the fact that the boosters would release into the atmosphere a chemical compound known as "bromo-trifluoro- methane", whose use is forbidden by international treaties due to its devastating effect upon the ozone layer.
NASA assured local residents, protesters and environmentalists that there was nothing to fear. However, a NASA official acknowledged that bromo-trifluoro- methane had indeed been used in 1992, but insisted that this time, aluminum trimethrol (TMA) would be employed, stating: "The reason for which we have chosen TMA is precisely because it has not been recognized as a harmful chemical."
The project's goal was the evaluation of the electrical properties and turbulence of the upper atmosphere. Five of the twelve rockets launched five kilograms of TMA into the atmosphere while the remaining six contained instrumentation necessary to carry out the project.
According to Mr. Maximo Cerame Vivas, scientific advisor to the Economic Development Administration, TMA would oxidize and turn luminous once in space, enabling it to be visible from the ground and that scientists would determine the impact of atmospheric turbulence upon communication satellites in orbit. After 20 minutes had elapsed, the TMA would break down into carbon dioxide, water vapor, aluminum oxide and other substances in the upper atmosphere without having any harmful effects on the lower atmosphere or on Earth itself.
There were also reports of mysterious fireballs on the island during this same time period. One of these cases was that of Mr. Antonio (Tony) Sánchez, who experienced a possible CE2K with evidence. The case produced secondary effects on witnesses, researchers and also produced electrical effects in the Sánchez home. The event's characteristics led me to dig a little deeper into the case and share it with you, our faithful readers.
The Sánchez Family's Experience
It all started on Sunday, March 22, 1998. Mr. Sánchez's family was enjoying a peaceful domestic day in his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico's Ocean Park neighborhood. Suddenly, at around 11:30 P.M., Mr. Sánchez, along with his wife, son and dog, heard a loud sound which lasted "approximately 5 minutes." They gave it little significance, until another even louder sound split the air 5 minutes later, originating from the Sanchez's backyard. Mrs. Jose Trudel, Sánchez's wife, began screaming; the two-year old child cried and the family dog hid and refused to emerge. Heading towards the gate that led to the back yard, Mr. Sánchez went to find the source of the noise, since his wife claimed having seen a flash of light in originating in the same area.
Upon reaching the gate, Sánchez was startled to see a ball of fire measuring some 3 feet in diameter--deep red in color--which gave off rays or sparks from its middle. He was unable to see through the brightness, which was accompanied by a sort of steam similar to highly-illuminated water vapor. According to Sánchez testimony, the ball resembled a slowly-descending sphere that remained suspended in the air for some 8 seconds before suddenly disappearing, leaving nothing behind but what appeared to be water vapor.
Shortly after, red and white lights made themselves visible on the home's walls. The lights rose gradually [sic] but the family was unable to ascertain its provenance. A few minutes later, the Sánchez's heard the sound of a low flying aircraft. By the sound, the elder Sánchez thought it sounded like a military airplane, stating that his ability at distinguishing aircraft noises came from having worked at the local international airport.
On Monday, March 23, Sánchez noticed strange dark marks on the screen of his T.V. set, also noticing that whenever came close to the gate leading to the backyard, a strange itch would invade his body; dizziness would soon follow, along with a pressure on his chest. The entire area seemed bathed in heat.
Beginning to worry, he decided to place a call to the F.B.I.. An agent flatly told them that "they" had nothing to do with such matters and advised him to contact the local police headquarters. Sánchez had little luck there, either. A police officer (identified as Agent Quiñones) advised him to place a call to Channel 11. In doing so, Sánchez managed to speak to reporter Susan Soltero, who agreed to visit his home along with reporter Margarita Aponte and a cameraman. Soltero conducted an interview, produced a video for Channel 11's news broadcast, and advised Mr. Sánchez to contact Dr. Andrew Alvarez, an anthropologist and freelance UFO researcher. On Tuesday, March 24, both men managed to speak about the matter and agreed on an appointment for Friday, March 27.
Sánchez's Neighbor Suffers Physical Effects
Luis Carrido, Sánchez's next door neighbor, was curious about the events and decided to investigate. When he showed up, Sánchez was on the phone, so Carrido decided to enter the backyard on his own, where he spent approximately 15 minutes. He entered then entered the house and told Sánchez that he was leaving since he was feeling dizzy and fatigued.
Two hours later, Carrido was taken to San Pablo hospital in the town of Bayamon, complaining of fever, an itching sensation throughout his body, dizziness, general discomfort and red blotches all over his skin. The blotches felt like air bubbles inside his skin, and were hard to the touch. He was placed on an I.V. by a physician and subsequent tests performed could find nothing wrong with him.
