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Source: VISION OVNI
Date: 01.31.09
ARGENTINA: The Beam UFO Returns
By Silvia Pérez Simondini, Visión OVNI
At 1:00 a.m., Elias Kolev, a member of Visión OVNI, called me by phone to inform me of the spectacular UFO sighting taking place in Rosario. It reconfirmed what I presented earlier this week with the light that shoots beams against the surface, and it occured at the same exact spot. On this instance, however, three (3) UFOs were seen. We have the information, witnesses and recordings, which we will make known to you when our research is organized. The following e-mail message is among the ones received which clearly explains the events. You wil be able to read one of the eyewitness accounts that best describes what took place:
"Good morning! I don't even know how to explain it -- yesterday, or rather today in the early morning (31 January, 1 a.m. approximately) we were driving along with two friends and people suddenly began getting out of their cars, leaving doors open and engines running, pointing skyward. It looked like a scene out of a Martian Invasion moive. This occured near the Alto Rosario shopping center. I don't know what it was, but it moved up and down while gyrating on its own axis; white lights were clearly visible and its shape could even be made out. It maneuvered for approximately half an hour before going away and vanishing suddenly.
"It left all of us with a very strange sensation that I can't explain, and then there were several details that drew our attention, such as ALL of the traffic lights turning red in unison, in other words, no street or lane could move. When we took out our cellphones, the screens went gray and turned off. When we turned them on again, the batteries had practically drained out. I have no idea what it was, but it was something odd in our skies, without question...I' d be delighted if you could tell me something more about it...many thanks."
(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Silvia Pérez Simondini)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 27, 2009
NOTE TO OUR READERS:
The following is just one of a number of cases recieved this week from Argentina, where UFO activity remains unabated. Please visit our blog at
http://www.inexplicata.blogspot.com/ to see photos and video footage.
Source: Rosario3.com
http://www.rosario3.com/noticias/noticias.aspx?idNot=44414
Date: 01.26.09
Argentina: UFO Fires Rays Over Rosario
A video shows a UFO that fires rays over Rosario. It was recorded in late 2007 by a young man who exited the Alto Rosario Shopping Center and was made known by a prestigious researcher from Victoria. The expert stated that similar phenomena had been seen in Germany and England.
The video shows a light in the sky that releases flashes against the ground every so often. I recorded it with a friends cellphone in Rosario, outside the Alto Rosario Shopping Center. The object made slow movements at first, beyond my unsteady hold of the cellphone. But when I saw the video in detail, I saw that the strange light, which several people took for a satellite, was flashing lights toward the ground. I calculate that the light was some 200 meters away, not very far. After recording it for a long time, it began moving toward the Monument to the Flag until it vanished. Personally, it was fantastic. Something that I discuss and people wont believe. In short, the subject is that the same light, or a similar one, was seen again late at night later that week.
This was the note that accompanied the video, sent to Silvia Perez Simondini, a renowned UFO researcher who works in the city of Victoria, Entre Rios.
The recording was made on December 7, 2007 and Perez Simondini received only a few days ago, when the young man who took it learned of the existence of Vision Ovni, the center with which she works.
We were aware that these UFOs fire rays against the ground. It had occurred in Germany and England. Therefore, when he sent me the recording, I couldnt believe it. Its different to what were used to seeing. Theyre laser-type beams. The boy managed to film five such beams, said the researcher to the Diez Puntos Radio Program on Radio 2.
Perez Simondini maintained that specialist Salvatore Carta, whose expertise is sought by researchers world-round, certified the authenticity of the phenomenon. The researcher added that the increase in phenomena of this sort is remarkable, adding that she has received 50 UFO reports in January of this year alone.
(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks Guillermo Gimenez, Silvia Perez Simondini and Salvatore Carta)
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Source: Diario UNO (Santa Fe, Argentina)
Date: 01.21.09
Argentina: Alien Spaceship Allegedly Lands at Arroyo Leyes
Nestor and Sara were asleep at home when a very loud report woke them up. Hours later, they found strange holes in the ground; experts are looking into the case.
