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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 26, 2008
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Source: FAO--Luis Burgos
Date: 02.26.2008
Argentina: Photos of a Possible UFO in Chubut
See Pictures: 1, 2
UFO researcher Luis Burgos of the Fundacion Argentina de Ovnilogia (FAO -Argentinean Ufological Foundation), has provided us with pictures taken by Marta Fourcade, a native of Buenos Aires who captured an alleged UFO over Lago Menendez, located in the Los Alerces National Park near the Torrecillas Glacier (province of Chubut).
Ms. Fourcade employed a Kodak Easy Share 1003 in taking the photo, for which a date of 23 January 2008 is given. According to Burgos, Ms. Fourcade did not see anything out of the ordinary in the landscape, and was only aware of the object after downloading.
"Our photographic consultant, Jorge Luis Figueiras, has submitted the results of his analysis from Alto Valle, Rio Negro," writes Burgos. "What we suspected from the start was confirmed - a spectacular UFO was flying over that magnificent geography!"
(Translation (c) 2008 IHU. Special thanks to Luis Burgos)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 25, 2008
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Source: CIUFOS-LaPampa
Date: 02.24.08
Ecuador: The Tungurahua Volcano UFO
Raul Oscar Chaves writes: "This image was taken in late 2007 by a member of CIUFOS during his stay in Ecuador. The presence of a cigar-shaped "chance" UFO can be seen over the Tungurahua Volcano. A 5 megapixel Sony digital camera was employed in taking the photo - the object was noticed only when the imges were downloaded to a computer."
See Picture.
Scott Corrales
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Argentina: Photos from La Pampa
See Pictures: 1, 2
Raul Oscar Chaves from the "Ciufoslapampa" organization has very kindly provided the attached images to INEXPLICATA.
He writes: "These photos were taken at the Don Tomas Lagoon, located on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, La Pampa. They were taken by one of our group's collaborators who is also an enthusiast of photography. At the time that these images were taken, nothing led the photographer to suspect the presence of "chance UFOs", which were detected when the photos were downloaded to the computer. These images were taken using a 5 megapixel Sony camera and were taken during the month of January of this year."
INEXPLICATA would like to thank Raul Oscar Chaves not only for these photos, but for the startling images that have been obtained in the province of La Pampa for a number of years.
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 22, 2008
UFO IN MEZCALA (MEXICO)
By Ana Luisa Cid
The "La Cronica Vespertina de Chilpancingo" was the first newspaper to make the sightings in Mezcala known as an article signed by Lic. Francisco Rangel on January 10, 2008 with photos by Mr. Heladio Hernandez.
The article stated that a strange light accompanied by others of smaller sizes had caused panic among the residents of Mezcala, stressing that the event had a duration greater than 30 hours, witnessed by the entirety of the town's residents, ranging in ages from children to senior citizens.
The first reports indicated that the phenomenon started in the early hours of 31 December 2007 and was present until the first hours of February 2, 2008.
It is especially noteworthy that the electric power supply to the town was affected by this event.
Some residents state that the strange light passed over the main square and then landed at Cerro Pie de Minas, where it remained, putting forth powerful flashes, especially at night.
Given the long duration of the phenomenon, the residents of Mezcala had the opportunity of recording the unusual event on still cameras and video cameras, so that dozens of images are available.
One resident told the press that he had seen a mark on the hill where the UFO had landed. He claims having found an area in which the grass was flattened into a circular shape.
There is no further information in this regard. It should be noticed that in the photos taken with my own camera, I did not notice any marks on the ground. Journalists, however, shall continue researching and trying to find the alleged mark on the hill.
Mezcala is a community in the State of Guerrero (Mexico) located in a valley surrounded by the Sierra del Sur and the Cadena de los Filos; it is the location of the mine that boasts the largest gold deposits in Latin America and there is abundant mineral wealth in the region.
RESEARCH
Given the importance of this news item, I traveled to Mezcala to learn more about the mass sighting and the possible CE-2 event. I was in Mezcala and Chilpancingo on the 15th, 16th and 17th of February 2008, corroborating that the news item was legitimate and even more startling. All of the interviewed parties agreed in their accounts. No one denied the events or ignored them, including the elderly or children. Research on the Mezcala Case is being conducted as a team with Lic. Francisco Rangel and Mr. Heladio Hernandez from the "La Cronica Vespertina de Chilpancingo" , whose valuable assistance I acknowledge.