Carrido received a telephone call while in the hospital: an alleged "secret agent" asked him to refrain from making any comments on the case and what had transpired there. Even more curious was the fact that Sánchez also received a similar call with a the same indication. Even more curious is the fact that the attending physician at San Pablo hospital also received a phone call (according to Sánchez), and that he was replaced by "a very strange doctor" who followed up on Carrido's progress.
Tuesday, March 24th: Carrido was surprised at the change in care givers. A "very strange" doctor entered the room, did not utter a word at the patient, gave orders for a medication to be injected into the IV, and promptly left.
Wednesday, March 25th: Carrido was told that he "had to leave the hospital". The patient explains that the "strange doctor" must have put some kind of antidote into the IV, since all his symptoms had vanished.
A few days later, Carrido returned to the hospital to request a copy of his medical record and the names of the attending physicians. He was told that patient records were erased every two days from the computer and that his request could not be met.
The EPA Investigates
At the request of Dr. Andrew Alvarez, a team from the Environmental Protection Agency visited the Sánchez home twice. During their initial visit, says Sánchez, they turned up wearing what appeared to be space suits. They unloaded their equipment, which consisted of: two Geiger counters, one with a wide area sensor, the other with a narrow area sensor; two Hand-held flame ionization detectors; one photo ionization air monitor. All of them wore EPA badges on their outfits.
The team headed for the backyard and concentrated their investigation on the site where the fireball had first been seen. They consulted among themselves, took soil samples, interviewed both Sánchez and Carrido, and when they were done, they took off their uniforms, threw them in a bag and gave it to Sánchez to dispose of, advising him that:
1. No radiation had been found on the site.
2. No abnormal contamination had been detected.
3. That there was something strange there, but they had no idea what it was.
4. He should avoid going into the backyard for the time being.
After approximately a week and a half, Sánchez still did not have a reply from them and decided to call them in hopes of getting one. The phone call resulted in a second visit.
The day that the EPA team returned, Drs. Andrew Alvarez and Edwin Velázquez--who investigated the Sánchez case--happened to be present at the residence. A special agent also visited the house and proceeded to interview the EPA team and the scientist accompanying them, after which he left. The EPA team then told Sánchez that he would have the results of their research "within a week and a half." As of June 1998, Sánchez still does not know what occurred in his own backyard and if his family can once again make use of their property without fear of any hidden hazards, or if the fireball may cause secondary effects upon them down the line.
Drs. Alvarez and Velázquez Research the Case
When Alvarez and Velázques reached the Sánchez home, reporter Margarita Aponte was also on the scene. The latter wanted to interview them, but they were unable to contribute much since their own efforts had not yet begun and they still knew very little. They unloaded their equipment, spoke to witnesses, and visited the site of the curious events.
They found no traces of:
1. Radiation
2. Gentian-wave [sic] anomalies
3. Electromagnetic field anomalies
They obtained samples of:
1. Soil
2. A metal fragment
3. An oily substance
Photographs taken:
1. A television set that presented electromagnetic anomalies. Slides were taken of the T.V. set while it was off.
2. Even while off, the T.V. set presented spots which increased and diminished in size and had a silvery, spherical appearance.
3. The site in which the events took place.
Remarks:
1. Surrounding leaves presented small nests or spiderwebs "apparently" made by small insects. This did not draw their attention.
2. The surrounding foliage appeared withered and had experienced changes in color.
3. Fungi were growing on the plants.
4. An oily substance was found on the leaves.
5. The family dog, which had formerly enjoyed going to the backyard, refused to approach the area.
6. T.V. set presented spots which increased and diminished in size and had a silvery, spherical appearance
7. After 4 days, the leaves of the surrounding plants became elongated.
Provisional Results Based on the Evidence
1. The slide photos taken of the T.V., to the researcher's surprise, presented what appeared to be perfect, highly detailed human silhouettes. Sánchez claims one of them resembles "an indian."
2. The strange oily substance was taken to Masa Laboratories in Bayamón where it was analyzed by one Dr. Colón. The test shows that it is a NASA "patented" oil for use in aeronautical devices.
Note: The oil sample was sent to another laboratory and results are still being expected. The slides are still expecting analysis and the investigation is ongoing.
The Researchers Suffer Physical Effects
Friday, March 27: while Alvarez and Velázquez conducted their field research, they were stricken by an overpowering itchiness. This led them to finish their work and interview one final witness before leaving.