The event occurred on January 14 at approximately 3:00 a.m. while the owners of the property, Nestor Rivoira and Sara Fernandez, his wife, were asleep. It lasted for ten minutes.
They claim that a very loud report woke them up. It was similar to [the sound] made by a flamethrower. I tried getting out of bed to see what was going on, but something kept me from moving, Nestor told Diario UNO. Sara also added: I heard the same thing, and I also heard one of our eight dogs, but what surprised me the most was that instead of jumping over the fence and heading to the source of the disturbance, the dog either remained very quiet or else was scared on the other side of the fence.
Neither Nestor nor Sara had the will to to see what was going on from their bedroom window: something was keeping them from getting out of bed, as they told Diario UNO. It was for this reason that they only heard the thundering sounds from the bedroom. It was only two days after the event, in the morning, that they ventured out to see if there was something near the site, just to assuage their curiosity, and to see if some animal may have been involved. It was there that they became aware of some marks at the edge of the river.
I was greatly surprised. We thought at first that the marks couldve been made by an ATV, as there are many in the area. But then we dismissed this idea, since they werent prints, but rather something created with an object that irradiates heat. If you look at them closely, there is no vegetation in the circumference, only dry, dead soil, different to what we can see around, added Mr. Rivoira.
The marks that can be seen on the soil are two perfect circles, measuring a total of three meters in diameter and three centimeters deep (according to Carlos Villegas, who specializes in the science of paranormal phenomena)
Another characteristic is that there is no vegetation on the circles. It was totally burned, with nothing but dessicated soil left behind. When we saw the marks and thought about extraterrestrials, we were afraid to say so, lest we be considered mad. We decided to call our friendliest neighbors and show them the prints. When everyone told us the same thing, we discussed it in the community and thats how everyone started showing up, explained Sara.
Experts in this discipline are currently studying the phenomenon, but have already said that an extraterrestrial object was involved.
(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez)
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INEXPLICATA - The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
January 14, 2009
See Pictures: 1, 2, 3
Mexico: On the Verge of a New Saucer Flap?
By Ana Luisa Cid
Over the past month, from December 2008 to January 2009, there has been an increase in UFO sighting throughout Mexico.
Daniel Sanchez Rosales has been a witness to this activity. He recorded several of these objects over the Moctezuma District, a neighborhood adjacent to Mexico City International Airport (MCIA).
His video can be seen on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp-wAwKt8Gw&feature=channel_page
The strangest UFO shown in this recording, in my opinion, is the one that occupies the fifth place in the sequence (at 2:22 minutes), as it presents a potent light that appears to divide itself after entering a translucent shape. A complex explanation, but this exists in the skies over Mexico.
Daniel Sanchez says: I have seen UFOs emerging from a specific location, practically out of thin air. Ive even come to think that a dimensional doorway may exist at that location. Im referring to the area located above the Multivision antennae. I have the courage to say it, even though Im a professional person. This is a fact; its not a subject for lunatics or fools. The UFOs Ive recorded come from this location. (circled in red in the photo)
Ive also noticed, he adds, That the spheres emit synchronized flashes, as thought following a patterntwo flashes before contracting. Could this be some sort of code, like our own Morse code? I really dont know, although Ive pondered the option. I even told my nephewwho always accompanies on these skywatchesthat well signal them with mirrors to see what happens. We want to prove [the theory] that there is a purpose to these flashes, or discard it altogether.
UFO reports have been numerous, as though a mini-flap were underway. We will keep you informed.
(Translation (c) 2009, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Prof. Ana Luisa Cid)
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Source: Diario Los Andes - Argentina
http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2008/11/25/un-394604.asp
Date: 11.25.08
Argentina: A UFO or a Condor in Tupungato?
See Pictures: 1, 2
A tour operator organized a tour to La Carretera in Tupungato and took a photo of the landscape. Upon downloading the file to his computer, he saw a strange object. He had it analyzed by [Argentina's] most prestigious ufologist and she confirmed that it was indeed a UFO.