VIDEOS
At this time, I have two videos of the flying objects of Mezcala.
The first material was presented on television on 11 February 2008 and corresponds to the video taken by the Lopez Sanchez family. They gave me a copy outside the Televisa facilities on 5 February. The family lives in Mexico City and visited Mezcala during the winter holidays, staying with relatives. This allowed them to become witnesses to the event.
The second video was given to me by Lic. Rangel and its author is Alfonso Ramirez. The journalists -- who are aware of almost all of the videos taken in Mezcala -- believe that the Ramirez material is the best by virtue of the fact that it shows the three flying objects described by witnesses, and they can be clearly seen despite the nocturnal nature of the video.
Thanks to the Lopez Family and Mr. Ramirez, I was able to secure these images. I would like to thank them for the trust they have placed in my work.
The video can be seen at: http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=BttWeWvsBY0
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Prof. Ana Luisa Cid)
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Source: Diario Panorama - Santiago del Estero
Date: 02.19.08
Argentinean Neighborhood Shaken By New Paranormal Event
See Picture.
Strange Phenomenon Affects Home in Bo. Ejercito Argentino
Aside from the manifestation of UFOs, a new and bizarre episode expeirenced by a family living in the Ejercito Argentino neighborhood. One corner of the house has a temperature highter than the rest of the home. Its inhabitants are undergoing a situation for which they cannot find a rational explanation.
A week ago, a UFO [startled] the neighborhood as a rainbow appeared in the skies. Today, the Salas Family of Bo. Ejercito Argentino is marveling at another unexplained phenomenon.
One corner of the house located at Calle 65 No. 846 has a temperature far highter than the rest of the dwelling.
A team from Noticiero 7 attested to this strange phenomenon with a handheld thermometer. It was thus possible to verify that a sector of the dining room has a temperature of 29 degrees Centigrade, while it soars to nearly 51 degrees Centigrade in another corner.
The family has not found a rational explanation for this situation. Mystery and fear have engulfed the home. Mrs. Salas is afraid to light her stove, concerned that the entire kitchen might explode.
(Translation (c) 2007 IHU, Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez)
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UFOs In Riolândia, São Paulo, Brazil: Second Partial Report On The Situation
[Note: Riolândia = Riverland]
On Friday, February 08th, I took a second trip to Riolândia, in the far Northwestern region of São Paulo State, by the banks of the Rio Grande, just between the States of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, where a wave of UFO events has been occurring since January 20th, as I explained on my first partial report, resulted from my first trip, on January 26th.
For further information, articles and pictures, go to: http://www.ufo.com.br/ and http://www.ufo.com.br/public/riolandia/.
It all started with the sighting of a huge UFO at the premises of Piapara Inn, at 3 am, January 20th, followed by a mysterious crushing of plants on a nearby sugar cane plantation. A UFO is believed to have been involved in this phenomenon. Facts involving UFOs are still being reported in the town of Riolândia, increasingly so day after day. This time I spent two days in that town and heard the testimony of witnesses who saw the luminous phenomena, which suddenly began to happen in broad daylight, as well. I took many snapshots of people who were involved in the incident and could sense the state of real commotion in the city.
Even though I believe I am a rather experienced UFO researcher, with over 30 years of activity in Ufology, I feel increasingly amazed by what is happening in Riolândia, and I must admit that very seldom have I seen such an intense, long-lasting and legitimate UFO commotion. The phenomena that have been occurring there affect people from all walks of life, some of whom are highly respected in the city.
Here follows a brief updating on the Riolândia Situation so that you can be generally aware of it:
1. In the evening immediately after the January 20th sighting, on several occasions, witnesses from all walks of life, alerted by the situation at Piapara Inn, have been spending hours scanning the skies in Riolândia and the area around it. Many of them have seen near- and far-off luminous phenomena, almost always spherical and predominantly of an intense blue to red color. The Inn dwellers are the ones who have witnessed the greater number of mysterious lights, and the proprietor's family, fearful of what is happening, is actually considering abandoning their business and moving away.
2. A very amazing incident occurred on the night of February 06-07th, when a light, at first in the distance, and then suddenly closer performed sinuous moves above a sugar cane plantation nearby the city. The phenomenon was captured on film and witnessed by over a dozen people in different places both in the urban area and in the countryside. One of those witnesses was a high school teacher, Ms Ruth Probio and her family, among whom her son Pedro Henrique, 10, who has filmed the phenomenon. The light was visible from late dawn till 8 am, February 07th.