Saturday, March 28: Alvarez still felt the itchy sensation and was also debilitated.
Sunday, March 29: Alvarez became aware of something strange on his skin.
Monday, March 30: Three welts appeared on Alvarez's back and thighs, resembling boils. Concerned by this, the researcher phoned both Velázquez and Sánchez to see if they had experienced any symptoms. They had not.
When the researchers returned to the Sánchez home, Channel 11 reporter Susan Soltero was on hand to conduct a follow-up report. She interviewed Alvarez and videotaped the boils on his body.
While the researchers where on site, a putative "Secret Service Agent" calling himself Mr.Smith phoned Sánchez. Speaking in perfect English and in an authoritative tone, he ordered Sánchez to remain quiet and to stop all media exposure, since "they" were already in control of the situation. Sánchez expressed the fear that the situation might be of an otherworldly nature; the "agent" told him not to worry, since "nothing" existed outside this world. When a phone call was placed to the phone number given by the alleged agent, they discovered it belonged to a Federal Government Agency located in the Bronx, New York. The agency appears to have no connection whatsoever to the Secret Service and of course, there was no Mr. Smith working there.
Other Witnesses to the Incident:
1. Luisa de la Torre -- saw the same fireball at the same place, date and time.
2. Tita Mercado -- while visiting some friends in Ocean Park, she became aware of luminous spheres that appeared to be burning with fire. She claims that the spheres had points and seem to originate from the Barrio Obrero district, flying over their heads and into the sea, hovering above the reefs from one side to another, changing places two or three times.
3. Anonymous Friend of Tita Mercado -- A friend of Ms. Mercado whose name is being kept confidential told her that the night before the event he noticed a van with enormous floodlights aimed at the water on the road that comes from Canóvanas and links up with the 65th Infantry Highway. Allegedly, the van operators pulled Ms. Mercado's friend over, advised him to remain silent about what he had seen, and made a tape recording of his voice before letting him go.
4. Mrs. Garcia -- claims to live in the Ocean Park area and says that the balls of light are quite common. At night, she says, she has seen beautiful lights that change colors, acquire saucer-shapes, appear to have floodlights, fly along the beaches and enter and exit the sea.
Similar Cases on the Island During this Period
1. Federico Alvarez (no relation), President of the UFOSCIPR Organization (a local group devoted to UFO research) reported that on the evening of February 22, 1998, cases similar to the Sánchez event were reported in the town of Jayuya's Monte Puntita. He investigated the case and took soil samples which were sent to a lab. The lab results show that the soil was contaminated with lithium and titanium. Giant ferns had been split in half and a path of burnt vegetation could be clearly seen.
2. Dr. Andrew Alvarez was reminded of May 5, 1997 case in which some witnesses saw a fireball descend. A fire erupted on the mountainside. Alvarez investigated the case but found no evidence whatsoever.
3. On January 12, 1998, the Noti-Uno radio station reported that fifteen people had seen a fireball hovering over Americo Miranda Avenue and Barrio Obrero for about 45 minutes, before it disappeared toward the Fort Buchanan area. The news media later reported that a weather balloon had crashed. However, the weather bureau had nothing to say in this regard.
4. On January 12, 1998, Marina Molina Maldonado phoned "Noti-Uno" to say that in the early morning hours, residents of Arecibo's Barrio Candelaria had witnessed the passage of an enormous blue fireball which caused power failures, triggered alarm systems and even caused clocks to tremble [sic]. Mrs. Molina, her teenaged sons and several neighbors witnessed the unidentified flying object, indicating that the object "resembled the sun". However, an environmental group from that city indicated that it was probably a military experiment which could cause harm to the Tortugueros Nature Preserve.
Conclusion
The Sánchez case remains open, since no clear explanation for the events at this location has been reached.
Dr. Alvarez tends to believe, despite the lack of solid evidence on which to base his conclusion, that what happened at the Sánchez home was apparently terrestrial in origin and may be linked to U.S. Navy operations being conducted off the Puerto Rican coast during that time period.
Translation (c) 1998 and (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Lucy Guzman.
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 14, 2008
PUERTO RICO: Fireballs over Ponce
*** A report from Lucy Guzman, Ovni.net ***
A cellphone report received on Saturday 01.12.08. Domingo Morales phoned Andrew Alvarez to make a report on sightings in the City of Ponce. Mr. Alvarez told him to phone me. Mr. Morales reported the following:
1. His brother, a resident of Valle Alta, Ponce, told him that on Friday, January 4 2008 at 9:30 p.m,., his wife called him over to look at a fireball over their house. Upon going outside , he saw an immense ball of red fire. The wife didn't see it approach, rather she saw it suddenly appear and light up on the spot. It remained static for some 20 minutes at an approximate altitude of 300 feet. It spent 20 minutes lighting on and off. The fireball finally diminished the intensity of its color and began moving SW in a zig-zag pattern, going up and down. It had the apparent size of a baseball stadium floodlight.