Is it a UFO, a condor or a spot? Those were the questions that ran through the mind of Flavio S., 31, when he downloaded the photo to his computer and saw a sort of round disk in the air. The event occurred on November 8, 2008, while he was on a tour with Mendozan tourist operators who intended to visit a local estancia (ranch) in La Carretera, Tupungato.
"I'm very skeptical, which is why I had the photo analyzed in Buenos Aires," he told Los Andes On-Line. "I took a photo of the landscape, nothing more. We were traveling on horseback, but no one saw anyting. According to the ufologist, it's not a condor, because it would look a lot smaller at that distance. It's not a spot on the camera lens either. It's a UFO larger than a passenger airliner."
This is not the first time this year that tourists visiting La Carretera return with UFO photos. In April, a group of friends who spent the day at Quebrada del Condor took a cellphone photo in which an Unidentified Flying Object also appeared.
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez)
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INEXPLICATA - THE JOURNAL OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY - NOVEMBER 25 2008
Source: Vision OVNI
Date: 11.25.08
Argentina: Entity in Colonia Elia (Prov. of Entre Rios)
By Andrea Pérez Simondini and Daniel Szauter
See Picture.
Very early in the morning on October 8, a team from Vision Ovni headed for the locality of Colonia Elia in the Province of Entre Rios to research the manifestations of a strange creature that appears in smallholds and fields, slaying farm animals as well as calves and sheep. This was the information presented to us by the national media, which had taken an interest in the story. It was thanks to this interest that we became aware of the case.
Once we had reached the site, 260 kilometers distant along Route 14, we entered Colonia Elia through a dirt road in search of the witnesses. As always, we employed an old but sure-fire strategy to get information. We stopped a man who was riding along on horseback, and he quickly indicated the location of the Restayno family home. This was the family that had witnessed the events involving the unusual creature.
The witnesses warmly welcomed us: they showed us evidence of the mutilations, which was among the reasons for our trip, and quickly told us the details of the occurrences.
A Summary of the Restayno Familys Experiences
Manifestations of this entity began a year ago, around September 15, when they found a dead chicken beside the granary, displaying strange marks, and a large print on the ground (see photo of plaster cast, courtesy of Daniel Padilla, researcher). The familys boys Matias and Gabriel fully knowledgeable about the animals that wander the fields, could not recognize the type of marks left on the chickens breast and much less identify the footprint found near the dead animal. In an effort to glean further evidence, they found tear marks, made as if by claws, in the back of the henhouse. The following night, early in the morning, the heard noises that prompted them to go outside to see what was happening. Matias, 16, was startled when he saw a bizarre figure scurry away among the vegetation at the back of the house; he described this figure as large (standing at least 1.70 meters) and swift in its getaway. Upon inspecting the henhouse, they found a dead chicken with a large rip in it chest.
From that moment on, the familys boys would not have a normal life again, as each night turned into an episode of chase and attempted capture of this creature, which turned the familys life into a strange adventure. According to ach family member, the critter, as theyve dubbed it, seems more frightened than them. Whenever the possibility of an encounter exists, the reaction is always the same: flight.
All manner of snares have been laid out to trap this creature: otter traps, cages (lent by a neighbor who cares for endangered animals), and they even prepared a trap using old bedding elastic [...]. The creature was captured in each of these, but managed to free itself. The otter trap, however, inflicted serious injury, given that blood traces remained on the trap and on a nearby stone. These samples were taken for analytical purposes.
Manifestations have been constant. The witness see fleeting shadows and the entitys claw-prints, such as the ones it left on a tree, as though it had used the wood to sharpen them, or its footsteps, which are easily seen because the boys, in their urge to secure evidence, began spreading ashes and rice powder around the henhouses.
The best was yet to come, and it would happen inside the house at three oclock in the morning. Matias heard a noise behind the kitchen but within his home. This experience allowed Matias to clearly see the entity that had been engaged in the chicken mutilations. We managed to obtain an oral picture of the creature. We showed him a series of figures from our files, and he identified one of them as very similar, and based on that, he outlined the description of what confronted him that night.