3. Less than 24 hours later, on the night of February 07-08th, another astonishing apparition was seen at Piapara Inn, where it all began. This is the most spectacular incident reported there, and it involved once again the owner of the Inn, Maurício Pereira da Silva, and his brother Antonio Pereira da Silva. They were both night-watching on the southern side of the premises, as they'd been doing since the January 20th encounter, when they saw a real light show. Three huge disk-shaped objects were seen approaching them, flying in formation. Then three more objects joined them, though they were sphere-shaped and smaller. This phenomenon lasted over an hour, during which time five of the objects (the 3 disk-shaped ones and 2 of the spherical lights) came down close to the nearby sugar cane plantation (not the same one that had been affected on January 20th) and appeared to be "scanning the whole area, in search of something", according to Maurício. The two brothers' family went into a panic, and the phenomenon caused great distress in the city.
4. All day long, on Friday, February 08th, several ufologists, experts, journalists and curiosity-seekers kept coming in with their equipment to the Inn, to investigate the incident and do some night-watching. These include attorney Gener Silva, engineer Jorge Nery, both consultants for Brazilian UFO Magazine, and other members of the Instituto de Astronomia e Pesquisas Espaciais (Inape) (Institute for Astronomy and Space Research), from Araçatuba (SP). Also present on the same occasion were the electronic technician Cristian Dionízio de Oliveira, job security technician Sivaldo Daniel Pereira, both UFO researchers from Valentim Gentil (SP). This editor came in just in time, after a some 500 miles trip, along with information technology and support expert for Brazilian UFO Magazine Ismael Vieira and two students, Michel and Thiago Vieira. On that very same day, we stood on night-watch from 9 pm till 4:30 am, when a professional cameraman was able to record and film a luminous phenomenon that moved about for several minutes over the area. Its origins could not have been ascribed to natural causes. They all testified to the incident to Brazilian UFO Magazine. Next morning, ufologists Paulo Poian and Robert Beck, both consultants for Brazilian UFO Magazine, and Herbert Bruggemann (he and Beck being members of the Entidade Brasileira de Estudos Extraterrestres (EBE-ET) (Brazilian Center for Extraterrestrial Studies), from Brasília, arrived for some more night-watching (see below).
5. Simultaneously to the phenomenon seen at the Inn, on the night of February 8th, more than 7 miles away from that place, on a dirt road closer to town, dozens of people were gathered together and saw another astoundingly bright light flying over a sugar cane plantation. This phenomenon was also captured on film by Paulo Henrique, Ms Ruth Probio's son, who was handling the family camera. The city folks began to exchange information the night before and would summon each other so they could all get together on the site and see the light, as the night view of the sky at the specific spot is magnificent. This collective sighting was astounding and it occurred almost at the very same time as the previous phenomenon, recorded during night-watching at the inn (above). If the city were still torn between mixed feelings as to the nature of the UFO phenomena that had been occurring there, that sighting, witnessed by people from different segments in the municipality, put an end to all doubts. Nothing is more discussed nowadays in Riolândia than this, and the number of witnesses keeps growing each day.
6. On the night of February 09-10th, a new group of people gathered for night-watching at Piapara Inn, made up of city folks, curiosity-seekers and some of the participants from the previous night-watch. Only two people, however, stayed to watch the skies beyond 4 am, Brazilian UFO Magazine consultant Paulo Poian and student Thiago Vieira. At 5:05 am, they saw another luminous phenomenon over the very same sugar cane plantation, south of the Inn, where the six objects had appeared, previously. Only this time the encounter was somewhat closer, less than 200 m from the witnesses. A spherical and intensely bright object came down to the vegetation and remained there awhile, in spite of the falling rain. This editor left the Inn to drive back to Campo Grande (MS) at 6 am and, as I drove by Riolândia, about 9 miles away, I collected reports from several town dwellers who claimed that, in spite of the rain, new sightings occurred that night in the city's urban area.
7. All day long, on Sunday, February 10th, UFO incidents were reported as having occurred the previous night in the town of Valentim Gentil, about 45 miles from Riolândia. The aforementioned UFO researchers Cristian Dionízio de Oliveira and Sivaldo Daniel Pereira (the latter a witness of several encounters himself) are currently collecting information that will eventually be sent to Brazilian UFO Magazine and claim that there is a great number of witnesses also in that area. The same thing has occurred in the towns of Fernandópolis and Votuporanga, neighboring cities to Valentim Gentil, alongside Route SP-320 and about 15 miles apart from each other. Fernandópolis and Votuporanga are about 45 to 60 miles away from Riolândia, and have also had their share of luminous phenomena recorded, whose characteristics are yet to be studied.