2. On Saturday January 5, 2008 at 9:40 p.m., Domingo's brother phoned again, this time to have Domingo climb onto the rooftop of his house to see if it was possible for him to see the fireball, as he (the brother) was seeing it. Domingo lives in Los Caobos, but was unable to see the object from his home. According to Domingo's brother, the fireball was over the same site, above his house and exhibiting the same behavior.
At 10:40 p.m., the fireball reappeared. This time, Domingo's brother saw it with nearly all of his neighbors. One of the neighbors was able to photograph it with a cellphone. On this occasion, a twin-engine plane flew over the area 15 minutes after the fireball vanished. This [fireball] did not appear suddenly, it came in from [the town of] Adjuntas.
3. On Sunday, January 6, 2008, Domingo and his wife decided to visit Domingo's brother to see if the were lucky enough to see the fireball. Just as they got out of the car, at 9:30 p.m., they saw two white balls of light to the SW which appeared to be joined. They looked like two orbs to the naked eye, but binoculars revealed them to be two plate like objects joined together. These were higher up, at some 5000 feet. (Domingo is a pilot, and is therefore able to calculate altitude better than the average witness). In plain sight they looked like two joined golf balls. They separated a minute later -- one heading south and another to the north.
5 minutes later, Domingo phone FURA [P.R. police aerial reconnaissance] and was told that they were going to send their helicopter for a look. Domingo never saw the helicopter engage in a fly-over. Domingo recalls that while he observed the two orbs, a woman and her daughters stopped to ask him if they were seeing the fireballs. She added that the fireballs had been visible since November in that location, becoming apparent between 9-10 p.m. and as early as 5 p.m.
4. No sightings were reported on Monday, January 7.
5. Today, Saturday, January 12, Domingo will return with a camera in an effort to take pictures of the objects.
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Lucy Guzman, Ovni.Net)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 14, 2008
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Source: http://www.ovni.net/
Date: 01.12.08
Puerto Rico: UFOs Over Quebradilla
*** A report from Lucy Guzman***
Mrs. N.R. (name remains anonymous) reported the following to Ovni.Net on 01.12.08 :
"I live in Quebradillas' s Barrio Cacao, near the Guajataca River. In recent nights we have been looking at the starlit sky. On December 18, 2007, we saw a brilliant light toward the south that changed colors and pulsed, remaining static. It was possible to see the colors red, green and blue, all very dim and at a great height. Today, January 12, 2008 at around 9 p.m., we saw three brilliant lights moving in different directions toward the same vicinity -- south over the river, I'd say. They joined and separated without following any specific pattern. They did this for an hour or more and suddenly vanished into infinity. This is new to me. What it is that I saw?"
She further reported that the sighting lasted nearly 90 minutes and was an enjoyable experience for all 3. The objects were oval shaped and shining, were at an approximate 45 degree angle over the surface and toward the south, moving southwest. Regarding weather conditions, she said that there were a few clouds in movement, there was no rain, and the temperature was pleasant. No sounds were heard, nor were any strange odors or tastes perceived. There were no tremors nor electromagnetic alterations. The objects moved up, down, sideways and in a circle. When asked about their size, she said, "not so big."
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Lucy Guzman, Ovni.net)
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El Mundo de los Ovnis en YouTube
Ahora El Mundo de los Ovnis cuenta con su propio canal de videos dentro de la famosa y popular página de videos YouTube.
Desde este instante usted podrá disfrutar de algunas de nuestras producciones (incluyendo la nunca antes vista "Vigilia en Cartagena" y el nuevo trailer de nuestro primer documental "Lajas: Sede de lo Inexplicable" ).
Además, usted tendrá acceso a videos de cólegas investigadores (como el trailer del próximo programa "Enfoque X", de nuestro amigo Luiseppi Quiñones) y a un sin número de videos relacionados a la temática Ovni/Paranoramal.
En este canal también tendrán acceso a nuestras futuras producciones, y a videos de otros usuarios que están interesados en estos temas.
La dirección del canal de YouTube es:
http://www.youtube.com/MundoOvnis
Esperamos que esta nueva modalidad sea del agrado de todos ustedes.