He seized his carbine (.22 caliber) and quickly headed to the front of the house. When he drew the curtain of the room that houses his mothers pantry and the cheese-making churns, he found the critter on top of the freezer, clearly intending to grab the churn. Matiass immediate reaction was to fire, which he did four times without wounding it. The anima jumped through a window, spilling chicken entrails throughout the room.
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez)
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[This is a report we had anxiously awaited: Mercedes Casas is one of Inexplicatas most respected contributors and is known to our long-time readers for her reports on the cattle mutilation wave of 2002 and other high-strangeness situations that have transpired in Argentinas northwestern corner. Read on! SC]
[photos at www.inexplicata.blogspot.com]
Argentina: Further Details on the Chicoana Agriglyphs
By Mercedes Casas
Residents of the town of Metán also witnessed strange lights with zigzagging movements at low altitude late into the night. These lights disappear into the fields, and occurred at the same time as the Chicoana events. What is remarkable is that the predominant direction of movement is toward the NW, which dovetails with the statements made by the people of Chicoana, who see the movements predominantly toward the SE. In both cases, the trajectory suggests the Cabra Corral Resevoir, an immense body of water.
The reason that Im highlighting this fact is because the disappearance of large quantities of water is often associated with this phenomenon.
With regard to the wheat fields: the first one, nearest the town, was visited by hundreds of curiosity-seekers that trampled down the wheat, so the possibility of seeing the marks no longer exists. The field was plowed, but the flattened wheat stalks that formed the mark were allowed to remain. The soils depth is no different from that of the rest of the field. The depth of the marks was due to the fields height prior to plowing. The wheat stalks were no different from the remainder of the mature wheat stalks: neither burns nor color-changes are noticeable.
I visited a tobacco plantation to the north of Chicoana, where three workers witnessed flying object manifestations. They are probably the best-qualified witnesses to the phenomenon, as they had to work nights in the field the week that the marks occurred and the following week as well. This is a summary of my conversation with them: They are well aware of the stars and planets at various times of year by virtue of having to work at night. The lights they saw could not be mistaken for stars, planets, shooting stars, airplanes or satellites, which are also visible at night.
The lights they saw at night were several. They lit up the fields in the darkness with such intensity that it was possible to see the crops; a powerful beam of light [issued from them], casting light in the same way as fishermens flashlights. They compared the size of the object to that of the Sun at that time of day (4 p.m.) and they also gyrated.
The employees tried to record the lights on their cellphones and were unable to do so. All three have cellphones and not one of these devices worked at the time. The symbols appeared on the wheat fields after the first evening that these sightings took place. The place where the first object was seen is over a mountain located to the west of the plantation. They saw two small lights breaking away from the larger one, progressing along the sky in a parallel formation.
At a given moment, when the larger object remained motionless over the mountain, they saw something like lightning rays, blue in color, and emerge from the mountain toward the object.
When the lights moved toward them, they estimated that they were some 100 meters overhead. They did not notice any reactions in the local animals, as there were none nearby.
Another object was also seen toward the southeast, in the distance, over the mountains of Sierra Metán, behind which the city of the same name is located. They had the impression that these objects were in communication, as the lights would rise and descend in unison (the Cabra Corral Reservoir is located between Chicoana and Metán, separated from Metán by the Sierra Metán).
The three workers assured me that they didnt believe in flying saucers and had never warmed to the subject. But ever since their sighting, the think that what they saw was neither a natural phenomenon nor anything known to them up to that point.
On the third night of the sightings, given that the plantations owner did not believe them, one of the workers ran over to wake him up and bring him to the fields. The owner remained incredulous, arguing that the lights could be stars, but moments later the light began to move and headed toward them, causing a commotion. Speaking to the plantations owner, he echoed the words of his employees. He had never believed in such tales but what he saw was new to him.
Finally, I was in the field of the Arroyo Tillán mountain stream, facing the Villa Fanny shelter school. No wheat had been harvested there and the marks were present. This is the field that was photographed from a height, as displayed in the press. I wasnt lucky enough to see the photos from above, but here are the images I took. This photo was taken with a view toward the East-Southeast, from the Villa Fanny School, with the Sierra Metán Mountains in the background.