8. Still on the same Sunday (10th), in the afternoon, an attendant working for the only service station in the small city saw in the sky a metallic object with lights, right in front of his house. Fernando Alves de Souza was accompanied by his wife, kids and in-laws when they all saw, in broad daylight, at 4 pm, two smaller luminous spheres being expelled from the larger object. The larger and the smaller objects began to fly in unison, following an unknown route. The incident is being investigated by ufologist Roberto Beck, special consultant for Brazilian UFO Magazine, who is staying in the city, waiting for the next developments. The service station attendant called several citizens of Riolândia so they too would see the phenomenon, which considerably increased the number of witnesses.
9. Still on the night of February 10th, Sunday, Mr. Ibrantino José Ribeiro, his grandson Augusto Ribeiro da Silva, only 13, and a woman were driving back to town, from Piapara Inn, when they saw two phenomena. As soon as they had driven out of the Inn, heading for Riolândia, and took the short unpaved road, Augusto called everyone's attention to a luminous white object that was flying above the sugar cane plantation. The boy was nearly begging his grandfather to not stop the car, because he was frightened, and they drove on. When they were closer to town, about 6 miles ahead, they saw the phenomenon again, but this time it was an intense red light, cutting across the road. UFO researcher Beck is interviewing new witnesses in the town, including a group of people who claim that there is a place in Riolândia where you can see those objects in broad daylight, everyday, between 3 and 5 pm
10. As can be seen, the Riolândia UFO incidents increase in number and intensity every day. Amidst this commotion, Brazilian UFO Magazine has been compiling expressive numbers. We have been informed of at least 6 individual filmings of luminous phenomena, carried out by different people, two of which are within our archives already. We have nearly 30 witnesses that have been contacted and interviewed, besides an estimated number from 300 to 400 witnesses in every city that has been affected, and many more are still being contacted. We have assembled a great amount of reports and a lot of material for publication. We are going to have a lot of work to do, getting all pieces together, but the above-mentioned ufologists and a few others are helping up with their data, turning this into a major operation in UFO research, of a phenomenon that is still going on.
As a final note, we would like to report that the authorities in some of those cities in northwestern São Paulo State are really concerned with the situation, especially the mayor of Riolândia, to the point of requesting the presence of UFO researches in the area. This has never been seen to happen before. Brazilian UFO Magazine, through its members, is playing its role, talking to people, interviewing witnesses, going and checking places, examining evidence and consulting with experts from different fields of study, so as to be able to rule out the possibility that the recorded phenomena are natural.
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor of Brazilian UFO Magazine
http://www.ufo.com.br/
gevaerd@ufo.com.br
aj@gevaerd.com
Translation by Marcos Malvezzi Leal, from The Brazilian UFO Magazine team.
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 13, 2008
Inexplicata videos now available at http://www.blip.tv/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8136596692993655962&hl=en
This is the promo clip that should have appeared in the blog, but the technology gods had other ideas...
Enjoy!
-- Scott Corrales
Inexplicata
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Argentina: News Brief
Inexplicata has just received the following news brief from Gustavo Fernandez, director of the Al Filo de la Realidad webzine and podcast:
"According to journalist Alberto Ferreyra, host of the "El Vortice" program on FM Capital, numerous residents of the San Agustin district observed a luminous object moving from southwest to northeast on 02.02.08 at 22:10 hours. The object's speed was slightly greater than that of a high-flying airliner. Halfway through its trajectory, it pulsed with a brilliant light five or six times, and its colors shifted between sky blue and gold.
Gustavo Fernández
http://www.alfilodelarealidad.com.ar/
http://www.emnhome.com/afr
Gustavo is also the author of the digital publication "Chamanes de las Estrellas" at http://stores.lulu.com/gusfernandez21
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 10, 2008
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Source: Radio Tandil and Planeta UFO
Date: 02.10.08
Argentina: Photo of the Alleged Firestarting UFO
According to a metallurgist eyewitness, last week's fire in the hills of Tandilia, Province of Buenos Aires, were caused by a UFO.