Cordialmente,
Staff El Mundo de los Ovnis
http://www.elmundodelosovnis.com/
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Inexplicata
January 9, 2008
Source: http://www.lafm.com.co/noticia.php3?nt=29048
Date: 1.09.08
BOGOTA - January 9 (La FM). From the Niza district to the north of Bogota, language professor Daniel Pietro and physician Oscar Trespalacios told La FM that they have images in their possession of the UFOs that flew over the nation's capital on December 24, 2007.
"My family went on vacation to a summer home and I was left alone. Something told me to go outside with a camera, and when I did so, the object was levitating in front of my window," said Pietro, describing the moment in which he took the picture.
The object was black, 20 meters in diameter, polygonal and with intermittent lights in its lower section, according to Pietro's description.
Moreover, Dr. Oscar Trespalacios, a defender of ET life, says that we must place special attention to the message allegedly brought by beings from another world. "They've come to help us change so many paradigms, so many obsolete beliefs that we need to change," said the ufologist.
Andres Sanchez, a reporter for La FM who visited the district, says that a strange and powerful energy can be felt at the site, which made a live broadcast of the interview very difficult.
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Noticias UFO)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 9, 2008
ARGENTINA: MEDITATION DRAWS DOWN UFOS?
Source: Planeta UFO
Date: 01.09.08
On December 27, 2007 in the city of Bahia Blanca (Prov. of Buenos Aires) a 14 year-old boy took three photos of an immense vehicle that approached a window in his house while his parents were elsewhere in the structure in the company of colleagues who were engaged in meditation excursuses.
This information was information provided by Sergio and Graciela, the boy's parents:
"The photos were taken by my son on Thursday 12/27/07 at approximately 18-18:30 hours. He told us the story. He was taking pictures with his celphone (from our bedroom window) of the family dog. Suddenly, he saw an object emerge from the clouds, moving slowly in silence. He told us this very naturally. We asked why he didn't call for us. We were in another part of the house doing meditation (my wife Graciela, 2 more people, and yours truly, Sergio Petz). He didn't want to interrupt us. My son is 14 and is a flag-carrier at school; he was alone when the photo was taken and was scared at first, but got over it quickly. The only reaction from the dog (a puppy) was howling. She's a rather special dog. The sequence of 3 photos are not high quality due to the nature of the cellphone. The little squares that you can see are from the mesh on the windows. The cellphone lacked a timer (Nokia 3220) but he had enough time to take three consecutive pictures until the object vanished into a denser group of clouds. People who downloaded the photos from the cellphone could not believe it. They asked me to submit them to the news services."
Photographs are at: http://www.dantefranch.com.ar/articulos.php?
(Translation (c) 2008, S.Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Deborah Goldstern)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 9, 2008
Mexico: UFO Video From Rio Bravo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFudpwwrJVs&feature=user
A video taken by Jose Alonso Galicia Fabela on December 4, 2007 at 16:32 hours.
It was taken when Alonso lef the camera recording on the tripod over his house before going downstairs for lunch.
After reviewing the tape, he found what he describes as a "line of silver orbs"
It should be noted that this is not the first time that he has left his camera running and unattended while he engages in other activities. He has previously sent Ana Luisa Cid video material that was gleaned in the same manner.
To the extent visible in the video, the objects do not travel together, and for this reason we dismiss the possibility that they could be a cluster of balloons, although other possibilities have yet to be examined.
(Translation (c) 2008. S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid)
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Mexico: Alleged UFO photographed at Chichen Itza
Photo taken on December 18, 2007 by Judith Trujillo, a Mexican national residing in Canada. The witness visited Mexico to see her family, and during a tour of the Chichen Itza archaeological site, she took photos of the Mayan ruins. Only one of those photos displays what could be an unidentified flying object, which was not visible when the shutter was pressed to capture a image of the Kukulkan Pyramid, also known as El Castillo.
Ana Luisa Cid reports that there are two options regarding this image:
1) There was indeed a UFO at the pyramid: If we accept this possibility, we must bear in mind that some researchers have associated these archaeological sites with UFO visitations, based on the premise that pyramids are concentrators of energy, which would be hypothetically essential for these vehicles to travel.
2) An ordinary element out of focus: It is possible that a bird or insect slipped into the photo, appearing blurry by virtue of being out of focus. When focusing on a distant object, elements in the foreground usually become blurred. Judith Trujillo employed an Olympus Digital UD600-S600 at a normal setting and at ISO 64.
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid)
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Mexico: Photos of Chichen-Itza UFO
Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 2, 2008
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