The wheat stands approximately 1.30 meters tall. Soil is normal, the stalks that form the agriglyph are flattened, some are bent and others broken; this could be due to the fact that the wheat stems are very fragile this time of year, when they are ready to be harvested. Furthermore, there has been no rain, which has contributed to very dry conditions these days, and a 30º C heat. The flattened wheat stalks are not aimed toward any particular point, rather in a spiral, as though following the direction of the object that caused them.
This, then, is a summary of what I saw in Chicoana. I have more photographs, with higher definition, and I have a panoramic shot of the wheat field, which is far too large to include [in this report]. Regards Mercedes Casas
(Translation (c) 2008, Scott Corrales, IHU. Special Thanks to Mercedes Casas and Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO)
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The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
November 20, 2008
See Picture.
Source:
http://www.terra.cl/actualidad/index.cfm?id_cat=306&id_reg=1071845
Date: 11.20.08
Chile: Merchant Marine Photographs UFO over Chiloé Archipelago
CIFAE, an organization that studies this phenomenon, has already recorded several such cases on Chiloé Island. The latest one was taken by accident and has intrigued the residents of these islands.
CHILOE, November 19 An Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was photographed by sheer chance over Ancud by the camera of Alex Haro Brintrup, a merchant marine. He only discovered the UFO a month later, when he checked his camera.
This case was taken up by the Corporación para la Investigación de Fenómenos Anómalos de Chile (Cifae), which has studied this and other photos submitted by residents of the Chiloé Archipelago displaying UFOs.
I was going over some photos with my son, and he noticed that something strange was featured in one of them, Haro told the Estrella de Chiloé newspaper.
He further added that he was very skeptical about ufological matters before the photograph was taken some 40 kilometers from Ancud. According to CIFAE, the object is clearly visible in the original image. Thanks to close-ups, it is possible to make out its dark oval shape.
Research into the case, they said, could take months.
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
November 18, 2008
Two Argentinean Photographic Cases
(photos can be seen at www.inexplicata.blogspot.com)
Source: Planeta UFO and OVNICOR (Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense)
Date: 11.18.08
Argentina: Strange Object Photographed Over Cordoba
Mario Luis Bracamonte writes: We were recently contacted by Mrs. Gabriela Decall of the Argentinean city of Córdoba, in the province that bears the same name.
Mrs. Decall, who has witnessed strange phenomena over her city, has sent us these images to share. They were analyzed in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires, by technician Jorge Figueiras.
Source: Vision Ovni
Date: 11.18.08
Argentina: A UFO Over Gualeguaychú (February 08)
Silvia Pérez Simondini writes: Lately, we have been very pleased to receive photographs form our readers. In this case, we were sent a photo by Elias Agustin Nieto, taken in a field in Gualeguaychu, Province of Entre Rios, on February 17, 2008 at 11:50 a.m. at Costa Uruguay Norte.
The photo was analyzed and we are publishing the corresponding analysis. The image was accompanied by the following descriptive e-mail:
Hello, Silvia! Im Elias. Look, Im sending you another photo I took at the same place as the one before, which showed the cigar-shaped craft, also using my moms camera. I was in a field belonging to some friends of my parents and took a photo of the (clear) sky, and thats when I was startled: the upper right hand corner shows what appears to be a flying saucer. It looks very clear, since a white thing can be seen on top and a black line underneath, one supposes it is something metallinc. Furthermore, theres a black dot to the left of the craft. Could this be another vehicle? Heres the information:
PLACE: Costa Urugay Norte (Former Route 14)
Time: 11:50
Date: 02.17.08 City: Gualeguaychú, Prov: Entre Rios
Best regards,
Elias Agustin Nieto
(Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
November 17, 2008
[Gustavo Fernandez, editor of the Al Filo de la Realidad bulletin and host of the radio show with the same name, shared with us an extended article on the phenomenon of UFO researchers who suddenly switch sides and join the ranks of skeptics. We have taken the liberty of translating an abbreviated version of the piece for INEXPLICATA readers, striving to preserve the core of Gustavos message. While the conditions he discusses apply to his native Argentina, some parallels clearly exist in the Northern Hemisphere SC]
When Ufologists Become Skeptics
By Gustavo Fernandez Al Filo de la Realidad
In Psychology, its customary to discuss the destruction of the object of desire stated plainly, this is the unconscious and overwhelming need of some minds, bewildered by the enormity of having to accept the fact that the object of their desire will be forever out of their reach, to destroy what they had lusted after until that very moment. Weakened souls and emotionally unprotected minds feel unable to resign themselves to the fact that what they love, seek or covet will never be theirs. Ever. Police blotters are filled with examples of this nature on a daily basis, spurned lovers who murder (out of love?) the person who rejected them. Folk wisdom recalls this brilliantly in the fable of the fox and the grapes, the one about the fox, who desperately strives for an unreachable branch after many hours of efforts, shrugs and finally walks off saying Bah! Theyre still green.