Newspaper reports from Tandil suggest that a worker in the Ronicevi metallurgical plant was reporting to his shift at 4 a.m., and he claims having seen a UFO that gave off a considerable brightness and had a size similar to the full Moon.
"It was like a giant fireball and it fell behind the hill," said the local, whose testimony was corroborated spontaneously by other people. According to the story, this object fell around four o'clock in the morning on the summit of Cerro Las Animas.
The wildfire devoured a broad region, causing serious damage and the evacuation of homes and one hotel. It is said that the fire did not start on Monday, but rather on Sunday, when a new outbreak occurred.
Two weeks ago, a ufologist claimed that a UFO flap was underway. The fact of the matter is that the authorities have been able to confirm the source of the fire, and did not find the remains of the object seen by locals.
(Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 11, 2008
Some Background On Argentina's Firestarting UFO
A fragment of the article "Fires of Unknown Origin" by
Scott Corrales (FATE Magazine, 2006)
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When is a fire not a fire?
As night settles over the Pampa – the vast expanse of Argentinean flatland that transcends the confines of the province named after it – strange sights are seen by those who make it their business to be up after dark: hunters lying in wait for large boars to appear out of the darkness, lonely truckers making their way along unlit roads to make much-needed deliveries in small towns, and farmers looking for stray animals. The farms known as estancias pepper the emptiness much like stars filling the night sky, separated by many miles between and invisible to each other.
Sometimes, the impenetrable cloak of darkness is broken by an unearthly sight: the sudden appearance of a large dome of light that emerges from the short, scrub trees, casting a blood-red glow over the emptiness, suggesting the sudden start of a prairie fire that will devour the scrub vegetation in a matter of minutes, trapping the hapless observer in a wall of flames.
This is exactly what was reported by a group of hunters in the Pampa in August 1996: after witnessing the unearthly glow and the bloody flames, they thought their fate had been sealed by a rogue prairie fire, but as they sought a means of escape, they realized that they could not hear the trademark sign of a fire despite the approaching glow. This caused them to pause and look at the luminous dome at the center of the conflagration, which despite its reddish glow and yellow-orange core, did not produce any smoke: “the fire that is not a fire”, as it is known.
Julio Orozco, a deputy sergeant with the La Pampa police, witnessed many of these “unfires” throughout his life, mainly near his hometown of 25 de Mayo. In 1995, according to a report provided by Gaceta Ovni magazine (http://www.gacetaovni.com/) Orozco and an assistant were patrolling some government offices in this empty region when both men noticed what appeared to be a large, raging fire in the distance. “…I saw a light that glared brighter than hell. Ordering my assistant to load shovels into the truck to fight the blaze, I phoned the firefighters in 25 de Mayo come to the scene. As I changed out of my uniform, my assistant came over to say the conflagration had put itself out. I thought it was a joke or that we had all gone crazy; a fire of that magnitude simply doesn’t snuff itself out.”
Yet Orozco struggled in vain to find the least ember of the massive dome of fire that had prompted him to call for help. After phoning the fire brigade once more to report a false alarm, he headed toward where the dome of light had been seen for a closer look.
“We went to Medanitos, to the oil fields, but saw nothing. We headed for the petrochemical plant to see if one of the burners had gone off, but nothing. No sooner did we get out of our pickup truck, a group of workers ran over to us asking if we’d seen the fire. According to them, it had been some six kilometers distant. They attested to the fact that none of the refinery’s burners were in operation at the time.”
Villagers have reported that huge trees known as ombús (phytolacca dioica) have been seen burning from their lofty crowns, consumed from above by a fire that does not involve combustion; one such tree in the province of Entre Rios was burned to the ground in such a manner, with no traces of a fire anywhere in evidence.
But strange objects have also been seen causing vast conflagrations: the fields on the city of Londres, Rioja Province, in the Andean foothills, were torched by the maneuvers of a “firestarting UFO” that disgorged a fireball on the fateful night of August 13, 1982 while two police officers looked on in utter disbelief from their patrol car. It was suggested that the unidentified object had deliberately waited for gale-force winds to blow down from the mountains before releasing the gout of flame, causing fire to devour the vineyards and groves of this largely agricultural region. The Buenos Aires’ Clarín and La Crónica newspapers covered the shocking story. Curiously enough, the ancient cultures of the Andean valleys had worshipped the fire god Pachacamac. Could the deity have come to collect his long overdue share of the harvest?
Startling though it may seem to us, the phenomenon of sudden fiery masses descending from above has been going on for centuries: La Visión de los Vencidos, the compilation of Aztec chronicles that recounts the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors and the strange omens that heralded the end of Aztec civilization include a strange account involving a "tongue of flame" (not a lightning bolt) descending from a clear night sky onto the straw-roofed temple of Huitzilopotchli, leveling the shrine and spreading panic among the citizens of Tenochtitlan. The Bible also offers us episodes in which sudden torrents of fire would descend from the heavens-- either consume a sacrifice or destroy an enemy.
In Chile, during a UFO flap that lasted from the April 25 to May 25 1977, the residents of the village of Vilcún looked on in terror as an immense "flying saucer" approached their homes at low altitude. The vehicle spun furiously on its axis and launched tongues of flame at the ground, making an "unbearable din" as it did so. The case's authenticity was verified by the GIFE (Grupo Investigativo de Fenómenos Extraterrestres) . The investigators detected a sharp rise in radiation throughout the area.
In April 2006, the Institute of Hispanic Ufology reported a case involving a UFO – allegedly witnessed and photographed by police officers – that hovered over a scorched region of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi that burned to ashes as a consequence of an overwhelming conflagration.
Cattle ranchers in the vicinity of Tamuín were bewildered by the saucer-shaped craft, which hovered in plain sight for an unspecified number of minutes. Whether the unknown object was inspecting its handiwork or just happened to be attracted by the devastation is unknown; the fact remains that the blaze on March 10, 2006 torched a thousand hectares of pastures and the small peasant settlements with their respective small farms and ranches. The losses in livestock and farm equipment were equally high.
Strange fires were also unleashed that day in Valles, San Vicente, Tamasopo, El Naranjo, Ciudad del Maiz and other municipalities, causing temperatures to rise to nearly 45 degrees Centigrade.
There was no loss of human life in any of the cases mentioned above. This, however, has not been the case in every single event of this nature…
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Chiapas UFO Photos:
http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/
Scott Corrales
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 6, 2007
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Source: Caracol and Noticias UFO
Date: 02.03.2008
Colombia: UFOs Over Antioquía
Residents of western Medellin and regions to the east of Antioquía claimed having seen an unidentified flying object on Sunday morning for several minutes.
In telephone calls to the newsroom of Caracol Radio in Medellin, several citizens confirmed having seen a luminous "flying saucer" with green, blue and red lights that remained static and later disappeared.
The sighting was reported by residents of the San Javier, 20 de Julio, Belen and Altavista districts and subsequently by summer tourists from Rionegro in eastern Antioquía, who also claimed seeing an oval, silvery flying object.
Officials at the radar stations in the Olaya Herrara Airport of Medellin and Jose Maria Cordova Airport in Rionegro denied that the devices recorded any abnormal activity whatsoever attributing the phenomenon to the sighting of weather balloons.
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales. Special thanks to Lucas Grossi, Noticias UFO).
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
February 6, 2008
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Source: El Eco Digital
Date: 02.06.2008
Argentina: A Firestarting Bolide?
-Witnesses claim that a strange object started the formidable fire in the mountains
-Presence of a strange object in the sky - theory gains increasing strength
Another fire was recorded last night near Rancho de Popy, which was controlled by local firefighters, who explained that it was normal for fires to restart. For this reason they continued monitoring the area. However, witnesses claim having seen a strange object in the area ravaged by flames.
At the same time that the firefighters struggled to quench the flames, the rumor spread along the Tandil sierras that "a UFO was to blame." Others said : "It was a fireball," and still others insisted: "No, no, it was a ball of many colors that fell right in the middle of the hill."
Thus, hours have gone by and eyewitness accounts have added up right after another, increasing in sensationalism and being added to other possibilities amenable to the popular belief system, considering what could have been responsible for starting such an early morning bonfire.
El Eco de Tandil had the chance to chat with a local who preferred to remain anonymous: "Otherwise I won't be able to go outside due to the joshing I'll be subjected to," he apologized, while recounting his amazing story which led us to Route 30 on the way to Buenos Aires.
"I was with my companion on a business trip to Buenos Aires. The sky was starry on a calm early morning, almost on the verge of sunrise. We felt privileged to be able to see the phenomenon that was taking place -- all lined up we could see the Moon, Venus and Jupiter. It was remarkable to see and we felt privileged." But all of this suddenly changed when a red light -- that did not fall into anyone's plan and had not been described by the local newspapers, who had announced the alignment phenomenon --- crossed the sky at high speed.