In our specific case, it is my belief that some characters, tormented by the awareness that they will never divine the true nature of UFOs (and much less come into contact with them) preserve a certain emotional balance by triggering a denial mechanism (which is ultimately one of the defensive mechanisms of the unconscious ego) and seek to destroy it, slaughter it, thus achieving a certain degree of intellectual peace through the gratification that such compensation affords.
History (in uppercase or not) is loaded with examples of this. Many religious converts are more devoted than those who were born into the faith. Let us not forget, by the way, that fanaticism is a psychological aberration, a behavioral and personality disturbance that has nothing to do with education. Therefore, receiving a college degree does not safeguard any human being against fanaticism. A fanatic is the individual who concocts a theory to belittle and attack the ideology espoused by others. A fanatic is someone who, distressed by the dissemination of anothers ideas, claims journalistic censure against these ideas, which is a patent manifestation of cultural regression. A fanatic necessarily thinks that he or she possesses the truth because the other is wrong.
There are other motivations that logically concur with the destruction of the object of desire. When one closely follows the creation of groups like the Comisión para la Investigacion y Refutacion de las Pseudociencias (Commission for Research and Refutation of Pseudosciences) in our country so scientific that they commit the basic mistake of knowledge, since an organization whose very name seeks refutation cannot seriously and objectively propose research or others, which are created, fight and dissolve with the same swiftness and ease characterized by teenage UFO study groups. One cannot help but feel certain tenderness toward the solemn and fatuous manner in which these crusaders present their task. Its only natural, being aware of the cyclic waves of human emotion - the same which caused tens of thousands of youths to embrace left-wing causes, imposing the psycho Marxist fashion, and who later became comfortable bourgeois free-market defenders. After a huge wave of pro-UFO passion, a UFO backlash was inevitable. But to believe that the proliferation of [skeptics] in recent years is because current generations have a keener scientific understanding than in the past is an effrontery to common sense. After all, who remembers groups of professional skeptics back in the 60s and 70s?
Being a skeptic is nice work. Its no longer unusual to see someone on TV defending the extraterrestrial hypothesis as the source of UFOS, or to see someone holding a lecture on paranormal phenomena. But to have someone seriously, and with a sardonic smile, say that UFOs are bunk, or a publicity-starved stage magician prove that telepathy exists, is really different, and therefore newsworthy. Unfortunately, a large segment of the public is amused by heated exchanges and the vulgarity (my grandma used a far stronger and effective word) of researchers fighting in front of the camera. One of them will surely lose the exchange, usually the one who is less skilled in managing on-air time, since television has no time for the truth. This creates ratings. Moderators dont care whos right or wrong: only the Nielsens matter.
On the other hand, representatives of the skeptical fauna are usually invited to conferences, even if only to avoid being labeled cultists should they not do so. Many times this results in per diem allowances and other gratuities.
Furthermore, being a horse of a different color is eye-catching. In Argentina, some former ufologists and progressive skeptics have taken advantage of this repositioning and their contacts in the journalistic world in order to boldly attack other researchers, employing all manner of fallacious arguments to settle old personal scores.