"It all lasted between five and ten seconds. The red light travelled at great speed toward Tandil and descended toward the ground, until it vanished from our sight. It all happened so quickly that we didn't have a chance to react. As soon as we saw the light we hit the brakes and pulled over in an effort to take photos or film it with the cellphone, but I didn't even have enough time to draw the cellphone from my pocket."
At this point, the traveler suggested that "it could have been a piece of space junk, because it wasn't a star or an airplane. And I don't believe in UFOs," he said in closing. But one must add the same thing that is said of witches -- they don't exist, but they're there.
Meanwhile, the national media has also picked up the story about the events that could have started the fire that blazed a thousand hectares of the Tandil landscape. On the internet, one of the most popular news mediums, we find the digital page of renowned journalist and broadcaster Chiche Gelblung, who put up an article on his website entitled: "Is it True That A UFO Caused the Fires in Tandil?"
The article goes on to say that "only two weeks ago, a researcher interviewed by Minutouno.com had forecasted it: A UFO flap was in the works. And this is what appears to have kicked off in Tandil. Various eyewitnesses alerted the media to the fact that they had seen an enormous fireball shortly before the fire that devastated hundreds of hectares in recent hours."
Wintesses claimed over the air that an unidentified flying object crashed on Cerro de las Animas around 4 a.m. on Monday. This was the hill that caught fire this morning. To these callers, the skyfall was the cause of the fire that caused severe damage and the evacuation of homes and a hotel."
"It was like an enormous fireball and it fell behind the hill," another local told this program. Immediately, others emerged to corroborate the report, among them a worker for a local metallurgical firm, who said that the UFO gave off an intense glow and its size was similar to the that of the full Moon.
With the coincidence of the start of the the most intense fire, many felt the temptation to tie up these loose ends. However, firefighters believe that the fire began before this odd phenomenon was reported. Meanwhile, the event has become the sole topic of conversation in the town," says the otherworldly report.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: El Eco Digital - http://www.eleco.com.ar/
(Translation (c) 2007, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Christian Quintero, Planeta UFO)
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UFO sighting with physical effect in Brazil, January 20th, 2008
Dear colleagues:
Last week I’ve been in the city of Riolândia investigating a recent and very interesting case. Riolândia (population 8,500) is located in the far Northwestern region of São Paulo State, 350 miles from São Paulo City. The case involved the sighting of a huge UFO in the night from Saturday, January 19th, to Sunday, January 20th, which resulted in an unusual crumpled vegetation in some places of a vast sugar cane plantation.
This case was discussed all over Brazilian media:
http://www.bomdiariopreto.com.br/index.asp?jbd=1&id=240&mat=110668
http://www.bomdiariopreto.com.br/index.asp?jbd=1&id=335&mat=110633
http://www.folhadaregiao.com.br/noticia?84057&PHPSESSID=e676b846557dc9b06c4c8b732024c139
http://tvtem.globo.com/tv/mod_news.asp?passos=ExibirNoticia&local=&NewsID=127709
The sighted UFO was cylindrical- shaped with oval endings and it was seen by a small businessman, Mr. Mauricio Pereira da Silva, 39, owner of Piapara Inn, a modest and nice-looking place by the banks of the Rio Grande, just between the States of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. The place is really close to São Francisco de Sales, across the river, where Antonio Villas Boas was abducted in the 50s. It is also in the middle of a very hot spot for UFOs.
Mauricio awoke in the middle of the night hearing a loud noise that resembled like the crushing sugar canes at the neighboring plantation. Through the kitchen’s window he saw the object lightly illuminating the surroundings. After a very short while seeing the object he noticed that it was still in the air. Simultaneously, the strange crushing noise stopped. It was between 3:00 and 3:00 a.m. on Sunday (January, 20th).
At the same time, a guest of the inn, Mr. Durval Ambrizzi Jr, a business representative, 58, who was camped with his wife in a trailer parked in the premises, was also awakened by the same loud sound and saw the lights, without, however, noticing any object. He and Mauricio did simultaneous but independent sightings.
Only on the day following the event, when they were up and chatting, around 6:00 a.m., did the Inn’s owner and his guest, and their wives, talked about the subject. They found, then, on the sugar plantation that is adjacent to the Inn (and does not belong to Mauricio), the strangely crumpled plants, on an uneven area of roughly 3.600 to 5.200 m2 (previously estimated in 1.500 to 2.000 m2), next to a little street that marks off the premises’ perimeter. The women had not been awakened the night before nor had they heard the sounds or seen the lights. Only at the moment of their conversation did Mauricio and Durval find out they had witnessed the same phenomenon.
The plants, 5 to 8,5 feet high, and which were ready for being harvested, were bent in a most unusual way, close to ground level. Interestingly, this was done without the stems being broken, which is uncommon with that kind of plant. The sugar canes survived and continued to grow in that bent-up, horizontal position. Receiving both sunlight and lots of rain during the week, they began to show a significant recovery on Saturday (January, 26th), when I visited the field.
The stems have by now been bent back straight, which is a natural biological feature. It has been noted, however, that the plants have suffered premature aging, and their pulpous parts have become purpled. Nevertheless, the plants seemed fit for human consumption.
Throughout that week, dozens of people visited Mauricio’s estate, including geographers, geologists, meteorologists, biologists and experts in sugar cane cultivation, all drawn by their scientific interest in the phenomenon. All of them, after several different kinds of analysis, testified that there was no natural explanation for the phenomenon that had occurred in that part of the plantation next to Piapara Inn.
Particularly the sugar cane experts from União dos Produtores de Bionergia (UDOP) (Association of Bionergy Producers) in Araçatuba (SP), issued a note attesting that the incident could not have been caused by any known natural causes.
Devoted to increasing and enhancing sugar cane cultivation in this country, UDOP was greatly interested in the incident and conducted reports and research studies on the situation, including aerial filming of the phenomenon. This enabled them to discover that besides the larger mark caused by the crushed plants on the street just off the premises, other unevenly circular marks – 3 to 4 – had appeared on the plantation, for which – again – no natural explanation was found.
Air views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flt6tPL7ALY
During my stay at the Inn, I was accompanied by two ufologists, Gener Silva, attorney and consultant for UFO Magazine, and Jorge Nery, expert in telecommunications and electronics, both members of the Instituto de Astronomia e Pesquisas Espaciais (INAPE) (Institute for Astronomy and Space Research) whose significant assistance was crucial for surveying data and interviewing several witnesses, not only for the Riolândia incident, but from other cases in the surrounding area.
Nery was the first UFO researcher to visit the Inn, on the day immediately after the event (Monday, January 21th), having obtained first-hand, recent information on the facts and interacting with witnesses.
The mere crushing of sugar cane plants would not in itself be significant to Ufology – maybe so to other fields of study – if we did not have any witnesses of a unusual phenomenon that occurred just a few hours before the physical effect on the plants was discovered. Both Mauricio and Durval heard the sound of vegetation being crushed or broken, and Mauricio said that it was a very strong, frightening noise. “Sounded like a bulldozer rolling over the plants, but without engine sounds, only the sound of plants being crumpled or broken”, he told UFO Magazine.
The sounds were the first thing that called the witnesses’ attention, and because of the sound, they woke up, looked up and saw something in the sky. While Durval, who was about 140 feet away from the crushing site, where UFO must have been, saw only “dim lights spread around the place, as though they were linked to a very large object”, Mauricio, about 90 feet away from the phenomenon, had the opportunity of seeing the craft, which he described as being “very large, cylindrical in shape and ovoid at the tips.” He also saw a dim light shining from the object’s bottom part, which did not emit any humming sound nor caused any other effect.
This editor, researchers Gener and Nery, and many others who visited the site – including News staff members of Globo TV and Record TV – who were consulted at the time – are convinced of the witnesses’ honesty of character and sincerity. Separately interviewed, their testimonies matched almost perfectly were it not for one detail: Durval, from where we was, on his trailer, a bit further away from the UFO, saw only whitish lights, whereas Mauricio, closer to the object, saw lights coming from the UFO, but of a more yellowish tone.
Another corroborating factor to the legitimacy of the incident is that there are other testimonies by local city dwellers who claim to have seen unidentified flying objects on different occasions, both before and after Riolândia Incident, including the very afternoon before the episode and the day following it. One of those witnesses is a policeman. Several witnesses were interviewed by UFO Magazine, which has amassed a large amount of material for publication in its upcoming issue.
See pictures at: http://www.ufo.com.br/public/riolandia/selecionadas/
Best regards!
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor of Brazilian UFO Magazine
http://www.ufo.com.br/
aj@gevaerd.com
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