It is for this reason, among others, that I praise the members of RAO (Red Argentina de Ovnilogia Argentinean UFO Network) for unanimously voting to bar the entry of naysayers into their organization. What for? I know that my stance may be decried as lacking objectivity and displaying fear of dissent, but Im a simple fellow. Not only is it not worth feeding these vultures, just to have them benefit from the work of others, turning their own structures against them.
I believe that Anti-UFO Skepticism is a fad, surely a transient one. A sort of intellectual snobbery that will exhaust its followers when they reach the critical mass that no longer makes them attractive or original to others. Some will undoubtedly continue to embrace their fanaticism (we all believe that we have a mission in this life); hesitant to let go of what has given a sense of meaning to their lives. Others will feel the anguish of looking over their shoulders and seeing that the same old mysteries are still there. They will harden their brain cells and will turn skepticism into a cult. As long as there are those who believe that Dr. preceding their names gives them the right to petulantly state that there are no scientific investigations that have proven the reality of these phenomena, as long as there are people who believe that UFOs do not exist because a UFO photograph can be doctored (overlooking the fact that Hollywood simulates amazing airplane crashes, which unfortunately doesnt mean airplane crashes do not exist), these Torquemada wannabees will continue meddling with the credulity of others. An apparently contrary form of credulity (it-cannot-be- and-therefore- I-must-be- convinced form of credulity), but which remains credulity, in the end.
Opposite, yet complementary. The ying and yang of this cosmic sideshow.
Finally, I think were taking matters too seriously. Something has been lost when knowledge needs to garb itself in solemnity. I believe that neither skeptics nor defenders of whatever are so important that we can waste time that well never recover on this childish quarrel. So dont waste your time either, dear reader. For this reason I am ending these lines with something that perhaps does matter. Not brainy scientific evidence or quotations from ominous encyclopedic treatises. This intellectual feast I set aside for minds more enlightened than my own. With regard to this subject, I only wish to leave behind a treat for the spirit, in the form a poem written by Chesterton: when practical minds invite us/to discover the cold calculations that the world is made of/our souls shall reply from the shadows/yes, perhaps, but are there others?
(Translated by Scott Corrales)
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Inexplicata
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
November 17, 2008
"A Photo From 1971"
and
"MCIA: Airport Workers See UFOs"
http://inexplicata.blogspot.com
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Source: Vision Ovni
Date: November 11, 2008
Argentina: Strange Lights over Laguna del Pescado (Victoria)
By Silvia Pérez Simondini
On Sunday, November 2, 2008 something truly sensational occurred at Tres Bocas, almost at the entrance to Laguna del Pescado. A large number of lights that appeared over this area were visible for many hours from various other locations.
I didnt have many options when it came to selecting nearest point [to the manifestations] , so I was only able to photograph them from the Mothers Memorial at the port. I wanted to enter the campground to request permission, but there was no one around.
The display was so impressive that it is very hard to interpret what was actually taking place here. There exists no possibility for anything at this location. Furthermore, the number of lights was impressive. This is the second Sunday in a row that they have appeared, very late at night. The first time I detected them they were only four (4) very intense lights. Last Sunday there were many more.
These photos correspond to that night and were analyzed by Salvatore Carta, the analyst who works for the Visión Ovni team.
PHOTOS and MAP at: www.inexplicata.blogspot.com
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Source:
http://www.informatesalta.com.ar/
Date: November 11, 2008-11-12
Argentina: Chicoana Agriglyphs Many who saw them remain silent
Two weeks ago, the serenity of Chicoana was disrupted when town residents reported a parade of lights in wonderful colors that appeared in the starry skies over the region before swiftly disappearing. The sighting would have remained merely an anecdote if it hadnt been for the strange drawings in the wheat fields. From that moment onward, there was no stopping the curiosity seekers.
Most residents appear sullen and respond negatively when asked if they saw something unusual, displaying shy smiles that betray the fact that they know more than theyre telling.
The kids from the Maria Valdivieso School No. 588 had ringside seats for this display, as the building faces one of the three wheat fields that display the signs. Some of them were willing to talk and reportedly saw the UFO hovering directly over the field, and that it displayed lights of many colors.
Fanny, one of the schoolteachers who acts as a substitute principal, hesitates to provide more information. But she slowly warms to the subject and says: ...I saw the lights, but you know where I saw them? Not in the field, but over there, in the back. One stands here at night and sees the road leading to Moldes. They werent car headlights because they were higher up. A group of 5 or 6 different lights of a strong reddish or orange hue. This was on Thursday night. She adds that the first to spot the patterns in the wheat field was ...one of the schoolteachers who lives in Campo Alegre, in the roundabout on the entrance to Chicoana. He had been told on Wednesday that the Cadena wheat field the one bordering the road - was in that condition. Then he came for a look much later but there was nothing to see. Next day, he reported to work, and upon arriving, he felt curious. He thought: this is also a wheat field. So we went for a look and thats when we saw it (the agriglyph). Weve been working at this school for 22 years and have never seen anything like it.
Along with another teacher who remained on duty on Wednesday night, Fanny adds that they were surprised for several day by the [behavior] of the local dogs. ...they barked by day and by night, making a tremendous racket. This fact was also confirmed by another local resident who works at the school, and who adds that the children told her about some greenish lights, but she didnt see them as she was engaged in her housework.
There is a small house near the wheat field. Its owner tells us that the UFOs appeared several days in a row, between Tuesday the 23rd and Sunday the 26th and that his wife saw another on Thursday at 4:00 a.m. The girl who works at the bakery across the town square says that she saw nothing at all, but that the deliverymen did see some powerful lights that vanished suddenly Marco, who works for the towns Tourism Office, says over by the Villa Fanny school, the teachers took photos that show some black spots, like UFOs flying away. There are many who saw them but remain silent. Teachers, people in the area who were working the fields, and who dont want to get into any trouble, or else be asked why the didnt speak up sooner. People came from Buenos Aires to study the imprints. They took samples, but I dont know what the outcome was...
They say that when photos are taken, strange objects can be seen in the sky. If one walks through the wheat fields, they look like something heavy rested upon them without harming them. The wheat shoots are still green and yellow, unlike the paths left behind by curiosity seekers, where the wheat is squashed and dry.
We dont know about anything in nature that causes such marks. They resemble designs meant to be seen from above. As to whether or not they were UFOs...the reader should visit Chicoana, walk the wheat fields, take photos and draw his or her own conclusions.
(Translation (c) 2008, S.Corrales. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez and Luis Burgos)
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Source: INFOBAE.Com
Date: November 4, 2008
Argentina: Alleged UFO Photographed Over Concordia
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The image was taken in the downtown area of this city in Entre Rios. It shows a strange object between the two crosses on domes of the St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral at the heart of the city.
A tourist claims having photographed a UFO that disappeared shortly after.
This incident is the second of its nature that has taken place in Entre Rios during the same week, when a man also photographed a strange object while taking a picture of his teenage daughter.
This new photo was taken at noon on Friday on a sunny day, using a notebook computer with a built-in photo camera, and from the heart of Plaza 25 de Mayo in Concordia, the second most important location in the province.
This image, published by the local El Heraldo newspaper, shows a grayish object between both tips of the St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral, located in front of the main square of this community, in northeast Entre Rios. Likewise, another photo taken seconds later does not show the object. The photographer interprets this as evidence that the object was moving at high speed.
The synchronicity between both photos is reinforced by the clock that can be seen on one of the Cathedrals belfries. Both images show the time as 11:45 in the morning.
While a similar phenomenon had not been known in Concordia, the nearby Uruguayan city of Salto have long believed in the existence of a ufodrome nearby, to judge from constant reports of unknown objects in the sky.
The other case [was the one] that occurred in Parana on October 21st of this year, when a man named Miguel Angel Osuna photographed his 15-year-old daughter in Paranas Parque Urquiza. When Osuna took the image file to a photo shop to have it enlarged, the shops employee noticed the presence of an elongated object that appeared to move swiftly.
For more information:
http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/412670-101096-0-Fotograf%C3%ADan-un-supuesto-OVNI-Concordia
(Translation (c) 2008 S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Guillermo Gimenez, Planeta UFO)